Direct Experience

The question arises, `What is that method in which there is no possibility of imagination and speculation? What is the true path?' If you want to shoot an arrow in a dark room, you won't know in which direction to aim. But if the light is on, you can find your target and there is no guarantee that you will get a human life next time. Moreover, who can say that you will be born in favorable circumstances, and from childhood be able to listen to holy discourses and spiritual conversations and feel inclined towards God? Who knows if you will even get a human body or not? Life is not long enough to search for our goal by the trial-and-error method: You follow one path, and then years later you don't like it so you choose another. Very well. If you were immortal you could go on doing this, but human life is so short. Saints have compared it to a bubble and less than a bubble. It lasts less than a moment. No one knows when it will be all over. In such a situation we cannot afford to use the trial and error method. You can't say, "Try this method. If you like it, okay; if you don't like it, leave it." That is why the saints and sages revealed the path of transcendental knowledge, which is one of inner evolution and direct experience.
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