Religion is truth for ignorant people. Advaita is truth for the whole of humanity. This means religionist takes his inherited blind belief as truth whereas Gnani takes his reasoned judgment, which will be the same under test everywhere in the world.
People go to a famous Gurus. these gurus initiate ignorant masses. In the initiation process: He says: "All the world is Maya; Brahman alone is real." Then people move away.
What is the use of telling such things if he does not prove that they are right? He cannot do so because he has never tried to use his reason for the purpose but simply accepts it because he has read or because his own guru told him that.
The statements made by mystics and yogis generally must be proved by the use of reason, but they are incapable of doing so and hence never really understood in the true sense. So, they assume pontifical airs and say “I know.”
Refrain from being carried away by Gurus' standing nor by the attitude of authority they adopt in speaking to you. It has no value.
These Gurus illustrates the ‘I know’ attitude adopted because their mentor guru told them so, both of them not knowing really.
These Gurus are certainly brilliant intellectually in their other spheres, such as history, but remember the truth that most of these men keep the quest of truth in watertight compartments apart from the other sections of their brain. They apply reason admirably to their profession or business, but drop it and use feeling or emotion only when trying to philosophize.
People magnify every minor coincidence or every petty fact where Gurus or Godmen were concerned, and they see miraculous or esoteric significance therein. :~Santthosh Kumaar
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