- Guru and Disciple
Guru has knowledge - disciple asks for it.
The hand that asks must be lower - otherwise it will be difficult for the other to give.
- Body
The body is perishable; it can be preserved in health if through it we can gain the imperishable wisdom.
- Reincarnation
Take the case of a wristwatch - you replace the whole mechanism, part by part, over, say, over years.
Then you exchange the steel case for a golden one!
Now, it is not the watch you had six years ago - but you will not say so!
The idea is the same - even so the idea of the personality continues from childhood to old age and even when one body is exchanged for another.
I do not deny the genes - nor do I deny I am born of the sperm and the ova.
But what I assert is that I brought them together - they built a body for me.
If I did not do so, the particular sperm in company with millions of others would have been unlucky, and the ovum destroyed without fertilization.
They did not create me - nor did I create them and the body-life tabernacle.
They evolved for me to live and evolve.
- Avidya
Avidya is only ignorance masquerading as knowledge.
Doctors' theories change constantly; every time they say "This is it", they are still experimenting.
It is all ignorance.
Yet, it is necessary to enable us to live our worldly life, because that too is unstable and changing value.
Eternal value is unchanging
"Fire is Hot" - true at all times and circumstances.
The Statement "Coramine strengthens the heart" is not true - it can have no such effect on a dead body.
From one point to another point - a straight line?
Take a rope and stretch it long enough - it will curve because the earth is round.
- Swearing with Blood
It is an ancient custom for warriors to write their oath of allegiance to the King with their blood.
Now they kill an ox and smear the King's tomb with its blood!