Until you get a guidance from above you cannot be sure; but to get this guidance it requires time and sadhana.

The first and the most important thing is to know that life is one and immortal. Only the forms, countless in number, are transient and brittle. The life everlasting is independent of any form but manifests itself in all forms. Life then does not die... but the forms are dissolved.

[S]tand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.

Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.

Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom.

One may come armoured, Invinsible. His will immobile meets the mobile hour. The world blows cannot bend this Victor Head. Calm and sure are his steps in the growing night. The goal recedes, he hurries not his pace. He asks from no help from the inferior Gods. His eyes are fixed on the immutable aim.

The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.