Video Information: Shabdyog Session, 17.06.2019, Advait BodhSthal, Greater Noida, India
Context:
Why does spiritual sadhana take long to complete?
Is quick movement into the Truth possible?
What is sadhana?
What are the two ways of sadhana?
What is the importance of the right company?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Context:
Why does spiritual sadhana take long to complete?
Is quick movement into the Truth possible?
What is sadhana?
What are the two ways of sadhana?
What is the importance of the right company?
Music Credits: Milind Date
~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .
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LearningTranscript
00:00You have said one quote that seek light, see light and then be light.
00:13I was reading the Krishnamurti's book, there was one line that seeking is a kind of self-expansion
00:21and it's an escape and you cannot get freedom out of it, so I was confused.
00:28When Krishnamurti is saying seeking is an extension of self-centered activity, he is
00:37talking of the stuff that you usually seek.
00:45Krishnamurti is not talking to those who seek light.
00:52People seek darkness and its various shades.
01:02Here are the people and they are seeking darkness and its various hues and shades.
01:09Krishnamurti's way is to tell them don't seek.
01:12My way is to tell them seek light.
01:17Because people are usually seeking only darkness.
01:21So Krishnamurti comes and tells them don't seek.
01:24What he means is don't seek darkness.
01:28I come and say seek light.
01:30Why do I say seek light?
01:31Because I know that seeking is a habit with you.
01:34If I just keep saying don't seek, don't seek, that would not fulfill you.
01:39Because in your deepest identity, you have taken yourself as incomplete.
01:45If you are incomplete in your own eyes, then you will seek.
01:51You cannot be prevented or banished from seeking.
01:55No amount of good advice is going to work.
02:00In fact, it would be a disaster.
02:04If you remain inwardly incomplete and yet put on a pretense of not seeking.
02:12That is called Tamsa.
02:16Inwardly you take yourself, you continue to take yourself as incomplete and outwardly
02:24you follow the commandment of not seeking.
02:27Now not only are you incomplete.
02:32Your incompleteness will become cemented.
02:38It will become immortal.
02:40Do you see this?
02:44You are incomplete within and yet it has become a thing of fashion with you to say, oh, I
02:53do not seek anything.
02:54I do not want anything.
02:59So you do not change.
03:03You do not seek anything.
03:04You do not want anything.
03:05So there is no change.
03:09So what does not change?
03:13The incompleteness within.
03:14It becomes permanent.
03:20I say you will not stop seeking.
03:27Seeking will continue.
03:30It is your most fundamental restlessness that seeks.
03:33You will seek.
03:34I cannot prevent you from seeking.
03:38And if you don't seek, you will become a hypocrite.
03:42So I just channelize your seeking.
03:45I say seek light.
03:48I do not say don't seek.
03:49I say seek light.
03:50But obviously all of that must be done with a lot of caution.
04:15And the great inclination towards darkness, if you start seeking light, then your so-called
04:21light will just be an extension of darkness.
04:27And Krishnamurti has repeatedly emphasized on this.
04:30He says if you seek light, it would be just another form of darkness.
04:38And he is right on the money.
04:42What he is saying is exact and precise.
04:48But such is the human condition.
04:50On one hand, there is a great danger that if you seek light, you will seek the wrong
04:56kind of light.
04:57You will just seek darkness disguised as light.
05:00On the other hand, there is the equally dark option of not seeking at all.
05:08Between these two possibilities, I prefer the possibility of seeking light with all
05:14its associated dangers.
05:19There are a lot of dangers associated with seeking light.
05:23Because the ego does not like light.
05:25It will seek some false kind of light.
05:30But that is still better than not seeking at all.
05:47Isn't it better to die fighting in the battle than not fight at all?
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