A Concise Teaching

Q:  Could you resume all your teachings in one single statement?

A:  "He is One and there is no deity but Him."

Q:  Do your teachings refer to "The Art of Transcendental Life"?

A:  This is also another name which has been given to them.  But these are not my teachings; they belong to the Flow of Truth.  I have nothing of my own and I am nothing and no one. 

Q:  What is the guideline of the Art of Transcendental Life? 

A:  It has basically a truth oriented tendency.

Q:  Which truth do you mean? 

A:  There is only but one truth even though it may appear [to be] "many."  "He"  is the only truth.  The truth is "presence" and existence. 

Q:  What is the difference between the truth you are speaking of and reality?   

A:  The truth exists and will always exist; it has always existed and is eternal.  However, reality has once existed yet it may no longer exist.  Or, it now exists but may not exist later.  It may neither have existed in the past nor exists right now but it may "be realized" some time in the future.  Reality is whatever "exists" yet truth is the existence of that which "exists."  Whatever exists is a part of existence; but the existence itself is not a sub-constituent of whatever exists.  Not only is the truth living and present but it is unbounded and limitless as well.  Reality may not be so. However, if it comes to have identical qualities as the truth, it is then a part of the flow of truth...

Q:  Can we therefore assume that the statement "He is One and there is no deity but He," or the more familiar one "There is no god but Allah," refers to truth-orientation or the very fundamental principle of transcendental life?

A:  Yes, indeed. 

Q:  What about principles of transcendental life?

A:  Principles of transcendental life are general dimensions and main axis of truth-orientation. 

Q:  Does this mean if we are truth-oriented in our lives we are also on the way to a transcendental life?

A:  Yes, indeed; and [you are also following] the way of divine guidance.   

Q:  Is truth-orientation the same as God-orientation that you use to mention it so often? 

A:  [God-orientation] is a more concrete and comprehensible term for people who have a close relation with God and are familiar with religion; otherwise both terms have an identical meaning. 

Q:  Why don't you use only the term God-orientation just to prevent your audience to get confused?

A:  The unique truth is the one and only Lord.  However, god has been so much misinterpreted, limited, inadequately explained and unjustly understood by people that he has even become a creation of their mind.  Such god is a delusive and a dead one.  But the Lord I am speaking of is a living and unbounded God.  He is Omni-present and All-Seer.  He is the existence and exists...  We, therefore, speak of "the truth."

Q:  What should one do to become truth-oriented?

A:  We should live on the basis of the truth in every dimension of our lives; we should get consolidated in it.  [We should] see, hear, think, act and behave according to it.  [We should] keep in touch with it and be always ready to perceive it.  We should always be submitted to and receptive of the truth; to reveal it and be its personification.

Q:   To seek the truth is an inherent characteristic of human nature; why do you then bring about the subject of truth-orientation?

A:  God's religion is also inherent in human nature.  Man has an inherent tendency toward unbounded power and intelligence and toward an unlimited presence.  Man has so many inherent potencies within himself yet he does not follow them in his life and get involved with mundane nature and become negligent of his own.  Although man has an inner potentiality of knowing [the truth], yet many messengers and teachers have come to teach him this very inherent human nature.

Man has become captive and worshipper of delusion.  He continually follows his own phantasms, worships his own delusive god and seeks for the truth in his own illusions.  To eliminate this delusory approach and worship, it is necessary to teach him "truth-orientation." 

Q:  In what fields should we be truth-oriented? 

A:  In every dimension of life and in all levels.  [You should be truth-oriented] in your outside and inner life, in your individual and social existence, in political, economical, scientific, cultural, ecological, relational and religious fields as well as in all other grounds.

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