Is Gnyana Marg Only For Intellectuals?

Listen to Ektaji's answers to different questions related to Advaita (non-duality). These teachings are aimed at experiential understanding of the Truth viz. the dissolution of the Subject and Object relationship.

Transcript

Hero So you don't have to be intellectual,

You have to be exceptional.

You have to be experiential about it.

There's no need to analyse,

That's perfect what is happening.

You have to come to the experience,

The real experience of it.

That is the meaning of Gyan Marga.

Gyan through experience,

It's not intellect.

Somebody who is not a Gyan Marg person,

The people on the other bhakti,

Marga,

Karma,

Think it is intellectual but the person who is on the mar says no,

It's not intellectual,

It is experiential,

Experience expressed in words.

It is not intellectual.

Bhakti or love cannot be put into more words than the four letter word love.

What can you say more about it?

So there is not much to speak on that path.

So they feel that how can Gyan Marga be anything other than intellectual Marga but that is an outsider looking in.

The person who is inside knows no.

First it is borrowed knowledge from a good word teacher,

A saint,

A scripture.

Obviously because I am naive,

I am simple,

I am a layman.

I am not a monk or a swami and then I need some words,

I borrow that knowledge.

Now after borrowing the knowledge,

I experience harm.

This makes sense.

So now I have moved from the borrowed knowledge to my experiential knowledge and I drop this now.

So there is no need for any intellectual analysis because now it has become experience.

Okay,

Thank you very much.

Snakun Tin Webinar Swami Kriyanandaananda