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unlearn y our greed. Drop it. Right now. Don't postpone it. Don't say, "Yes, we will drop it somewhere in the future, tomorrow." Just try to understand the very misery of greed, the very hell of it. If you see that greed brings hell, then why tomorrow? In that very vision, understanding, it drops. In fact you don't drop it; it drops on its own accord.
And, if the very idea of attainment is stupid, then what is the point of asking whether you are going to attain in a sudden way or in a gradual way? They become irrelevant.
You are already that. Let this be your constant remembrance. Not for a single moment forget that you are gods and goddesses. Don't think in terms of ladies and gentlemen -- forget all that nonsense. Remember you are gods and goddesses. Never settle for less.
So, I have to annihilate your wrong ideas. They Have been oversold to you -- centuries and centuries of satesmanship in the name of spirituality.
Let me tell you one anecdote:
A Catholic girl and a Jewish boy fell madly in love. But their religion and their beliefs interfered. The Irish Catholic mother advised her daughter, "Sell him a bill of goods. Teach him the beauty and joys of Catholicism. Make him a Catholic first." The girl did. She sold him and sold him and the wedding date was set. One day before the marriage the girl came home, sobbed, cried, and said to the mother,
"The marriage is off."
"Why?" the mother asked. "Didn't you sell him?"
"I think I oversold him. Now he wants to be a priest."
These salesmen of spirituality, from one century to another, for millennia, have oversold you the idea of attainment. They have exploited you. Just see the point. You can be only that which you already are -- nothing else is possible. It is a given fact; it is a gift. So spirituality is not an attainment; rather, it is a recognition -- a remembrance. You have forgotten, that's all. You have misplaced it somewhere, that's all, but it is there all the same.
And the second part of the question is: "Is your pathless path for anybody, or only for rare exceptions?"
Only for rare exceptions -- but everybody is a rare exception.
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