to the seekers of truth: part one
when will it happen?
I bow to all the seekers of truth.
There are, in these modern times, many seekers of truth.
It is a special category of people born in these modern times.
In every country a lot of people are born with this seeking. They are a special category,
which sees beyond, tries to find something beyond what they can perceive through their
sense organs.
The truth, as we see it, is through our sense organs. For example something we see as
white, we call it “white,” something we feel cool, we call it “cool.” That means whatever
we perceive through our sense organs and whatever is communicated to us through our
central nervous system, we accept as the truth. And we should accept that only as truth
and not something that is told to us, not something that we have read in books, not something that we can project in our mind.
That doesn’t mean that I deny any one of the scriptures. That doesn’t mean that I
deny anything. But to begin with, let us start from scratch, as they call it, or on a clean
slate. Let us see what is the truth.
To experience the truth
In every religion truth has been described. As I can see it, everybody does not see it. That
is why there is blindness. That is why there are these blind alleys where you end up arguing things. So there must be something that is missing within us. We have not been able
to really relate truth to our central nervous system.
Now, what is that missing within us? We should find out. In all humility, we should
know that there must be something within us. We have been arguing about so many
things. We have been talking about so many things, reading so many books, going into
all kinds of funny experiences right from alcohol to other drugs and gurus and this and
that, but still we have not felt anything on our central nervous system.
Secondly, we have no control over that truth. So what is the reason? Is something
missing in the human awareness? Is it that we are lacking something in our human awareness? All the books, all the scriptures which are true scriptures have said one thing: to
know the truth, you are to be born again.
If you take Patanjali, who wrote a very ancient book, it is not that Patanjali asked you
Patanjali was the compiler to stand on your heads. That is wrong. That is just a wee bit of it. But what Patanjali has
of the Yoga Sutras about written is that you have to achieve the truth on your central nervous system meaning the
two centuries before Christ. experience of your spirit.