5th December 2023- The term “duty,” like every other universal abstract term, is impossible clearly to define. We can only get an idea of it by knowing its practical operations and results.
7th December 2023- As we struggle through the paths of life, there will come a time when we shall become perfectly unselfish; and the moment we attain to that, all our powers will be concentrated, and the knowledge which is ours will be manifest.
8th December 2023- Good is near Truth, but is not yet Truth. After learning not to be disturbed by evil, we have to learn not to be made happy by good. We must find that we are beyond both evil and good. We must study their adjustment and see that they are both necessary.
14th December 2023- To get any reason out of the mass incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we must do it scientifically, slowly, by regular practice, and we must cast off all superstition. We must take up the study of the superconscious state just as any other science.
24th December 2023- Cut down the banyan tree of desire with the axe of non-attachment, and it will vanish utterly. It is all illusion. “He from whom blight and delusion have fallen, he who has conquered the evils of association, he alone is āzād (free).“
One who gives up living in houses, wearing fine clothes, and eating good food, and goes into the desert, may be a most attached person. This man’s only possession, his own body, may become everything to him, and as he lives he will be simply struggling for the sake of his body. Non-attachment does not mean anything that we may do in relation to our external body. It is all in the mind.
25th December 2023- Everything that we see, or imagine, or dream, we have to perceive in space. This is the ordinary space, called the Mahākāśa, or elemental space.
When the yogi reads the thoughts of other people, or perceives supersensous objects, he sees them in another sort of space called the Cittākāśa, the mental space.
When the perception has become objectless, and the soul shines in it’s own nature, it is called the Cidākāśa, or knowledge space.
26th December 2023- The progress of the world through all its evils is making it fit for the ideals, slowly but surely. The majority will have to go on with this slow growth- the exceptional ones will have to get out (of society) to realize the idea in the present state of things.
The Trinitarian Christ is elevated above us; the Unitarian Christ is merely a moral man; neither can help us. The Christ who is the incarnation of God, who has not forgotten his divinity, that Christ can help us, in him there is no imperfection.
27th December 2023- The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words. “I am low, I am low” repeating these ideas in the mind, we belittle and degrade ourselves. Therefore, the Aṣṭāvakra Samhitā 1.11 says, “He who thinks himself free, free he becomes; he who thinks himself bound, bound he remains- this popular saying is true: “As one thinks, so one becomes.”
29th December 2023- Behind all the mental strain and torture, not infrequently productive of more dangerous results than mere games, stands a fact unchallenged and unchallengeable- the fact, the wonder, which the Mahabharat points out as the inability of our mind to conceive our own annihilation. Even to imagine my own annihilation I shall have to stand by and look on as a witness.
30th December 2023- Love is always mutual, reflective. You may hate me, and if I want to love you, you repulse me. But if I persist, in a month or a year, you are bound to love me. It is a well known psychological phenomenon. As the loving wife thinks of her departed husband, with same love we must desire the Lord, and then we will find God, and all books and the various sciences would not be able to teach us anything.
31st December 2023- The Divine mother is the power of all causation. She energies every cause unmistakably to produce the effect. Her will is the only law, and She cannot make a mistake, nature’s laws–her will–can never be changed. She is the life of the law of karma, or causation. She is the fructifier of every action. Under Her guidance we are manufacturing our lives through our deeds or karma.