by Bhujagendra and Vidya Ishaya

 Once upon a time, a long time ago, there lived a man called Zaradustra. Now in his time, Zaradustra said a lot about life, God and the world, but you could sum up the gist of his teaching like so

"Two paths can be followed in this world the path of the Truth, or the path of the lie."

But what is the Truth, and what is the lie? How can anyone know, for sure, what the Truth is?

Everywhere you turn your ear, you find more people selling their beliefs about how things are. Economists absorb themselves in an economic world, businessmen in a world of business. To a politician, politics is all there is.

For some this world is a cover-up for all the secret, terrible things that the government doesn’t want you to know about. For some, we live in a world created some five thousand years ago by our heavenly father and it’s only a matter of time before our Lord returns to destroy the sinful and draw the faithful unto Him.

Or maybe we live as forgetful members of a Universal Brotherhood of Light, filled with glorious beings in mother ships, who are benevolently guiding us into a fantastic New Age.

The scenarios are endless. The numbers of worlds we can choose to make real are infinite. Our capacity to dream is unfathomable.

Yet, all the scenarios do have one thing in common they’re all world views, projections of mind and imagination, ideas that exists outside of ourselves. It’s all something we choose to believe in. After all, we have to believe in something, don’t we?

Oddly enough, most of us choose to believe in a worldview that is ultimately flawed. SOMETHING out there is wrong, SOMETHING has to change. If we can just win democracy for all, if we can just boost the economy, if we could just convert the world to worship Christ or Krishna, or channel Ascended Masters, THEN things would change, THEN we’d have a world we could live in.

Can you see, even for a moment, how you can follow any thought, any idea, until it becomes your reality? That you can make anything, absolutely anything real? This world of possibilities is so like a maze with paths extending in infinite directions, yet it’s pathways are superficial at best. What of the depth? If you can create any belief as your personal reality, where, if anywhere, is there one single solitary shred of Truth in this world that we all partake in?

Imagine for a moment that your entire world is just a mind-created dream. What, then, of the reality of the dreamer?

If you’re reading this article, then I imagine it’s because your heart has moved you to search for more than you could find in the dogmas, theories and platitudes about life and truth that so abound in this world. Your heart searches not for mere words of possible explanation but for a living experience. In fact, it’s usually a moment’s experience that inspires a lifetime’s search.

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