Uncover your enlightenment🔗

One sacred secret you need to know is - you don't need to gain enlightenment. Please understand, it is there like a sun, shining always. All you need to do is, work on removing the ignorance. This one small understanding just shifts the way you put your effort. If you think knowledge is to be gained, you continuously spend time in gaining and accumulating knowledge. No. That is just like reading a menu card. Once you understand the basic principles, your efforts should be made only to destroy the ignorance, not to gain knowledge. Knowledge is like a menu card. You can't go without reading it, and you can't eat just with reading it! Once you read it, plan to have it.

There are some traditions - just by the attitude of accumulating knowledge, they lost enlightenment, because in course of time people forgot that gaining knowledge is not achieving enlightenment. I tell you, addiction to knowledge is much worse than addiction to alcohol, marijuana, anything. Because with such addictions, the whole world is against it. But with knowledge, whole world supports you.

So understand this example - sun covered by the cloud. The ordinary way you understand is - you have to make 1 kg gold, 2 kg gold, 3 kg gold - you have to acquire, accumulate, accumulate, and then when you have all the gold you will be enlightened. No. You are a sun, shining always. Cloud of ignorance has covered you. Just dispel the cloud, and you will shine again.