Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000
RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.
Countrymen,
ORBIS NON SUFFICIT
SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT
The ego is very stupid.
Law and government are elements of culture, culture is the form of religion and religion is the substance of culture.
One day a sublime personality will do for the work of Johannes Paulus Tillich what Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy did for the work of Johann Sebastian Bach.
The five great religions of man are self-manifestations of the one Truth, of God.
Trolls arouse when realities arise.
In general, the very evil live a long life and the very good a short one.
Half, at least, the things people talk about don’t need to be said.
In any matter whatsoever, wisdom is simple and humorous.
A woman relies utterly on a man. A man relies utterly on God.
Atheism depends on theism just as materialism depends on will. To oppose something one first must affirm it, to make it opposable. Every atheist is a theist, meaning, a theologian, would he but admit it. Every materialist is a theologian.
Communism is a Christian heresy. It’s roots are in Rousseau and a grandiose perversion of the Parable of the Good Samaritan, concretized in all its cruelty first in the French Revolution, which is being recapitulated now under our noses in the USA. Nazism, FWIW, is a Christian apostasy.
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
He who hesitates is probably right.
Experience is something you get just after you need it.
What we have we do not talk about. What we talk about we do not have.
A mystery is that which remains mysterious even after it is known.
Today, liberals have become fanatical voluptuaries and fundamentalists have become voluptuarial fanatics.
Whatever you do, learn the language of the art and the art of the language.
When the Master calls, the student comes. The will of the Master governs, not the will of the student.
By the way, how is one to know the difference between a moral club, a church and a monastery?
What is Service (Seva)?
It is the very essence of Devotion,
The very breath of Devotee,
His very nature.
It springs from the actual experience of
The Devotee an experience
That convinces him
That all beings are God’s children
That all bodies are altars where
God is installed
That all places are his Residences.
Sathya Sai Baba
What is the truth? The truth is the whole.
Everything is real, but we don’t know that it is.
We talk as if we know something and that it matters. We do not and it does not.
We could renounce the pretense of knowing.
What is the truth? The truth is the whole.
I could not be more inconsequential.
I could not be more consequential.
I am the fringe at the center.
System failure is Siva popping bubbles: redemptive.
Termination is relocation.
Every event is defined by a history and develops one.
Knowledge is ecstatic union of subject and object.
Man discovers himself by discovering God.
Or better:
When God finds you, you find yourself.
Questions, not answers, are important. Everyone has answers. Only learned people have questions. So concentrate on the questions. The answers take care of themselves once the questions are asked properly. The road to learning and wisdom is asking the right questions.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
My functionality is that of a catalyst, never that of a supervisor.
Theosophy is a corruption of Judaism.
Communism is a corruption of Christianity.
Course in Miracles, TM, SRF, Mormonism, New Age, Yoga Meditation, etc., recapitulate the several early heresies of Christianity.
Maya itself is maya.
Question: How can we overcome maya?
Answer: Do not look in the well.
People who get credit often are not those who do the work.
Summary of “My God, My God, why …?” : I am surviving this.
Summary of religion: We all have the same choice: be kind or get out.
Leadership is evidence that the universe is not mechanistic.
East and West meet at Delphi.
The Roman Empire did not disintegrate. It decentralized and diversified.
The purpose of government is to hold the consciousness bound to truth.
Truth is the coincidence of thought, word and deed.
Thoughts, words and deeds which oppose the purpose of government are treason.
La réalité est une graduation de la Vie de Dieu.
Reality is an increment of the Life of God.
Judgment is an act of love which surrenders that which resists love to self-destruction.
The Rev. Dr. Paulus Johannes Tillich
Some symbols are multi-cultural, but cultures are not.
Rather than looking for differences, look for correlations.
Maintain your essential unity with God by accepting into that unity all experience of existential estrangement.
The problem for masochists is when they meet a real sadist.
Import the world’s peoples, import the world’s problems.
Socialists/humanists are secular Christian atheists who war on their origin.
Reason as the Ground of Being is the one constant across all religions and philosophies worthy of the name.
The United States of America is a Pacific/Asian nation, not an Atlantic/European nation.
The Church cannot legislate, does not want to and should not, but, She has a voice!
Truth is self-authenticating, permanent and cannot be destroyed.
Tyranny frustrates its practitioner because it cannot be done. It is a forlorn hope. Truth stands against it at all times and everywhere. The way the world works — Truth — stands against tyranny. This is true for anyone who wants to promote or practice tyranny.
AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA
