I refuse to call any person a naasthika (an atheist). All beings exist as a result of His Will, in accordance with His Plan; no one is beyond His Grace. Everyone has Love towards someone or something and that Love is a spark of the Divine. Everyone has ultimately to base his life on some Truth; that Truth is God.
No life can be lived out in complete defiance of Truth; one has to pay heed to Truth and speak the truth to someone in order to make life worth living.
Now, that moment is God's moment and at that moment when one utters the truth or loves, or serves, the person is a theist.
It is also the responsibility of all pious individuals to demonstrate in and through their lives that piety is not weakness but strength; that it opens up a vast spring of power and that a person with faith in God can overcome obstacles much more easily than one who has not.
Baba (thought for the day)
The atheist is an attitude of mind to tell we don't agree about that practiced theology, we don't believe in the way it is done, because it doesn't make sense.
There are different religions and we can try to find the one we belong to, but that is real difficult. That is probably why he tells us to practice the religion we had been born in to stay with our tradition according to our culture.
There are different religions and we can try to find the one we belong to, but that is real difficult. That is probably why he tells us to practice the religion we had been born in to stay with our tradition according to our culture.
Nevertheless, I couldn't find that truth on that place.
My father had been president of the church committee and he tried to practice it and I couldn't find that, what I was looking for, too much intellect and interpretion, not enough heart.
Later he said that he didn't find what he was looking for.
I had visited my parents always after having been with Baba for months and it was impossible to even get them a feeling for it and after his death he was in my dream and he was at a dark place, he couldn't get out of it and the light was far away like a small star. It was sad.
My father had been president of the church committee and he tried to practice it and I couldn't find that, what I was looking for, too much intellect and interpretion, not enough heart.
Later he said that he didn't find what he was looking for.
I had visited my parents always after having been with Baba for months and it was impossible to even get them a feeling for it and after his death he was in my dream and he was at a dark place, he couldn't get out of it and the light was far away like a small star. It was sad.
Truth is God, therefore, just that insight is based on truth and inner view and that is the divine spark, but it is about truth and insight, and not about a scientific truth.
We had been meditating and we know that 'word' God is not really understood properly in the West and we don't see it as truth, but in conflict with science and what we think is true.
We had been meditating and we know that 'word' God is not really understood properly in the West and we don't see it as truth, but in conflict with science and what we think is true.
My country likes the intellect and common sense and we have one of the highest suicide rates and even exit possibilities.
Just a few minutes from here is a place you can plan - if you have reason enough and medical support - your own death and everything, included the place where you will be buried.
It seems it is not cheep and certainly you have to be convincing, but I think if someone really wants to get there, he can. Isn't that the American dream, you can get it if you really want?
Just a few minutes from here is a place you can plan - if you have reason enough and medical support - your own death and everything, included the place where you will be buried.
It seems it is not cheep and certainly you have to be convincing, but I think if someone really wants to get there, he can. Isn't that the American dream, you can get it if you really want?
Doesn't it sound a bit absurd?
Not so here in that society and not seen out of the mind. The mind finds thousands of reasons why and the theists are not strong enough to convince, because they have only God on their side, telling we should leave it to him, because he is the doer, don't interfere with his will.
Not so here in that society and not seen out of the mind. The mind finds thousands of reasons why and the theists are not strong enough to convince, because they have only God on their side, telling we should leave it to him, because he is the doer, don't interfere with his will.
Also we don't need to comment his words. It is not in my intention to comment. He said inside in my dream, the inner voice said, the inner master, I should use his words.
If you think I know what is meant by that, you are not right.
If you think I know what is meant by that, you are not right.
Only when we begin to use his words, we begin to get aware how difficult it is. And because I don't know for sure, I take the thought for the day and think about it.
That way he is leading and I have to understand it. It means it not a comment, but my own self-inquiry. I learn from it and begin to feel that reality behind the thought for the day, because of thinking about it always, the outcome is his.
That way he is leading and I have to understand it. It means it not a comment, but my own self-inquiry. I learn from it and begin to feel that reality behind the thought for the day, because of thinking about it always, the outcome is his.
But it is not only him, it is Veda, it is truth, behind are the holy scriptures and highest wisdom. It gives me a feeling for it. And I am the one who gets most out of it, because I am doing it and that is practice and he always tells us to practice.
We are a far away from understanding truth. We think we do, but we don't.
By all respect, but most of people here don't see God as a means to give our life value! Here we think we give life value in following science, because we believe that is true, because we can prove it.
Now, that moment is God's moment and at that moment when one utters the truth or loves, or serves, the person is a theist.
The people who do good, they act good and they don't think it is God, because it is not an intellectual thing to do good, but it is the heart.
Good people think with the heart and get aware that it is wise. We think that all thinking is done with the intellect, we just don't know ourselves good enough.
Thinking is part of the heart, it means just the right way of thinking. It is not just being in silence, but getting wisdom, to inquire to know the difference between truth and illusion, that is done with the intellect, the discrimination part, but that is just the result of that process, before we have to ask, before we get an answer. If there is no more two sides, but only one side left, the intellect doesn't work anymore. How to get to that oneness, that is in question.
It is the aim of all yoga. There is first a question and it needs time and space in that process until we will get the answer, and the understanding and discrimination value is the intellect. And we have to ask the right questions to get the right answer.
The heart has its own ways of getting wisdom. And we cannot grow and acquire wisdom, if we don't enquire. We might not know how to enquire, but without questioning the hidden truth, we will not know it.
Thinking is part of the heart, it means just the right way of thinking. It is not just being in silence, but getting wisdom, to inquire to know the difference between truth and illusion, that is done with the intellect, the discrimination part, but that is just the result of that process, before we have to ask, before we get an answer. If there is no more two sides, but only one side left, the intellect doesn't work anymore. How to get to that oneness, that is in question.
It is the aim of all yoga. There is first a question and it needs time and space in that process until we will get the answer, and the understanding and discrimination value is the intellect. And we have to ask the right questions to get the right answer.
The heart has its own ways of getting wisdom. And we cannot grow and acquire wisdom, if we don't enquire. We might not know how to enquire, but without questioning the hidden truth, we will not know it.
It is also the responsibility of all pious individuals to demonstrate in and through their lives that piety is not weakness but strength; that it opens up a vast spring of power and that a person with faith in God can overcome obstacles much more easily than one who has not.
That is what we call duty to demonstrate not weakness, but strength. That is our power, to endure, to not give up, to be ready to go through hell and to watch, but it means we have to be awake and watch.
As I began to watch long time ago, I stopped even reading to not be influenced or disturbed, just focused on the observer. It was about silence. I spoke what was needed at work, but otherwise, I was just watching.
Today in writing it down I integrate those experiences, because if not, there would be no tool to understand it, we have to put it into language and when Baba said, use my words, it is just going in the right direction to not get lost, because I will not try to use the language of science like for example TM does and get mislead and end up on the wrong level. If we watch, but we are not aware of the source, we cannot understand it.
What is the source? Because we believe in science, we think it is scientific, conclusion, we don't know.
We don't know the source, if we believe in science, we only think we know. We think that science is the source. But we fool ourselves and are not aware of it. We think that God is just for someone not strong enough to get more strength.
And that is the opposite of reality and if we were wise, we would call that Tamas, it is seen out of ignorance, not knowing truth. And inside, if we are able to see it out of the inner view, we would see it as darkness.
We think we know, but we don't know. That is our normal mind state, we feel it is normal, but what is normal?
We have to prove that with faith we can overcome obstacles more easily than one who has not.
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