Marifa is never taken — only received

The mark of the Gnostic is that he is rich without gold, strong without soldiers, and safe without fortresses. Up to this point, effort is needed, discipline, patience, trust. So many other things that we've spoken about in Satsang. But Marifa has never taken. It has only received. What does this mean? That even if you are the most disciplined, the most patient, the most trusting, the most faithful, it can never become something that we can demand. In any case, if you are demanding that we are not, we are not all of these. But there is no eligibility criteria that you say, okay, now once I've met with the eye, I am entitled to it. Is it? That is it. Exactly. It arrives when there is nothing left in you that could resist you.