Tripura Rahasya

Hemalekha continued,

• Dry logic also must be condemned. Another system declares that universe is eternal, without beginning or end. It follows that the universe and its phenomena are self-existent; thus lifeless insentient matter is its own agent and keeper, which is absurd, because action implies intelligence and no example can be cited to the contrary. Scriptures also say that the Primal Cause is an intelligent principle, and we know that action always originates from and intelligent source alone.
• The world is thus traced to its Creator who differs entirely from any agent known to us. Judging from the magnitude of the creation, His power must be immeasurable in the same proportion as the unimaginable vastness of the creation. Such a one must also be able to protect and elevate His own creatures. Surrender therefore unreservedly unto Him.
• Surrender yourself directly and unhesitatingly to Him. He will ordain the best for you and you need not ask for it.
• Among the methods of approach to God, there are 1)Worship to overcome troubles 2) Worship to gain wealth etc. 3) Loving dedication of oneself. The last one is the best and surest in its troubles.
• In practical life too, a chief entreated by a man in trouble affords him relief. The man, however, is not helped if he has not shown proper attention to the patron. So also the service born of ambition, bears indeterminate and limited fruits according to its intensity. Devoted service with no ulterior motive takes a long time to be recognized; yet it makes even the petty chief amiable. 
• A human master may take long to recognize unselfish work; but God, the Lord of the Universe, the Dweller in our hearts, knows everything and soon bestows appropriate fruits. In the case of other kinds of devotees, God has to await the course of destiny - that being His own ordainment; whereas for the selfless devotee, God, the Lord and the sole refuge, is all in all and takes care of him without references to the devotee's predestiny or His own ordained laws. He compensates the devotee quickly, and that is because He is supreme and self-contained without depending on anything else.