You find that after a heavy and indigestible meal it is very hard to control the mind; it is running, running all the time. There are certain foods which are exciting; if you eat such food, you find that you cannot control the mind. It is obvious that after drinking a large quantity of wine, or other alcoholic beverage, a man finds that his mind would not be controlled; it runs away from his control.
A good deal of the misery we suffer is occasioned by the food we take.
There are certain kinds of food that produce a certain change in the mind; we see it every day. There are other sorts which produce a change in the body, and in the long run have a tremendous effect on the mind.
Aside from the question whether such a God exists or not, it is a fact that to those who have love in their heart this Absolute -appears as a God of love, as personal.
Love cannot be without a subject and an object. The object of love again must be at first a being who can reciprocate our love. Therefore the God of love must be in some sense a human God. He must be a God of love.
If any work is done, good or bad, it must produce as a result a good or bad effect; no power can stay it, once the cause is present.
Our main problem is to be free. It is evident then that until we realise ourselves as the Absolute, we cannot attain to deliverance.
Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death.
Weakness leads to all kinds of misery, physical and mental. Weakness is death.