🎵 🎵 Again,
You're feeling guilty for that which is shedding.
A snake naturally sheds his skin.
At the end of the season,
He cannot sit and cry,
Oh my skin,
Oh my skin.
No,
It sheds off.
We have to learn to progress higher.
Of course,
There are going to be attachments with the past.
Yes?
But take it as I have to move further and how do I move further is more knowledge.
Something that is naturally pulling me,
Let me do that.
Let me not do something because somebody says so,
Even because Ekta says so.
Yeah?
Prachi has to go in and figure out what is pulling Prachi.
Is it meditation?
Is it knowledge?
Which knowledge or which meditation?
What is it that I am looking for right now?
And then you progress on that path and it's okay if you feel okay,
I tasted this for just as an example.
Suppose you do Ashtavakra or Patanjiri and feel this is still not working,
Then you decide okay,
It's okay,
Let me test Buddha's knowledge and you test that and you feel okay,
This is also not working.
Then let's test Ramana Maharshi and Advaita.
They come in the same bucket and then you say,
Ah,
This works better for me.
So it's okay to test how will you know which is your favourite ice cream flavour without tasting raspberry,
Strawberry,
Chocolate,
Vanilla and then say mango is the best.
How can you come to that conclusion?
You have to test and you have to give yourself that much time.
You see,
Just like in the corporate world when we want to progress,
So much time we give.
We give our studies 15-20 years of our life.
Yeah?
And then we do this certification,
That diploma,
That course to,
You know,
Enhance our skills.
What for money?
For such a petty thing.
Yes?
Now here you want the highest thing like enlightenment but I want it in a weekend.
I don't have time.
Does it work?
Impossible.
This is not going to work.
Yeah?
So you have to invest that kind of bandwidth.
I'm not saying it's going to take 15-20 years.
It shouldn't also.
Yeah?
That kind of interest,
That kind of focus,
Test,
Is this correct?
Is this for me?
Is this for me?
They are not wrong paths and anybody who condemns one path and says this is better than the other,
Unenlightened person does not understand.
He's an ignorant person or he has his own greed hidden behind it or his own selfish motives hidden behind saying something like that.
Yeah?
It's just that they're different flavours of ice cream.
They are all ice cream.
They all give the same joy on a hot sunny day.
The same joy.
Yes?
So all the paths are like ice cream.
You have to figure out which is more palatable to you and that cannot happen without you tasting everything.
Yes?
I love Buddha in this matter because he says that you don't come only to me.
You go to another teacher also.
You go to another teacher also and you reason it out for yourself.
You don't blindly believe me.
I love that.
Who can speak like that?
The most confident person who knows that what I am saying is the truth of my own experience.
Yeah?
Only an insecure person says don't go there or don't go anywhere.
You stay with me.
Then he has a selfish motive.
Right?
And this is what kept people stuck in that particular place because whatever their gurus,
Teachers,
Leaders said no don't go away,
Don't go away because of their own insecurities and then those people stopped growing because they did not taste the other flavours.
Only the people for whom by fluke this was their flavour they grew and the people who in this whole bunch for whom this was not their flavour they were stuck.
Oh but you know it is said not to go anywhere else.
So you know that bondage was there.
So you are there more for the bondage than out of relishing or respecting or loving that part.
You see what I am saying?
So don't get trapped in these things.
Don't.
You be very clear that I need to taste everything and I am an intelligent person.
I am not the kind of person who wants to okay you say this is right so I am going to believe this is right.
If you are that kind of a person then that's different but if you are not that kind of a person and you intelligently want to figure it out for yourself then taste everything and then you decide and then I say the same thing that Buddha says don't come just to me.
Yes listen to other sources.
In fact at the end of the Advaita retreat I will give the resources which are there on YouTube.
Those that I think are good translations or people who give good you know the same kind of teaching.
On the Buddha's path a lot of dilution also happened like religion came in and Buddha never said have a religion called Buddhism.
You know that part Buddhism part I never advocate.
Only the pure teachings,
Core teachings.
That is what will take you to the truth and on full speed Rajdhani Express.
Thank you.
