In English
Believe in your own experience
Do not give ear to what others say. Believe your experience. What gives you peace and joy (), believe in that. That is the real basis for faith. Why should you go about asking all and sundry whether something is either salt or sugar? Is it not foolish to wander about consulting people about this? Put a little on your own tongue; that will settle the matter. What you are now doing is to reject as salt what your own experience has proved to be sugar, simply because some one who has not tasted it like you proclaims it to be salt or because some one who is down with fever finds the thing bitter. Gather wisdom from wherever you can acquire it; listen to the good things teachers of different denominations elaborate upon. I would advise you to weigh in your own mind, against your own experience, the teachings that you have heard. (listening) should be followed and should be confirmed by (reflection), on the implications, the background, the reservations, the limitations of what you have been told. Then there is another process: - meditation on the truth that you have garnered - planting it deep down in the consciousness to be made part of your spiritual make-up.