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Truth
then is about your experience. This is a universal law, which if understood
can take you to the gateway of the highest truth. You are the self which
is complete, composite, part of the universal consciousness and therefore
immortal and infinite. Beyond death and destruction. And that is also
the definition of God.
Religion
talks of believing God, trusting, obeying and perhaps meeting God. Unless
that becomes your experience you are always wondering about God, religion,
faith, existence, death and birth. Trusting something you don't experience
places you in greater fear and self-doubt and you end up either shunning
religion or being fanatical about it. Both are expressions of a being
in fear for he/she is not experiencing what he/she thinks is the greatest
truth. God!
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Why?
In a world which is never static, no truth can be understood except
that which is your own. We tend to understand only that which
we see, know and taste i.e. that which we directly experience.
Because that is the only way it can be. So many people, places,
events and experiences make up this myriad world. All that moves
you must be your truth. YOU MUST KNOW IT THROUGH YOUR EXPERIENCE!
But social conditioning is in fact a social conspiracy. How to
make you belong to a group when your differences will abound?
A family, caste, community, religion and nation all survive through
groups, which means numbers. That is their power, it sustains
and ensures power. Your difference threatens their power structure.
Hence all recorded history is a basic struggle between individual
freedom and social authority. YOU succumb to the conspiracy before
you see its truth. You begin to belong (and want to belong to
it) before you can see its destructive design. It starts in childhood,
with seeking love and validation first from parents and family
and then peers until slowly your whole life is based on seeking
socially sanctioned rewards and fearing punishments. The social
conspirators are now victorious because you are not only part
of but are the social conspiracy yourself.
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But
the wonder of inner truth is that it fails to die. So within the conspiracy,
trying to conform to the norm, you are quietly experiencing social truths
differently. Parents are the virtue of selfless love, yet your father
or mother may have hurt you and your self interests in numerous ways.
The truth of the Self pushes you to accept that experience and act on
it. The fear of appearing a bad son/daughter, needy for the sanction of
family acceptance forces you to remain silent. So you either suppress
that feeling so deep down that you cease to see it as truth and start
imagining it as your vice or 'dark self'. Or you struggle and war with
the persistent feeling and involve yourself in a maze of confusing behaviours
with mum and dad, alternating between hate and love. There is a third
response too where you begin to sink in the mire of how unlucky, doomed
and damned you are blaming karma, destiny, God or anything else that is
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The
result is a feeling of schizophrenia. Losing faith in your response
to people which finally flowers into general mistrust of all intimate
relationships. This is the most common symptom and trajectory of
an individual's persona. We can use similar examples to cover many
other common experiences. The point here is to see the veil of social
conditioning which stands between you and your truth. You draw the
veil because you learn that people, including family, do not appreciate
truths, especially ugly and painful ones. And then your inner Self
which pushes for truthful self-expression scares you so much that
you begin to thicken and deepen the veil. Our psyche is clogged
with many veils beyond which lie ugly, painful truths. Suffering
comes from the ignorance that they can be suppressed and will leave
with time. In the meanwhile the Self gets lost/destroyed because
only truth can free us.
The veil must be uncovered by you, if you have to discover the wonder
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The
journey to the Self is therefore a journey of stepping into truth. Yours!
At the first level lie all the pain, sorrow, doubts and low self-esteem
that you need to acknowledge as your inner being. You need to know them
as your experience and work at healing them. Only healing the negative
will cleanse it. Suppressing, denying and deflecting will leave the dark
side latent but unchanged. Waiting to surface at the first provocation.
Once cleansed, the second level of cleansing is an automatic shedding
of all borrowed truths from society and others who make up your emotional
and moral universe.
It is only after this, that the truth of your Self will emerge. Liberated
from the artifice of social dictums and expectations, unfettered by the
shallow yoke of morality, virtue and sin. |
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A
Self which is spontaneous, complete, effervescent and infinitely
creative. This Self will liberate you from limitations, powerlessness
and fragility. Then there will only be expansion and freedom and
its centre will be your being. All questions of God/man/existence
will disappear. There will just be consciousness in bliss, what
the Indian Vedas refer to as 'chittananda swaroop'.
And you will know Self as that which contains all of existence.
The mystery of death, birth and life will become self-evident.
You will have attained to perfection, the full height of man/woman.
Then there is no God, for there is no search. You are all that
you have searched for and the silence and wonder of it will be
known as a deep laughter a dance of celebration and ecstasy. The
Self when known will not make you sombre and stoic but rumbling
with a unique joy, child like, once again curious, open and keen
to flow with the wonders of existence anew.
This
Self is the only spiritual goal, the only search there can be
and the only door to the Divine. What you find there is the God/Goddess
that you are.
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