The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender’s inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for everyone else the proper pleasure of ritual.
What is religion?
It is compassion for all things which have life.
Perceiving her son endowed with the characteristics of Vishnu, Devaki prayed: You are the Illuminator of all psycho-physical organisms, the indefinable Reality, which the Vedas declare as the unmanifest cause… When the universe is dissolved by force of Time, the gross elements are ultimately merged in ahankara (their cause)…
I’ll wear two swords, a sword of shakti (power) and a sword of bhakti (meditation).
God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
