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Every intelligent person wonders about the great questions of life: What is the soul? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Why are we suffering? What is the purpose and meaning of life? Where do we go after this life? What is reality? What is God?

Is there an Ultimate Truth? A Final Answer to all questions? A magic formula to end all our suffering in life? A simple equation like E = mc² that can actually solve our problems permanently and make us happy?

What if all knowledge—everything that is knowable—could be boiled down to a single, powerful formula? Anyone who knew this formula, and understood how to use it, could then access the knowledge required to solve any problem, no matter how difficult. There would be no need to learn anything else, because the formula would supply whatever knowledge one might need.

The great engine of human thought, now turbocharged by computers, is churning out information at an ever-increasing rate. But do we ever get to the end of this information? Is there any final answer? Or does our knowledge just keep on increasing without limit? Does all this so-called knowledge really do us any good? Are we really any closer to understanding life, or the soul? Do we understand why we are born, or why we have to die? Is there any hope of science finding a solution for the ultimate problem of death?

Science has made great strides in theory and technology, but has it produced anything resembling a unified field theory of life? We may have more tools and gadgets than people centuries ago, but are we any happier? Even if we think we know how the universe came into being, are we any closer to understanding why?

Could it be that a certain class of questions—the ones that actually affect the quality of our life—require a different quality of knowledge for their answers? And that simply collecting observations about the physical world, and systemizing them into theories, can never deliver that quality of knowledge?

Has all our scientific so-called progress brought us any closer to understanding the mystery of our own consciousness and feelings? And what about the timeless, universal human striving for freedom and transcendence? Have science and technology—or art, religion and philosophy, for that matter—really brought us any closer to understanding God, the purpose of the universe, or the mysteries of life, love, death, eternity and spirituality?

It’s easy to deny the importance of such questions or dismiss them as impossible. It’s easy to doubt the people who ask such questions and expect reasonable, practical, intelligent answers, and label them impracticable dreamers.

But just a minute: What if these ideas are true? What if there really is an answer to all questions, a solution to all problems? What if there really is a way out of the endless repetition of birth and death in the material world? What if there really is an Ultimate Truth Formula? Something so simple that anyone can learn it in five minutes, and provides satisfying answers to all the greatest questions, and practical solutions to the greatest problems of life?

It’s natural to be skeptical when presented with such an outrageous, revolutionary concept. But this is the way of progress. Many intelligent people were doubtful when Einstein published his famous mass-energy equation, E = mc². Why? The formula was simple enough, but the ideas behind it—the theory’s ontology—contradicted their beliefs. But when later experiments—including the successful detonation of the atom bomb—proved that the formula works, everyone accepted the idea and adapted their ontology accordingly.

Now every schoolchild can recite this formula, and knows that it’s true and it works. But can they explain how it works and why it’s true? Can you? The Einstein formula is authoritative because it is a high-level description of the structure of the physical universe. There is tremendous significance compressed into each term of this extremely powerful formula. But how many years of specialized study and training are required to perceive and actualize the potential for nuclear energy in this simple expression?

Similarly, if there is an Ultimate Truth Formula, and even if it is simple to learn and easy to use, it might be very, very difficult to understand exactly how and why it works. In fact, at first glance the theory might appear totally counterintuitive. Such a high-level description of ultimate truth would be even more powerful in application than Einstein’s mass-energy equation. Its terms would contain even more significance. Therefore, what kind of intelligence would be required to understand how and why it works? Such a degree of intelligence would certainly have to be superhuman.

So what? Does everyone who drives a car need to understand how and why an internal-combustion engine works? Does everyone who flies in a jet plane have to understand how and why jet engines, or air traffic control radar work? No, you just pay your ticket, get in and go.

So, just for the sake of discussion, let’s say we actually have the Ultimate Truth Formula, and can give it to you and show you how to use it in about five minutes. If you use it regularly according to the instructions, gradually over the course of several years, you will come to know everything you need to solve all the problems of life. Guaranteed.

The question is: Would you use it according to the instructions long enough to find out if it really works? Would you use it, even if you don’t understand how it works? Would you use it, even if you don’t understand the theory of how it works? Would you use it, even if you had to change your lifestyle or your eating habits to make it work better? Would you use it, even if the theory of operation contradicted your ontology?

Remember how people reacted to Einstein’s little formula. They didn’t want to believe it. Their beliefs didn’t stop the atomic bomb from working, did they?

How much effort is it worth to you to solve all your problems? How much effort is it worth to you to stop your suffering? How much is it worth to you to be happy? How much is it worth to you to solve all the really big problems of life?

In this life, people work very hard to get a good education. Then they work very hard to make money, to get a nice wife or husband, to lose weight, to get a nice house or car or whatever else they really want.

What if applying the Ultimate Truth Formula requires much less work than any of these? Would you be willing to try it?

What if there is a state of consciousness in which the solution to all problems is self-evident? What if the method to attain that consciousness could be learned in a few minutes, and its theory of operation in a few days? Even if the application of the method took several years, would it be worthwhile to you to learn it? To use it?

Over thousands of years of human civilization, there have been many attempts to answer these important questions, some more satisfying than others. But what if there is a source of Absolute Truth about these spiritual questions: eternal Truth beyond mere human speculation? What if there really is a Final Answer, a complete and trustworthy source of information about these inconceivable things? An Ultimate Truth Formula from which all other knowledge can be derived? And what if that formula is available to you, here today on this blog? Would you take advantage of the opportunity?

When you listened to today’s podcast, the first thing we gave you was the Ultimate Truth Formula. Remember? Our theme music with the dvadasaksara-mantra: om namo bhagavate vasudevaya. If you use it according to the directions, you will realize—not know, not understand but directly realize—all the transcendental knowledge we discussed today, and much, much more. All you have to do is use it according to the instructions I gave you, and it will work. For detailed instructions, watch this video.

Is this simple mantra really the Ultimate Absolute Truth? We—the Master Teachers and Initiates of the Esoteric Teaching—know that it is. Through deep study and realization of ancient spiritual traditions such as the Vedas, we have discovered a source of spiritual truth more ancient, accurate and complete than any other. The existence of writings such as the Vedas can only be explained by the pre-existence of a source of infinite knowledge, an intelligence much higher than human, whose knowledge can be transmitted to receptive souls through direct mystic illumination. This is the Ultimate Truth Formula: the Self-revelation of the Esoteric Teaching. I invite you to experience this remarkable phenomenon for yourself by becoming an Initiate of the Esoteric Teaching.

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