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about God, he has not encountered anything divine. He has had no revelation; he only believes that this statue represents God -- and belief is a lie. Knowing is one thing, belief just the opposite. Belief only covers your ignorance, it does not dispel it.
It is as if you are living in darkness but you believe that you are living in light. But just by your belief, darkness is not dispelled. You will need real light -- not belief in light but light itself, only then will the darkness go.
Somebody is a Hindu and somebody is a Christian and somebody is a Jew, and all are Lying, because they are simply repeating what they have been told. And those who have told you were Lying because they were simply repeating what was told to them, and so on, so forth.
People live in conventions, conformities. People belong to traditions, to past... and truth is herenow! Truth has no tradition; truth is not a convention, truth is not a conformity. Truth requires no belief at all; truth requires a very authentic inquiry. Truth requires you to be an adventurer; neither a believer nor a disbeliever but an inquirer, an explorer, open -- without any prejudiced mind, without any a priori conclusion.
Unless one starts searching for truth outside and inside, in relationship and in aloneness, one remains part of a very very lying world.
Becoming a sannyasin means that you are becoming aware of the lie that the society is based upon. A sannyasin starts searching on his own. He is no more part of the mob, he does not belong to mob psychology any more. He is a dropout. He says, "Enough is enough! I am not going to be just a part of the crowd."
A sannyasin becomes an individual. A sannyasin declares his freedom, and he declares that, "I will seek truth on my own; I am not going to borrow it from anybody else" -- because truth cannot be borrowed and a borrowed truth is no more true.
Then truth is not very far away. If one can drop lies, all lies, truth wells up within one's own being. You are truth then. Truth is not something objective; it is your very subjectivity, your interiority. It is your very consciousness. Not even a single step is needed
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