“Understand this whole thing is psycho drama.”
Understand this whole thing is psycho drama. If you feel you are poor you will feel the rich man is greater than you. If you feel you are powerless you will feel the powerful man is greater than you. So when you become rich who is liberated from poverty? The person who feels himself as poor - that identity is liberated from poverty. When you become powerful the identity which feels you are powerless is liberated from powerlessness.
If you feel you are ignorant during enlightenment the identity which feels it is ignorant is liberated from ignorance. But the pradana itself is neither bound nor liberated. That is why when you are enlightened you don’t feel something new has happened in you. I tell you I never felt something new has happened in me. I only felt I had something which was lost.
It’s like.... I tell you exactly what happens; what you feel. When you become 25 suddenly one day if you see all the toys with which you played and you feel Oh God! These toys meant so much for me at young age. It was almost like my life. But now they don’t mean anything to me. They neither bind me nor liberate me. You think at the age of 25 the toys are giving you liberation? You are beyond the liberation granted by toys.
Same way I suddenly felt I am beyond the liberation granted by the ignorance.
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
The transcript
- Status
- Live notes
- Time-synced
- Yes — 5 marks
- Length
- 242 words · 1 min read
- Topics
- None recorded
- Archive reference
- uni835