“So enlightenment is not for your original existence.”
So enlightenment is not for your original existence. It is for the identity in you which feels it is bound. You see, a man who is working for wealth, feeling consciously poverty as the first important problem in his life, does not feel the necessity for enlightenment. He does not suffer so much with his ignorance because he is suffering with his poverty. His whole inner space is occupied by the poverty. So for him rich man is a liberated man. He is the god. That is why he worships rich man, runs behind rich man, tries to become like him. But always underground there is a strong jealous and vengeance towards that rich man.
Same way an intelligent man; when an ignorant guy looks at the intelligent man he worships him. He feels he should become like that intelligent man, runs behind, literally ready to do anything to become intelligent. Same way a powerless man when he sees powerful people who can do anything he runs behind them. It’s very important truth to know “what all the parts of you feels lacking something?” Does the part of you feels poverty? Does some part of you feels powerless? Does some part of you feels ignorant? Does some part of you feel the emptiness of not having enlightenment? Dig out.
Actually the liberation means all these things not only do not touch you, even the liberation from all these things do not matter anymore for you.
Details
The talk
- Date
- 9 March 2011
- Place
- Anandeshwar Temple, in front of the main sanctum, Bidadi ashram
- Language
- English
The recording
- Recording
- No recording linked to this transcript
- Duration
- 5 min
The transcript
- Status
- Live notes
- Time-synced
- Yes — 4 marks
- Length
- 245 words · 1 min read
- Topics
- None recorded
- Archive reference
- uni832