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European Ashram, Bad Antogast, Germany 27th May 1999 Chapter 1 - The You That You Want To Change Day 65 - Truth Truth is that which does not change. Examine your life and identify all that changes as “not truth”. With this outlook, you will find that you are surrounded by only untruth. When you identify untruth, then you will become free from it.  When you do not identify the untruth, you cannot become free from it. Your own experiences in life make you identify your own untruth. As you mature in life, you find everything is untruth, events, situations, people, emotions, thoughts, opinions, concepts, your body, everything is untruth.  It is only then that satsang, the company of truth, happens in the real sense. A mother cannot see the child as untruth until the child becomes an adult. For a baby, sweet is not untruth, and for a teenager, sex is not untruth. Question - Is knowledge also untruth? Gurudev - Knowledge is untruth if it is only words. But as existence, ...

Oslo, Norway 21st October 1996 Chapter 1 - The You That You Want To Change Day 64 - Faith (Continued) Question - What’s the difference between faith and confidence? Gurudev - Faith is the beginning. Confidence is the result. Faith in yourself brings freedom. Faith in the world brings you peace of mind. Faith God evokes love in you. If you have complete faith, there are no questions. If you have no faith there is no point in asking any questions because how can there be any faith in the answer you receive?  If you have faith in God when you know someone is taking care of you, what is the need for questions? If you have taken the Karnataka Express to Bangalore, there is no need to ask at every station, “Where is the train going?” When someone is taking care of your desires, why go to an astrologer? Question - What about blind faith? Gurudev - Faith is faith, it cannot be blind. What you call blind is not faith at least not yours. Blindness and faith cannot meet. It is when you lose f...