It Is Better Not to Know

So don’t treat ‘I don’t know’ like bad news. It's okay, it's better not to know here [Gestures of a hand pointing head]. That is what Guruji [Sri Mooji] told me. He said that ‘It’s good like this that you don’t know and by knowing it, it messes it up anyway.’ What is it… in our conceptual representation of this world we are taking notions to represent reality but no notion has ever been able to represent reality. That is why this path is called the ‘nivrithi’ path which means that it is a path of negation which basically means that we are negating all the nonsense that is filled up in our minds and we are coming a simple that is what is meant for coming to openness and emptiness. And then in that openness and emptiness, the Truth of what we are is apparent to us. But if you try to do both which is to try and hold on to some notion and still come to Self-recognition then that struggle will continue. So what you could do is you could say ‘Okay, these five notions I am hundred percent sure they represent reality’. When you come tomorrow you can come with these five and say ‘These five hundred percent represent reality, the other ten thousand I am doubtful about’. Let’s look at that list. Otherwise what we are doing is we are already a making mental framework about what we think is true and then we are trying to fit reality into that box. Which it can’t be. It is like ‘Trying to fit God into a baby’s shoe.’ [Smile] How do we do that? But trying to make God conform or Self conform to our intellectual ideology is like that. So if you already convinced about something which is in our head then the Self will not conform to that belief system. You tell me first what you are really certain is true? That is what I mean when I say ‘Do you know that?’ How… what makes you so certain it is true?