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Truth is God...

God is truth, and truth is God.

Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:

Many intellectual people, with their various ideas, differ from one another in
their opinions and in their way of looking at things, in their speculations, but
do the prophets differ from one another? No, they cannot differ. The reason is
that it is the various minds which differ, not the souls. The one who lives in
his mind, is conscious of his mind; the one who lives in his soul is conscious
of the soul. ... When a person is living in his mind, he is living through the
darkness of the night. The moment he rises above his mind and awakens in the
light of the soul he becomes spiritual. And if a thousand spiritual people
speak, they will say the same thing, perhaps in different words but with only
one meaning, for they have one and the same vision. This is why spiritual
realization is called the truth. There are many facts but only one truth. The
facts can be put into words but not the truth, for God is truth, the soul is
truth, the real self of man is truth.

We generally confuse truth with fact, and we often use the word fact for truth.
When we look at it from the mystic's point of view we find that words are too
intricate ever to explain what is truth. ... Truth is that which cannot be
pointed out, because all things that can be compared have their opposite, but
neither God nor truth has an opposite. Names are to point out forms, and words
are to distinguish one thing from another, while definitions come from the pairs
of opposites or at least from differences. That which is all-pervading and is in
all things and beings, that which every word explains and yet no word can
explain, is God and is truth.

The seeker after truth goes out into the world and he finds innumerable
different sects and religions. He does not know where to start. Then he desires
to find out what is hidden under these sects, these different religions, and he
begins to seek the object which he wishes to gain through wisdom. Wisdom is a
veil over truth, even wisdom cannot be called truth. God alone is truth, and it
is truth that is God. And truth can neither be studied nor taught nor learned;
it is to be touched, it is to be realized; and it can be realized by the
unfoldment of the heart.

Truth is one, God is one, life is one. To me there is no such thing as two. Two
is only one plus one.

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