Words from the Master

Whatever I may be telling you these few days, just listen with complete awareness and try to catch the central chord, the composite thread that runs in the whole thing. If you do that, you will create a space in you for the transformation to happen. Otherwise, you will simply be collecting words and seeking all the time. Unless a transformation happens in you, all words are useless. And transformation is possible only if you look with deep awareness.

And be very clear: Even if you are thousand people in this hall, I am talking to you. When I say you, I mean Y O U. I have a thread running with each of you; so don’t ever apply what I am saying to others; you will simply miss the whole thing.

We have a general tendency: When we hear anything about our health being discussed, we will immediately apply it to ourselves and see where we stand; we will see whether we have any symptoms of what is being discussed. If I talk about the skin, you will feel your skin and see; if I talk about the heart, you will feel your heart beat and see.

But when we hear anything about spirituality, somehow, we always apply it to others, our family, our friends, our neighbours, never to ourselves! The problem is, whatever I say, you think, “Ah! I know myself well. This message is for my husband. Swamiji is saying this so that my husband can change his ways. I hope he has got the message from Swamiji.”

(Laughter!)

When I talk about worries, you will immediately think of how much your mother worries. You forget how much you worry. I am telling you because you also worry. Probably your mother worries more than you, but that is not the point.

Understand that every word is for you. It will come like an arrow bringing with it the Energy; don’t dodge it. Just allow it to go in and transform you. So don’t keep looking at other people to see if they are showing signs of understanding. If you do this you will miss it for yourself.

If you really know about yourself, you will not have any worries, or discontentment or pain or fear or lust or jealousy or ego. But you have all of this in you. That itself shows that you don’t know everything about yourself. First of all, know that you don’t know. Then at least you know that you don’t know! If you don’t even know that you don’t know, then you don’t even know that you don’t know!

Yes…?

But Swamiji, we are traveling towards knowing ourselves, so at this point we may know partly…

Let me tell you one thing: In a deep spiritual experience, there will be no traveling. It is a moment’s experience, that’s all. All our so-called knowing is only creating a space inside us towards fully knowing. But ultimately, in the deeper sense, either we know or we don’t know. But when we know more and more, we become clear that we don’t know! That is enough. That will motivate us to really knowing.

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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.