I do not want you to worship me: I do not want you to believe in the things that I say; I do not want you to create out of me a shrine for your shelter; I do not want you to use me as a crutch; because what you see of me, this personality, this body, is the most unreal, decaying, perishing thing. But when you have understood what lies behind this form, which can only be done by inviting doubt, by constantly rejecting, and in that way establishing within yourself the knowledge of Truth — then only will you be able always to give the Truth in its pristine beauty, without stepping it down. You can see how, throughout the ages, the so-called disciples of the Truth have worshipped personalities, and in worshipping personalities and in urging others to do the same, they have stepped down the Truth and hence they have betrayed the Truth. You all know a very famous saying of the Lord Buddha. He said: Even though I say it. it is not true to you if you do not understand it. And because they have not followed that saying and only worshipped the personality, the form that contained the Truth, they have got all the complexities of beliefs, the warping created by prejudice, the pettiness of worship, the narrowness of shrines. And if you go out — as you have to go out — and give this new idea, and stand, not upon any authority, but upon your own understanding of the Truth, — then you will not betray it, you will not be stepping it down, you will not be creating useless shelters and vain decaying images that only give half-truths, and not the Truth in its entirety. Then you are beyond doubt and that is the criterion of a truly civilized man.
Posted on: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 21:20:56 +0000