Whenever someone lies in any subject matter not directly related to one's own survival, what will happen to a very honest, upright, wise man with a strong sense of dignity? It is extremely traumatic for one's soul. This is the most grievous insult for his uprightness and hence to his own existence. Any significant lie, if you are really really honest with yourself is equivalent to death of your morality. And what else is more valuable to the honest man than his moral value? It is indeed more precious than his life. Throughout the history of humankind we have seen thousands of people had committed suicide when they were found either by themselves or by others that they have lied in some significant way. Indeed lying and subsequent guilty feelings by honest men is the most common cause of suicide along with some psychiatric conditions, drug abuse, and psychological trauma. In most of those cases it either involved some wrongdoing or lying, with some rare exception where somebody took their own life for their loved one. If you have any insight into this subject matter, you would agree that wrongdoing, perceived wrong imposed on somebody or lying is the critical factor leading to a soul to commit suicide.

With this background, we can easily see that not only in our day to day common preference to the truth, our existence and our soul has a preference to stick with that truth. Why is this designed in such a way? After all, lying and devious short cut strategies are good to earn quick fame, wealth, money or comfort. Additionally if preference to truth and lie are truly random then it would be 50/50 in distribution. Why majority people agree on truth and why honest people who lied or did something wrong commit suicide? All these only suggest that there are some real deep utility and rationale to pursue truth and hence our innate conscious and unconscious preference to truth, not just for the sake of moral, ethical, religious or spiritual conviction.

These days people lie on important subject matter all the time but why they don't do what an honest person would do ie. suicide. This is because lying is so common today that everybody has to commit suicide if they are truly honest with themselves. If they did that, the human species would become extinct by now. To prevent such a grand calamity, the instinct of survival has been called for to protect humankind and propagate its continuity. How does the instinct of survival work to overcome the injury of lie on the soul? The instinct to survive is creating a barrier or rigid veil to cover up the injured site [ie. the lie] and thus the psychi cannot see it. The psychi cannot see it not because it’s no longer there, but because the lie has become a blind spot for the eye of the psychi, so the psychi cannot perceive it. Over long term, with repeated lies, it will be filled by these blind spots resulting in a complete dark black soul that will prevent your psychi to see the reality as it is and your access to your own soul for your examination. It's just like the visual blind spot. It's still there, as always, but we cannot see it. This is how the survival instinct is protecting us by making us blind on the fact that we have done something wrong or otherwise lied somehow. Otherwise, we would have committed suicide long ago, if we are absolutely honest with ourselves.

Now over our life time, many times we have chosen, out of our free will, devious shortcuts to cheat others, get easy money, fame, power, jobs, class grades, vanity, to control or gain favor of other people which invariably involved some sorts of hiding the truth or outright lying. In order to protect ourselves, our survival instinct has been called for innumerable times and each time it created some blind spots as described above. This why over time you will lose your ability to see things as they are [Cognitive Dissidence]. You will look at those thing with a heavily blinded psychic eye and will not see it. The world will be perceived in a distorted way, you will not find the ultimate truth of life, its purpose, its sublime beauty. You will anxious and uncomfortable all the time. You will feel something is missing. These subtle uneasiness will be so deep and hidden in your unconscious that eventually it will be repressed in the dark recess and will be lost forever. It will be manifested in alternative forms such as impulsive behavior, emotional outburst, unreasonable anxiety, and fear of death or impending doom. To compensate you will try some adventure sports, unusual sexual practices, drugs and rock & rolls but nothing will quench your thirst and your life will be living hell but you will not voluntarily acknowledges it out of dignity and pride but you know it in the back of the your mind and others will perceive it from your impulsive behavior. There is no escape from this eternal punishment on the soul for not seeing the ultimate truth and meaning of life.

This is exactly why all the Masters and Sages of all age emphasized purification of soul and altruism before you can embark for any form of initiation and discipleship towards the Truth. Once the student purify himself, and only when the student is ready, teacher will appear either from inside or outside, but it will appear for sure, for which I can bet my bottom dollar. The teacher will help you find the right questions to ask because your psychic eyes are no longer blinded anymore as discussed earlier. You will seek, and you will find. You will ask, and will be given. You will knock on the right door, and it will be opened for you. You will then find the truth all by yourself and that truth will set you free, forever.

Originally, mystical experiences were very general and abstract but it had no names. The reality of mysticism was in almost everybody, hence it needed no names. Gradually with the rise of society, people gave it a name such as astrology, spirituality etc. and started to create gods and idols from these derivative and placeholder abstract concepts. The high priest or the kings of those cultures started to assume the role of gods for the rest of the people. With advancement of civilization, people started to add rigor to these subjective and authoritarian spirituality and renamed it a organized religion. Unfortunately, those religions themselves became even more authoritarian and dogmatic than ever before. With the advent of modernity people tried to add further rigor to this religion (rigor being empiricism) with some unrealistic and futile rigor called "Science". Originally it had no name, it only had the reality. Now it has only names such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, New Age, but they hardly have any residual reality anymore. It's the human nature to corrupt and degenerate whatever good was handed down to them. Over time, everything is reduced to some fancy names with no intrinsic value [nominalism], and the underlying reality is lost, with few exceptions. 

Originally Sufism did not have a name but they had the true reality. This is not entirely true because it had a name, the name being Islam. All the close companions of the prophet, all the builders of magnificent mosque, were themselves Sufi without any separate names. Now, Islam along with Sufism have names but its loosing it's reality, with few exceptions. 

Every early original scientists had the true essence of reality with them but they did not have any separate names. They were just regarded as "wise men" or Sages. With the advent of a name called "scientist" in 19th century [To be exact 1833 AD, not BC!], the scientists have lost their reality and now they have just its names and dogmas, with few exceptions. 

During early parts of your life, you felt the true essence in your guts but at that time it had no names. You felt the divine essence without any name or any proof. But soon you trained yourself in wrong hands, believed in those untrue premises as unquestionable and started to give those divine sparkle a name like "enlightenment". Soon thereafter, you are chasing this unreal ghost named "enlightenment". There are no enlightenment to achieve and conquer in first place. Whatever is there, it’s always there, and there is no additional need to hunt for it. Now the essence of enlightenment is gone and only the word enlightenment remains. This is how your life's reality is lost and only its name remains, again with few exceptions.

Let's consider a Grail of water analogy. "I AM" the organizer of this thought experiment. I poured water to the Grail upto the half of it and kept the rest of the jug of water under the shelf. Then I will invite people to my house to enjoy the nice cold Grail of water in a hot summer day. Before I offer this grail of water to my guests, the only expectation I have that the guest will be polite and understanding of my sincere efforts. Before I offer them the half full Grail of water, I will ask the following question to the guests:

"How much of the Grail is filled with water?"

There are mainly two versions of the answers: 1) The glass is half full. 2) The glass is half empty. Now, let's analyze the answer. Which of the answer is correct one? Actually, both of them are equally correct but one will take you towards emptiness and others will take you towards fullness. One will take you towards completeness, the other will take you towards incompleteness. What is your intrinsic goal? Does your heart crave for completeness? If yes then you ought to say that the Grail is half full. In contrast, those people who say the Grail is half empty are actually complaining for not being full. Because if not completely full, for them, it is not full at all. He is accusing it for not being full. Although, superficially it seems to be a silly situation of no intrinsic value, this distinction of half fullness or half emptiness, has a profound significance in the deeper level. Once you have the inclination to complain about incompleteness, you are just entangling yourself and making your goal of filling the Grail to the brim difficult, if not impossible. Your goal is to fill the Grail with water in the first place, remember? 

Once you allow yourself in accuser position in an ambivalent or equally true situations, you immediately become blindfolded. I agree, both are true, but you are preventing yourself from seeing the hidden truths and you are actually actively moving away from the truth on your own volition. Once you are in accuser mode, you will only see the half empty Grail, nothing else. Because you are complaining about the half empty Grail, out of this disappointment you will reject to take that half empty Grail of water (because you went there for a full Grail of water), start putting some words or thoughts as an expression of your anger and you will eventually abandon the half Grail and leave the house altogether and start a new search for full Grail. Isn't it counterproductive to your original intention to have the full Grail? Unfortunately, once you have chosen, on your own volition, to be on accuser mode, you cannot see the reality "as it is" because the very act of accusing will block your vision to see the situation clearly. In contrast, if you see the Grail as half full, only then you will see the fact that, somebody has already filled half of the Grail for you in first place. If you can see this simple fact, your inner wisdom will tell you to look for the person who filled the glass. Unless you have this question in your mind, you cannot even think of looking for the Waterbearer. Unless you see the Grail as half full, your inner self will not guide you to ask the critical liberating question of "Where is the Grail filler?" The question will then lead you to the person who has the water, waiting for you to be asked to fill the Grail with water to the brim. And thus your original desire to have a full glass of water fullfilled. 

Do you know what is the source of your accusative mindset? You think, it's entirely your own volitional, right? Do you know why the other guys did not complain about the half-fullness of the Grail? What is the difference here? But you, on your own free choice, took the side of accusation. Eventually this choice prevented you to ask the right question and hence to see the hidden truth. Now what is the operating force here that you are in agreement? Accusation. Is it your own choice? Yes. Then you should not complain for not finding the truth, because you chose not to. Keeping these answers in mind, allow me to share some surprising information with you. The word Satan literally means "The Accuser". The word Iblis means "He/it that causes despair". Did you chose the path of Satan/Iblis on your own choice? Did the scriptures tell you that Satan is smarter than you can think ? Did not your scripture tell you that Satan will give you an impression that you are not doing anything wrong and you are just exerting your innocent free will? 

The moral of the story is: Don't be in accusative mode in ambivalent or ambiguous situations. Have doubts in everything unless your own wisdom agrees. In the same time during your doubt periods, give everything the benefit of doubt, not the malice born out of your doubts. Believe in goodness behind people's action, instead of accusing them for their deed. Hate the sin but not the sinners. Most of sinners did the sin because they had to, with some exceptions such as psychopaths. Still, in most of the cases the sinner is victim of the situations. If you have the true mindset of hating the sin but not the sinners, only then you can perceive the truth that created the situation for the sinner. This is the one of the Grand rules for your salvation! These small truths, little by little, will take you to the Ultimate Truth. This is exactly why all the great traditions require you to be a free thinking, good hearted man with straight and square in actions, before they will even consider you for initiation into the Grand mystery, because without this mindset you will not understand it, even if they tell you the mystery in simple language. And if you are truly a good hearted, upright man and you ask with utmost sincerity, you will be given the answer from within without any external help ie. the scientists, the guru, prophets or mystery schools.