- God and Modern Man
When God is mentioned, the modern man feels that he is asked to eat the humble pie!
Somebody before whom he, an intelligent being, is asked to bow down.
No: God is that Intelligence itself - only something which is his intelligence minus its corruption; his own self.
God 'is' - That which exists is God.
The wall exists: it is God - only that which has always existed.
If it was not the wall, it was the brick, or the mud, or the earth-element, or the power latent in it, or the intelligence inherent in that Power .
'That' is God - the Inescapable Reality.
- Struggle for Life
How calmly does the ox enjoy grazing?
Does it know it is going to be killed in an hour!
How desperately does it struggle for life?
Does it know it is useless and it will be killed in any case!
- The chemistry of evil
'But,' questions the friend, 'It is said that the world that God created is good and that the soul of man is good, too. How come evil?'
It is like precipitation in chemistry: two liquids are perfectly clear; but when they are mixed, a precipitate or sediment is formed.
The world of elements is good. Man is essentially good, too.
But during the course of their interaction, on account of the clashing and the conflict of different ambitions of different people - which may all be good in themselves, evil is generated.
Dirt is matter out of its proper place.
Similarly, evil is behaviour that is out of place, unbecoming.
A tiger can kill a lamb, but man doing so is evil.
- Karma in the Bible
The first indication of the acceptance of the Karma theory is found in the Genesis itself where God curses Cain for having murdered his brother.
'Since you have let the blood of your brother flow into the earth, the earth will not yield its fruit to you.'
It is not God's curse, but the operation of an inexhorable law of cause and effect.
- Love and Hate
Love, even if it is gross and physical, I regard as divine.
Hate, even of evil, I regard as demoniacal.