Читать книгу Triumph Of Love Over Ego - Saeed Habibzadeh - Страница 17

This is the greatest problem for humankind: the difference between discovering and inventing. For everything we do or want, we need some means of orientation, and the basis for spiritual orientation is and always will be the truth. With regard to the truth, we humans basically have two options: we either search for it conscientiously, sincerely and selflessly, or we take the easy option and invent our own truth. In the beginning, we are all of us searching for the truth, but somewhere along the way, most of us stop. We become contented with smaller realizations and some victories over our ego. This contentment misleads us into dropping our search for the truth all together and resting on our laurels. Many people, especially esoterics, like to regard this condition as some kind of spiritual mastery. Caught up in their vanity, they regard themselves as masters and enjoy being admired by others. When you love the truth with all your heart, you could never regard yourself as a master. You are, and always will be, a student of truth.

When your search for truth is powered by love, truth will happily reveal itself to you. But if you intend to misuse it for your own selfish goals, you will end up with your own invention and an ego-driven falsification of the truth.

This is why those who search for the truth should be aware that the greatest dangers lie within themselves. These dangers are the egocentric susceptibilities and shortcomings within their own consciousness.

The invention of truth starts when we place more value on our own interpretation than on facts. These interpretations isolate us from the rest of the world and we start to build our own reality. We do this without considering the facts. The resulting isolation makes us lonely, and this loneliness leads to fear, insecurity and poverty in all its many forms.

If you truly wish to search for and find the truth, you will have to overcome the limitations within your consciousness by liberating yourself from your ego, step by step. But this is only possible if we are prepared to amend our behaviour. Our behaviour is the sum total of all we think, say, feel, do, want and wish for.