Innocence: the Most Beautiful Feeling

INTELLECT VS INNOCENCE

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You may think, 'How can simple acceptance do such a big job?' The problem is that even spiritual knowledge is approached by us with the space of an intellectual mind. It is from that intellectual space that we ask the 'how'. Intellect always questions. Innocence straightaway starts practicing what the master says. That is the difference.

INNOCENCE IS THE KEY TO ABSORB THE ULTIMATE TRUTH

Paramashiva says in the Shiva Sutras, 'Absorb the ultimate truth, senses shut down, and be liberated.' Why is he using the words 'senses shut down'? How do you find out if you are completely lost in something? Your senses will not work! You will not see or hear! That is the way to find out. If your senses still work, you are still not lost. Paramashiva says, 'Absorb the ultimate truth, senses shut down, and be liberated.'

When your senses are working you
may think you are hearing, but you
may not be actually listening. The
sense organ may work, but not the
energy that activates the sense
organ. Hearing is different from
listening. If you are only hearing
then the intellect is still at play. If
you are listening then you are lost.
Then the intellect is no more. The
click happens. You sit completely
melting. You exclude everything
except you and the master. You
are utterly innocent and open like
Satyakama. Then just one word
from the master is enough and you
become enlightened!

© 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved He means that in that utterly innocent and open state, initiation is enlightenment. Just a word is enough to enlighten. Shiva is giving initiation itself as a technique. He says, 'Just listen while the master is expressing the truth, and become enlightened!'