- Intelligence
Often we find intellectuals decrying some practices as superstitious - "we cannot understand them".
In that case they have no intelligence!
They are incapable of finding out why these customs came into being!
- Guest is God
The guest comes walking and the host politely and gracefully tell him to come in after washing his feet. At the same time they adopt the motto: Guest is God. They wave the lighted camphor which floats on coloured water and which has a message - 'You and I may be like fire and water, we may be otherwise opposed to each other and may have our differences, but let us dwell in unity when you are my guest!'
- Heart Failure
It is not heart failure when the heart stops - but when the heart shrinks, when the function of the heart, which is love and charity - stops.
It is then that there is heart failure.
The heartless miser has heart failure every hour of the day.
- Intellect and Emotion
You should approach meditation with both intellect and emotion under control.
If there is only intellect it will lead to speculation.
If there is only emotion, you will be able to sing and dance, but not meditate.
- Banana Skin
The relation between soul and body is like the banana and its skin.
The skin is in firm contact, but when it is peeled off, it leaves smoothly as though it had nothing to do with the fruit!