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just by the comer, and you will not be bothered. You will not even be trying to get it. You will simply say okay, I'm not worried.
In Maharashtra, this province of India, there is a temple which is one of the most holy places in India. The temple is called Vithoba temple. Vithoba is one of Krishna's names. The story is that a devotee of Krishna became so deeply meditative that Krishna had to come to him.
When he arrived, the devotee was massaging the feet of his mother. Krishna came and knocked on the door. As it was open, he came in and sat just behind the devotee, who for many lives had been crying and begging Krishna to come to him. Just by turning his head the devotee would be fulfilled; his long effort would come to a fulfillment.
Krishna said 'Look, I am here. Look at me.' And the devotee said to him to wait, because he had not come at the right moment -- he was massaging his mother's feet. He was sitting on a small earthen brick, so he took it out and pushed it back telling Krishna to sit on it. He never turned to look at him, to welcome and thank him.
Krishna stood on that brick and waited the whole night, because the mother could not go to sleep, she was dying, and the devotee could not leave her. God could wait. The morning came and the town became awake. Krishna became afraid in case others saw him, so he became a statue.
And that statue is there in that temple. Krishna is standing on that brick waiting for the devotee who never turned around!
The story is... something. Only in such deep moments of renunciation -- not even the desire to see God -- and the devotee attained.
Many times this experience will come, but allow it, and don't even try to catch hold of it.
[The sannyasin replies: Well I don't do meditations any more because I see that it is just more effort. And quite frankly, to me enlightenment is just nonsense, because it's a concept. All my beliefs about it have fallen flat.]
Enlightenment is nonsense, but not in the sense you think. It is nonsense because it is beyond sense. It is higher than sense, superior to sense.
One can call it nonsense, but that attitude can only
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