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By Paul Brunton

While actor Christopher Reeve was once requested in a BBC interview which ebook he would need if stranded on a barren region island, he responded, "The internal Reality by way of the thinker Paul Brunton."

A provocative and compelling paintings, The internal truth is a vital advisor for non secular seekers. First released within the Nineteen Thirties, this amazing publication interweaves the lessons of 2 nice non secular figures: Jesus and Krishna. settling on a typical present working via either Christianity and Hinduism, Paul Brunton argues that an "inner fact" or "kingdom of heaven" are available inside each one folks. Defining faith as easily the perform of binding oneself with divinity, he encourages readers to embark at the quest for self-knowledge and religious communion via a dedication to the contemplative direction. together with his profound interpretations of the world's sacred texts, from the Gospel of St. John to the Bhagavad Gita, Brunton bridges East and West to steer the reader into the residing center of those old traditions.

This re-creation has been up to date to include the author's ultimate revisions and encompasses a foreword by way of the Paul Brunton Philosophic starting place.

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It is because the power which man has found in religion, the power to help him and to lift him up, has come from man himself. He himself has given himself the guidance, help, exaltation, and spiritual consolation which he believed he found in his church or in his faith or in his idea of God. When man has learnt to build a quiet church inside his own heart and to be a ministering priest to his own self, religion will have done its true work. Man has unconsciously deceived himself into thinking that an external power, something outside himself, has come to his help or guidance.

Utterly against my will and desire, I have been forced to become, for all intents and purposes, a kind of detached tutor to the distant tutorless. Thus I retain my independence and they theirs. Both believers and sceptics may do what they wish with this work, for I have accepted my responsibility and done my duty. —to a misunderstanding of himself, hence persecutions among the plaudits, but I have learnt to accept them. ” A certain Oriental sage once observed to me that the ancient works were more valuable because they were pithy and condensed, and that this highly concentrated style tended to draw out the reader’s intuition.

He must find his own way to God through and within himself. That is, if he seeks God there is no other way, but if he is looking for ideas, concepts, or mental images, then he can take what orthodox religions and cults offer him. And because most people have been content to let others do their thinking and their questing for them, they have been satisfied with those conditions. During the past two or three centuries the mind and intelligence of man have begun to awaken at a most extraordinary rate, and he is no longer able to sit still within the mental prisons which have been built for him.

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