- Prayer
Should we pray for material benefits? Yes!
Desires arise in our hearts, and when we pray to God for their fulfilment we actually hand them over to Him.
But if we still continue to entertain them, we shall be nagging Him" and, like a parent, He might snap back His refusal!
- Diversity, Unity and Humility
Standing on the ground you will perceive trees to be of different height.
Fly aloft and they will appear to be of the same height.
Lie down and they will appear sky-high!
- Visualisation and Realsation
It is exactly like sculpture.
The sculptor looks at a stone and visualises an image - not imagines.
You know the difference by the result.
In imagination, the image vanishes - in visualisation the image is realised as actuality.
The sculptor uses chisel and hammer.
The yoga student uses concentration and mantra.
- If We Are Good
People often ask: "There is so much of unrighteousness now. Why does not the Lord come?"
We forget that He has promised to come - only to protect the good.
Unless we are good, we have no right to grumble. If we are good - we shall probably not grumble.
- Creation
As the rain drops, water - pure in itself, coming into contact with various objects, is contaminated by them. The "fallen jiva" similarly is contaminated by satva, rajas, and tames - the three strands together form ing the rudimentary matter of the universe.
These are not "outside" consciousness, but an integral part of it, just as the sun, the rain and the rain-bow are all in space, as part of it.