- Hinduism
Hinduism is like the banyan tree which grows and sends shoots down which act as subsidiary roots.
These roots are the other Religions - same, yet seemingly distinct.
- 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.
- Good and Evil
As they appear to me is as I like it.
But how will that Being Who is in all, viewing the whole at once, as being His very Nature, designate what is good and what evil?
A commonplace example is illness of one's own body - when parts of my body ill, how do I react.
If I have a cold, I do not cut my nose, but heal it - if I have a malignant growth, I cut it - if I have healthy limbs, I use them - if I have a beautiful face, I have it painted - these are human ideas.
But since they are universal, it would not be far wrong to infer they belong to Him.
- Scientific Theories
They have at one time been thoroughly believed and asserted to be true by the greatest scientists - and they have soon been discredited by other later great scientists.
This is obviously because the knowledge derived is the limited expression of the instrument employed and the next one uses other, again limited, instruments and arrives at different conclusions.
The nose cannot see, nor the eyes smell.
Each know ledge is valid in its own sphere - each instrument can work in its own sphere.
Do not claim more and do not accept less.
- Understanding
When you stand under, you see greatly magnified.
You look up to - you try to grasp - and if you cannot, even then you understand and go away.
Perhaps you will never say, "It is wrong," but only, "I cannot grasp it, though I understand."