- God-filled
The mind asleep is like the circus-monkey in the cage after the first act, waiting to jump in for the second sct.
The mind in Samadhi is like the monkey shot, never more to play his pranks. The only difference in Samadhi is that the mind is not killed, but sublimated, purified and God-filled.
- Justice
Is there justice in this world? Don't we often, almost always, see wicked ones - who are powerful too, prospering and justifying their aggressive exploitation of the weaker people." We civilised them, we conquered them, we made made them work, we saved them." Superficially there is nothing bur injustice in this world. Yet, if you look deeper, you discover that the aggressor buys material prosperity at the expense of peace and sanity.
Again, there appears to be injustice only when you restrict your vision to a short life-span. When you next ill-treat a poor, weak "foreigner", remember that he may be reborn as your grandson and demand justice in your old age.
The all-seeing Eye of Truth cannot be cheated.
- Suicide
A man wanting to dive into the ocean stands on the deck of a boat and fixes his gaze, his attention on the sea. He docs not want to grasp the sea with his body or mind, but he wants to offer himself to that sea.
Dhyana is like jumping into the sea. Sea above, sea below, sea on all sides. He is in the sea, yet he is different from the sea. He has no existence apart from the sea, but he is still not the sea. If he stays in the sea for a considera ble period, he is no longer a man against the sea, but becomes one with the sea. As a man against the sea, he was afraid of the things that the sea contained. As one with the sea, he is the encompassing Truth, he is one with All. He has redeemed himself from fear, sin, and sullering. This looks like suicide only because we cling to the childish idea that death of body is death of Self.
- The Fruit of Action
The 'forbidden fruit' may be no more than 'the fruit of action' in the meaning of the Bhagavad Gita. Man fell from divinity into humanity when he expected the fruits of actions.
- Reincarnation
It is precisely because God wishes that we should not spend our lives brooding over the past, and that we should evolve, that He has mercifully caused the memory of our past to fade out, leaving only the residual essence behind.
The corrective suffering is necessary not so much to glorify the power of God as to purify the human soul, and enable it to evolve.
Memory of the past is immaterial to this end.