Path of wisdom is not for those who have the firm
conviction about religion, yoga and theories as the only means to highest truth
and what he knows or believes is ultimate truth.
In practical life, religion and yoga are needed. Religion is the tool to give samskara or conditioning
to the mass, -- to be, to believe, to behave
and to live in cultured society with its code of conduct with the fear of god,
but are of no value as proof. Wisdom is for getting rid of the inborn and inherited samskara or conditioning. Inborn and inherited samskara and conditioning is the root of the ignorance.
Intellectuals think that Ultimate truth cannot be known.
They do not want o discuss nor accept anything whatever they know and accepted
as truth. "What I know is right,
what another man knows is wrong." This unfortunate vanity is common to all
men and prevents realization. A man must begin by doubting his own knowledge,
therefore. Only when doubts begin to arise does a man start in quest of Truth.
And such doubts usually first take the shape of asking why God sends or permits
epidemics, calamities and wars and unrest.
Quotation from others should come only after verification convinced by use of reason based on facts, and
then only may one introduce quotations in order to show that others have
reached the same conclusion.
One must go to the very fundamentals, to the root of
thinking, to "grasp the ultimate truth, which is beyond form, time and
space.
How does one know what others say and quote is true? When this question arises from within than the
inner dialogue starts within and the truth will start revealing on its own.
When all the doubts are cleared within, that is the doubts
on every question. However, ultimate understanding cannot be reached without
having doubts and asking questions and demanding proofs from one’s own
innermost self.
To overcome doubt by the sword of wisdom, it does not mean
that seeker should give up his doubt and believe, as the religionists and intellectuals
interpret it, but that he should keep on thinking about his doubts until they
are solved; that he should not stop until this point is reached.
