Did you ever wonder why your life is called “YOUR” life? Why is it that your journey is called YOUR journey? Why is it that your realization is called YOUR realization?

You want to know whether or not the realization of another is true or not true. Why? What do you need this information for?

Do you want to know this so that you know it is safe for you to simply accept everything the teacher says? To suspend your own judgement, to suspend your own thoughts and feelings and to just follow another? To receive knowledge and insight ready-made, handed over to you, by another? To accept what you hear as the truth because someone told you that it is the truth?

You want to make sure that the truth you are accepting is the true truth. You think that there is a danger to you in submitting yourself to a truth, to a teacher, to another human, who is “fake”.

But that is not where the danger is. The danger lies in your submission. The danger lies in you handing over your responsibility for seeing the truth to someone else.

If you submit to another, if you accept another’s word simply because that other told you so, then whose realizations are you having? Whose journey are you on? Whose life are you living?

Not yours.

The spiritual path is a path to yourself. It is not a path to finding someone else who tells you stuff. It is a path of you finding who you are. You, not some guy, not some guru, not some teacher, not some other human. You.

To your spiritual path it matters not at all whether someone else is fake or not. The only thing that matters is whether or not you are fake. What you are is the only thing that matters.