- God helps
I have never understood the expression "God helps those who help themselves."
If you cannot help yourself, why should God help you?
Either you lead your life or God leads it.
That is all - there is nothing more.
Either you do it or He does it.
- Threshold
Many are at the threshold between human and animal births.
They may either enter the human in the next or leave it and become animals.
- Selfishness
Where is it? If only knew, I would pluck it and throw it away!
It is like the bed-louse - invisible, subtle, most troublesome.
You think you have killed it, but it is very much alive - where you least expect it.
It is behind the mind and heart - serving as the outer covering of the soul itself.
It is the aroma of the ego. So long as you say "I" - it is.
Even in Samadhi - super-consciousness, it is only asleep.
Go on practising selfless service - purify the heart.
One day you will suddenly know "This is it" - at that moment you know God!
- Motive
In order not to slip into apathy, it is good to have a good selfish motive:
"I am doing this to go to Heaven" - then, "I am doing this to please God", - then, "I am doing this to purify my heart." - then, no motive!
What is the difference between verbal and visual anthropomorphism?
The Bible and Quran present a verbal anthropomorphism - and the Hindu makes it visual, in idols.
- Rebirth
The individual subconscious is that part of the universal Mahar (intellect), which is illuminated by the individuality or ego.
The top layer is the conscious.
At death, there is submarine activity.
The ego dives into the unconscious and comes up elsewhere - so is unaware at the conscious level of either the previous incarnation's subconsciousness or conscious levels.