Own Life Source – In Gita Verse 7.9 I am the original fragrance of the earth, and I am the heat in fire. I am the life of all that lives, and I am the penances of all ascetics.
Krishna is saying how he is present in everything like earth is tangible but the fragrance of the earth is intangible, invisible only one can experience. Even when we try to say it in words it becomes false. It only can be indicated. Sages when they practice meditation, sages are tangible but their meditation is totally an individual experience. Truth is individual experience. To know your own life source you need to know your own Truth.
THE EXPERIENCE OF TRUTH is neither a thought nor a feeling. It is a vibrating and throbbing of all the vital components of your entire being. It is not in you; you are in it. It is your whole being, not just an experience that is happening to you. It is in you yourself, but it is larger than you because the whole of existence is included in it as well.
IF SOMEONE ASK FOR A DEFINITION OF TRUTH? There is no definition of truth. How can one’s self define one’s self? Pilate asked Christ, “What is truth?” and Christ simply looked at him and remained silent. Truth has no words, no sounds. Truth is an experience of the extreme depths of the self. It is total identification with what is.
TRUTH IS NOT THE OPPOSITE OF UNTRUTH. The opposite of untruth is still untruth. All extremes are untruths. Truth is a mean between extremes. In other words, truth transcends all extremes.
THERE IS A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE between the experience of truth and an interpretation of truth. When you try to interpret truth you stand outside; when you experience truth you are completely inside it, in total communion with it. This is why it is impossible for those who have had the experience of truth to define it. If a man can give you some explanation of the truth it is a sign he has never experienced it.
THEN WHAT IS TRUTH? Is it a creed, a cult, an organization, a scripture, a word?
No.
A creed is dead and truth is life itself.
Truth is not a cult. There is no path leading to truth. How can a path that is known lead to the unknown?
Truth is not an organized religion either. Truth is an experience that transcends time. It is extremely individualistic, totally personal. How can it be confined in a limited circle of time?
Truth is not a word, not a sound. Sounds are born and die out, but truth exists forever.
Then what is it?
You will never find truth in the language of who, what, where, when or why. Truth simply exists, and what is just is. Truth cannot be thought about or pondered over but it can be lived. All thought and deliberation are obstacles to being in truth.
In the cadence of music, in the fullness of love, in the beauty of nature the individual virtually disappears – and what exists then is truth.
The individual himself is untruth; the non-individual is truth. The “I” is untruth; God is truth.
Truth cannot be taught through any word. Understand well that any truth that can be taught through words is not truth at all. Truth can be known but it cannot be uttered. To know the truth you have to become wordless, silent, empty. How can something that is known in emptiness be put into words?
In my Bhagavad Gita Verse 2.60, blog I wrote Your truth can be alive only if it comes through alertness, not through precepts and principles.
Krishna tells all of us – Be an individual if you really want truth to happen to you.
Take all the risks that are needed to be an individual, and accept the challenges so that they can sharpen you, can give you brilliance and intelligence.
Truth is not a belief, it is utter intelligence. It is a flaring-up of the hidden sources of your life, it is an enlightening experience of your consciousness. But you will have to provide the right space for it to happen. And the right space is accepting yourself as you are. Don’t deny anything, don’t become split, don’t feel guilty.
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