Wonder, Words and Less

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Oh yes, indeedy, that Niz surely was a practical guy.

He is really up there as a fave rave.

 

He said to Go for the Gusto

Don't waste your time on piddling desires, mate,

Go for the gusto, the big-time Desire

 

How, you ask?

 

Ask yourself.

 

But, alas, since Niz is your 'safety',

he who 'knows' intrinsically

that no real harm

can touch 'him', here is what he says:

 

 

Maharaj: The integrity of the desire

for the Supreme is by itself a call from

the Supreme. Nothing physical or mental

can give you freedom. You are free

once you understand that your bondage is

of your own making and you cease forging

the chains that bind you.

 

 

 

Q: How does one reach the Supreme State?

 

 

M: By renouncing all lesser desires.

As long as you are pleased with the

lesser, you cannot have the highest.

Whatever pleases you, keeps you back.

Until you realize the unsatisfactoriness

of everything, its transiency and limitation,

and collect your energies in one great

longing, even the first step is not made.

 

 

Cease to be the object and become the

subject of all that happens;

once having turned within, you will find

yourself beyond the subject. When you

have found yourself, you will find

that you are also beyond the object, that

both the subject and the object exist

in you, but you are neither.

 

 

Q: Why desirable?

 

M: Why not? Wherefrom come all the powerful

attractions that make all created things

respond to each other, that bring people

together, if not from the Supreme?

 

Shun not desire, see only that it flows

into the right channels. Without desire

you are dead. But with low desires,

you are a ghost.

 

~~~~~~~~~~~

 

 

Have faith in yourself

 

Listen to the voice within

 

until one day (but there are no

guarantees) there is not

even a voice, and no 'how' to speak of...

only 'this'.

 

 

~freyja