Ignorance is suffering🔗

06 December, 2010

Let me define ignorance. Any thought you conceived, but did not take to its logical conclusion, is ignorance. If you just leave it there, it only remains as ignorance. But if you start making decisions based on that ignorance, it becomes suffering. You are stuck with an intellectual perversion, and using that perverted conclusion as a strategy for your further actions! Ignorance is the root cause of suffering. I have seen people forming the strategies of their life without plugging the holes in their logical thinking, and getting caught, stuck. When they are stuck, they become angry towards whatever and whoever is in front of them. Their anger does not really follow a logical route.

Any thought which you start is your child. The moment a thought happens in you, you are pregnant. See that it grows and grows. Cherish it, nourish it properly and take it to its logical conclusion. Means - grow it, deliver it, and after delivering it, see that it grows and becomes a mature adult. Or stop the very conceiving process by unclutching. If you have already conceived, see that it is cherished, nourished, grows, delivered and becomes a mature individual.

Life is simple management. If you know clearly the strategy for your future, life just flows. Don't be stuck halfway. A stuck thought is equivalent to an aborted child. If you bring an aborted child to the feet of the Master, like how Parikshit was brought to Krishna, the child can be revived by his touch. The possibility is there. It means, your perverted intellect can reach its logical conclusion, which is restful awareness. But if you try to take that aborted child and throw it on the Master, then you are in danger. It can never hit the Master, but it will come back to you with more danger and power.

Intellectual perversion is the most dangerous poison, most dangerous suffering; the worst way of committing suicide. Please understand, the worst way of committing suicide is intellectual perversion. The ignorance which you are carrying inside is not an ordinary poison. So look into it very clearly. Work on it very strongly. Anything which is not complete in you, don't allow it. Either burn it by unclutching from it, or take it to its logical conclusion, which is restful awareness. Don't leave it in between, because it can torture you, and that is the worst way of committing suicide.

Understand, ignorance is the cause of identification of consciousness as matter and matter as consciousness. It is responsible for all sufferings you have in your life.