- Creation
What is the purpose of Creation? God knows.
How do you know that God knows? He who knows is God.
How do you know that someone knows that there is an answer?
Because there is the question! A question implies the existence of an answer.
- Good and Evil
Do not use arguments relating to cosmic consciousness when you are discussing good and evil or the creation.
If, while I am alive and awake, I walk about naked, I will be accused of indecent exposure. But if my clothes catch fire, and I am lying dead, no such charge will be against me.
- A Title
At the Govenor-General's party on the Queen's Birthday, somebody said in jest that I should have been given a title too! Someone said Member of the British Empire - M.B.E. would be good. But where is the Empire? I already have a title, however - M.A.N. What more do I need!
- Karma
There are categories like Parechchaa Karma - which we do against our will, compelled by others - it is a fallacy.
Even here, the fact that we did it shows that we wanted - if not to do it - to please or obey the other person.
But, take the case of compulsory sati!
The girl enters the pyre against her wish, compelled by others
Here, she is not doing but suffering.
It is not Karma, but perhaps Karma-Phala, fruit of past Karma.
Karma-phala is almost always imposed. on us.
It demands very sharp intelligence to distinguish between the two.
- Miracle
We must turn within and ask God for His forgiveness. But superficial prayer and hypocritical approach to this problem will never solve our difficulties. It must be genuine, it must be from the bottom of our heart and soul, in which case, the miracle is worked almost instantaneously. We do not however, cancel God's prerogative to forgive even the worst sinner, but then, unless I am able to contact Him, no forgiveness is possible and this contact itself is the miracle-working Lord within us. The moment that contact is established, all sins are forgiven because all sins are only shadows minus the original sin which is "Avidya" or ignorance of our own essential divine nature or God within.