- I me
All these are within 'me'.
When you say this, do not point to your own chest!
This refers to the Infinite 'I'.
- Duty and Service
When a nurse and a doctor serve the sick, it is their duty, for which they are paid.
They earn no special merit. If they neglect it, they incur sin.
If one who is not a nurse or a doctor does not feel inclined to serve, he does not incur sin - only he is hard-hearted. If he does serve, he earns great merit.
- Childhood and Youth
It is not correct to say that I now have the same body essentially as I had when I was 3.
If you add a pint of water to a gallon of milk, you have diluted the milk.
But if you have added a gallon of water to an ounce of milk, you can't really say that.
My body has, now, very little of the child body of 42 years ago!
Only 'I' is the same.
- The aim is lost
(1) Two dogs fight for a piece of meat. Meat is forgotten, fight continues.
(2) Man toils for leading a comfortable life. Toil becomes a habit, comfort is never had.
(3) A woman wants to save household work - buys machines - takes up a job to pay for them - sweeps the shop, instead of home.
(4) Man earns to provide for his wife and children, but is angry if they spend.
(5) Spiritual institutions lose their spirit.
(6) Workers - congressmen and communists, fight for equal distribution of wealth, but create their own wealthy class.
(7) People have wooden flooring, a carpet to cover it, a rug to protect the carpet, and neck with wooden sandals on top.
- Gita
Prayer, God, does not always remove our trouble.
Krishna did not remove Arjuna's trouble - war, but enlightened his intellect.
If our troubles are removed, we will become slaves, animals.
God's Grace comes into us as enlightenment - and we shall never blame Him for leaving us in the lurch!