No mystic experience ever reveals the truth because such experience is possible within the domain of the dualistic illusion or Maya.
The feat of a Guru, touching people and thus putting them into mystic states is purely a psychological one; based on the power of suggestions. It is nothing to do with the question of truth. It is just a higher variation of the effect produced by patting younger people on the shoulder to encourage them.
How is one to know that what he believes as God is true? This question must prick the seeker of truth.
People who are saying ‘I Am GOD’ are hallucinating that they become God. First, you must know what God is supposed to be.
That is why Ashtavakra Gita 16:10:~ If you desire liberation, but you still say "I," If you feel the ‘Self’ is the ‘I’, You are not a wise man or a seeker. You are simply a man who suffers.
Only religious Godmen declare: I AM GOD. Gnanis say the Soul, the innermost Self is God.
Godmen claims of marvelous miraculous power: Ask for the list of failures, and refuse to be guided by success only.
All predictions as to what these Godmen will do in the future are unacceptable because verification is not immediately possible. Who can take them as having any worth? Therefore, they belong to the world of imagination.
What is the value of mystic experience, what is the value of the words of the great men? In pursuit of truth, the seeker has to examine and evaluate them all in order to find the ultimate truth or Brahman.
People are perfectly sane, concerning worldly duties of the practical life within the practical world, but in the other part generally dealing with religious beliefs they are insane. This is the condition of many all the religious believers.
Thus, only can you get to the stage of truth. If you say it may be true, then you are only imagining. Go as far as you can, never stop at a doubt, do not get disheartened by it. Have doubts, but try to overcome them. Do not kill it by keeping quiet. Let the doubts come, but try to overcome them fearlessly until you reach the truth.
People are perfectly sane, concerning worldly duties of the practical life within the practical world, but in the other part generally dealing with religious beliefs they are insane. This is the condition of many all the religious believers.
Remember:~
Mystics speak of cosmic consciousness. How do they know it in this rock, or in that log? It is mere guesswork!
Mystics speak of developing God-Consciousness is meaningless because they merely find their own idea of God based on their belief. Mystics do not know what God suppose to be in actuality.
How is one to know that what he believes as God is true? This question must prick the seeker of truth.
What do they know? ~ means ~ “What do they know as a fact?"
How do they know there is a God? Just belief in God is not the truth. The onus of proof is on the one who makes this assertion. You have not seen God but you only believe in the existence of God. If you say that God did this or God went there, it will be only your imagination. The seeker must examine whether what he believes is really God. He must think what it is. That is to inquire.
• Is there a God?
• What is God's nature?
Let there be proof. Such questions must arise.
• Why God created pain?
• Why does he torture men with new diseases?
• Has God no better business to do?
• It is useless to say that God is teaching people lessons through these sufferings.
• What lesson can God teach the year-old child died in a road accident?
• Why there is no universal God?
• Why has every religion its own idea of God?
• Why God created pain?
• Why does he torture men with new diseases?
• Has God no better business to do?
It is useless to say that God is teaching people lessons through these sufferings.
How can we believe that God is all-merciful when he constantly makes the whole of humanity suffer from wars, violence, terrorism in the name of protecting religion and God? Is God is so weak to protect himself?
Suppose one person says he has got faith in his religious God. Suppose his friend says he has no faith in any God. Thus, there is a contradiction. Nothing can be done. Everyone is stuck to their own belief.
Those who pray to God for something occasionally get what they ask for. They then declare it to be a miracle to be placed to the credit of God! But when they fail to get what they pray for they do not attribute these failures to God, and thus the obvious fact that the failures far outnumber the successes.: ~ Santthosh Kumaar
