A Quantum Leap

 

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A Quantum Leap

Man can come to know the ‘truth’ only through meditation. Truth is not something that the mind can know. Mind can theorise about it, but ‘about’ means around – and the mind goes about and about, around and around. It moves in a circle; it never reaches the centre. Its very nature is not to reach to the centre, it exists for the circumference.

Mind is needed only to relate with others. It is a method of communication. Truth is our very being. It is not a question of relating to it. It happens only when we fall into deep silence, when we forget the whole world, when the other is completely forgotten as if the other does not exist at all. In those moments of solitude and aloneness truth is revealed. It is not a conclusion of the mind but a revelation of no-mind.

Meditation simply means turning in. The mind is always focussed outward, the mind is basically an extroversion. Use the mind as a servant, use it as a beautiful mechanism, but don’t let it become the master. It is a good slave, take every care of it, but don’t allow it to enslave you.

Remember that the real master is not on the circumference, the real master is at the centre. And at the centre there is only consciousness: no thoughts, no desires, no imagination. All the faculties of the mind stop functioning. One is simply alert, aware, watchful, one simply is. In that state we are the truth. 

If we know our truth, we cannot be untrue in any way. It becomes impossible. Even to be untrue to others becomes impossible. The joy of being truthful is such that who would like to fall into the darkness of being untrue. The simplicity of being truthful is such that who would like to create unnecessary complexities, complications, by being untruthful.

One lie brings in its wake a thousand and one other lies, because we have to defend it, we have to support it - and it cannot be defended by truth, it can only be defended by other lies. And every other lie will need in its own turn more lies. A single lie, and our whole life starts becoming untruthful, inauthentic.

Truth brings many gifts, but one has to open the door of meditation. Nobody can give us the truth; truth is already given to us from God himself. It is not something that has to be found anywhere else; it already exists within! We just have to take a few steps inwards. Getting initiated as a disciple simply means this: a decision to find one’s truth, a commitment that ‘From this moment my life will be devoted to finding MY truth.’

It is a deliberate commitment, a conscious decision, so from this moment it becomes our focus of life. We have to put all that is unessential aside, and we have to put more and more energy into the inward journey. The truth is not very far. It needs only one step; hence it is better not to call it a step: it is a quantum leap, a jump from mind to no-mind.