October 21, 2025
A psychologically inert person, one who is not alert, has fixed ideas, for they seem to afford him some comfort. They destroy the ever-stirring spirit of enquiry in him. Such a person is committed to the “either - or” choice.
We have the pervasive and pernicious influence of this spiritual suicide in our life. Temples and rituals, science and technology, places of entertainment, political parties and religious denominations, certain forms of behavior - all these are either good or bad, according to most people. They blindly apply these labels because they are blind - the “either - or” choice makes them blind. The truth may be “neither - nor” and it will keep you forever awake, alert, questioning.
What is a question? A question is really a quest, and the quest is for what is. Hence, a serious questioner is not satisfied with an exchange of opinions.
What is, is naturally some factor that is, was and will be. If you ask, “What is?”, the answer is the same two words, pronounced as an affirmation! The quest itself ís, the questioning intelligence ís, the questioner ís, was and will be, till dissolved in self-knowledge - when the quest ceases. What ís, is eternal and unchanging.