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\"india_2005-173\"<\/a>28 September 2005<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The world has its own order and within that order everything has its orchestrated role. Krishna (the attractive one) dances in a kind of ecstasy, and the gopi<\/em> dance around him. Navaratri<\/em> lasts for nine days and in that time many celebrants dance.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can pack a suitcase and every extra article makes it heavier and heavier. But the mind, despite adding to it one idea or fact after another, doesn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t get heavier, maybe a little tired, but has a seemingly endless capacity for more.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Ellora there is a temple which has been chiseled out of the side of a hill, where the architect\/sculptor cannot be allowed any mistakes.<\/span><\/p>\n

What happens in the mind also obeys a certain order as well. Whether a person is depressed, confused, or happy is part of the mind\u00e2\u0080\u0099s range. We may not know why we feel a certain way, but there is always a cause behind it.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>Memories come and go, and so do emotions. We don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t always know what we\u00e2\u0080\u0099re going to remember, but once we have absorbed knowledge, it becomes part of us. The inner world has its own order.<\/span><\/p>\n

Most of our life is governed by this inner world. The quantity of my life is governed by what lies outside, but the quality of my life is governed by what lies within me.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>The manifest order of the world is dharma<\/em>. Within that order is the law of karma \u00e2\u0080\u0093 cause and effect, the two of which are interdependent.<\/span><\/p>\n

Whether making cotton or creating a consciousness, the Maker must have knowledge of the material. In the making of the thing, we can thus observe an order.<\/span><\/p>\n