ONE - Preparation for Divine Assent
Question: Why is it that the wise say that hearing alone can create a distorted understanding of any profound Truth? Why are we told to first hear, then reflect and assimilate so that knowledge can become experienced?
What we hear must be heard then digested within, and then it becomes distilled wisdom. Like the cow eating grass, first in a hurry and then meditatively sitting in the shade and only then does she convert it into milk.
So how man extracts wisdom out of all talk and reading is to profoundly think about it and then dive deeply within in meditation. In that way he really digests what he has heard or read and then it flows into him as an experience and becomes a storehouse of knowledge.
Question: Is it the real experience as anubhava (one’s own essential nature) that is difficult to achieve?
Yes, for the experience one gets by reading is only theoretical. Anubhava is living every movement of your life with what may come and to face it and act accordingly with what you have actually heard and read or seen in the lives of great Gurus and Saints. All these things put you to the test, moment by moment, in your own life. Nothing in life goes by a pattern, nothing is a copy, each one of us is given experience in his own individual way, and to the limit of his own endurance. There is no similarity, absolutely no similarity.
What may happen to somebody, a lesson through some incident that may seem insignificant to others, will be to him a lesson by which a tremendous insight is comprehended. The insight may have an impact that causes real spiritual growth. To him a real experience ensued, to the onlooker nothing at all occurred. There is no way to know when and where such insight will occur; one should only at all times maintain and preserve a keen lively awareness and receptivity, to become a worthy vessel for the touch of the divine, for it is the divine alone who knows where to kindle and light up the explosion that brings about real change and transformation.
The impact of the divine in our lives is irrefutable; the consequence of it, the degree of absorption and transformation depends on the intensity of our sadhana and meditation. God never denies us, we deny Him!
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