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known the Atma, then the Atma is there for you to believe in (faith). You should believe in the Atma; 'I am Atma', is the conviction (pratiti) that you should have. And if you fail to attain that, then the Atma is there to be heard or listened, so that everyday you should keep listening to talk or discussions about the Atma.
Therefore, the writers of scriptures (shastras) have written, that 'he that has not heard, believed or known the Atma, is not at all worthy for the path of liberation.' So if you understand this, you will find a solution; otherwise, you will not find a solution.
The Gnani Dissolves Spiritual Darkness
For the last twenty-five hundred years, this country has been in darkness. One or two Gnanis have appeared in that time but all that light (Gnan - Knowledge) cannot reach everywhere. Whereas this light reaches you, having crossed all the layers of the mind and all the layers of the intellect (buddhi). Those in foreign countries have not even scratched the surface of (entered the layers) of the mind. They are still involved in activities at the level of the effect or discharging mind (nischetanmun). They have not even discovered the charging or the living mind (chetan-mun). They have not heard about it, nor do they have a need for it. If you told these foreigners today, that there is Atma inside, they might be able to understand more or less, that there is some kind of element (tattva) present. But they would not believe that it is the Atma; however, they would concede that there is something else there. If you tell them that there is reincarnation (punarjanma); they will not accept it.
So you only have to know the Atma. In Hindustan (India), what do all the religions say? That you should know that Atma. There is no talk about the Atma in foreign countries. In foreign countries they say, 'I am William; I myself am William', they will say. As long as they do not believe in reincarnation (punarjanma), they will not have the awareness of the Atma.
