Below is a quote from a book I read in the 70s, written by a guru of the day during a time when people (including me--especially me) were engaged in the popular search for enlightenment. Turns out, I learned that one doesnt need to search outside of oneself - whatever I was looking for is within and it isnt even hidden. It has been helpful to me and perhaps it will be for you too: There have been many people who came to me and very quickly became involved in the experiential dimension stimulated by the yogic aspect of the divine power. They had all kinds of experiences but it didn’t change them one iota. They were just as stupid, just as committed to their asshole destiny in the midst of kriyas, blisses and visions as they were before they ever heard of Kundalini. They failed to understand just as completely and they were very quick to leave as soon as some fascination in their personal life or somewhere in the world presented itself. My teaching work over the last 2 1/2 years has thus been associated with inner and outer miracles, but it was all a way to demonstrate how the fulfillment of experiential life in individuals does not amount in any sense whatsoever to illumination. The arising of miraculous or extraordinary experiential phenomenon does no produce the enlightened man, the wise man. Enlightened or radical understanding depends entirely on the conscious process, not on the experiential one. Garbage and Goddess by Bubba Free John (Quote on back of book)
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 05:19:54 +0000
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