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Help on the Quest for Self-realization-Reminders-37

 

The Essential Teaching

 

Bhagavan: Where the ego rises not, there we are That. But how can

that perfect Egolessness be attained if the mind dives not into its

Source? And if the ego dies not, how can our Natural State be won,

wherein we are That?…

 

The essential teaching is that which tells us how to get rid of the

ego; all else is of less importance. For what we shall do to win

Egolessness is far more important than the beliefs, if any, we shall

cherish about it, or about the world that keeps us from It.*

 

*The Sage Gautama once spoke a parable, in order to discourage

questions about the origin of bondage; he said: " Here you are, bound

hand and foot by desire and fear, and here is the straight path to

Deliverance. You ask questions about how you became to be bound.

They are irrelevant. You should be content to know how you can

become free. Do not act like the man who died because he raised

untimely questions, and insisted on getting answers. He was going

through a forest. An enemy who was waiting for him in an ambush shot

him with a poisoned arrow. Accidentally the wounded man was seen by

a friend, who went and spread the news. Soon his kinsmen came to him

with all necessary appliances. They wanted to pull out the arrow and

apply antidotes, to save his life. But the wounded man prevented

them, saying " You must first inquire and find out all possible

details about the enemy, -whether he is of high or low caste, tall

or short, fair or dark and so on-and about the arrow and him that

made it " . The kinsmen tried their best to convince him that these

questions could wait, and that it was urgently necessary to save his

life first by applying the remedies. But the man was obstinate, and

precious time was wasted. So he died. Be not like this man. Cease

questioning; hear the way to Deliverance, and follow it. "

 

FROM " MAHA YOGA " , BY WHO, PAGES 140 AND 141.

 

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