Written Messages

Paris, 11 April, 2023

We need not know drunkenness to know sobriety. To know what is to be compassionate, must we go through hate ? Must we go through wars, destroying ourselves and others ; to know what Peace is ? Is this not an utterly false way of thinking ?

Obviously, there is physical growth, the little plant becoming a big tree ; there is technological progress, the wheels evolving through centuries into the jet plane. Is there psychological progress, evolution? Is there a growth, an evolution of the ‘me’, beginning with evil and ending up in good. Can the ‘me’, which is the centre of evil, ever become noble, good ?

Obviously, not ! That which is evil, the psychological ‘me’ will always remain evil.

But we do not want to face that. We think that through the process of time, through growth and change ; the ‘me’, the ‘I’ will ultimately become reality !

This is our hope, that is our longing that ‘I’, ‘me’ will be made perfect through time. What is ‘me’,‘I’?— a name, form, a bundle of memories, hopes, frustrations, longings, pains, sorrows and passing joys !!! We want this ‘me’, this ‘I’ to continue and become perfect !!! And so we say that beyond the ‘me’ there is a ‘super-me’, a higher self, a ‘spiritual entity’ which is permanent !!! But since we have thought about it, this ‘spiritual entity’ is still within the field of thought — the psychological time ! This psyche, this evil of becoming must vanish for the emergence of the veracity of Being and its Bliss and Benediction.

Jai Being