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journey. What path is this I have set out on?
I have found great joy in self-oblivion. Being lost, I have become the very beacon of the goal.
This goal is such that it is reached by losing yourself. As long as you exist, you will not arrive, when you disappear you reach.
I have found great joy in self-oblivion.
... when you are not, when your ego has gone, when self-forgetfulness comes...
I have found great joy in self-oblivion. Being lost, I have become the very beacon of the goal.
As I have disappeared, I have arrived.
This path is the path of obliteration.
So if you feel, 'Where is my worthiness to surrender,' you have started to be effaced, self-oblivion is arising. If you feel that WHAT TRUST... HAVE I GOT? then self-effacement starts coming, you start being obliterated.
Sannyas means to be obliterated, so existence can be.
No companion, no guide for this journey.
This is a journey of great aloneness.
No companion, no guide for this journey.
There isn't any companion, no one to guide the path. Finally, the master too has to be dropped, because there is no space. Kabir says, "The path of love is very narrow, there two can never pass!" Where is space enough that three can exist? Not even two can exist. The disciple, the master, the divine; they are three! There, not even two can exist. There, the master is dropped, you also are dropped. There, only the divine remains.
No companion, no guide for this journey. What is this path I have set out on?
Sannyas is a very unknown journey. A journey of great courage, of great daring! Those who are ready to accept the risk of going into the unknown -- it is for them. It is not for the clever, those who calculate everything. It is not mathematics, it is a leap of love.
The third question:
Question 3
YOU SAID THAT, "YOU ARE LIBERATED HERE AND NOW, THIS VERY MOMENT." BUT HOW CAN I GET FREE OF THIS "I"?
If you ask 'how' you have missed. You didn't get it. This is Ashtavakra's whole message: practicing... 'How' means practicing. 'How' means by what method, by which rites and rituals. If you ask
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