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no need to worship or pray -- it has already happened."
Intellect is ready to accept -- not because it has grasped the truth. It accepts because the difficulties of the path can be dropped, efforts of sadhana dropped, and the need to continue meditating is dropped. Soon you look around and find that you have not attained. If it could happen merely by the intellect grasping it, there could be spiritual universities. There is no university of spiritual study. It is not attained from scriptures, it is attained by your own spontaneous inspired wisdom.
Listen to Ashtavakra, but don't be in a hurry to believe. Your greed makes you hurry. Your greed will tell you, "This is very handy. We already have the treasure, so the whole botheration of attaining is over. Now there is nowhere to go, now there is nothing to do."
You always wanted to attain without effort. But remember the desire to attain is still there behind all this: attain without doing! Previously you thought of striving to attain; now you think of attaining without exertion -- but the desire to attain is still there. This is why the question arises of why has self-realization not yet happened.
For one who has understood: "Forget about self-realization, what's the use?" If you had understood Ashtavakra, no other question could arise. The question "Self-realization has not happened" indicates that while accepting what Ashtavakra says, you are watching from the corner of your eye: is it attained yet or not? Your eye is still focused on attaining.
People come to me and I tell them, "Meditation cannot go deep as long as you continue desiring. As long as you expect to attain something -- bliss, God, atma -- meditation will not go deep, because thinking of attaining is greed. It is ambition, it is politics. It is not yet religion." They say, "Okay, we'll meditate without thinking about it, but we will attain, won't we?"
There is no difference. They are ready to stop desiring because, "You say this is the way to attain, so we won't think of it -- but still, we will attain it, won't we?"
You are not able to rid yourself of greed. Hearing Ashtavakra many people will very
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