December 24, 1966
(Regarding the School’s pupils:)
From every side they ask the question (they are all like that), “What IS the Truth? What do you mean when you speak of the Truth?”
They want a mental definition of the Truth….
Truth cannot be expressed in the mind’s terms. That’s the point. And all the questions they ask are mental ones.
Truth cannot be formulated, it cannot be defined, but it can be LIVED.
And one who has completely dedicated himself to the Truth, who wants to live the Truth and serve the Truth, will know EVERY MINUTE what he has to do: it will be a sort of intuition or revelation (more often than not wordless, but sometimes also expressed in words), which will every minute let him know the truth of that minute. And that’s what is so interesting…. They want to know "the Truth," but as something well defined, well sorted out, well
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established; and then you are nice and quiet, you no longer need to seek! You adopt it and say, "This is the Truth," and then it’s rigidly set – that’s what all religions did, they set up their truth as a dogma. But that’s not the Truth anymore.
Truth is a living, changing thing, which expresses itself every second and is ONE way of approaching the Supreme. Everyone has his own way of approaching the Supreme. There may be some who can approach Him from every side at the same time, but there are those who approach through Love, those who approach through Power, those who approach through Consciousness, and those who approach through Truth. And each of these aspects is as absolute, imperative and indefinable as the supreme Lord himself is. The supreme Lord is absolute, imperative and indefinable, ungraspable in his entirety, and his attributes have that same quality.
Once he knows this, one who puts himself at the service of one of these aspects will know (it’s translated in life, in Time, in the movement of time), he will know every moment what the Truth is – that’s very interesting – or he will know every minute what Consciousness is, or he will know every minute what Power is, or he will know every minute what Love is. And it’s a multiform Power, Love, Consciousness, Truth, which express themselves innumerably in the manifestation, just as the Lord expresses himself innumerably in the manifestation.
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