All You Need to KNow About INNoceNce

WHAT STOPS YOUR FROM EXPERIENCE THE SPACE OF PURE INNOCENCE

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Logic does not allow you to be
simple and innocent. It does not
allow the transformation to happen
easily. Logic has to be overcome
for the transformation to happen.
Only when there is no logic there
can be innocence. Innocence is the
space for transformation to happen.
In the case of Satyakama,
fortunately he was not bitten by
logic.

The disciple goes to the guru for enlightenment and the guru tells him, ‘Alright, take these cows, go to the forest and stay there till they become one thousand cows. Then come back!’ If today’s seeker was in that disciple’s place he would have said, ‘I think the master is trying to exploit me. He wants a thousand cows, which is why he is telling me to do this work. He is using me to get his work done.’ Innocence is lost to logic! That is why no modern day seeker receives such amazing techniques.

A painting of a disciple inside a circular ornate frame

This is not a mere story. It has got
a great truth behind it. With
innocence, Satyakama simply
followed what the master said.
Further, he lost his logic of
counting. He was completely lost
in ecstasy and joy. The mind
stopped functioning. He didn't
care about one thousand or two
thousand. Just the innocence and
acceptance caused the greatest
happening of enlightenment in
him!

When you completely accept, you
don't need the mind. The mind is
necessary only when you live with
struggles, only when you are
fighting. Just this moment accept
yourself in the outer world and the
inner world. You will go out
enlightened.

For so many years, completely
accepting what the master said,
Satyakama just was. What else can
happen to him but enlightenment?