Stopped In Our Tracks
Stories of U.G. In India from the Notebooks of K. ChandrasekharTranslated and Edited by J.S.R.L. Narayana Moorty 2d/3d Series
There Is Nothing to Do
As long as you ask yourself the question, "Why not me, why should this happen to somebody else?" there isn't any chance of your making it. I have to use the words "making it" because you are all trying to make it, whatever it is you want to make. It's a thing which you cannot reach or make, a reachable or gettable thing.
All this search—the search for this non-existent thing, that thing called enlightenment—seems futile to me. And the futility of this search is what I have been trying to communicate to those that come to see me and care to listen to me. I also explain that the so-called enlightenment, self-realization, God-realization, or what you will, is a pure and simple physical and physiological state of being. It is just the pulse, beat and throb of life.
There is nothing to do. You are all the time interested in doing something. That is the one thing where you don't have to do a thing. If you can be that, just be that, you are in that state. You are not in my state or somebody else's state. That is your state. That is the natural state. That is the way you are all functioning. What prevents that to give expression to it is this movement of thought. You are all thinking about it. That is the thing which you can never capture through thinking.
All this search—the search for this non-existent thing, that thing called enlightenment—seems futile to me. And the futility of this search is what I have been trying to communicate to those that come to see me and care to listen to me. I also explain that the so-called enlightenment, self-realization, God-realization, or what you will, is a pure and simple physical and physiological state of being. It is just the pulse, beat and throb of life.
There is nothing to do. You are all the time interested in doing something. That is the one thing where you don't have to do a thing. If you can be that, just be that, you are in that state. You are not in my state or somebody else's state. That is your state. That is the natural state. That is the way you are all functioning. What prevents that to give expression to it is this movement of thought. You are all thinking about it. That is the thing which you can never capture through thinking.
