TO EXPLAIN SAMADARSHITA- SAME SIGHTEDNESS

Essentially we all are one. We differ only in names and forms. A boy may try to fool his friends by wearing different masks. First he wears the mask of a tiger and behaves like a tiger. Most of the friends are frightened. The next moment he wears the mask of a monkey and jumps about like a real monkey. This time his friends are amused. This goes on for a while, but finally the boy puts aside the mask and appears as he is. We are all one and the same: Brahman.

 

SELF IN THE PHENOMENOL WORLD

It is like a lamp. A lamp gives light without which nothing, good or bad, can be seen. But the lamp is not affected by whatever way the light is used. The position of the self vis-a-vis the phenomenal world is like that.

 

ON DUALISM

The ideal is to have a mind that accepts the whole world as its own- a mind that is as broad as the sky. It should be pure bright, free and all embracing

 

ON THE SELF

Self is purely a witness, not involved in any part of the phenomenal world, yet the phenomenal world goes on only because of the self. It is like a lamp. A lamp gives light without which nothing, good or bad, can be seen. But the lamp is not affected by whatever way the light is used

 

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MANIFESTED AND UNMANIFESTED

The seed of the banyan tree. The seed was always there.