The Great Magic of Scriptures

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Question: Acharya Ji, While reading and meditating on Nitnem, something happened within me which is difficult to explain. And this happening is same while we were reading Ashtavakra Gita and Upanishads.

These words do not create any images, but they take away my chains and cut me down. Whatever we see around, most of the combinations of the alphabets a-z in this world, all that is, is just with an agenda — to protect our ego, or fear, or greed. But when these same letters a-z, combine to produce the Japuji Sahib or Ashtavakra Gita, why is there a magic?

Acharya Prashant Ji: There is just a magic! The ‘why’ is not necessary. But if you are asking, I will speak on it.

There is a Sacredness, a Trueness, that is at the root of the world.

The world keeps changing, coming and going, the Trueness remains.

The world is many things.

To the Lover of the Truth, the world is an expression of the Truth.

To the hater of the Truth, the world is a competitor of the Truth.

Do you see how the meanings of the world can change, according to the mind that is looking at the world?

If you are the lover…