BEYOND WORDS
In the lives of regular meditators, the day will come when there are no more questions left to ask. Buddha’s greatest teachings were given in total silence, where he would sit with his chelas around him, and because they were very advanced in the spiritual field, they would just think the question, and their answer would be there. Certain problems, in themselves, would be resolved, and when they left his presence, some change would take place within them; they would be transformed.
That is the power, the spiritual force that a man like Buddha will emit from himself, but at the same time the recipient has to be receptive, too. As the old saying goes, “The seed has to be good.” Vivekananda said this, “The seed has to be good, and the ground also has to be fertile because seeds on barren ground will have no value at all, it will not grow.”
There has to be a readiness in the chelas. Over all these years that I have been giving talks around the world, those who have attended many, many Courses, perhaps you have found one thing: that I have led you, slowly and stage by stage, into deeper and deeper knowledge. Sometimes a question is repeated, yet at one stage, when I look around, I will answer it in such a way that will make your mind enquire more, and as the mind enquires still deeper, fathoms still deeper, goes deeper, then I will take the same question and answer it in a still deeper level.
LOVE IS ALL AND EVERYTHING
Therefore, I say that when you have reached total depth, I will just sit here with you and say nothing. But what I would say to all my children, to all my chelas, to all, is “I love you,” that is all.
But then we go beyond those words of “I love you,” because really speaking, those are the most misused words, that love has come between the “I” and the “You.” Why should it be so? It is a fallacy to say, “I love you” when the reality of love is to bring about a total oneness that knows of no “I” and neither “You.” So, when that stage is reached, then you will say, “I am love. My guru is love. All that surrounds me is love,” for love is all and everything.
THERE IS A VAST DIFFERENCE BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM
When man’s mind becomes fully realised, no questions will be left at all. But it is good to ask a question, for that just shows that one is on the path. The mind starts enquiring, enquiring, enquiring. It will enquire so much that you will start saying Neti, Neti, Neti, which is Sanskrit for “not this, not this, not this.” When a person asks a question in true questioning, the answer must inspire half a dozen more questions. When those half a dozen questions are resolved, a dozen will spring up until the stage is reached where you become the questionless questioner.
For naturally born human beings, questions come from the mind, and the mind has to be appeased. But when all questions cease, and the mind ceases functioning or revolving itself around questions, or gets involved in questions, and all that ceases, then the heart just knows. So, I normally try not only to answer questions or give you some understanding of an aspect of life, but also to convey, through the words or the presence, all the emanations, something that reaches your heart and aids spiritual unfoldment.
I used to be the greatest questioner. I used to be the greatest doubter, and thank God I was, for that very attitude of mind led me on until I could read no books anymore. I do read them, but not to learn. I just read them to corroborate, perhaps, or know of the experiences of others, for if you, as you all will, gain the totality, then you go beyond knowledge because the mind can only give you knowledge. All knowledge is acquired knowledge, and once one goes beyond this, one reaches the area of wisdom.
There is a vast difference between knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge is of the mind, which can always be added onto, for today you will believe in one thing and tomorrow another thing, and like that you go on and on and on. And that is how all discoveries in the world are made. But when you reach wisdom, that means you have reached the totality.
BECOME NON-ATTACHED SO THAT ONLY DIVINITY REMAINS
So, in the love that is there, let the time come when the “I” and the “You” are not there anymore, and only love remains. The realisation we have when only love remains is that only God remains, and “You” and “I” are gone. When I say “You” and “I” are gone, it does not mean you will lose your physical body, ego self, or self-identity. That will be there, yet underlying that is that total stability, that living and feeling of a beautiful oneness, that unity around which the diversity just floats on. And that floating on will never affect the unity, the oneness that has been created within you. Then you become the real observer of the relative things of life that we have spoken about. You become non-attached to the world, and when you become non-attached, nothing can affect you. And when nothing can affect you, neither pain nor pleasure, then you are in a land of joy, such beautiful joy that knows of no opposites and no contradictions.
So, the second thing or the third thing I would say is become non-attached so that no more conflict remains within oneself, and only the Divinity that is there, only that remains.
… Gururaj Ananda Yogi: Satsang UK 1983 – 17
