- Turn Within
A desire to know or realise Self is important. Turn within for answers.
- The Shadow of the Guru
When you follow the Guru who is the Light of Truth, make sure that you have kindled the Light of Truth in yourself, that you are also the Light - otherwise you will walk in the darkness of the shadow that the human personality of the Guru casts behind Him.
- Taxi-drivers
People who keep threatening "You will go to hell" must be taxi-drivers to Hell - they seem to be so sure, to be so familiar with the road to hell.
- Prayer an Karma
Prayer does alter our Karma. For prayer itself is an action whose reaction is good. I may be destined to die at the age of 60, for that is my Karma. I now 'do' something - karma, to shorten my life such as taking poison. This takes effect immediately and cancels out the previous Karma. This is what prayer does too, in a beneficial way.
- Do Nothing
"None of the Incarnational activities affects me", says Krishna.
Yet He came to destroy the wicked, often by means which seem to us unenlightened people to be unethical! Arthur Osborne argues that it was necessary for Krishna to do what He did. Yet, perhaps the solution to the problem is simpler. He did nothing at all - the evil doers' own evil reacted on them!