How ego creates a problem between us and the truth? Munich (Germany)

Public Program Day 2, Munich, Germany, 12 July 1988 (Yogi talks in German)I bow to all the seekers of truth.As I told you yesterday, that truth is what it is and we have to keep our mind open as scientists to see what is the truth. We cannot organize the truth, and we cannot change the truth, and we cannot ourselves create the truth. So what we can do is to know the truth, to become the truth, and to enjoy the truth.It’s very abstract if I talk of truth. But how do we know truth normally? Is through our sense organs. Like, you see all these flowers, and you see through your eyes these are flowers, and you know it is the flowers. Anything that you hear, all of you hear the same thing, and you know that’s what is the truth what you are hearing.Now, you can feel something hot or cold with your fingertips. And whatever you can feel with your fingertips is the truth that you know. But in darkness, if you are holding the snake in your hand and somebody says, “You are holding the snake,” you can always say that “No, I believe it’s a rope, it’s not the snake.”So, to know that, you have to have the light.In human evolution, we have known many more things than the animals have known. For example, if you take a dog or a horse through a dirty lane, he won’t feel the filth, he won’t have Read More …