Volume 10 Number 2 Page 38

The soul is to the body as the bald man is to his wig. The bald man puts on his wig when he goes to work in the daytime. When he comes home at night and goes to sleep, he takes it off. So you must learn to use the body when you need it for work, and to free yourself when you no longer need it.

Self-delusion is unfortunate; hypocrisy is inexcusable. The self-deluded one doesn't know, but thinks that he knows. The hypocrite knows that he doesn't know, but pretends that he knows.

Birthday Message, 1937:

The incident of birth is common to all life on earth. Unlike other living creatures which are born insignificantly, live an involuntary life and die an uncertain death, physical birth of human beings denotes an important — and if they are extra-circumspect about it — perhaps a final stage of their evolutionary progress. From here onwards they are no longer automatons but masters of their destiny, which they can shape and mold according to their will.

This means that human beings, having passed through all the travails of lower evolutionary processes, should insist upon the reward thereof, which is spiritual birth in this very life — and not rest content with a promise in the hereafter.

No sooner does one recoil on oneself and is eager to find the answers to the introspective questions "Whence and Whither?," than one may surely be said to have had "spiritual birth."

Once gained, this poise of mind automatically and unknowingly brings about a readjustment of material surroundings, and the man finds himself in harmony and at peace with the world. Conservatism, intolerance, pride and selfishness will fall away. Everything will put on a new meaning and assume a purpose. Sinner and saint will appear to be waves differing in size and magnitude on the surface of the same Ocean — a natural outcome of forces in the universe, governed by time space and causation. The saint has neither the pride of place, nor the winner the stigma of eternal degradation. Nobody is utterly lost and nobody need despair.

My panacea to the worried world is the effort on its part to get the answer to the questions of "Whither and Whence." The knowledge that all have the same beginning and the same end, with life on earth a happy interlude, will go a long way towards making the brotherhood of man a