These quotes have been taken from Satsangs (discourses) given by our teacher Professor Ojaswi Sharma. He himself was never interested in writing anything but his students felt the need to preserve his wisdom. They taped his talks, transcribed them and sorted out into several Topics. Because the full discourses were very long, shorter passages were chosen on each Topic and presented here.
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The interesting thing is that each one of us in the field of spirituality or religion is trying to know what cannot be known. Such an interesting matter! Such a dilemma! All the great saints say you can never know the Truth. Then what should be done? You cannot stop yourself from the enquiry. You cannot know the Truth. You can only be the Truth! Because you already are the Truth.
There is a difference between 'knowing' and 'being'. 'Knowing' means you are separate and there is something to be known. You think that you will know the truth, but that can never happen. You can be Truth yourself, because you are really always the Truth, always Divine, always Consciousness.
The illusion, the wrong notion, of not being Divine, has to go away. This is all a negative process of elimination: "I'm not this, I'm not that, I'm not this, I'm not that", and so on. This is the path of trying to know, and then ultimately the experience happens. This is one path. You eliminate everything that comes to your mind, and when there is nothing left to eliminate, then what remains is what you are and what you have always been. In this way, one realises the Truth of one's own self, which is also the self of everyone else!
You see, all the saints say that we have not brought truth from somewhere into us. Truth already exists in us. This is the fundamental doctrine. Eternal and everlasting Truth is everywhere, and, therefore, also in every human being. But the difference between the lives of human beings and other beings is that other beings cannot experience that eternal Truth in their bodies. The experience of that eternal Truth is possible only in the human body - the Truth that always exists.
When I am speaking and you are listening, this is talking and listening about Truth. This is not to be with the Truth. We are with the words regarding Truth. We are not having the experience of Truth. When the experience of Truth happens, there is complete silence.
After the experience of self, it does not matter for the person whether there is noise or silence. But the experience of Truth happens in silence.
Spiritual understanding is gained not only by words. In fact, by words only a superficial understanding is gained. Only an elementary understanding is gained. This is one of the greatest misfortunes of this age that by reading books people think that they have understood spirituality and become spiritual. Even listening to tapes is considered spiritual. This is a great misfortune. Words have their value up to a certain stage only. Silence is more valuable than words.
There is no doubt that, in the beginning, one has to understand mostly through words. But then, a time must come when words have fulfilled their purpose. Afterwards, communication between the guru or God and the seeker, does not happen through words. It happens through what is known as a relationship of heart and love - that is a deeper satsang. What cannot be understood by mind is understood by heart. Mind has its limitations. The understanding of heart becomes infinite.
By a conscious realisation of the inner truth hidden within us, we reach a stage when we know that our existence is not only physical. There is something else in this physical body, which is non-physical - the energy which we call 'the spirit or the divine element.' This divine element should not be subordinate to the physical.
Life has two divisions: one is the outer one which involves a multitude of worldly activities and relationships; the other is the inner truth.
By a conscious realisation of the inner truth hidden within us, we reach a stage when we know that our existence is not only physical. There is something else in this physical body, which is non-physical - the energy which we call 'the spirit or the divine element.' This divine element should not be subordinate to the physical.
The final truth is that you are the eternal spirit, because you were never born, therefore you can never die. The body definitely comes to an end - it was born and it, therefore, perishes. But the spirit that resides in the body is eternal. Nothing can happen to that eternal spirit.
A question arises when Truth is everywhere and Truth is in our own existence also, why are we running to find Truth elsewhere? The answer is that you need some teacher - somebody who can tell you and guide you to find the omnipresent Truth in your own Self - in your own existence - and that person can be only that one who has himself found the Truth.