Beyond the Limitations of Beliefs ( 21 dec 06 thu)

To be a theist or an atheist, to me, are both absurd. If you knew what truth is,what God is, you would neither be a theist nor an atheist, because in that awarenessbelief is unnecessary. It is the man who is not aware, who only hopes and supposes,who looks to belief or to disbelief to support him, and to lead him to act in aparticular way.

Now, if you approach it quite differently, you will find out for yourselves, asindividuals, something real that is beyond all the limitations of beliefs, beyondthe illusion of words. But that - the discovery of truth, or God - demands greatintelligence, which is not assertion of belief or disbelief, but the recognition ofthe hindrances created by lack of intelligence. So to discover God or truth - and Isay such a thing does exist, I have realized it - to recognize that, to realizethat, the mind must be free of all the hindrances which have been created throughoutthe ages, based on self-protection and security. You cannot be free of security bymerely saying that you are free. To penetrate the walls of these hindrances, youneed to have a great deal of intelligence, not mere intellect. Intelligence, to me,is mind and heart in full harmony; and then you will find out for yourself, withoutasking anyone, what that reality is.