The core theme is that true understanding and liberation come not from seeking external answers about creation or deities, but from an inward journey of self-inquiry, dissolving the ego, and embracing the groundless, ever-present reality of existence.
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A seeker once came to Goraknath and
asked, "Is this universe created by
God?" Goraknath looked at him for a long
time, so long that the seeker became
uneasy as if something inside him was
being watched rather than his face. Then
Goraknath laughed, not a polite laugh,
not a comforting one, but the laughter
of a man who has seen through centuries
of foolishness. He said, "You come with
a question that is already old, rotten
and borrowed. This question has not
arisen from your bones, from your
breath, from your blood. It has come
from books, priests, parents and fear.
Before I answer you, tell me, are you
alive enough to hear the answer?" The
seeker said, "I only want to know the
truth." Goraknath replied, "If you truly
wanted truth, you would not ask whether
the universe was created by God. You
would ask why you are asleep while being
alive. You would ask why your breath
comes and goes without your permission.
You would ask why thoughts keep
appearing without your invitation. But
you ask about God because God is safe.
God keeps you away from yourself." The
seeker tried to argue, "But everything
has a cause. Surely the universe must
have a creator. Goraknad struck the
ground with his staff and said, "This
surely is your disease." You are certain
about things you have never seen. You
say everything has a cause. Have you
seen the first cause or are you
repeating logic like a parrot repeats
mantras? Cause and effect belong to
small things. A pot has a potter, yes. A
house has a builder, yes. But existence
is not a pot. The sky is not built.
Space is not manufactured. Awareness is
not assembled. He leaned closer and
said, "You are trying to reduce the
infinite to the size of your mind. Your
mind works with beginnings and endings,
with birth and death, with before and
after. But existence is not within time.
Time is within existence. How will a
tool measure what contains the tool
itself?" The seeker said then are you
saying there is no god? Goraknath
laughed again. I am saying your question
is childish. First you invent a god then
you ask whether he created the universe.
This is like dreaming of a tiger and
then asking who fed it. Both the tiger
and the question are part of the dream.
He said listen carefully. Religion has
trained you to look outward. Philosophy
has trained you to think upward. Yoga
trains you to look inward. Tantra trains
you to look everywhere at once. I am not
interested in your beliefs. I am
interested in your awakening. The seeker
said, but scriptures say God created the
world. Goraknath replied, scriptures are
not truth. They are maps and most people
worship the map and never walk the land.
Scriptures were spoken to particular
minds in particular times. You are
swallowing words without digestion.
Truth is not something you inherit. It
is something you die into. He paused and
said slowly, "If God created the
universe, then God existed before the
universe. If God existed before the
universe, then existence is possible
without creation. If existence is
possible without creation, then your
question collapses." You see, one honest
look and the whole structure falls. The
seeker felt disturbed and asked then
what is this universe? Goraknad said
this universe is not a thing. It is an
event. It is happening not created. It
is like a flame. Where does the flame
begin? Where does it end? You can point
to wood, to fire, to smoke, but the
flame itself is movement. He said you
want a creator because you want
security. If there's a creator, then
there is a controller. If there's a
controller, then chaos is manageable. If
chaos is manageable, then your fear can
sleep. God is your li. The seeker
protested. Without God, is there no
morality? Goraknad's eyes became fears.
Morality imposed by fear is hypocrisy. A
man who is good because he fears
punishment is not good. He is obedient.
Awareness does not need commandments.
When you see clearly, compassion happens
naturally. The way fragrance comes from
a flower. He said, "You speak of God as
if God is outside existence watching
like a judge. This is the language of
kings and prisons. Existence does not
punish, it teaches. It does not reward,
it reveals." The seeker said, "But
people feel God. They experience God."
Goraknath nodded. "Yes, they experience
something, but they name it wrongly.
When the ego cracks, when silence
descends, when the eye loosens its grip,
a vastness is felt. Out of habit, they
call it God. The experience is real. The
explanation is false." He continued,
"The mind cannot tolerate emptiness.
When silence appears, the mind rushes to
label it. God is a label pasted on
silence by frightened minds. The seeker
asked softly, "Then what should I do?"
Goraknad said, "Stop seeking answers and
start destroying the seeker. Sit, watch,
breathe. Let thoughts rise and fall
without following them. Do not worship
them. Do not fight them. When the mind
becomes naked, truth stands revealed not
as an idea but as being. He said the
real question is not whether God created
the universe. The real question is why
you keep creating illusions and calling
them answers. The seeker said will I
ever know? Goraknad said knowing is the
last obstacle. Drop knowing B. In that
being the question evaporates. He added,
"For the ignorant, God is a belief. For
the intellectual, God is a problem. For
the awakened, God is unnecessary. The
seeker bowed, but Goraknat stopped him.
Do not bow to me. Boeing creates
hierarchy. Walk beside me, not below
me." He concluded, "Remember this, the
universe does not need a creator, but
you need courage. The courage to stand
without beliefs. The courage to live
without borrowed meanings. The courage
to dissolve. When you dissolve, what
remains is neither God nor universe nor
self. Only the silent roaring suchness.
And in that suchness, all questions die.
And Goraknath did not stop there. He
looked at the seeker as if carving these
words directly into his marrow and
continued. You think courage means
fighting, concurring, becoming strong in
the eyes of others. That is covered eyes
dressed as armor. The courage I speak of
is far more dangerous. It is the courage
to be nobody. It is the courage to let
your identity collapse without replacing
it with a new costume. Most people
change presents and call it freedom.
They drop one belief only to grab
another. They leave one god and invent a
subtler one. This is not courage. This
is fear changing masks. He said standing
without beliefs means standing without
ground. The mind wants ground
conclusions. Answers because ground
gives the illusion of safety. But truth
is groundless. Existence is a free fall.
Only those who dare to fall endlessly
discover that there is no bottom to hit.
He continued, "Borrowed meanings are the
heaviest chains. Your parents gave you
meaning. Society gave you meaning.
Religion gave you meaning. Even
rebellion gives you meaning. You have
never tasted life without
interpretation. You see through words,
not through eyes. You hear through
memory, not through ears. drop meanings
and the world becomes unbearably alive.
Colors burn brighter. Silence becomes
thunder. Life stops being a concept and
becomes a wound and a wonder at once.
Goraknut's voice grew quiet, almost like
a whisper, but it cut deeper. Dissolving
does not mean disappearing into
nothingness the way you imagine.
Dissolving means the false center melts.
The not called me loss. The body
remains, breath remains, sounds remain,
but the owner is gone. And when the
owner is gone, suffering has nowhere to
sit. He said, "You are afraid of
dissolution because you think you will
lose something precious. But look
honestly, what have you really got? A
bundle of memories, fears, hopes,
borrowed ideas, and postponed living.
This is not treasure. This is luggage.
drop it and suddenly you are light
enough to dance with existence. He
paused and said, "When I say neither God
nor universe remains, I do not mean they
vanish. I mean the divisions vanish. God
was a projection. The universe was an
object and you were the observer. When
you dissolve, this triangle collapses.
There is no observer here. No observe
there. There is only happening." He
smiled slightly and said, "Suchness is
not mystical. It is utterly ordinary and
that is why you miss it. The sound of
wind, the ache in your knees, the breath
touching the nostrils, the fading of a
thought before it finishes. This is
suchness. Silent because it has no
commentary. Roaring because it is
overflowing with life." Goraknath added,
"Questions die not because answers are
found, but because the questioner is
gone. A question needs an eye to
survive. Without an I, questions fall
like sparks into water." He looked
straight into the seeker's eyes and
said, "Do not carry my words as a
doctrine. That would be another
betrayal. Use them like a thorn to
remove a thorn, then throw both away. If
my words stay with you too long, they
will rot. He ended by saying, remember
this finally. Awakening is not an
achievement. It is an unbburdening. It
is not adding light. It is removing
walls. Walk without leaning on
conclusions. Life without rehearsing
meaning. Die every moment to what you
think you are. In that continuous dying,
life reveals itself. Not as God, not as
universe, not as you, but as this naked,
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