- Levels
(1) Common Man:
He needs to be chastised and frightened - the animal is predominant in him. Hell - punishment - police - these hold him back from adharma - unrighteousness.
God is the Ruler - God is Justice.
(2) Religious Man:
He needs encouragement. Heaven is pointed out to him. Do the right - you will go to heaven.
God is Perfection, Goodness.
(3) Spiritual Man:
He needs nothing to make him love God and Goodness. It is natural to him, inevitable. He aims at realising God - he will be liberated.
God is the Witness - Consciousness. God is all.
- 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.
- Raja Yoga
It is the consciousness or Atma within that illuminates everything:
(1) in the waking state, it illuminates the world
(2) in the dream state it illuminates the dream objects
(3) when the mind is full of Vrittis - thought waves, it illuminates the Vrittis - hence we are not conscious of It being there, but only
when thoughts, feelings, and sense-perceptions are absent - Yoga Samadhi - does it shine as Itself.
- Practical wisdom
To approach God in affliction and for wealth is practical wisdom.
- Beware of the Saviour
The Saviour enslaves.
We save ourselves from sin, by virtue - but virtue binds us, and the bondage leads to sin eventually.