Passage 6

In English

One's experience alone can be the proof

How can the Omnipresent Divine be delineated and described? There is a Nepali story which says: "A person was asked, 'Who is your father'? He answered, “My father is so and so”, but, how can you assert so? On whose authority do you declare him to be your father?" the questioner persisted. "My mother. Her word I believe to be the truth." So, too, when asked. "Who is the Father in Heaven," man answers, "God." "On what authority do you rely for that statement"? Man replies, "On the authority of Mother Veda (), the scripture, the , which contain the genuine nectarine truths, which these seers churned out of their ascetic denials, discovered in the depths of their purified hearts and earned for the welfare of all mankind. But unfortunately the have been riddled with commentaries which endeavour to parade personal predilections. Each scholar interprets them as his fancy dictates and so, faith in the Divine has declined yielding place to atheism. The Divine is the Omnipresent ONE. It is the minute in the minutest, it is the vast in the vastest. The that is not born, that does not die, that cannot be killed, that is the Universal, Eternal, Witness, the itself. This is the Truth which the sages visualised. How can any one describe to another the sweetness of sugar? One's experience alone can be the proof. It is foolish to doubt or deny the experience of another. Such behaviour can only promote friction and fear. Many stand forth and argue that there is no God. But, since others do not retort, "What right have you to insist that I should not believe in God. God may not exist for you; but I experience God and God exists for me," they continue their prattle.