- Sat-Chit
There is insatiable thirst for knowledge.
'Why did God create the world?' - we ask, even after knowing that the mind cannot conceive of the answer.
We want Perfect Knowledge.
Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance.
Perfect knowledge is of something that 'is' - Sat-Chit.
Such knowledge gives us Bliss.
- In Madagascar
There is more food on the table than cutlery.
There is more love in their manners than courtesy.
- Normal
Who can say whether I am normal or not?
To my own maker, I am normal.
There is not just one single pattern of human behaviour.
There is not just one pattern of animal behaviour - the tiger is normal, so is a cow.
Let all express their own selves.
Protect society as you protect humans from tigers - by suitable moral laws.
There will be less tension caused by everyone trying to fit into someone else's "normal'-jacket.
- The Self
The Self is all-pervading - it does not come and go, it has no birth nor death - just as Space is all pervading.
When you look into a pot, there is space in it.
Take the pot away and put it elsewhere - the space in the pot does not move from place to place - in the sense in which water in the pot may be said to.
The five elements are shifted from place to place in the darkness of ignorance - and we foolishly attribute this to the self and say that the self is born or it dies.
- Un-Manifest
Nature is to God as glowing is to fire.
This glowing gan be of two types -
(1) the flame or (2) the simple glow or luminosity without the 'separate' manifestation of the fire as flame.
Before creation, in a state of equilibrium, it was like the simple glow.
Then it - the same fire - burst forth into flame - creation.