Can we know others?

Our behavior, personality, and character are the most superficial aspects of us, and it can never describe what we really are within.

Thinking that we can know others by their behavior speaks of only one thing – we have yet to explore our inner world.

Sansar is an amalgamation of such superficialities in which man revels, missing out on the real essence of life hidden deeply within us.

The pure, impassable existence remains when via meditation, we walk away from such superficialities of life.

This pure existence is where everything and everyone returns like all trees end up back in the soil.

The existence is our soil.
Everything that rises, falls,
Everything that lives, dies,
Everything that grows crumbles; all ends up in this existence.

Realization of this pure existence is realizing Amaratva ( immortality ), as that’s when one realizes that there is no destruction, nor is there any death.

Question –

“ If we cannot know someone from their behavior or words, how can we know them? “ ( For example, Mahavir, Buddha, Krishna, etc ).

There is no way to really KNOW anyone based on what our senses perceive from their behavior, character, words, etc.

Great souls, your spouse or even your social connections, cannot be “known”.

And yet, the whole world is trying to know each other.

Why?

There is no way to know.

Such attempts take them nowhere except into a complex mud of superficialities of Sansar.

If great souls pointed their finger in a specific direction, and if it makes sense to you, take that path.

Reading what Mahavir said is not the same as knowing him.

You will know him better as you travel within and deal with your own Kasays—Maad, Mohs, Krodha, and Maya.

Take the journey and deal with them.

Know yourself, and then you can assume how he must have dealt with his own Kasays.

Know yourself, and you will know the world.