Qn: The Western mind finds difficulty in submitting to the moral and intellectual discipline of Vedanta. Humanity is ready for a change of systems- social, economical and political.
Ans: Improvement of the world is praiseworthy. But in all manifestation, the good and bad follow each other. The only way to renewal is by destruction. Only the people who have gone beyond the world can change it. As long as human behavior is dominated by desire and fear, there is not much hope.
Qn: Basic desires and fears are inevitable such as food, bodily pleasures and death. Even death is a need. What is right and what is wrong?
Ans: Relatively what causes suffering is wrong. What alleviates it is right. What brings you back to reality is right and what dims reality is wrong.
Qn: When we talk of helping humanity, we mean a struggle against disorder and suffering.
Ans: Can you give a man character, based on full realization of duties and opportunities at least, if not on the insight into his true being.
Qn: You may be God but need a well fed body.
Ans: You need my body to talk to you. I am not my body. I am the witness. Bodily existence is but a state of mind, a movement in consciousness.
The ocean of consciousness is infinite and eternal.
Qn: If somebody severs your head, what is the difference?
Ans: None. Lines of communication are cut. Bagavad-Gita says the sword does not cut it. Just like a fire can outlast a mountain of fuel, so does consciousness survive innumerable bodies.
I am both conscious, unconscious and neither. Be aware of being conscious and seek the source of consciousness.
Ans: Improvement of the world is praiseworthy. But in all manifestation, the good and bad follow each other. The only way to renewal is by destruction. Only the people who have gone beyond the world can change it. As long as human behavior is dominated by desire and fear, there is not much hope.
Qn: Basic desires and fears are inevitable such as food, bodily pleasures and death. Even death is a need. What is right and what is wrong?
Ans: Relatively what causes suffering is wrong. What alleviates it is right. What brings you back to reality is right and what dims reality is wrong.
Qn: When we talk of helping humanity, we mean a struggle against disorder and suffering.
Ans: Can you give a man character, based on full realization of duties and opportunities at least, if not on the insight into his true being.
Qn: You may be God but need a well fed body.
Ans: You need my body to talk to you. I am not my body. I am the witness. Bodily existence is but a state of mind, a movement in consciousness.
The ocean of consciousness is infinite and eternal.
Qn: If somebody severs your head, what is the difference?
Ans: None. Lines of communication are cut. Bagavad-Gita says the sword does not cut it. Just like a fire can outlast a mountain of fuel, so does consciousness survive innumerable bodies.
I am both conscious, unconscious and neither. Be aware of being conscious and seek the source of consciousness.
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