Pointing to the Most Simple - 14th January 2019
Saar (Essence)
Ananta emphasizes that true knowledge is not something to be acquired, but rather the natural state that remains when all conceptual grasping and intellectual dualities of right and wrong are abandoned.
True knowledge is not to be found; it is only the false that has to be given up.
To jump over the moon means to live beyond your concepts of right and wrong.
Whatever you can grasp or reach for is not it, yet the grasping is only within it.
contemplative
Transcript
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Bhagavan said true knowledge is not to be found; it is only the false that has to be given up. Ati sulabham, super simple. What's the more simple? It's completely empty of any effort, any getting, any losing, any position. No experience is it, and there is it not it. It is just that an experience cannot include or cannot consume or cannot contain it. No state can contain it, and yet all states are it. No concept can grab it. No piece of mental knowledge is true, but neither is it false, because true and false don't apply to it, to yourself. Right and wrong, correct and incorrect—all of these are just from our intellect.
Whatever you can grasp for or you can reach for is not it, and yet the grasping is only within it. Whatever you can perceive is not it, and yet there is no perception which excludes it. Not this way or that way. My Father says, 'Be the cow that jumped over the moon.' How many steps you have to take to jump over the moon? What is it? Enough? You'll have to run and then gather the momentum to jump? So it is not in the grasp. Jumping over the moon means to live beyond your concepts of right and wrong. All these opposites—leave your mind behind.
Got it? Didn't get it? Does it still apply? 'Got it' and 'didn't get it'—because we have activated this concept of coming to Satsang to get it, or the concept that 'I have been coming to Satsang but I have got glimpses of it but not have got it,' then these concepts can carry some weight. If I ask my children who just come to say hi to me after coming from school, 'Did you get it?'—'get it' or 'didn't get it' does not apply. 'Got it' and 'lost it' are fraudulent, and yet there is no way which doesn't lead to it.
What you do with that is what I'm saying. Is what I'm saying true? No. Is what I'm saying false? No. Are you willing to look beyond this instrument of true and false, of assertion and negation? What is here?