Meher Baba said: ~ Give no importance to creed, dogma, caste, or the performance of religious ceremonies and rites.
The only Real Existence is that of the One and only God Who is the Self in every (finite) Self.
The only Real Love is the Love for this Infinity (God), which arouses an intense longing to see, know and become one with its Truth (God).
The only Real Sacrifice is that in which, in pursuance of this Love, all things—body, mind, position, welfare, and even life itself —are sacrificed.
The only Real Renunciation is that which abandons, even in the midst of worldly duties, all selfish thoughts and desires.
The only Real Knowledge is the Knowledge that God is the inner dweller in good people and in so-called bad, in saints and in the so-called sinner. This Knowledge requires you to help all equally as circumstances demand without expectation of reward, and when compelled to take part in a dispute, to act without the slightest trace of enmity or hatred; to try to make.
First Mundaka - Chapter 2 (10): ~ Ignorant fools, regarding sacrifices and humanitarian works as the highest, do not know any higher good. Having enjoyed their reward on the heights of heaven, gained by good works, they enter again this world or a lower one.
All religions the world and all philosophies of the world are based on individuality or ego; find no answers to many questions. Truthseekers all over the world are trying to find answers for themselves, and they imagine and write articles and books on their ideas and others will read and blindly accept them as truth. the spiritual truth was hidden by the sages and only to a few it has been given to know the secrets of the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana but for the mass, they are in parables so that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.
Even in Christianity Self-knowledge or truth was hidden and initiated only by a few .
While speaking to the multitude in a veiled manner, ‘privately to his own disciples he explained everything (Mark, 4:34), and advised them not to ‘throw your pearls before swine (Matthew, 7:6).
Long before Socrates’ injunction: - “Know Thy Self”, Indian Sages of truth have been exploring for long the question of the truth of the man and his experience of the universe. Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is fundamental since all other knowledge is dependent upon this knowledge. It is important for one to know “what is the truth” to realize “what is untruth”.
Without first knowing the true Self, one can never understand truly where he stands in the cosmic scheme of things. Ignorance of the innermost Self is seen as the root cause of experiencing birth, life, death, and the world as a reality.:~Santthosh Kumaar
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