In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless.
Space-time-causation, or name-and-form, is what is called Maya.
The forms are evanescent; but the spirit, being in the Lord and of the Lord, is immortal and omnipresent.
The whole universe is composed of name and form. Whatever we see is either a compound of name and form, or simply name with form which is a mental image.
There cannot be any form unless it is the result of force and matter; and all combinations must dissolve.
We have none of us seen a form which had not a beginning and will not have an end.
Whatever had form or shape must be limited, and could not be eternal.
Whatsoever has form must be the result of combinations of particles and requires something else behind it to move it.
When we free ourselves from name and form, especially from a body – when we need no body, good or bad – then only do we escape from bondage.
All these ideas such as astrology, although there may be a grain of truth in them, should be avoided.
Excessive attention to the minutiae of astrology is one of the superstitions which has hurt the Hindus very much.
I have seen some astrologers who predicted wonderful things; but I have no reason to believe they predicted them only from the stars, or anything of the sort. In many cases it is simply mind-reading. Sometimes wonderful predictions are made, but in many cases it is arrant trash.
Man has wanted to look beyond, wanted to expand himself; and all that we call progress, evolution, has been always measured by that one search, the search for human destiny, the search for God.
No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of God, and of human destiny.
What is meant by cause? Cause is the fine state of the manifested state.
All is bound by the law of causation.
All law has its essence in causation.
As the cause is, so the effect will be. Cause is never different from effect, the effect is but the cause reproduced in another form.
Everything has a cause.
Everything is present in its cause, in its fine form.