Guest guest Posted March 18, 2005 Report Share Posted March 18, 2005 In the Bhagavad Gita Krishna tells us: “All roads, Arjuna, lead to Me.” This includes all the roads of knowledge and ignorance; and even stupidity. It adds up because Krishna also tells us that there is no doer that can be smart or stupid, only the thoughts. Advaita also tells us that in Reality there is no duality so knowledge has to be the same as ignorance. -======================= Ever since I was a child I have always had a sense of Peace and contentment when I assumed I was stupid. Let me call this Peace and contentment Joy. This Joy never left me even with the education that went beyond college. In fact it seems that the more educated I got the more Peace and Joy I got from assuming that I was still ignorant, if not stupid. This Joy is otherwise a thoughtless Silence that comes with the overwhelming Awareness of just how limitless ignorance is. -======================= If knowledge has failed to open the imaginary-door to Realization for us then perhaps ignorance might be an appropriate alternative. All we have to do is to explore this ignorance. The more we explore ignorance the less we will care if it is called stupidity, and the more comfort and Joy we will get from all the stupidity we uncover. The more stupidity we uncover the more it has to overwhelm our thoughts to leave us in the thoughtless Silence that is this Joy. Knowledge cannot give us this thoughtless Silence as it always needs more and more thoughts to make us feel good with all our thoughts, knowledges. This Joy of thoughtless Silence is what Ramana called sphurana. Others call it Kundalini. When this Silence is void of all thoughts it is the Reality of Self, the Samadhi of dreamless-sleep. -======================= If stupidity gives us the dualistic bad-feelings that our thoughts must not have, then let us back into this imaginary-door that knowledge keeps shut: We are all Self-realized and only our thoughts, knowledge, can think otherwise. Or, we have to be stupid not to Realize that We, All, the SELF, is eternally Self-realized. So, forget about the knowledge and simply seek this stupidity that thinks that We, the Self, is not eternally Self-realized. gp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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