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Truth is only what you experience. If it is an intellectual understanding/ concept...it
is not in your energy fields…it is not your frequency/energy signature…! It is not what you are. It is not your truth.
It will not reflect outside!
Truth is
usually considered, the apex of a triangle pointing upward! Most of us take the journey towards truth to be this
triangle, with us exploring from the widest base of information, facts, data,
input and then narrowing and defining each ‘truth’ to finally culminate as the
one ultimate truth! But it is infact quite the reverse- you start at the
narrowest point, of your perception, experience, and understanding
of any aspect (truth) till its ‘truth’ encompasses more and more, infinitely
widening towards what you call the ‘top’! For truth doesn’t narrow into ‘a
truth’ ….but indeed moves into a place where you can view all points of view
coexisting equally as truths- relative to different points along the journey,
each truth only a function of a particular time and space
co-ordinate! The triangle is indeed upside down!
Many of you
get confused when you come across what appear ‘contradictory’ universal truths; or you constantly try and determine which of those
truths is the ‘one and ultimate truth’! Either way you feel that if one is
right then the other must be wrong- and indeed it is your need to categorize
truth in terms of the ‘one ultimate’ truth, which comes in your way. So become
aware that seemingly opposing perspectives, indeed polarities, can be equally
valid and that it depends from which ‘angle’ you are viewing ‘the truth’ .Now…
expand this. Many of you are aware that there are many ‘points of focus’ (or
what you call ‘realities’) …there is not only your reality and then what you
call ‘God’! And thus there are not only two perspectives or seemingly
contradictory ‘truth’s’, but many many truths ‘in between’… and each exists as
‘The’ Truth in its own reality!
Understand truth through this Rumi story:
He tells us about four blind men in a bazaar, each one on one side of an
elephant, touching the elephant to describe its truth. Naturally an argument
ensues, for one describes the elephant through the tail, another through the
trunk and the others through each of its flanks…and yet the people of the
bazaar, from their vantage point of the larger picture, can see all aspects
being the truth about the elephant!
It may surprise some of you: There is no ‘one’ single truth in the
‘end’! So what
is this ‘larger truth’ then? It
is that point of focus where all truths
co-exist simultaneously! Paradoxical yes? That the larger truth (of
any aspect) is not one ‘final’ truth
shorn of all its ‘contradictions’, but its
totality, which contains all it’s seeming polarities and
contradictions! Collectively is
it the larger truth- remember the elephant story!
Universal Truths can be likewise viewed
from many angles, each one as true as the other! Indeed seemingly opposing
perspectives, for example the principle of complete free will and complete
divine will; or the truth behind desires
must be fulfilled and desires must be transcended- can both be equally and simultaneously valid, for it depends
from which ‘angle’ you are viewing ‘the truth’, and which experience you
require in the now! Neither negates the other… and as you
truly embark on the journey to reach ‘the truth’, you find not only these two
points (your current and the larger) coexisting but the many gradations in
between all making up its truth! For each point of view, understanding, and
experience - each truth indeed- has its
own validity in its time and
space co-ordinate and is required for ‘soul’ growth therein! And as you
explore, expand, evolve, acknowledge and accept that each individual truth, and
all collectively togther too, is ‘the truth’ …your connotation of truth itself changes. Not only do you not
hanker after some one and final truth but this awakening also renders
null and void the association of ‘truth’ being synonymous with ‘one absolute’. More
importantly you do not get confused by the different truths presented by
different masters, texts or even by the same master to different people… or
different truths presented to you along your journey!
All you need be concerned with is
which is your truth? In your Now.
Your ‘ultimate’ truth always dwells in that ‘next’ level of consciousness
thereby catalyzing your experience…evolution into that level of beingness.
And this then infinitely continues…your current truth and the ‘next’ and the
‘next’…!
Also each
has to be real-ized- become your experiential truth rather than only
intellectual- for the next to happen! So we must know where we are
experientially, and yet be open to the next level. I always tell my fellow
travelers to do the tango- to experientially (not intellectually) know where
you are in the now and wholly embrace the ‘step’- and yet be open to the 'next'
and 'next' … (which is first intellectual then as we move into it after
experiencing what led to it does it become our experiential truth)… thereby
catalyzing our consciousness… into higher/finer levels of beingness…into the
larger vision of ‘truth’!
‘Truth’ is not synonymous with ‘one’!
Truth is the collective!
My reality as Creator is multi-faceted
and so must My truth be!
If Truth exists- so does its opposite!? And as
there is nothing like 'not truth'- as all are aspects of All That Is.. .then
there can be nothing like the 'truth'! And this is the truth that sets us
free!! That there is no truth or non truth- all are aspects of All That Is...!
All your truths will reach you to Me, where there is no ‘truth’. Only Being. Do not now despair and wonder why you
need to go through all truths to arrive at no truth! When we say there is no
truth it is in your sense of the word, where one truth negates another; where
truth implies something that is not truth. Don’t you see that if all just Is
and I AM ALL THAT IS … then where can untruth be? And if there is no untruth
how can there be what you call ‘truth’.
To arrive at a truth…is to arrive at the
totality of the aspect you seek. And you need must experience all its
truths, with their seeming ‘contradictions’ or what you call opposites for you
do not arrive here from any one viewpoint. What we are referring to does not
mean an intellectual understanding of ‘different’ truths, but experiential:
each truth is experienced, through what you call your many existences, as your
truth! Till you are ready to experientially incorporate the ‘next’…
Paradoxically truth makes debate and argument redundant
as debate and arguments presuppose truth
and not truth… whereas truth embraces all points of view as different points along the
one continuum, and each valid in its own place!
Truth
a beguiling goal but ‘truly’ it is the journey towards it that is truths reason
to be! And just as tarots high
priestess veils the truth behind her so that you may each make this journey
yourself, does life, indeed existence do the same!
Wizard of Oz: Dorothy to the good witch: "Oh Glinda can you please help me get back to
Kansas?" Glinda:" You don’t need to be helped any longer. You always
had the power to go back to Kansas. It was inside you." Dorothy: "Why
didn’t you tell me before?" Glinda: "You would not have believed me.
You had to learn for yourself…”r yourself"
In the search for universal truths, be
open to the many paradoxes you will find along your way! Truth will turn
you and itself left, right and upside down… so be prepared to play this game
with abandon, exploring each facet wholly, for then will truth unfold and
unravel itself; any resistance, any hard-line approach will only meet with
truth cheekily continuing to play hide and seek with you!
Each individuation is on its unique
journey in experiencing the Whole for the Whole. Each so called current life is
designed towards this, in inimitable ways. And based on your purpose of each
life, what you have chosen to experience, explore, expand and disempower
through any current life will you meet as your truths! For truth depends on many variables- your era (time) and place (space), your soul
purpose, your current life purpose, your stage of what you call ‘evolution’
to name only a few… so yes truth is an ever-evolving aspect along with ‘you’. And
if you observe carefully, the truth of each level of your personal evolution is
self-verifying, as at each level you are native to that! So everyone feels
justified in his or her own truth! In
some life (or phase of) for example, you may choose to explore surrender to
divine will; in another you may choose to claim your complete free will as
Creator - and both experiences are valid for the larger soul journey and both
truths have to be wholly experienced as your truth - beyond intellectual
concepts. Only then are you, as a soul, ready to move to another of its facets
becoming your truth! For your truth is what is you experience; your truth is in
your energy signature, and not your intellectual understanding thereof!
We can loosely, for the sake of explanation only, define truth in terms of a)
your current (or personal) truth
b) the larger truth or what you consider you will finally
‘find’ as the ultimate truth of any aspect c) and
the seeming polarities in between that come your way, as others’ truths. Most important and what many seekers do not
give credit to is their current
(personal) truth. Seekers are so concerned with the ‘ultimate’
truth that they do not realize that ‘The Truth’ is always what you are experiencing
in your here and now as your current truth! It is what you have chosen
to experience of the larger truth! Indeed wherever you are seeking
ultimate truths, consciously determine what is your current
knowing and experience of it beyond the intellectual! Do you live it? Then is
it your ‘truth’… and then will you be open to its ‘larger’ and ‘higher’ truths!
There is no singular ‘best’ way towards
awakening/enlightenment. There is no must do path, practice, step, teaching
that is mandatory as a prelude to Self realization. Sometimes we get sidetracked by insisting this is the ‘truth’ or ‘best’ or ‘only way’ or a ‘must
do even if you do nothing else”…because something (path/practice/understanding)
worked for us! We think what worked for
us will naturally work for ‘others’! The intentions are good. But truly
truly…as we establish in our awakening/awareness…we realize there is no one truth/way,
nothing that is mandatory, that each one charts their own awakening- this is
indeed the coup de tat/master plan of
existence… each one enables and yet each one creates afresh!
Oneness is beautiful but most confuse oneness with
sameness &
the obvious gets ignored- that while we are all one we need not be the same!
Indeed each one is a unique aspect of that which is called 'Oneness'. And true
oneness is when we can accept these ‘differences’ as aspects of our oneness-
rather than trying to change
all that is different from you …into the
right ‘one! You must not
(and this may surprise you) go about converting everybody to the same one God!
Because that my dears, is the easy way out; a convenience so that you do not
need to be one with the many nuances that make up life and its people. It is
far easier to be ‘one’ with all, when you paint them with the same golden hue,
shorn of the multiplicity that truly makes them up! It is far easier to be one
with a golden hue, than be one with the ‘different’ aspects and qualities that
make up the people in your life and world
Spiritual texts are ‘written’ in ways,
in which all aspects of any universal truth are present- with you coming
across or accepting that truth which you need in the now!
Your truth is when the abstract
'THAT' becomes the tangible experiential ‘Ah this'!
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