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dance. No, it cannot be hidden.
Welfare /khair, murder, coughing, happiness, hate, love, intoxication: Rahim says try to repress they remain unrepressed, the whole world will know.
It goes on being revealed.
Revelation is the nature of truth. As soon as truth happens within you your declaration starts unknowingly being disclosed.
Janak did not say these words after thinking it over: he would have hesitated to say them if he had thought about it. He had just brought Ashtavakra there, Asthavakra said a few things and Janak's enlightenment happened! He would have held back if he considered it intellectually, thinking, "What will Ashtavakra think: an ignorant man like me saying such things? This is appropriate only to realized ones. Does it ever happen so quickly? Just hearing about it it happens? Has it ever happened this way? It takes time, it takes many lives, it is a very arduous journey. It is like walking on the edge of a sword." He would have remembered all this and thought to himself, "Don't make such a far reaching declaration!"
But I want to remind you that this declaration is happening by itself. It is not right to say that Janak is speaking, it will be more correct to say it is being said through Janak.
AMAZING THAT THROUGH IGNORANCE THE IMAGINARY UNIVERSE APPEARS IN ME, JUST AS SILVER APPEARS IN MOTHER OF PEARL, A SNAKE IN A ROPE, OR A MIRAGE IN THE RAYS OF THE SUN.
... just like the illusion of silver appearing in mother of pearl, like the projection in the dark of a snake on a rope and like the illusion of an oasis in a desert appearing because of the sun's rays, like this mirages are born.
Amazing! The happening happened so suddenly, it happened so forcefully -- his enlightenment happened so quickly that Janak cannot contain it. He is filled with awe. As if a small child has entered into the world of fairies and everything captivates him and everything is beyond belief.
Tertullian has said: "As long as I had not seen god, there was disbelief. And when I saw god, then too there was disbelief."
He disciples asked: "We don't understand. We have heard that when one sees god then faith
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