WHAT STOPS YOU 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.

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?

INTELLECT VS

INNOCENCE

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!’

A stylized illustration of a smiling boy in traditional Indian attire

DEEPER
TRUTHS
ON
INNOCENCE