- Egoless?
When we are asleep, we do not know "I am asleep" - we do not know 'Now I have abandoned even dream, and I am asleep.'
Only a third party knows it.
In the same way, when we try to do self-surrender, we shall not be able to say "I am egoless ."
Only God can know this.
Hence, Kathopanishad says: "The Self reveals itself to him whom It chooses."
- Caste
The caste system and the Karma theory seem to imply that all are not born equal.
But the choice and the qualification are offered to all.
The unclean man can and should elevate himself to a good man - and if he does, he is accepted in higher society - even as the fallen Brahmin will be shunned.
The native inequality is not unalterably rigid.
- Gita - The mother
Like the Mother, Gita allows us to wake on our own, helping us when we are in trouble.
Gita allows us to climb the staircase of Yoga - if we reach a crisis and can neither go up nor come down, then we should, like a child, sit down and cry - pray. Krishna says: 'In your previous animal births, you were guided by instincs I placed in you. Now, you are my own image. You have Intelligence. Do as you please.”
- Value
Value governs our attitude towards things - and also what use we make of them.
A piece of cheap jewelry is displayed, but an expensive one is kept in the safe.
- Faith
When we strive, we achieve nothing, and when we become desperate and all but give up, the solution drops from nowhere.
That is what the Gita says. The Giver of everything is God.
When we 'strive', the ego is too fat to let the sunlight of His Grace flow through the window of our life.
In despair, we slay this fat ego and immediately discover that the sunlight was there all the time.
I have had this experience so often that now I have become a desperate hopeless live-er .
I always sail in the clouds - and find that the modern man does so too with his aeroplanes.
If he has faith in machine, I have faith in God.