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CHAPTER 5. THE KNOWLEDGE THAT IS SELF KNOWLEDGE
This sutra of Shiva says: AFTER CONQUERING ATTACHMENTS, SPONTANEOUS WISDOM IS
ATTAINED. The day you overcome your attachments for good, you will begin to experience that
knowledge – the knowledge that is not learned from others, but is innate and natural. That very
knowledge is self-knowledge. There is no way to learn knowledge of the self from others. It springs
naturally from within.
As flowers grow on trees, as streams flow down the mountains, so this knowledge gurgles within
you; and it is your very own innate knowledge. You don’t have to get it from any other person. No
guru can give it to you; all gurus only point towards it. When it is attained you will find that it was
already within you. It is your own wealth, and therefore it is called innate, natural knowledge.
There are two types of knowledge. The knowledge of the world has to be learned from the other.
It is not innate, not spontaneous. No matter how intelligent a person is, he acquires worldly
knowledge only through others. No matter how dull and stupid a person may be, even he cannot
attain knowledge of himself from others. It is within you. The only obstacle is attachment. When
attachments are cut away, when the clouds disperse, the sun shines through.
THE AWAKENED YOGI REALIZES THAT THE WHOLE UNIVERSE IS AN EMANATION ON HIS
OWN ENERGY.
The day the natural knowledge unfolds within a person he becomes awakened and he can see that
everything in this world emanates from his pulsations. He becomes the center. You wanted very
much to be the center of the whole world, but because of the ego you could not succeed. Every
attempt ended in defeat. How as soon as the ego falls, you become the center.
What you wish to attain you will attain. Only now you are looking in the wrong direction. You are
following the wrong path; you have fallen into error. What you desire you shall attain – only you have
chosen the wrong support, the wrong charioteer, the wring vehicle. You can never be the center of
the universe along with your ego. The egoless person becomes the center of the universe at once.
Buddhahood is attained only under the bodhi tree. Then all the world becomes the circumference
and buddhahood becomes the focal point. Then all the world is only my expansion. Then all the
rays are mine. All life is mine, but this only happens when the ‘I’, the ego, is no more. This is the
complication, as long as the ‘I’ exists, no matter how much you expand yourself, no matter how great
your empire is, you are only deceiving yourself.
You have traveled a great deal. Lives upon lives have you wandered and yet you have not become
aware.
Mulla Nasruddin once boarded a plane. Before he settled in to his seat he called the stewardess
and said, ”Look here! Has the oil and gas and water been properly checked?”
The stewardess assured him, ”Just relax, sir. That is our worry, not yours.”
”Then don’t ask me halfway to get out and push!” said the Mulla.
I happened to hear of this incident, so I asked the Mulla, ”Did you have any trouble? Did you have
to push the plane?”
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