- Consciousness
We would not say that consciousness is in the body but rather that the body is in consciousness.
- Learn and Teach
Only when you have cross ventilation do you get a good breeze in your room!
It is no use keeping only one window open.
In the same way - learn and teach at the same time.
- Good
Good works without prayer may often lead you into confusion about what is good!
Prayer calms you, and His Grace will guide you to what is really - not conventionally, good.
- Just and Loving
God is both just and loving.
As a just God, He has given the law of karma.
As a loving God, He has kept the door to moksha open.
- Chosen by God
In the Gita and the Kathopanishad we come across the phrase: I choose the devotee on whom Self-realisation is bestowed.
Is God then subject to eccentricities like the human being? No.
It is obvious that the ego cannot realise God.
It is only when the ego is surrendered that God-realisation is attained, and after this total surrender there is no egotistic personality with which to take the Final Step.
The 'I' is dead and the dead body falls at the Feet of God.
It cannot then embrace Him.
It has to be raised to a state of Union with Him.
That is what He does.
Self-realisation is therefore a natural corollary to self-surrender.