Paris

Aug. 1, 2012

1) A king asked a sage: What is Truth? Please tell me straightway without beating around the bush.

Sage said: There are two Truths. One is Sacred and the other is Supreme. Sacred Truth is neither known nor unknown. It is un-knowable! It is eternal, existential and vital. It is Energy, Intelligence, Life, Love and Ecstasy as It stays outside one's ego-structure. All the conceptualisations, conclusions, assumptions, affirmations, fantasizing and fancifulness from the limited and fragmented structure of ego and experience, can not even touch That, leave alone holding It in one's net-work of shoddy little ideas and imaginations. 'I-ness' in oneself is not available to the wonder and mystery of 'Is-ness'.

Supreme Truth is knowable, but you will always refuse to know It! This is the truth in the falseness of fragmentation that has happened in the inner being giving rise to an illusory & separative psyche 'I' in the contents that constitute the conspicuous structure of the self, the 'me', the ego. The contents are obviously craving for security (ambition, greed, acquisition), fear of insecurity (aggression, agony, animosity, agitation) and dependency (belief-systems, solace, assurance). A spurious split in the contents generates the 'I' and a self-protective mechanism for the maintenance of mental pollutions is established. This will everlastingly prevent you to know this Supreme Truth that 'I' is just an illusion desperately trying to feel itself as real by calling itself 'super consciousness', 'higher self', 'astral self', 'soul' and thus giving itself continuity and permanency! This basic illusion 'I' also creates other super illusions such as 'God', 'Heaven' and all the theological thuggery to sustain itself! To know this supreme truth about 'I-ness' is to drop this 'I' for blasting in the benediction of the Sacred Truth of Divinity, which is not an experience, because It is unknowable! Then why this arm-chair intellectual talk about 'Truth' to pretend and masquerade as 'religious'? Religion is gathering of energy to see 'what is' of life and not to waste time and vitality to handle the garbage of 'what should be' of the mind!

The King, of course, did not appreciate the response from the Sage. He went to a Mahamandaleshwar Pandit to remain amused in the ideas and conclusions about 'truths'!

2) Light exists without bothering to enlighten anything. Everything gets automatically lit-up by the light, if it is not kept under cover! Don't remain under the dark cover of the mind!

3) Break the coconut to get the 'piece of bread and water' to refresh your life. Why not break the mind, the psyche -'I', to wake up in Life and Intelligence! But coconut can be easily broken, as there is dichotomy between the coconut and your hand.

Alas, when you try to 'break' the mind, the breaker is the same mind! One therefore needs a real good brain to see this situation. And then the breaking just happens by the grace of the holy Energy of Understanding.

4) There are no-two (Advaita). There is not even one. As there is none! This 'none' is in everyone, in everything, everywhere in the mystery of the manifested Universe! This is so beautifully stated by an 'illiterate' sage Kabir of Varanasi: ---

Ek Kahoon Toe Hai Nahi, Doe Kahoon Toe Gaari.

Hai Jaisaa Taisaa Rahey, Kahey Kabir Vichaari.

Be available to the natural state of life and perception, without the separative psyche 'I' sneaking in!

5) Truth is within one's own inner being --- not out there! There is no path to truth, no special method of walking, running or jogging towards the truth! Wake up to the darkness of delusory division in the inner being and thus see the dawn of Divinity! This is stated by Kabir as:

Samjhey Toe Ghar Mein Rahey, Farsaa Palank Lagaaey.

Teraa Saheb Tujh Mein Hai, Anat Kahu Mat Jaaye 

Kabir tells us not to go to any charlatan of the spiritual market. 

6) Let us now share a beautiful Swadhyay that happened in the body of a profound discipleship in spite of the limitations of the Guru Process!

There is a flow of tremendous love energy between a sat guru and a disciple in surrender. This Love is pure energy with no motives. The disciple loves the Guru for his innocence and purity. The Guru likewise returns the love like a rain cloud that sheds its waters on a green forest full of life – Life calling life, perhaps.

On the other hand the so-called love that is sometimes expressed by a disciple who is in the state of a seeker – whether of material or spiritual progress – is a love with motives. Such love is given in return for something; a blessing, a hope, a future state, happiness, moksha, nirvana or whatever.

The Guru is not a giver, nor the disciple a receiver. The Guru is an ever-active detonator that is always in a state of ignition. A sat-shishya is one in whom there is a cord or wire that links the entanglements of his mind to the detonator. That most important item, the cord, is listening – Swadhyay. When there is listening, the Guru’s words (detonations) immediately create a blast (an explosion) in the disciple’s body and there is a tremendous flow of the energy of love and understanding that empties the body of all “me-ness”. Thus there is a sharing that is whole and complete and is free of all interpretation in the very instant of the blast.

There is no question of a motive in either the sat guru or the sat-shishya. Both are in the same dimension of blasting that is life. They are a symphony; they are like two children playing without any desire to win – where playing is the important thing. They are not two, nor one.

Jai Swadhyay in discipleship