M: Let activities go on. The do not affect the pure Self. The difficulty is that people think they are the doer. This is a mistake. It is the higher power which does everything and people are only its tools. If they accept that position they will be free from troubles, otherwise they court them.
The sculptured figure on the temple tower shows great strain, but really, the tower rests on the ground, and that supports the figure. The figure is a part of the tower, but is made to look as if it is bearing the weight of the tower. Is it not funny? It is the same with the person who takes on himself the sense of doing.
Q: What is your opinion of social reform?
M: Self-reform automatically brings about social reform. Confine yourself to self-reform. Social reform will take care of itself.
Somebody commented that the Gita preached karma yoga, because it taught that one should act with selfless motives.
M: No. This can only be achieved after knowing the illusoriness of ego, i.e. jnana. Hence it really taught jnana yoga,which is the highest, and that we should act by letting the universal act through us.
Q: I am a doctor. How can I best heal people?
M: The permanent cure is jnana; the patients must realize it for themselves, and that depends on their maturity. Otherwise when one disease goes another will come.
Conscious Immortality
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