There are two types of souls in the world, two types of people. We choose these terms carefully.
The vast majority of humanity mistakes authority for the truth, that position somehow confers truth upon one’s words.
To them, people with authority are somehow seen as different from their people. People make a classic mistake all the time, if a doctor or authority gets on the TV – basically an “expert” they switch off their mind.
But what they fail to realize is that it’s just a mere fallible mortal like any other person, like themselves. Therefore their expertise should be measured against the truth, not the opposite.
They mistake a title of authority or an appearance for the truth. But a truth is a matter of reasoning, and a lie can be garbed in just about any clothing you wish. Even if in the garb of the kingdom of the world a lie is still a lie. But know that the truth can come out of the lips of a babe, or a pauper, or even from the lips of George Bush himself.. though most people wouldn’t recognize it as the truth because they don’t expect the truth to come from such … un-authorative sources or situations.
So, there are two types of souls, those who recognize the truth even if dressed in the garb of a pauper, and those wouldn’t recognize it unless it was dressed in a kings garb, or the right dress correctly.
This has always been the case throughout the history of mankind.
When we said two types of souls, we use the word soul correctly, for deliberate ends, because it sums up much of humanity.
Experts will lie to them over and over again in history, and people will always go back to them and listen to their lies, yet there are other people – a small group and minority – who would not care even if the lie was spoken by, at least seem to have been spoken by, God himself – Allah forbid.
There are some special people who, even if you say “God says this” and you can show them this, even if in [obviously false] scripture, they would not believe it.
Know that this is how all false religion, and how all propaganda works, by issuing the image of authority on top of a lie, even of God himself.
To pick on one example Hinduism, to their authorities the voice of God himself has told them that a cow is worthy of more respect than a human being.
Thus this is why 1.2 billion Hindus fall in the category of the miserable souls we mentioned.. those who mistake authority, the authority of their teachers, their gurus, or their scriptures, with the Truth.
And we are sure that amongst Hindus there are some people who would not be deceived thus, at any cost. That even if their fathers’ authority says a cow is more sacred, their reason and their minds would tell them this is not true, and not care who said it.
So to restate this, it is a miserable soul who mistakes authority for the truth.
Consider this deeply.
