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Help on the Quest for Self-realization-Reminders-8

 

>From Surging Joy

By Dr Sarada Nataragan

 

When you run backwards you cannot see where you are heading, you do

not know what awaits you. All expectation is suspended. There is

simply the movement backwards and awareness of it. Self-enquiry is

similar. Normally the mind's energy is focused outward. Here it is

tuned inwards, it has to run backwards into its source. It cannot see

or anticipate or think. It can only remain vigilant, open, and ready

to land wherever it will. It cannot anticipate a goal distant or near.

Yes, we cannot think at all. And like running backwards it needs

greater alertness because nothing can be taken for granted. Hence, far

from saying it is effortless, it is a total all-consuming effort…Let

us waste no time in getting back to self-enquiry, let's start running

backwards right away and not wonder what awaits us. For who asks?(14)