25. Master awakens You to You🔗

The only difference between atheists and theists is this: both agree that perception through the senses, and conclusions arrived at through the cognition, can be sources of right knowledge, but atheists cannot accept the third source – the words of the enlightened Master! The third source is accepted only by the people who are really interested in experiencing the Truth.

The other day someone asked me, ‘Swamiji, tell me what to do with my life.’ I asked him, ‘What do you want to do?’ He said, ‘Oh, I want to be a sannyasi with you.’ I said, ‘Then what is stopping you? ‘No, no, I want to be a grihi also, a householder also.’ So I told him, ‘At least take a decision, only then I can support you.’ ‘I feel that I should become a householder, but I want to be around you also!’

When you are in such a mood, in such a situation, if your heart believes that the words of an enlightened Master is the way to right knowledge, then there is a possibility for you to be guided, there is a possibility for you to reach the truth, there is a possibility for you to experience the higher consciousness. But without that, if you believe only the perception through the senses and the conclusion arrived at through the cognition, then you are in a dilemma.

Dilemma is the ultimate punishment given to people who don’t have the maturity to handle life!

Whenever people are not interested in listening to me, all I do is just give them freedom. That is the ultimate punishment! They will die just because of the dilemma - what to do, what to do, what to do?

See, when you have freedom without maturity, without enlightenment, that is the ultimate suffering - because you do not know what to do, you will keep oscillating. You will keep postponing making a decision, or repent any decision you make. You know only two spaces: postponing or repenting. You either continue to postpone due to the fear of taking a decision, or you take a decision and repent it, thinking that you have made the wrong decision - whatever the decision may be! This side or that side, you will be repenting. So, freedom without enlightenment is the ultimate punishment.

everything. What to do, what needs to be done, what is the ultimate - all this knowledge can be gained just from the words of an enlightened Master. Respect for an enlightened master's words will straightaway lead you to enlightenment - because he is constantly reminding you that you are enlightened! Please understand, either you must be correct or I must be correct - and you know who will be correct! So just tell yourself, 'His words can never be a lie. He has no reason to tell a lie, he doesn't have to. I may not believe, I may not understand, but if he says something, it must be true. It is not as if all the things I believe are right, and it is not as if all the things I don't understand are wrong!'

Just with this one authority, again and again remember, 'If he says something, it must be true. Let me remember, let me live, let me understand, let me internalize. At least let me try to understand why he is saying that.'

Very rarely, a very few intelligent people have respect for this third statement: the words of an enlightened Master is one of the three ways to gain correct knowledge.

Remember this one truth; this one sutra is enough - you will have straight, right knowledge about your life, about the purpose of your life, about This can become a technique to constantly remind you that you are enlightened, to constantly awaken your imagination to the truth that you are enlightened, to constantly lead you to the right knowledge that you are enlightened, and ultimately, to lead you to the very enlightenment itself.

CONTEMPLATION

What is stopping from accepting the words of the enlightened Master as the straight, simple truth?