Ye cannot serve God and Mammon."
Truth is so simple, so absolutely undeviating and uncompromising that it
admits of no complexity, no turning, no qualification. Self is ingenious,
crooked, and, governed by subtle and snaky desire, admits of endless
turnings and qualifications, and the deluded worshipers of self vainly
imagine 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 guard themselves against worldliness and
self-seeking.
Do you seek to know and to realize Truth? Then you must be prepared to
sacrifice, to renounce to the uttermost, 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 are 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 cling to self, Truth will be
hidden from you.
Whilst you cling to self, your path will be beset with difficulties, and
repeated pains, sorrows, and disappointments will be your lot.
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