- Teaching mankind is very difficult. It is only when God manifests and gives a commission that it is possible. Narada, Sukadeva, and others received that command to teach. Sankaracharya also was commissioned by God.
- God actually appears before you and speaks to you. Only then do you receive the command. What a weight such words carry then! They can move a mountain.
- If you preach without receiving a direct command, people won’t listen. Such teaching carries no force.
- There’s nothing wrong in preaching and instructing mankind after seeing God and having received His command. The ‘I’ of such a person is not the ‘unripe I’ – it is the ‘ripe I’.
- When you light a lamp, swarms of moths come to it by themselves: they don’t have to be called. Similarly, one who has received a commission from God doesn’t have to invite people by announcing that a lecture will be delivered at a certain time.
- The knowledge of a person who has received a commission from God is inexhaustible. This knowledge flows from God and is never-ending.
- It’s the same thing with the person who has received a commission from God. The Divine Mother keeps on pushing heaps of knowledge toward him from behind.
- When you have the badge of authority, then alone will people listen to you. Unless you receive God’s commission, you can’t teach others. He who is going to preach must have sufficient spiritual power.