- Spiritual Experiences
A word of caution with regard to spiritual experiences. As with human love, so with God-love. Rationalisation kills it. The moment you become aware of the exalted privilege, it is taken away. The ego shall not be permitted to welcome God. But even when you think that the experience has ceased, it has only been assimilated. There is no loss in the words of Krishna.
- Photo-Communion
After the initial Prayer, also thinking of God with the attributes that we value, the whole thing must be allowed to sink into the heart - Chitta, wherein it should become Bhavana. Mental imagination is useless if it is not followed by this Bhavana.
This is like photography. The photo is taken outside in the light but immediately afterward the film is taken to a dark room for developing. If this is not done, the picture will not be the result .
- Yoga Tapas
The Self may be compared to a small vessel, or ice-berg, formed out of ice and immersed in the ocean. The vessel is nothing but water. Yet it has its own shape, and it will retain its shape until it acquires a little heat and melts into the ocean. The heat is Yoga or Tapas.
- Cabbage
Of course, there are really no problems in this world, for we create them for ourselves. Yet, again. if we do not create them and then solve them we would be cabbages - with apologies to this wonderful vegetable, and not human beings.
- Guru Training
Guru training an obedient disciple.
It is often a mystery - He creates paradoxical situations.
It is like the cosmonaut being put into a simulated space flight in a lab.