A LITTLE IGNORANCE HELPS🔗

When you are around a Master

In the story of Krishna it says, once Krishna opened the mouth and showed the whole Cosmos to Yashoda, his mother. Bhagavatam says, when he closed the mouth, he closed that experience also to Yashoda. People ask, 'Why did he take away that experience also from Yashoda?' Krishna says, 'If she feels I am God continuously, how will she serve me? So I keep a little ignorance.' When people live around me, they will catch my body language too much. So a little ignorance is kept in the people who serve so that they will not remember all the time: He is God.

If you are living around a Master, you need a little ignorance because too much enlightenment will be happening around you, in you. I always tell people, 'Live around me; catch the body language. All your doubts will disappear. You will not have any intellect, you will not have any doubt. If you are working only with these words, verbal language, you will have doubts. If you live around his being, from morning till night, just seeing his life - the way in which he handles the whole thing, you can see the play of playfulness; power of playfulness. That is the right word - Power of Playfulness, lila…

Without the Master, you may go through life step by step and you may learn. With the Master, you will learn the lessons which you may learn in a thousand births.