Faith based on experience

Actually blind faith is not going to take us to God. The faith has to be based on experience which is called as ‘shraddha’. It has to be based on experience of the truth. Supposing, I have not been to this room; I have not seen it; I don’t know what it is and I started describing it and if you believe Me, then I would say it’s just a brain wash. And it has been nothing but talk and talk and talk about God throughout. The reason was the human beings were not ready at that time I should say to get to their Realization. We had few people, very few, in the last say sixth century to the modern times.
I asked a Zen master, “How many Realized souls you had? ‘Kashyapas’”
And he said, “We had altogether only twenty four ‘Kashyapas’ from the sixth century to the thirteenth century and [then] we had none.”
So I said, “Then what are you doing there? You are a Zen Master and you are not a realized soul.”
So he said, “I am doing my job.”
A priest, I must say John Clover is also a priest; and a priest very well known personality and I asked him, “What do you mean by Holy Ghost?”
So he says, “I am agnostic.”
I said, “Then, what are you doing in the church?”
So he says “I am doing my job.”
I was surprised! What sort of a job you can do when you do not know about what you are talking? You are professing something about which you yourself are not sure. You yourself you are not a free soul and you are talking about freedom of the soul, is something like a advertising department.