PARAMA PURUS'A, NOT SCRIPTURES

official source: A'nanda Vacana'mrtam Part 12

cross-references: also published in Ba'ba' in Fiesch (as "Search Within")

this version: is the printed A'nanda Vacana'mrtam Part 12, 1st edition, version 
	(spelling mistakes only may have been corrected). I.e., this is the most 
	up-to-date version as of the present Electronic Edition. Words in square 
	brackets [   ] are corrections that did not appear in the printed version.

	Last night during D.M.C. I said Parama Purus'a is the only object of ideation.  Now when civilization started, the primitive men of that prehistoric era became nature-worshippers.  And as human society and human civilization went on progressing, they started on philosophical surveys, just to find the person behind the curtain.  Behind all these natural manifestations, these many ostentations of pomp and grandeur, these many emanations of lights and colours, there is a personality that lies covert.  And He is Parama Purus'a.

	But during this search, during this intellectual, intuitional research, they created so many scriptures.  Where their logic failed, they said that something was the [word] of God.  And they did many a thing that didn't help human society to become one.  Knowingly or unknowingly, consciously or unconsciously, they encouraged fissiparous tendencies.

	The subtlest tindle of veracity remained covert behind those many scriptures.  That is why it has been said that once upon a time King Yudhis't'hira was asked several questions regarding human values; rather, cardinal human values; regarding spirituality.  The basic question was, 'What is the correct approach, what should be the correct approach?' So many scriptures say so many things.  So many social codes say so many things.  So what is an ordinary man to do?  What is an ordinary spiritual aspirant to do?

	The reply was,

		Shrutayoh vibhinna'h smrtayoh vibhinna'h
		Na eka munir yasya matam' na bhinnam
		Dharmasya tattvam' nihitam' guha'ya'm'
		Maha'jano yena gatah sah pantha'.

So many scriptures say so many things, and they are sometimes contradictory to one another.  Now what to do?  What is an ordinary man to do?  Whom to follow and whom not to follow? 'Smrtayoh vibhinna'.'  There are so many social codes in the world.  Whom to follow and whom not to follow?  And amongst intellectuals there are so many - there are diversities of opinion.  One intellectual doesn't express, doesn't recommend, doesn't support, the views of others.  And it is the greatest weakness of intellectuals that they always encourage disunity.  They always support heterogeneity.  And one spiritual aspirant, once upon a time, remarked that these intellectuals are polished Satans. 'Na eka muniryasya matam' na bhinnam.'

	Then where lies the secret of Dharma?  'Dharma' means 'spirituality' - not 'spiritualism', but spirituality'.  'Dharmasya tattvam' nihitam' guha'ya'm'.

	Now the Supreme Entity, the Controlling Entity, the final stance of Dharma, lies covert within one's own 'I' feeling.  That is, you are to search internally and not externally.  Everything is within you, because Parama Purus'a always remains with you, within the very core of your heart.  So search within, O spiritual aspirant, not without, but within, within your very existence.

	'Maha'jano yena gatah sah pantha'.'  So you are to follow the path, you are to follow the cult, and you are to do according to the approaches of the aspirants of the past, the Kaolas of the past.  You are to be practical in your life of occult science.  Your only object of ideation is Parama Purus'a, and not any dogma, not any scriptures.

13 May 1979 morning, Fiesch, Switzerland