The Two Masters, Self and Truth - James Allen

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2:01In every soul the battle is waged and as a soldier cannot engage at once into opposing armies, so every heart is enlisted either in the ranks of self or a truth. There is no half and a half course. There is self and there is truth where self is, truth is not, where truth is, self is not. That's big Buddha, the teacher of truth, and Jesus, the manifested Christ, declared that no man can serve two masters, for he will either hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. He cannot serve god and maman. Truth is so simple, so absolutely undeviating and uncompromising that it admits of no complexity, no turning, no qualification. Self is ingenious, cropped, and governed by subtle and snakey desire, admits of endless turnings and qualifications,

3:03and the delude worshipers of self may near-matchen that they can gratify every worldly desire and at the same time possess the truth. But the lovers of truth worship truth with the sacrifice of self, and ceaselessly guide themselves against wilderness and self-seeking. Do you seek to know and realize truth then you must be prepared to sacrifice, to renounce to the utmost, for truth in all its glory can only be perceived and known when the last vestige of self has disappeared. The eternal Christ declared that he who would be his disciple must deny himself daily. Are you willing to deny yourself to give up your lusts, your prejudices, your opinions? If so, you may enter the narrow way of truth and find that peace from which the world is shut out. The absolute denial, the utter extinction of self is the perfect state of truth and all religions and philosophies

4:04are but so many aids to this supreme attainment. Self is the denial of truth, truth is the denial of self. As you let self die, you will be reborn in truth. As you're going to self, truth will be hidden from you. Whilst you're going to self, your path will be beset with difficulties and repeated pains, sorrows, and disappointments will be your lot. There are no difficulties in truth and coming to truth, you'll be freed from all sorrow and disappointment. Truth in itself is not hidden and dark. It is always revealed and is perfectly transparent, but the blind and way would self cannot perceive it. The light of day is not hidden except to the blind and the light of truth is not hidden except to those who are blinded by self. Truth is the one reality in the universe, the inward harmony, the perfect justice,

5:04the eternal love. Now think and be added to it nor taken from it. It does not depend upon any man, but all men depend upon it. You cannot perceive the beauty of truth while you are looking out through the eyes of self. If you are vain, you will color everything with your own vanities. If lustful, your heart and mind will be so clattered with the smoke and flames of passion that everything will appear distorted through them. If proud and opinionative, you will see nothing in the whole universe except the magnitude and importance of your own opinions. There is one quality which preemantly distinguishes the man of truth from the man of self and that is humility. To be not only free from vanity, stubbornness and ego-dism, but to regard one's own opinions as of no value, this indeed is true humility. He who was a most in self regards his own opinions as truth

6:08and the opinions of other men as error. But that humble truth lover who was loaned to distinguish between opinion and truth regards all men with the eye of charity and has not seek to defend his opinions against theirs, but sacrifices those opinions that he may love them all, that he may manifest the spirit of truth. For truth in its very nature is inevitable and can only be lived. He who has most of charity has most of truth. Men engage in heated controversies and foolishly imagine that they are defending the truth when in reality they are merely defending their own petty interests and perishable opinions. The follower of self takes up arms against others, the follower of truth takes up arms against himself, truth being unchangeable and eternal is independent of your opinion and of mine. We may enter into it or we may stay outside

7:09for both our defense and our attack are superlifous and are held back upon ourselves. Men enslave myself, passionate, proud and condemnatory, believe their particular creed or religion to be the truth and all other religions to be error and they proselytize with passionate order. There is but one religion, the religion of truth. There is but one error, the error of self. Truth is not a form of belief. It is an unsuffish, holy and aspiring heart and he who has truth is at peace with all and cherishes all thoughts of love. You may easily know whether you are a child of truth or a worshiper of self. If you will silently examine your mind, heart and conduct, do you have the thoughts of suspicion, enmity, envy, lust, pride, or do you strenuously fight against these?

8:13If the former you are changed as self, no matter what religion you may profess, if the latter you are a candidate for truth, even though outwardly you may profess no religion. Are you passionate, self-willed, ever seeking to gain your own ends, self-indulgent and self-centred? Are you gentle, mild, unsuffish, quit of every form of self-indulgence and are ever ready to give up your own? If the former, self is your master, if the latter truth is the object of your affection, do you strive for riches, do you fight with passion for your party, do you lust for power and leadership? Are you given to ostentation and self-praise, or have you given up the love of riches, have you relinquished or strive? Are you content to take the lowest place and to be passed by unnoticed

9:13and have you ceased to talk about yourself and regard yourself with self-complace and pride? If the former, even though you may imagine you worship God, the God of your heart is self, if the latter, even though you may withhold your lips from worship, you are dwelling with the most high. The signs by which the truth lovers known are unmistakable. Hear the holy Krishna declare them and so it would iron out this beautiful rendering of the Bhagavad Gita. Fearlessness, singleness of soul, the will always strive for wisdom, open hand and govern appetites and piety and love of lonely study, humbleness, uprightness, heed to ingenuity which lives, truthfulness, slowness unto wrath, a mind that lightly let it go at other's prize, and equanimity and charity

10:13which spiked no man's faults, and tenderness towards all that suffer, a contented heart, flooded by no desires, a bearing mild, modest engrave, with manhood nobly mixed, with patience, fortitude and purity, an unrevengeful spirit never given to raid itself too high. Such be the signs of Indian prince, of him whose feet are set on that fair path which leads to heavenly birth. When men, lost in the devious ways of error and self have forgotten the heavenly birth, the state of holiness and truth, they set up artificial standards by which to judge one another and make acceptance of and adherence too, they run particular theology, the test of truth, and so men are divided one against another and they recieces eminent to use drive, an unending sorrow and suffering, Rita.

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14:19There is only one way, let's self-die. All those lusts, appetites, desires, opinions, limited conceptions and prejudices to which we have here the two so tenaciously come, let them fall from you, let them no longer hold you in bondage, and truth will be yours. Seize to look upon your own religion and superior to all others, and strive humbly to learn the supreme lesson of charity. No longer cling to the idea, so productive of stripe and sorrow, but the savior whom you worship is the only savior, and the savior whom your brother worships with equals and serity and art is an imposter, but seek diligently the path of holiness, and then you will realize that every holy man is a savior of mankind. The giving up of self is not merely the renunciation of outward things, it consists of the renunciation of the inward sin, the inward error.

15:22Not by giving up vain clothing, not by relinquishing riches, not by abstaining from certain foods, not by speaking smooth words, not by merely doing these things as the truth found, but by giving up the spirit of vanity, by relinquishing the desire for riches, by abstaining from the lust of self-indulgence, by giving up all hatred, strive, condemnation, and self-seeking, and becoming gentle and pure at heart. By doing these things is the truth found. To do the former and not to do the latter is Phariseism and hypocrisy, whereas the latter includes the former. You may renounce the outward world, and isolate yourself in a cave or in the depths of a forest, but you will take all your selfishness with you, and unless you renounce that, great indeed will be your wretchedness and deep your delusion. You may remain just where you are,

16:23performing all your duties, and yet renounce the world, the inward enemy. To be in the world, and yet not of the world, is the highest perfection, the most blessed peace, is to achieve the greatest victory. The renunciation of self is the way of truth, therefore, Enter the path, there is no grief like hate, no pain like passion, no deceit like sense. Enter the path, far have he gone whose foot treads down one fond offense. As you succeed in overcoming self, you will begin to see things in their right relations. He who was swayed by any passion, prejudice, lack or dislike, adjust everything to that particular bias, and sees only his own delusions. He who was absolutely free from all passion, prejudice, preference and partiality, sees himself as he is,

17:23sees others as they are, sees all things in their proper proportions and right relations, having nothing to attack, nothing to defend, nothing to conceal, and no interest to God, he has a peace. He has realized the profound simplicity of truth, for this unbiased, tranquil, blessed state of mind and heart is the state of truth. He who attains to it dwells with the angels, and sits at the footstool of the supreme, knowing the great law, knowing the origin of sorrow, knowing the secret of suffering, knowing the way of emancipation and truth, how can such a one engage in strife and condemnation, for though he knows that the blind, self-seeking world, surrounded with the clouds of its own delusions, and enveloped in the darkness of error and self, cannot perceive the steadfast light of truth, and is utterly incapable of comprehending the profound simplicity

18:26of the heart that has died or is dying to self. Yet he also knows that when the suffering ages have piled up mountains of sorrow, the question bodens soul of the world, or flight was final refuge, and that when the ages are completed, every prodigal will come back to the fold of truth, and so he dwells in good will toward all, and regards all with that tender compassion, which are farther bestows upon his way with children. Men cannot understand truth because they cling to self, because they believe in and love self, because they believe self to be the only reality, whereas it is the one delusion. When you cease to believe in and love self, you are deserted, and will fly to truth, and will find the eternal reality. When men are intoxicated with the winds of luxury and pleasure and vanity, the first of life grows and deepens within them, and they dilute themselves with dreams of flesh immortality.

19:28But when they come to reap the harvest of their own soul, and pain and sorrow superveen, then, crashed and humiliated, relinquishing self and all the intoxications of self, they come, with aching hearts to the wine immortality, the immortality that destroys all delusions, the spiritual immortality in truth. Men pass from evil to good, from self to truth, through the dark gate of sorrow, for sorrow and self are inseparable. Only in the peace and bliss of truth is all sorrow of anguished. If you suffer disappointment because your cherished plans have been thwarted, or because someone has not come up to your anticipation, it is because you are clinging to self. If you suffer remorse for your conduct, it is because you have given way to self. If you are overwhelmed with sugar in regret because of the attitude of someone else toward you, it is because you have been cherishing self.

20:30If you are wounded on account of what has been done to you or said of you, it is because you are walking in the painful way of self, all suffering is of self, all suffering ends in truth. When you have entered into and realized the truth, you are no longer suffered disappointment, remorse and regret and sorrow will flee from you. Self is the only prison that can ever buy in the soul. Truth is the only angel that can beat the gates unroll. And when he comes to call thee, arise and follow fast, his way may lie through darkness, but it leads to light at last. The world of the world is of its own making, sorrow purifies and deepens the soul, and the extremity of sorrow is the prelude to truth. Have you suffered much? Have you sorrow deeply? Have you pondered seriously upon the problem of life? If so, you are prepared to wage war against self

21:32and to become a disciple of truth. The intellectual who does not see the necessity for giving up self, frame endless theories about the universe and call them truth. But do thou pursue that direct line of conduct which is the practice of righteousness, the thou wilt realize the truth which has no place in theory and which never changes. Cultivate your heart, water it continually with unselfish love and deep felt pity, and strive to shut out from it all thoughts and feelings which are not in accordance with love. Return good for evil, love for hatred, gentleness for ill treatment, and remain silent when attacked. So shall ye transmute all your selfish desires into the pure God of love and self would disappear in truth. So ye were both blamelessly among men, yoked with the easy oak of loneliness and clothe with the divine garment of humility.

22:35And thou in the heart of the master of truth, across self-street desert, why wilt thou be driving? A thirst for the quickening waters of truth will in here, by the path of thy searching and sinning, those life's gladsome stream lies love's always as green. Come, turn thou and rest, know the end and beginning, the sword and the searcher, the seer and the scene, thy master sits not in the unapproached mountains, not dwells in the marrige which floats on the air, nor shall thou discover his magical fountains and pathways of sand that encircle despair. In self woulds dark desert cease weely seeking the odorous tracks of the feet of thy king, and of thou wouldest hear the sweet sound of his speaking, be deft all voices that emptily sing. Flea the vanishing places renounce all thou hast, leave all thou lovest, and make it in bare,

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