U.G. Mystique Of Enlightenment

If books could teach people anything, the world would be a paradise.

Technical matters, yes -- how to fix a tape-recorder and so on -- but books on matters like this have no value.

I don't know whether there is any value in this conversation or dialogue.

But I want to make it very clear that there is no movement: you are not going to move from what you are.

You haven't even taken one step.

There is no need for you to take any step.

All questions are variations of the same question; they are not different questions.

How earnest are you? How serious are you? How badly do you want the answer to that question?
A question is born out of the answers that you already know.

You want to know what my state is and make it part of knowledge, your knowledge, i.e. the tradition; but knowledge must come to an end.

How can you understand this simple thing?

Your wanting to know only adds momentum to your knowledge.

It is not possible to know what this is, because knowledge is still there and is gathering momentum.

The continuity of knowledge is all you are interested in.

The search ends with the realization that there is no such thing as enlightenment. By searching, you want to be free from the self, but whatever you are doing to free yourself from the self is the self. How can I make you understand this simple thing? There is no 'how'. If I tell you that, it will only add more momentum to that (search), strengthen that momentum. That is the question of all questions: "How, how, how?"

The 'how' will remain as long as you think that the answers given by others or by me are the answers. "I have found the answer" -- they have found the answers for their questions. As long as you depend upon the answers of those people who you think are the ones to give you the answers to your questions, the questions will remain there permanently. They are not the answers; if they were, the questions would not be there. It has to be your answer.

And the answer must be found without any process. Any process takes you away from the question, waters down the question. The question becomes more and more intense in its own way. You don't want anything except the answer to that question. Nothing else. Nothing interests you any more except the answer for that question. Day in and day out, all the rest of your life, that is the only question for you -- "How?"

That 'how?' is related to the answers given by others, so you have to reject all those answers. The question has to burn itself out, and the question cannot burn itself out so long as you are waiting for an answer either from within or from without. When the question burns itself out, what is there begins to express itself. It is your answer, not anybody else's answer. You don't even have to find the answer, because the answer is already there and will somehow express itself. You don't have to be a scholar, you don't have to read books, you don't have to do anything; what is there begins to express itself.

So, do you want an answer to that question that badly?

You know, even those who spent their lives standing on their heads or hanging from the trees got nowhere -- ant-hills grew around them, and they got nowhere.

It is not that simple.

When this thing happened to me, I realized that all my search was in the wrong direction, and that this is not something religious, not something psychological, but a purely physiological functioning of the senses at their peak capacities.

That was the answer to my question.