- The Guru's Presence
In His presence your problems and worries behave like salt and sugar - they are dissolved.
I have experienced it in Gurudev's Presence.
- Doubting Thomas
May it merely be Tamas - deluded nature?
- Faith and Superstition
In the case of traditional practices, always ask -
(1) Does its continuance promote social welfare and personal salvation?!
(2) Is its abandonment necessary to promote social welfare?
Then decide.
- The aim is lost
(1) Two dogs fight for a piece of meat. Meat is forgotten, fight continues.
(2) Man toils for leading a comfortable life. Toil becomes a habit, comfort is never had.
(3) A woman wants to save household work - buys machines - takes up a job to pay for them - sweeps the shop, instead of home.
(4) Man earns to provide for his wife and children, but is angry if they spend.
(5) Spiritual institutions lose their spirit.
(6) Workers - congressmen and communists, fight for equal distribution of wealth, but create their own wealthy class.
(7) People have wooden flooring, a carpet to cover it, a rug to protect the carpet, and neck with wooden sandals on top.
- Wealth
We do not need as much as we desire.
When we pray to God, the desire will disappear and He will guide us to fulfil the need.