- Genetics
A friend says even the soul is created by the parents only.
I have partly the characteristics of the father and partly of the mother.
I wish it were so - then I would be both female and male and all this nuisance in the world of marriage etc., would cease.
- Real
"The Real ceaseth not to be; the unreal has no existence" - Gita.
It is the basic principle of spiritual healing.
But it cannot be applied when we are still clinging to the reality of falsehood.
The soul is real - the world, disease, pain, body etc., are unreal.
This means: get rid of the idea of disease.
If you have done that, you will not feel it, even if it exists in the eyes of others.
- 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.
- Faith
When we strive, we achieve nothing, and when we become desperate and all but give up, the solution drops from nowhere.
That is what the Gita says. The Giver of everything is God.
When we 'strive', the ego is too fat to let the sunlight of His Grace flow through the window of our life.
In despair, we slay this fat ego and immediately discover that the sunlight was there all the time.
I have had this experience so often that now I have become a desperate hopeless live-er .
I always sail in the clouds - and find that the modern man does so too with his aeroplanes.
If he has faith in machine, I have faith in God.
- Temples and Shops
In ancient India, they built the temple first, then the houses of people who served the temple - and lastly the shops.