- Understanding and Fellowship
At a time when science recognises an elder brother in religion, it is proper for us to pause and reflect over what religion has to offer us in order to ennoble and enrich our lives. From Karl Marx's earth-earthy denunciation of religion: "Religion is the opium of the masses!" - to Einsteins heart-warming pronouncement: "The cosmic religious experience is the strongest and noblest mainspring of scientific research," - world - thought has covered much ground. The machines that have rolled ruthlessly, relentlessly and remorselessly, "Soulless and Godless", products of Marxian philosophy, have driven sane men to the feet of God, where, kneeling in prayer, they find fruitful companionship in the wiser scientist who finds in religion the door to creative thought, wisdom, understanding and fellowship.
- Essence of Yoga
God exists.
He is the life of your life, the Soul of your soul, the Inner Reality.
Ignorance or forgetfulness of this Reality is the cause of all sin and suffering.
Crush all prejudices, see God in All.
Curb the ego. Be humble and lead a simple life.
Remind yourself again and again: God is Omnipresent, He is in all, He is the All.
Treat all your activities as worship of God.
- Witness-consciousness
Witness-consciousness and automatic activity.
At first the consciousness performs the work, and there is no automatic work - the previous automatic work was instinctual and reflex action, and hence defective. As this goes on, the consciousness extricates itself from the instruments - viz., mind, Prana and hody, and stands aside as a witness - actively witnessing, allowing the instruments to perform their actions in its light. There then is spontaneous activity which is quite different from instinctual activity. It is perfect, pure and powerful.
- 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.
- Walk on Unreal
Krishna danced on the hoods of Kaliya. Some accept it literally; others draw an esoteric lesson from it.
Jesus walked on water; maybe it was just a fact. Maybe, He wanted to teach us: �Walking on water is easy and sensible. But you are walking on nothing! Water is yet a substance. The hopes, aspirations, ambitions, wealth, power and relationships over which you are trying to march in your life - these do not exist at all. I wonder how you walk on these unreal shadows!