What prevents you from knowing yourself as all and beyond all, is the mind based on memory.
Truth and love are man's real nature and mind and heart are the means of its expression.
Memory is a good servant, but a bad master. It effectively prevents discovery. There is no place for effort in reality.
It is selfishness, due to a self-identification with the body, that is the main problem and the cause of all other problems.
Selfishness cannot be removed by effort, only by clear insight into its causes and effects.
Effort is a sign of conflict between incompatible desires. They should be seen as they are—then only they dissolve.
Use every incident of the day to remind you that without you as the witness there would be neither animal nor God. Understand…you are both.
Wherever you go you find yourself. However far you reach out in time, you are there…The 'here' is everywhere and the now—always.
Go beyond the 'I am-the-body' idea and you will find that space and time are in you and not you in space and time.
Each seeker accepts, or invents, a method which suits him, applies it to himself with some earnestness and effort, obtains results according to his temperament and expectations, casts them into the mound of words, builds them into a system, establishes a tradition and begins to admit others into his 'school of Yoga'. It is all built on memory and imagination. No such school is valueless, nor indispensable; in each one can progress up to the point, when all desire for progress must be abandoned to make further progress possible. Then all schools are given up, all effort ceases; in solitude and darkness the vast step is made which ends ignorance and fear forever.
The true teacher, however, will not imprison his disciple in a prescribed set of ideas, feelings and actions; on the contrary, he will show him patiently the need to be free from all ideas and set patterns of behavior, to be vigilant and earnest and go with life wherever it takes him, not to enjoy or suffer, but to understand and learn. Under the right teacher the disciple learns to learn, not to remember and obey. Satsang, the company of the noble, does not mould, it liberates. Beware of all that makes you dependent. Most of the so-called 'surrenders to the Guru' end in disappointment, if not in tragedy. Fortunately, an earnest seeker will disentangle himself in time, the wiser for the experience.
'I am' is the ultimate fact; 'Who am I?' is the ultimate question to which everybody must find an answer.
Appearances will dissolve on investigation and the underlying reality will come to the surface.
You need not burn the house to get out of it…You just walk out. It is only when you cannot come and go freely that the house becomes a jail.
The spirit is a sport and enjoys to overcome obstacles. The harder the task the deeper and wider his self-realization.
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