The awareness of the spirit John Muir School, Santa Monica (United States)

1981-1014 Public Program, Day 3, John Muir School Santa Monica, California, USA Today I want to talk to you about the Spirit which you have heard about for such a long time. You have known that you have to be the Spirit, you have to become the Spirit, the Spirit is going to give you rebirth and what is this Spirit supposed to be. Actually so much has been said about it that Spirit is the Truth, it is the Truth and you have to receive the Truth. Now we must understand at the very outset there’s a big difference between something that is true and something that is Truth. Like if it’s a true statement, true is an adjective. It’s a true statement that you have to become the Spirit. It’s a true statement that you are to be born again. It’s a true statement that Spirit rules everything. But it is not the Truth in the sense that unless and until you become the Truth, a true statement is like an advertisement – like a place or a signboard that indicates. For example, somebody says this is Saint Monica but that is not Saint Monica. It just puts a signboard. If you see the signboard and you see the arrow going towards it, unless and until you go into it you are still standing at the signboard. And this discrimination we should understand very clearly that the Truth is the thing that you become and true is the Read More …