is utterly unconcerned with whether the disciple believes in him or in someone else: and he is equally unconcerned with whether the disciple, at any moment, does or does not believe in him. If in some fortunate cases the Master, through his benign intervention, wins for himself the living faith of the disciple (as distinguished from mere belief), it is because he knows that the disciple will be helped through it.
Just as the disciple is testing the Master’s capacity to guide him, so the Master in turn is testing the disciple’s integrity of purpose. The Master is unconcerned whether the disciple doubts him or has faith in him. Testing the disciple What he tests is whether the disciple is or is not sincere and whole-hearted in his spiritual search and pursuit. The Master is not at all interested in giving proof of his own divinity to the disciple, except when he feels that such proof is likely to be unfailingly useful and unavoidably necessary for the spiritual benefit of one who has surrendered himself to him.

Part I
FALSE VALUES

EVERYONE wants to know and realise the Truth, but Truth cannot be known and realised as Truth unless ignorance is known and realised as being ignorance. Importance of understanding falsehoods of Maya Hence arises the importance of understanding Maya or the principle of ignorance. People read and hear much about Maya, but few understand what it really is. It is not enough to have a superficial understanding of Maya; it is necessary that Maya should be understood as it is, i.e., in its reality. To understand Maya or the principle of ignorance is to know half of the Truth of the universe. Ignorance in all its forms must disappear if the soul is to be established in the state of self-knowledge. Therefore it is imperatively necessary for man to know what is false, to know it to be false and to get rid of the false by knowing it to be false.
What is the essential nature of a falsehood? Essence of falsehood If the true is known as being true or if the false is known as being false, there is no falsehood but only a form of knowledge. Falsehood consists in taking the true as being false or the