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a dream of something which is absolutely subjective -- it gives you an hallucination. And knowledge is also the same: it gives you an hallucination of knowing. You start feeling that you know because you can recite the Vedas, you know because you can argue, you know because you have a very very logical, keen mind. Don't be a fool! Logic has never led anybody to truth. And a rational mind is just a game. All arguments are juvenile.
Life exists without any argument, and truth needs no proofs -- it needs only your heart; not arguments, but your love, your trust, your readiness to receive.
MAHAMUDRA IS BEYOND ALL WORDS AND SYMBOLS, BUT FOR YOU, NAROPA, EARNEST AND LOYAL, MUST THIS BE SAID: THE VOID NEEDS NO RELIANCE, MAHAMUDRA RESTS ON NOUGHT. WITHOUT MAKING AN EFFORT, BUT REMAINING LOOSE AND NATURAL, ONE CAN BREAK THE YOKE -- THUS GAINING LIBERATION.
You cannot find more significant words ever uttered. Try to understand every nuance of what Tilopa is trying to say.
THE VOID NEEDS NO RELIANCE....
If there is something, it needs a support, it needs a reliance. But if there is nothing, emptiness, there is no need for any support. And this is the deepest realization of all the knowers: that your being is a non-being. To say it is a being is wrong because it is not something, it is not like something. It is like nothing: a vast emptiness, with no boundaries to it. It is an ANATMA, a no-self; it is not a self inside you.
All feelings of self are false. All identifications that "I am this and that" are false.
When you come to the ultimate, when you come to your deepest core, you suddenly know that you are neither this nor that -- you are no one. You are not an ego, you are just a vast emptiness. And sometimes if you sit, close your eyes and just feel who you are -- where are you? And go deeper and you may become afraid, because the deeper you go, the deeper you feel that you are nobody, a nothingness. That's why people become so scared of meditation. It is a death. It is a death of the ego -- and the ego is just a false concept.
Now physicists have come to the same truth through their scientific research deepening into
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