We make pranams to elders on those occasions when Westerners offer thanks . Sense of importance is a human conception. It is not there below humanity or above it . Work relations must be so that each is reminded of his duty. Emotional relations must be so arranged that duties are not reminded or even mentioned .
Progress has two parts, ascent and descent.
Man starts at whichever part is more awake. Primitive man goes from physical to mental and again mental to physical to complete it. Modern man starts with mind and then goes to the physical. Consecration avoids the procedure of the process and gives the result through the Light. Consecration yields the final result in the beginning .