THE SPIRITUAL ARCHITECTURE OF TRUTH
To be true to yourself means coming together with the essence of yourself, and that essence within yourself is truth in itself. But how does one discover that? Do you think you could discover that with your mind? Yes, but very partially, because what would seem true to you today might prove to be false tomorrow. Because of the mind’s ramifications and modifications, truth assumes different properties at different times. What is true today might be untrue tomorrow, and what is untrue tomorrow might, the following day, yield another truth. So, truth is a process of continual search, and you, seeking truth, are involved not in truth, but you are involved in the process of truth because truth is forever building up unto itself. A four-foot wall will seem quite tall today if you are small, and as you grow up, the wall gets smaller, so you have to add another two feet to it. And as you grow still taller, you need a still higher wall. And that is how truth is a process of building, and what do you build upon? You build upon the foundation of thought.
When thought in the beginning has a firm foundation, that wall will not crumble, and it will not fall. So, if we could regulate, by coming to Courses, attending Satsangs, listening to tapes from this old guy here, whatever, you are building the foundation of true thought upon which truth is built. So, you are nothing but a builder. You build and build and build. But then you have to have that level, with the little thing in the centre, to see if the wall is straight. It is the level you use to build the wall. Where do you find that level? Only from a true Spiritual Master. A lot of gurus falling around over their own two left feet, but it is the true Spiritual Masters that give you the level, so in the thought processes to find the truth, your wall is built straight instead of wavy, wavy, wavy. To recap again on this point, you have a good level, and you start building your wall. The foundation must be on sincere and true thought, and then the wall will have the foundation of stability, and stability itself is truth.
TO FIND YOUR TRUTH, YOUR FEET HAVE TO BE FIRMLY PLANTED TO THE GROUND
It is only when people’s minds become unstable through their various mental processes that you will find the wall can waver, rumble, and fall. So how do we get to that stability? How do we become stable? How many of you, for example, really walk on the ground? Not very many. Some do; others just float across the road, unaware of the ground beneath them, on which their feet are firmly planted. And that is also the way you think. How many of your thoughts are firmly planted? Just try to examine this tomorrow, just observe your thoughts. They are floating and fleeting all the time. So, to get your true foundation, to find the truth, your thoughts have to be firmly planted on solid ground, and where is the solid ground? Here, in your heart. Not there in the mind. That is why the mind is always upstairs. The heart is downstairs. So why live upstairs all the time? I will get suffocated, I am sure. Come downstairs. And by coming downstairs, you are coming to the truth, to the ground. Your feet are firmly planted. That is how you find truth in life. Why become an airy-fairy? Come down to the dairy and suckle your mother’s breast. That is where your food has come from. That is what has made you grow, made you live, and that is why we call the mother, the foundation, the Holy Mother, for every mother is holy.
TRUTH IS TO BE FOUND ONLY WITHIN YOURSELF
To realise these things is the truth in itself. Truth does not come from anywhere else; it is within yourself all the time. You are born of truth, you are fed with truth, and you live truth all the time, unless you are twisted, and that is why you need a guru to untwist you. You get so knotted up, and if we cannot untie the knot, we get someone to do it for us. Everything in life, for example, is never all done by you. You always have someone doing something for you. Like food, you have a girlfriend, your wife, or whoever cooking for you.
For example, Anu has been running up and down the stairs, taking notes from me for various meditators and sending them messages. I might have sat down to write a message on a piece of paper, but she did the running. There is always someone doing something for you, even in lovemaking. I would like to see you make love by yourself alone. That would be an aberration.
So, we do take the assistance of something outside ourselves, and then with that assistance, you, the externality, you make it into internality. Do you see? Internality.
How many thoughts do you think in a day that are original or creative? Very, very few. It is just the ramblings of the mind that turn to imagination, imaginary thoughts, not concrete thoughts, and the very concreteness of your thoughts is truth. Truth is to be found only within yourself. I will say this a million and a million and a billion times: be regular in your practices, for that is the level at which you build that wall. But then, after building the wall, remember you have to break it down. The building of the wall is the path. Breaking down the wall will take you to the end of the rainbow where the pot of gold lies. Life is like that rainbow; you see all those colours there. Can you reach it? Can you touch it? No, you cannot, because it is just a reflection of the sun’s rays on vapour that creates that spectrum of colour. It is intangible.
FROM UNTRUTH LEAD ME TO TRUTH
That is what life is, intangible. You attach so much importance to the solidity of life when life itself is not solid. Only truth is solid. But you do need that rainbow to see its varied hues, the spectrum of the various colours that make up your lives. And after seeing that, you still know within yourself that these colours are there to observe, but they are unreal because they are not tangible. You see the illusion? And people live in an illusion, forgetting the truth within them all the time.
You get so enwrapped in that beautiful rainbow, all those lovely colours, you get enwrapped in it. Why? Because you are made of those colours. So, you are projecting an illusion to another illusion, just a reflection of yourself, from illusion to illusion. How about from truth to truth? It is a different angle when you realise that I am the truth.
“Asato Ma Sad Gamaya.
Tamaso Ma Jyotir Gamaya.
Mrytior Ma Amritam Gamaya.”
Lead me from untruth to truth. Lead me from darkness to light. Lead me from mortality to immortality. That was Sanskrit, by the way. That is the real beauty of life, if you want to live in beauty, and yet, funny enough, there is no ugliness at all in this world. Everything is beautiful. I have never seen an ugly person in my life. I have just seen everyone to be beautiful. For how can creation be ugly when creation comes from the Manifestor, who is beautiful Himself and from whom you are the manifestation – where is there any place for ugliness then? I tell you where ugliness exists, in you. And whatever you see to be ugly is just a projection of you. That is why you find ugliness. That is why you find unhappiness outside of you. But if you can look at things from the angle of truth, then everything is beautiful.
EVERYTHING AROUND YOU IS BEAUTIFUL, AND YOU TOO ARE BEAUTIFUL
Everything is beautiful. My cough is quite infectious, is it not? Let my word be infectious too. I suffer from a terrible disease. It is very contagious. That disease is called LOVE. It is very contagious. So be careful. But it would be enjoyable if you got it. Yes. So, disease is actually dis-ease. And when you are not at ease within yourself, then you float away from the truth. So, to start on the path is to get rid of the “dis- “and just have the ease, and then you can view everything in its total glory and beauty. That will make everything around you beautiful, and you will be beautiful too.
Am I not beautiful? The handsomest guru in the world. Yes, it is this heart that flows over and over and bubbles and bubbles with joy and laughter and love and life. And that is the truth. Asato Ma Sad Gamaya, – from untruth, lead me to truth. And let that not be wishful thinking, but let it be useful living. Everything becomes true to you; all the illusions disappear. That rainbow goes away with its spectrum of colours, and then you get to the origin, because there is only one colour. White. Only one colour. But that colour, being reflected through a prism, sheds a variety of colours. But the origin is only one, and you are seeing it through a prism. That is all.
These are the things that one has to realise to find the entire joy and beauty of life. So never be troubled in your mind to say, “Life is not joyful.” It is joyful all the time. You just fail to recognise it because of the illusion that you have created within yourself. And you know what an illusion is? It has no substance; it has no value at all. So, how do we get rid of this illusion when we live in illusion and we are made of illusion? In Sanskrit, they call it Maya, illusion. It is a false manifestation created by ourselves. On a cloudy day, you do not see the sun. It is covered, and you think the sun is not there. But the sun is there all the time, shining its primal, beautiful glory. It is there all the time. So, the clouds have to disperse. So let the clouds of the mind disperse, and, dispersing, it could be beneficial, as clouds disperse in rain to benefit the earth and all the flora.
LIFE IS A CELEBRATION
So, illusion can also be put to useful purposes by dispelling it in the form of rain to benefit the world, to make the rivers flow, to fill the oceans, to make the trees grow, to make the flowers bloom, and to stop you from becoming dehydrated. You are all dehydrated, actually, lacking the water of truth. Dehydration. So, on and on we go, fathoming and unfathoming, near and far, and all the travels you make through life’s ways. It could take so many, many countless days, going through the hills and vales of life’s meanderings.
Yet there is a straight path there, just for the taking. And to walk on that straight path of truth, you need a bit to wake up, awaking. Are we awake, or are you going to the wake? Do you know what that is, going to the wake? Tell me. Ah, going to the funeral. That is for our Spanish and Danish friends who do not know English too well, so just to clarify, going to the wake. I do not want to go to a funeral; I want to go to life’s party. That is how life must be: life is a party, it is a celebration.
Everything in the world is celebrating. Why are you not doing the same? The flower’s blooming, it is celebrating, the grass is swaying in that wondrous dance. The wind is creating such a beautiful symphony, blowing through the branches and leaves of the tree that stands still. So, you stand still while you dance. It might sound contradictory; how can you dance while standing still? Of course you can. The dance is in the heart. The dance can be taken up to the mind, and you, as the trunk of the tree, are forever standing still because you are stabilised in truth, that Rock of Gibraltar standing firm all the time.
That is the secret of life – to move and never to move away, whichever way life could sway, maybe tomorrow or even today, but let me be free to sway, sway and sway, for that is life’s play, play, play. And then finding the eternity within yourself, you become the eternal poet forever singing of life’s glory, forever appreciating the beauty that is there, for everything is nothing else but beauty, and beauty is truth.
Become lively if you want to live life! That is the truth. So, if you want to live? Then become lively, for God’s sake. When you fill your life with humour, you remove the mental tumour. So get rid of that tumour. Or else come to the surgeon, I will operate on you and cut it out. And that is life, that is living, and that is truth.
… Gururaj Ananda Yogi: Satsang UK 1986 – 13
