Find Your Own Way
30 October 1969 pm iation Camp at Dwarka, Gujarat, India
Question 1
A FRIEND HAS ASKED: YOU MENTIONED OHAT THERE IS NO OTHER TRUTH GREATER THAH.
YOU HAVE ALSO SAID SOMEWHERE THAT THERE IS NOTHING LIKE DEATH.
WHICH OF THE TWO STATEMENTS IS TRUE?
Both are true.
When I say there is no other truth greater thah, I am drawing your attention to the fact that the phenomenon of death is an enormous reality in this life -- in what we call life and uand as life; in terms of ones personality, which sists of what I describe as I.
This personality will die; what we call life will die too.
Death is iable.
Certainly, you will die and I will die, and this life will also be destroyed, turned into dust, erased.
When I say there is no reater truth thah, I want to remind you of the fact that we are all going to die.
And when I say that death is totally false, I want to remind you that within this I, within you, there is someone else who will never die.
And there is also a life that is different from what you believe to be life, a life without death.
Both these things are true; they are simultaneously true.
If you take only one of them to be true, you will not be able to prehend the whole truth.
If someone says that the shadow is a reality, that darkness is a reality, he is right.
Darkness exists and so does the shadow.
And if someone else says there is no darkness, he is right too.
What he is saying is that darkness does not have a positive existence.
If I ask you t me a couple of bags of darkness, you wont be able to.
A room is filled with darkness, and if you are asked to throw the darkness out, you wont be able to.
Or, if I say, "If darkness is in there, then please bring it out," you will be uo.
Why? It is because darkness has a ive existence; darkness is merely the absence of light.
Although darkness exists, heless it is only the absence of light.
And so if someoo say there is no darkness, he is right.
There is the presence of light and there is the absence of light, but there is nothing like darkness as such.
Thats why we do whatsoever we want with light, but with darkness we do nothing.
If you want to remove darkness, you will have t in light; if you want t in darkness, you will have to put out the light.
With darkness, nothing be done directly.
You are jogging along the road.
Your shadoears behind you; it also runs with you.
Everyone see the shadow; no one deny it.
A be said that there is no shadow because it has y of its own.
The shadow exists because your body obstructs the sunlight.
When the light is covered by your body, a shadow is formed; when the sun es above your head, no shadow is formed because the sunrays are not obstructed.
If we were to make a human figure of glass, no shadow would ever appear because the rays would pass through the glass.
When light is hindered, a shadow is formed; a shadow is merely an absence of light.
So if a person says the shadow exists, he is n.
But this is a half-truth.
He should further add that the shadow does .
Theruth bees plete.
This means a shadow is something which exists a does .
But with our way of thinking, we ot see anything unless it is divided into two indepe parts.
Once a man was tried for murder.
He had k