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it. Ashtavakra will be your witness.
This is the way I take the scriptures. The scriptures are witnesses. The path of truth is unknown. You need witnesses on that unknown path. When you first come face to face with truth, truth will be so vast that you will tremble, you will be unable to grasp it. You will shake to your very roots. There will be fear that you could go mad.
Imagine what will happen to a man who has been searching for a treasure for lifetimes and suddenly he finds that the treasure is buried where he is standing -- won't he go mad? "This seeking for many lives was a waste! The treasure is buried right under my feet!"
Just imagine. It will be a tremendous shock for this man: "So many years I have wasted! This whole time has been a meaningless effort, a nightmare. What I have been seeking was waiting inside." Won't a man go mad from such a shock? At that time Ashtavakra's sweet words will soothe you. At that time the Vedanta, Buddha, the Upanishads, the Bible, the Koran, Buddha, will stand as your witnesses. In that situation you will be unable to comprehend the new experiences that are happening to you. In aloneness it is very difficult.
I am speaking on the scriptures -- not because by hearing the scriptures you will become wise. I am speaking on them so that as you move on the path of meditation -- if not today, then tomorrow it will happen, it has to happen -- when the happening takes place it need not be that gold is in front of you and you cannot comprehend.
I am giving you a touchstone.
Test your experiences on these touchstones.
Ashtavakra is the most precise touchstone. Don't have faith in Ashtavakra, use Ashtavakra as a touchstone for your own experiences. Make Ashtavakra a witness.
Jesus said to his disciples, "I will be your witness when you arrive." But his disciples misunderstood. The disciples understood that when they died and reach God's heaven, then Jesus would bear witness that they were his disciples; "Let them come in -- these are mine, they are Christians. Be especially compassionate to them. Let more blessings shower on them."
But what Jesus meant is something completely
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