Only truth can set you free

 

Truth is that which does not change. Examine your life and identify all that changes as “not truth”. With this outlook, you will find that you are surrounded by only untruth. When you identify untruth, then you will become free from it. 

When you do not identify the untruth, you cannot become free from it. Your own experiences in life make you identify your own untruth. As you mature in life, you find everything is untruth, events, situations, people, emotions, thoughts, opinions, concepts, your body, everything is untruth.

It is only then that satsang, the company of truth, happens in the real sense. A mother cannot see the child as untruth until the child becomes an adult. For a baby, sweet is not untruth, and for a teenager, sex is not untruth.

Knowledge is also untruth if it is only words. But as existence, it is truth. Love as an emotion is not truth, as existence, it is truth. 

Faith cannot be analysed

 

Do you know the difference between faith and confidence? Faith is the beginning. Confidence is the result. Faith in yourself brings freedom. Faith in the world brings you peace of mind. Faith in God evokes love in you.

If you have complete faith, there are no questions. If you have no faith there is no point in asking any questions because how can there be any faith in the answer you receive? If you have faith in God when you know someone is taking care of you, what is the need for questions?

If you have taken the Karnataka Express to Bangalore, there is no need to ask at every station, “Where is the train going?” When someone is taking care of your desires, why go to an astrologer?

What about blind faith? Faith is faith, it cannot be blind. What you call blind is not faith at least not yours. Blindness and faith cannot meet. It is when you lose faith that you become blind. 

Whatever you have faith in, do not make it an object of knowing. You do not need to know about that in which you have faith. If you have faith in God, do not try to know God. God and self are not objects of knowing. You cannot have faith in that which you have made into an object of knowing. A child has faith in the mother. The child does not try to know the mother, it simply has faith in the mother. You cannot make love an object of knowing. If you try to do so, the love will disappear.

Curiosity to know obstructs faith by making into an object of knowing that in which you have faith. Often when people fall in love with each other, they don’t let go of curiosity. Curiosity slowly erodes their faith and love. 

Faith is non-analytical. Knowledge is analytical. God, love, Guru, sleep and Self are beyond knowing. If you try to analyse, you get confused. And the moment you make something into an object of knowing, analysis starts.

Does God have faith in us? To know whether God has faith or not, you have to analyse. And in asking this question, you give God a mind which is not there. 

One can have faith without being aware of it. Faith is the nature of a relaxed and undivided consciousness.