Weekly Knowledge #1
Big Sur, California
21 Jun 1995
THIS BEGINS A NEW PRACTICE
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Thus begins a new practice of weekly dispatches of Knowledge from Guruji. Every center around the world will receive the Knowledge so it can be read for people to copy down at weekly Satsang. Here is the first segment Guruji dictated at Big Sur, 21 June, 1995.
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Beyond an event is Knowledge.
Beyond a person is love.
Beyond an object is infinity.
Knowledge is not in an event; it is beyond an event.
If you take one event and infer anything from one event -- infer knowledge -- it will be erroneous knowledge. Say Nancy gets angry and shouts at someone. You attribute anger to Nancy, but actually it was carried from someone else to her. Someone else got angry first and someone else and someone else and on and on like that.
When you go beyond an event, only then the truth dawns. One particular event gives you a false notion. So you have to consider the totality of events, the totality of all events infinitely. Beyond the event is Knowledge.
What do we call a person? A person is a body, a mind, a complex of behaviors which is changing. Love is unchanging. Beyond the person is love.
When you lose your personality, you become love. If you cannot lose yourself, you cannot find yourself. So, lose your personality; you'll find yourself!!!
Behind every object is infinity. An object is limited. Take an object and reduce, reduce, reduce, and you have an atom. An atom is infinity. Each atom contains infinite space. Beyond the object is infinity.
The object behind the object is infinity. The person behind the person is love.
Maya is getting caught up in the event, personality, object. Knowledge, love, Brahman is seeing beyond the event, personality, or object. See? Just a little shift.
~Jai Gurudev.
posted by In Search Of Myself at
11:36 PM
5 Comments:
I remember during guruji's B'day celebrations, bhaiya quoted guruji stating that "there are 2 things Seer & the Scenery. As long as you are a witness, the seer you'll be happy. However if you get caught in the scenery you'll be miserable." That's maya-illusion.
In that context I understand that knowledge is beyond an event & not in that event itself, coz if we get stuck in the event itself then learning may not happen.
The knowledge which is taken on the basis of just 1 event may be incorrect. Eg. a friend doing 1 wrong thing to u and all the right things, good things are tossed out the window on the basis of that 1 event.
This is very profound.I guess will need time to soak in more. :)
~ Ash.
This reminds me of the saying "Judging a book from its cover" which is a very false notation according to me !!
cuz its always wrong to decide or imagine things about others without even getting to know them a lil bit..well a person acting in a different way to others needn act in the same way to you....or even if they do they might have a reason behind it ..and believe me its really tough to get along with them and make them your friends...but in the end you would feel really awesome to have done that... [a sense of pride/satisfaction/achievement..makes you feel that you can do anything after that !! :) ] ..i had a college mate who i haven spoken to at the beginning at all as i always had the feeling that this fella had lot of attitude and the show off kind..then there was a time when we had to get along with each other for some work ...and you know when you get a person you hate, being your partner would make you feel irritated in doing anything and i was like avoiding this person a lot...but it was a total surprise to me when this fellow was very humble and helpful and did lots of things i never expected at all....well i am sure this fella wasn like that to others ; so i was totally taken aback for that moment and later on started to get along and we are really good friends now....
well we always imagine things to be so and so(creativity at its best :p!!!) and biuld up on it in all the ways that makes it complex and a difficult task instead of making it simple and small... and in the end we leave it without even giving it a shot.....so its always better to get into something and dig a lot into it and find the end product instead of going for hearsays and word-of-mouths !!
This is something that struck me i wanted to share ...
JGD !! [:)]
P.S. - this is my first comment ever in a blog !! so kindly excuse if i had screwed up which i am sure i would have ! lolz ! :-P...
I had been to my cousins place
today and had loads of fun
playing with her 3-year-old
daughter. We played for nearly
an hour in the lawn. Her body
was like rubber which could
twist and turn in any direction.
She would climb on my head and
curl around my neck like a
snake, hang up-side-down with
her legs locked around my neck
and what not. We danced and sang
so merrily together that I was
reminded of my childhood days
when I had no worries
whatsoever.
Alas, the time had come for me to depart and reach office on time. As I sat on my bike and preparing to leave, she came running towards me and clasped my fingers with both her hands and said, "Don't leave mama!" with such great intensity that I was swept by an enormous wave of love that made me want to hug her and remain like that forever. But I had to leave. Her mother slowly released her
clutch on me and when it was
done completely, I felt for the
first time, separation. On my way
to office, I felt so miserable
about myself for having left her
like that.
Upon narrating this incident to my
colleague, this is what he had
to say. "You don't have to feel
miserable about this. She's a
small girl and this is when she
can cry. She's not going to cry
when you leave her and go 6
years from now. Let her cry."
It was this knowledge that
helped me go beyond that event
which kept haunting me until
then.
It was her love for me that made
her scream and my love for her
that made me feel miserable for
what I had done.
"Beyond an event is Knowledge.
Beyond a person is love.
Beyond an object is infinity."
~ Arun
its a tendency for us to judge ppl by their actions...we also fail to realise that element of that governs ur existence is same as that of theirs.....love
beyond each person is love....
during our advanced course.....chirag ,karan and i were having a stroll near vasuki when some body told us pankaj bhaiyya (our teacher) was going to leave after satsang....so we wanted to go and see him asap
but chirag said he'd catch him during satsang
but we dint let him not come...so when we reached we had a nice time with him.....but we got shocking surprise when guruji came out all of a sudden from the room in front of which we were chatting and gave all of us darshan and foto poses!!!
at the end....chirag told....was it me who dint want to meet pankaj.....
wat a wonderful practical way of experiencing knowledge beyond the action..
~~sharan
Jai Gurudev!!!
Loose your personality; you will find yourself!!!
In Guru Purnima celebrations in Pomona, California, Guruji spoke about these two things…
1.Be a guru to some one around you…
2.If at all you want to desire something, desire defeat from your disciple….
I feel for me do the above two, I need to lose my personality. What say u??
Let’s discuss… Post your questions or comments!!!
I actually related this”Loose your personality; you will find yourself!!!” in all the activities I did last week, I felt amazing change in myself. I was not at all carried by taught (which I used to) whether that person will consider me fool, if I tell my view on that subject. I was very conscious on this taught from the day I finished my YES!+ course, but still some left outs…
I feel all that was washed away now…
Chidha
(Without personality)
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