bookinview
The following excerpt is from the new book
The Silent Questions: A Spiritual Odyssey
by Doug Marman and is reprinted with
The masks of
the permission of the publisher Spiritual
Dialogues Project. The book is available for
God
sale at
www.spiritualdialogues.com, Amazon
by Doug Marman
or your local bookseller.
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f the people are Hindu, he has appeared Babylonians; Varuna to the Aryans; Jesus of this world since its creation. As the
as Krishna, Buddha, or Vishnu, so they to the Christians; and Allah to the Moham- vehicle for God he has come in the form
would know him. He is Zeus to the Greeks; medans. to which the people are most accustomed
Jupiter to the Romans; Ishtar to the He has appeared to all in every age and by the name familiar to them.*
These are the masks of God. The one
timeless power guides and protects who-
ever may contact It in every age, yet we
know no more of It than our own limited
understanding. To see Its true form, to
personally experience It in Its unlimited
reality, we must remove the masks of God
to look beneath. No outer path, no holy
book, no metaphysical formula can show
It in Its full force. We must find for our-
selves what is the truth behind all life. It is
a personal journey.
“I have been asked what I mean by
‘The Beloved,’” Krishnamurti, a spiritual
teacher who spoke out against the need
for organized religion, told an audience
in 1927. “To me it is all - it is Sri Krishna,
it is the Master Kuthumi, it is the Lord
Maitreya, it is the Buddha, and yet it is be-
yond all these forms. What does it matter
what name you give?”
Krishnamurti freed himself of the
religious images that hide reality. He had
pierced this veil. Yet, fifty years later, he
admitted honestly that he still had not
solved the mystery. “Some element is
watching over. . . “ he said. “Something is
protecting. . . It would be speculating to
say what. (What we know) is too concrete,
is not subtle enough. But I can’t look be-
hind the curtain. I can’t do it. I tried with
Pupul Jayakar and various Indian scholars
who pressed me . . . Is this something
which we cannot discover, mustn’t touch,
is not penetrable? I am wondering. I have
often felt it is not my business; that we
will never find out . . . We are trying with
our minds to touch THAT.”
Our minds cannot fathom God in Its
true form, for Mind creates mirrors and
masks that hide the true reality. Like a
computer searching for the source of its
own intelligence, Mind can only generate
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