SAIVA-SIDDHANTA

Behold
"
SOME ASPECTS OF THE
GOD-HEAD.
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"
!
He
is the male, the female and the neuter." !
Tiruvachakam.
Sivam santam, advaitam chaturtham manyante
".
Rumatapinl Upanishat.
Very often it happens, we have to write upon the same
subject over and over again, and nobody need wonder why f
this should be so. We eat the same kind of rice and dish of
vegetables, over and over again, day after day,
end to the year s end, and yet, we never ask why
be so. The answer is plain
from the year s
this should
that this is the best and safest
and most wholesome food we require, every day of our life,
for its sustenance and nurture and growth. What applies
to the body applies to the mind as well. The mind requires
also some wholesome and safe and healthy pabulum for
it to feed upon, also, every day, nay, every hour ;
and
you can starve the mind, as well as over-feed it ;
and you
may feed it on unwholesome and unhealthy food ;
and these
are irregularities which we should avoid, as we should
avoid irregularities in diet. Wholesome food, however often
we may repeat, ought not to tire any body. And this is
necessary for another reason also. Man is circumstanced more
or less by his environment all sorts of influences are ; brought
to bear on him ;
and these create doubts and misgivings even
in the most well-regulated minds ;
and the mind vacillates from
one extreme to the other. It is therefore good that the mind
is made to face the same truth, ever and anon. And then,
indeed, our memory is so weak, we forget what we learnt
only yesterday ; and what fails to strike our imagination at
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