Why people do not want to hear the truth?
It's a marvelous question. Basically truth is bitter.
Who wants to have bitterness?
God is truth, truth is God. It is easy to say.
But very difficult to digest it.
So, you need to know that truth is always bitter.
And that's why if I will say the whole truth, you might be shaking.
Because the whole truth will fully fully force down or make you a totally different person.
Or your beliefs will be fully gone.
Like if it is, I will say God is not almighty. Just for example.
So people will have very difficult time to digest it because in their mind God is almighty.
If I will say that the Bible is not the words of God, they will fully shake up.
Because they think this Bible is the words of God.
But I will say that Bible is the teachings of Jesus. That is the truth.
I was visiting a Jain temple in Indore, in India. It is written outside, satyameva jayate.
But one of their prophets, or Tirthankaras, is Mallinath. They write Mallinath.
Originally she's a lady, Mallibai. But outside, it is written satyameva jayate.
Hail the truth. Inside they are saying something else.
But they don't want to accept it.
But Shwetambara sects, they accept she was a lady.
And that is the only Tirthankara, lady Tirthankara, Mallibai.
So accept it. But people don't want to accept it.
For my students sometimes, I just say a little truth. I have to give them a bitter candy, bitter candy, but coated by sugar.
When it is sugar-coated, so it seems it feels like it tastes like it is sweet.
But it is bitter. Slowly people learn how to hear the truth.
But it is very difficult. Anything. If I will say this: there is no life after death. If I will say it, people will be shaking up.
Because especially Hindus, they believe in incarnation. But truth is, there is no incarnation, because life continues, so never dies.
They need to hear the truth that life is continuous. They don't want to see it. They still ask about, "Is egg before or is hen before?"
Who is before? Who was born before, egg or the hen?
They are in delusion. That is, they are asking me wrong question.
The answer is there is no one was before.
Egg is a process to be a hen. It is just a process, and they are seeing two things.
There is a one thing. The truth is there is no duality. There is no two things. There is one thing.
One thing is egg and hen as a big process. Egg becomes little baby later on.
And then becomes hen. It is a process.
They don't want to see the truth.
And that's why people have hard time, like Christians, like Muslims. They both, they don't want to meditate. Even meditation is not a religion.
But they don't want to meditate because it is coming from India.
And all the Indian religions, they accept it.
This is the best instrument. Best tool to grow spiritually.
And it helps us in every aspect of your life.
Meditation is proven very good by the medical doctors.
It releases toxins from the brain. It relaxes your brain, body, and mind.
Everything. But they don't want to do it because it is not coming from their religion.
They are, they are putting meditation down.
And meditation is the key to enter into the soul.
Meditation has nothing to do with religion.
Like yoga. Nobody wants to hear the truth.
Yoga is merely a physical, mental, and spiritual exercises.
But, people think yoga is religion.
And the Pope John Paul, he condemned yoga.
As soon as he put down yoga, all over in Italy and Europe yoga spread, because the people are curious, "What is yoga?"
And yoga is a very good tool to grow healthy spiritually, mentally, and physically.
But it is not religion. It connects you with the higher power - what people think God.
What I am telling you higher power is the highest consciousness.
We can be connected with it. That is the truth.
But who wants to hear it? They think that is only God. If you read Hindu mythology, there was only God, nobody else.
And after that he created. But the truth is, but who created that God? Another God?
Third God? 4th God? It will be a line.
The truth is you have to accept things are eternal, soul is eternal, matter is eternal.
If God is there, it is eternal. Real truth is, God is not separate from us.
From trees, from stars, from moon, from humans, from animals...
Everything is God. We need to hear the truth more and more and more.
And this way we will be very much in relaxation, in meditation, and very much at ease.
Disease will not attack on us. Truth prevails forever.