THE VIRTUOUS CIRCLE🔗

Arjuna asks whether it is better to be established in the Consciousness and stay inside the Experience or radiate love and gratitude and express that Consciousness through devotion, bhakti. Our very Being is love and once we experience our Being, we radiate love. Krishna's answer is, 'They are both one and the same.' Both are the ultimate. I want to introduce a new concept: Virtuous Circle. Consciousness leads to the expression or bhakti, and the expression leads to Consciousness. Usually we are caught in a vicious circle of fear leading to greed and greed leading to fear. The virtuous circle leads to higher and higher Consciousness and experiences.

Paramahamsa Love Is Your Very Life - The Bhagavad Gita 15 Sep 2005, Los Angeles, USA

THE ACID TEST

Where logic fails

If you want to check to see if something is gold or not, you put it in acid and find out. This is the Acid Test. In the same way, if you want to find out whether something is pure truth or not, put it in the acid test of logical analysis. Your logic will simply fall. When your logic falls, realize - it is the truth! Any truth will simply destroy the logic. It means your logic will get so tired, it will drop automatically.