The Truth

‍

Truth is the only thing that must be discovered. Reason is the slave of the mind.

‍

Reason obeys our impressions.

Everyone has his own imagination of God. It is best if everyone is left to his own imagination.

In our daily life we may hate someone yet the same sone is loved by someone else. We may be criticised and the same one is praised by someone else.

‍

The God we know, or can know, is nothing but our conception, a picture that we have made of God for our own self, our own use

‍

It is the greatest mistake for anyone to interfere with the conception of God held by another, or to think that another should have the same conception of God as he has himself. It is impossible.

‍

Every person has his own God. Let them all call God by any name, or think of him with whatever imagination they have. It is after all the highest ideal and the ideal of each one is as high as his imagination can make it.

‍

God is formless and pure

Urging upon someone that God is abstract and formless and pure, and that God is nameless, all these things do not help that person to evolve.

If we leave everyone with his particular imagination or ideal of God, will he then progress and one day come to the realisation of the self which is the highest attainment by all the great teachers of humanity. The answer is yes.

It is also true that man cannot be perfect, but man is not man alone; in man there is also God. Therefore, man remains imperfect. The God part in man seeks for perfection. That is what the world was created for. Man is here on Earth for this one purpose, that he may bring forth that spirit of God in him and thus discover his own perfection.

We cannot give God pleasure by making him great. We ourselves arrive at a certain greatness, our vision widens, our spirit deepens, our ideal reaches higher. We create a greater vision, a wider horizon, for our expansion.

‍

We should, by way of power, by praise, by contemplation, try to make God a s great a s we can possibly imagine.

‍

Behind the curtain

The truth behind this is that a person who sees good points in others and wants to add what is lacking in others becomes nobler everyday.

By making others noble, by thinking good of others he him selves becomes nobler and better than those of whom he thinks good; and the one who thinks evil of others in time becomes wicked, for he covers up the good in him and produces thus a vision of evil. Therefore, the first stage and the first duty of every seeker after truth is to make God as great as possible, for his own good, because he is making an ideal within himself; he is building within himself that which will make him great.

To close the eyes for prayer is one thing and to produce the love of God is another.

The beloved becomes the self, and the self is there no more. The self becomes what it really is: self-realised.