to the seekers of truth: part five

the search for truth

Some talked of the formless

and some talked of the form.

What has happened to human beings in the search of truth? We have discovered
everything else but the truth because truth you cannot discover. It is a state that one has
to achieve. One has to achieve to receive the truth, to know the truth.
So some people felt that truth is what we have found. Like blind people, whatever
they have found out, they called it as truth. Even in India, where people have a great
sense of meditation, people committed mistakes and what they found was the movement
on the right-hand-side and they said, “Yes, there is the All-Pervading Power and that is
formless.” The left-hand people found while praying to God that there are forms, so they
talked of the forms.
Some talked of the formless and some talked of the form. The right-sided people,
being the worshippers of the Goddess of learning, wrote down everything as the Vedas,
but in the very beginning of the Vedas. Vedas means “to know.” And to know means to
evolve, to become self-realized. It is not when I talk to you that what you know is the
knowledge. It is not. The knowledge is that which is expressed, manifested on your cen-
tral nervous system – the truth.
So they wrote down what they found, that we have to first excite or initiate the nature.
So they wrote all those things. Now that has become an authentic writing, the Vedas for
intellectuals, that after many, many years people even knew it by heart.
All that writing, if you go by it, you will be lost into another wild goose chase and
those who read only the Vedas can never find that which is suppose to be known. In the
first chapter or the first verse of the Vedas, it is said that, by reading this book, if you do
not get the knowledge, no good reading the Vedas. But there are books and books and
books, libraries and libraries and libraries – all a wild goose chase. Many other systems
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi followed. There was the system of fearing God, then finding the forms of God, worship-
2 July 1984 London ping God as a form.
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Two types of people
The incarnations came on this Earth and people worshipped them – like Christ, for
example. Now there is a challenge on Christ. These intellectuals will challenge everything
because they challenge everything through the intellect. The trouble is that they think
they are the wisest. You have to be a little humble.
So the intellectuals, as usual, challenge and the others just believe. Without intellec-
tuals, there were the people who just believed in things without knowing, who had just
faith.
All these extreme movements on both the sides created two different kinds of people
– one who we can call as intellectuals and another as emotional or conditioned types.
They did not create self-realized people because the ego makes a person so superficial
and so stupid that he cannot grasp. It is beyond him. He is so stupid, he cannot grasp
the truth. It is a barrier. It is a projection outside. He is a convex personality. His brain is
convex. And the other one is so concave, is so conditioned that you cannot complete.
That is how the quality of seekers came on this Earth, who are seeking truth.

To be born again
We should also know that God must be worried about His creation. He must be worried
about the people who are created by Him, who became human beings, who are seekers, a
special category. What hypocrites – you cannot tell people. You cannot help them, those
who are real seekers. There are many real seekers and He must be worried about all these
seekers and He must have arranged something for them. That is how Christ came on this
Earth to guide you. He came on this Earth to guide you and tell you that you can find the
truth by your second birth. You are to be born again.
Then there are people who just believe that “I am born again” – you see, self-opin-
ionated – “I’m all right, I’ve found it.” Stupid people, they just believe, certify themselves,
“I’ve found it.” They just give themselves a certificate, “Oh, I have found.” But who is the
loser? It is not God.
He is there to reveal Himself to you if you want to know Him through your evolu-
tion, through your effortlessness. But as you have seen with Patanjali, all the shastras were Patanjali: the compiler of
written for central people, the real seekers. But people took out of Patanjali also what they the Yoga Sutras about two
tell these central people. It is like a person who has been invited to dinner is doing dish centuries before Christ.
washing. It is that stupid.
And that book, even today thank God, despite all the intellectual attacks and all non-
sense, it does talk of the formless, not of the form so much. But it does say that you have
to neutralize your effort. You have to neutralize your thoughts and, in the absence of that
thought, only the Kundalini will rise.
Now a vicious circle is created. Even when we say we should not have these thoughts,
we fight with them. Why? So something has to happen that the thoughts must stop.
And that is what happens in Sahaja Yoga.