- Degree
Read these two statements together - "Before Abraham was, I am." - " What I have done, ye can do."
The difference between Jesus and you is not one of nature, but of degree of perfection.
Even you were before Abraham - you were not created after your parents decided to have a baby!
- One
There is only one religion for me - as there is only one mother.
The one-year old child has no need to call that mother by any name. That is better.
But later, when the boy is confronted with other women, he wants to distinguish his mother from others and so knows his mother's name.
Only when we come across other faiths do we feel a need to give our religion a name.
It is, however, wrong to say that only my mother is capable of bearing children and not yours!
- Catalyst
"A substance that helps other substances to burn, without undergoing any change in itself" - Modern Science: "Chemistry's Secret Agents".
Such is the desire for God or for liberation.
It enables you to get rid of all worldly desires, but it has no need to undergo any change.
- Routine
When intelligently practised, routine spiritual practices help us greatly. They become like rivers of spiritual light.
We are not same any two days!
And hence the Sadhana assumes fresher significance every day.
On the contrary, if we give up Sadhana altogether, looking for something spectacular, our spiritual personality becomes stagnant.
And, like a stagnant pool of water, it does not stay in the same condition but soon becomes dirty and filthy.
Life cannot be stagnant.
Even spiritual practices can become monotonous, boring, and therefore unspiritual.
So be vigilant and try to feel the presence of God in everything you do.
- Woman
Who that realises the reverence that the Indian has for the Mother will listen to nonsense about the oppression women in India.
We are even asked to meditate upon our great women Saints every day.
There might be difference of opinion and even minor quarrels between any two people - two sides to the same coin of love.
But let us never forget that they seldom part or divorce.
Women in Western countries are adored, petted, made a mother and if they do not see eye to eye with their man, they are thrown on the streets, which is worse - animal behaviour!