- Suffering
The devotee does not suffer in reality! Our ancients painted pictures of such "suffering" merely to show us that the devotee rejoices even under such conditions, whereas you, with all your wealth, are still miserable.
- Unchanging
A changing object cannot assert the existence of an unchanging one. Observers in airplanes flying at the same speed might think that the other one is stationary. To a plane flying very fast, another flying slowly at a great distance off will appear to be stationary.
We cannot positively assert that India did not change its position on the 'surface or the earth' a few years ago.
Geologists have proved that the earth's crust shifts, in a million years, say ten miles. The alteration in position over a decade is negligible and hence convention has it that the earth is stable. We who are changing positions cannot assert that the position of the sun does not change. Only that which is changeless and eternal can know that which is changeless and eternal. The very fact that within our innermost self there is a conviction of the existence of a changeless eternal Being is proof enough that the source of that conviction in us is eternal and unchanging.
- Security, the Urgent Need
From a state of insecurity, the philosophers of the world have been endeavouring to rescue humanity. When the sense of security given by faith in a divine purpose is lost, man tries to replace it by building up substitutes by industrialisation and economic adjustments. We struggle hard to find the necklace which is actually around the neck. Yet it is now not so easy as it sounds to regain lost faith. The first step to a return to the golden age of Faith and a real sense of security. independent of external props, is to realize the value of goodness. If society strives to be good, we will love our neighbours. Then there is every chance of regaining that inner sense of security that comes out of faith in Man.
- Alcohol
If I had the power, I would scrap the Ten Commandments which in any case few observe, and substitute them with one: Do not drink alcohol.
- Brahma Vishnu Siva
You cultivate rice, preserve it in the barn, and then eat it!
It is not destroyed, but fulfilled.
Siva is not the Destroyer, but the Redeemer.