Acharya Prashant: The truth is not a side of you; the truth is not a part of you. The truth is the absence of this fictitious thing called ‘you.’ That's how the false survives by calling a part of itself ‘the truth.’ You know, yes, of course, I'm false, but here, this part of me, my big toe, that's the truth. Next time when the big toe is proven to be false, then this little finger of mine, this is the truth.
Then when even this little finger is proven to be false, oh, well my molars in here, they are the truth and that is proven to be false. Then my left ear, and you have so many things; you can keep doing left, right, left, right. The left eye is right, the right eye is right, the left nostril, the right nostril, and you can keep going lower down the body, left, right, left, right. This is truth, that is truth. The truth doesn't keep hanging like that, Sir.
Learn to deny anything that arises from within you, and if you can't deny it, at least scrutinize it very honestly. The movement you start granting it, quick entry; some kind of a wild card, uninterrogated, unquestioned. There is a big problem. Look how confident people are when they say, “I'm telling you the truth. It's coming right from here, my heart.” See, how confident they are that the truth is within them. And this fellow is saying, “Right from my heart, do my words come. I'm very, very truthful. You are my goddess.” What happens to that truth? Exactly? Five and a half weeks later, the goddess has changed.
Maybe that's why we have so many gods, and goddesses in India, because we are so quick to call anybody a goddess.
Next door, Sheila Kumari becomes a goddess for you. And she's convinced because you said, “What I'm telling you is coming from that side of me, that part of me, which is the truth.” No part of you is the truth. This thing called “you, me, I, myself ” is an entire absolute lie. Do not patronize any bit of it.
