- Searching
An old lady was searching for something in the verandah of her house.
A young man wanted to help her and so enquired what she was searching for. She was trying to find a sewing needle she had dropped.
"Where did you drop it?" asked the young man.
"In the kitchen," replied the old lady.
"Why do you search for it here, then?"
"Because it is all dark in the kitchen!"
- Growth
Life means growth - nothing truly lives which does not grow. Man does not live or grow necessarily because he seems to become fat or lean! Even a balloon "grows big" when inflated, and thin when deflated. Growth is of the soul-evolution.
In an article entitled: "The Age of Change: Scientific and Religious", Harlan T. Stetson says in "Science of Mind", September 1962:
"Considering the very rapid strides in scientific progress and the re-adaptation resulting in consequence, what serious attempt has been made by the organised church to adapt itself to the new demands placed upon it?"
We agree that it is possible to re-interpret religion in terms of the day, as the author demands. But it is an extremely delicate operation. It is dangerous to talk of adaptation! If religion becomes irreligious because that is the popular demand - and thus adapts itself, it might survive - but in what form? As a carcass, not as a living fount of inspiration. I would rather admire the massive rock-temples of South India which say: "This generation may not believe. I shall stand on my own ground so that I can serve the next." We should not compromise in the least on fundamentals, but hold our fort and allow mankind time to discover and recover from the perversity of its tastes.
- Captains
When the ship is sinking, this is the Code of Honour: the weaker ones first, to be helped by the stronger ones - then the stronger ones - then the crew and the Captain.
Do likewise in this Samsara - do not pretend you can save the ship of the entire humanity.
You, the stronger ones, the enlightened ones, show the way to the weaker ones - then jump out of the sinking ship and save yourself.
The Buddhas and Jesus are like the Captains. Not you!
- Mental Penance
True mental penance is to deny the mind what it wants.
You must feel miserable for a time, otherwise you are cheating yourself.
But there it can become very tricky.
If you become happy that you are miserable, it is then not mental penance but boosting the ego.
- Seminal energy
It is not impossible to equate the Kundalini with the seminal energy.
It is said that, whereas all other products of the inner organs of the body are meant for the use of one's body, the seminal energy is not.
It is meant for recreating a being powerful enough to perpetuate itself.
Here, we have the Kundalini which is described as the residual psychic or Pranic power, after what has been distributed among the various organs of the body: i.e., it is essentially the same, but the reservoir from which thousands of similar bodies could similarly be fed.