How to be Free from Sin — Page 25
25 bring about true salvation, for sin can only be got rid of through perfect fear or perfect love. The Crucifixion of Christ, which is itself a false belief, has nothing to do with stopping the surge of sin. Be mindful that this doctrine is based on ignorance, our experience does not testify to it, and the Messiah’s suicide cannot redeem people of their sins. The very concept of true salvation is that man should be saved from the inferno of sin in this very world. Have the Christians been saved from it on account of these sto- ries, or has anyone ever been saved because of these absurd tales, which have nothing to do with the truth and true salvation? Look to the East and the West, you will not find anyone who has attained, through these myths, the purity that leads to certainty about God. Such purity not only makes man averse to sin, but for him the pleasures of the truth become akin to the fruits of Paradise, and his soul flows like water upon God’s threshold, and a light descends from heaven which dispels all egoistic darkness. For ex- ample, when all the windows of a room are opened in broad daylight, it is at once filled with the light of the sun; but if they are kept closed, no amount of fables or tales can bring in the light. One must stand up and open the windows before the light can illuminate his room. Like- wise, merely thinking about water cannot quench one’s thirst; one must somehow reach water and put his mouth to it before it can satiate him. The water which satiates thirst and quenches the fire of sin is none other than certainty. Nothing else under the