Arrogance of the self-righteous

• Beware two dangers to your humility - extreme power and extreme but misplaced renunciation. Arrogance of the self-righteous is even more lethal than the arrogance of the corrupt. Both need watching. An arrogant saint can do more damage than an arrogant King. I dread nothing more than a contemptuous honest man for he is more difficult to fight against than a contemptuous wicked man. That which robs you of your humility cannot be virtuous even if it is your religion or your honesty.

frankly, I don't know what infinite means

Rajiv: One of the many things I would love both of us to do together is to look through those powerful telescopes and look through tto search the womb of at least the local set of multiple universes.
One thing I would like you to do alone ...is to shave off that goatee. You look so much better being just the Rajiv we knew when woman was the name we gave to the only mystery the universe needed to reveal. ( I have kept that name intact and expanded it to include all my footloose definitions of God ! I know this universe is overwhelmingly infinite -- frankly, I don't know what infinite means -) but to me even the dog who masters and patronizes me every minute is as full of boundless warmth as all the love that rests in the heart of the universe as we know it.

( But get rid of that goatee anyway; no philosophies will justify what simply does not look good and in fact disfigures a divine perfection we have always seen in your face as Biji caressed into being . ( Pay my regards to her; I need her to back-bite you)

Analysis and Understanding --

Analysis and Understanding --

by Harcharan Bains on Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 11:50am

(In response to a query by Gurbrinder on "strings to fragrance" note

Questions are always more exhilarating than the quiet bliss of understanding. I passed through this exhilarating stage early on in my graduation years. Then, I would find myself in disagreement with all established truths or everything that was spoken in my presence or all symbols of authority. As a stage, it was a necessary stage, and even enjoyable. It made me feel special when even an authority on Shakespeare would be struck dumb by the barrage of questions that my ignorance would throw at him. I look back at that phase in my progress with amusement -- and forgive myself and move on.

No end to questions, if the idea is not to understand but to analyse -- even honestly analyse. To a mother, a child is not a biological fact, but an emotional truth. She accepts it and in her acceptance finds peace and happiness that you and I can not even understand. I can spend donkey's years in trying to convince her that there are others more worthy of her love than her child, but the one who needs help in that case would be me , not her.

In simple words, if we want to understand something, we will find understnading cruising to us on the wings of breeze. But if we have a pre-wired penchant forsomething other than understanding, nature will help us in achieving that too, but at the cost of understanding. Street smartness and wisdom are different things, and both have their merits. But one must not be confused with the other.

And now please , let us not start another smart debate on "how can one understrand without asking the right questions." We know , we know.

Beware the obvious

Hidden somewhere in the obvious lies the truth that will not yield itself to normal vision. Generally speaking, the obvious is the most misleading. Light is the most invisible thing in the universe. It illuminates everything but if you could see light, you would see nothing that it illuminates.Light will fall as a wall between you and what you wan to see. Beware the obvious.

Reveal innocence behind the awesome

At some level, a genius owes it to us make it easier for others to enjoy her brilliance.its the job of a master to make difficult things simple, to reveal innocence behind the awesome, to show the boundless ocean as water transparent, totranslate whirlwind as breeze in a swirl. Nanak, Farid, Kabir, Ravidas,Namdev, Bhai Veer Singh and others in this line are great examples,as are Wordsworth and Shakespeare.

And, Pukhraj, I wouldn't say it to anyone who didn't have something truly profound in him to make simple.