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
You Don't Want This
Anything I do to help you would be adding to your misery, that's all. You add one more misery to those you already have by listening to me. To that extent, it is doing no good to you.
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Freeing yourself from any one of these things is the end of you. Please, in your interest, out of compassion I am telling you—this is not what you want. This is not something you can make happen. It is not in your hands. Whomsoever it chooses, it hits him. If you really want moksha, that can happen now. Everybody will attain moksha just a few minutes or hours, as the case may be, before the black van arrives to reduce the body to ashes.
What you want you can get elsewhere. "Go to the temple. Go around the tree. Hang from the tree. Repeat this mantra and put on ashes." Then somebody comes along and says, "Do this and give me a week's wages of yours." Some other fellow comes along saying, "Don't do all that. What I am saying is more revolutionary: be choicelessly aware," and then builds schools, organizations and tantric centers...
Freeing yourself from any one of these things is the end of you. Please, in your interest, out of compassion I am telling you—this is not what you want. This is not something you can make happen. It is not in your hands. Whomsoever it chooses, it hits him. If you really want moksha, that can happen now. Everybody will attain moksha just a few minutes or hours, as the case may be, before the black van arrives to reduce the body to ashes.
What you want you can get elsewhere. "Go to the temple. Go around the tree. Hang from the tree. Repeat this mantra and put on ashes." Then somebody comes along and says, "Do this and give me a week's wages of yours." Some other fellow comes along saying, "Don't do all that. What I am saying is more revolutionary: be choicelessly aware," and then builds schools, organizations and tantric centers...
