KNOWLEDGE
IS THE BRIDGE TO RECOGNIZING AND ABIDING AS THE 'KNOWER' -IN HONOR OF THE
BRIDGE!
Knowledge/gyan
is simply a bridge to re-cognizing & abiding as the Knower. And like any
bridge, that reaches us across to our destination, we must get off the bridge! And yet, in getting off the bridge we don’t
denounce the bridge as useless but acknowledge and honor its role in bridging
the chasm. In its redundancy once a
bridge has taken us across, we don’t render it null and void to other wayfarers
traveling along the bridge or about to embark on it! Surely, once we have used
a bridge successfully, we would share that with others heading the same way?
And in this case, once the bridge of knowledge/gyan takes us to its
destination- the Knower- there arises the inherent compassion “May you be where I AM”- and we are
naturally drawn to extending… or at least pointing out… the bridge … to all
others… in whichever ways we can….( some may become teachers, mentors, guides,
r writers etc… others may do it in day to day ways, still others may just point
out the role the bridge of gyan played in their move and in that motivate
others…)
So yes this brings us to those beautiful and profound sharing from
scriptures and living Masters –where they express about knowledge coming in the
way; or there being nothing to know; about the mark of all learning being
beyond it ! And imho it is important to understand who are they
addressing…and indeed if we have truly traveled this bridge experientially
rather than only intellectually… then do we truly grasp to whom these words are
expressed: To those still stuck on the bridge… to those at the threshold point
of needing to get off…or those who continue up and down the bridge rather than
getting off where it leads……to whom
knowledge/the means becomes the end…to those who consider it the goal
and get stuck in collecting more… to those who allow knowledge to
strengthen their ego-self rather than
dissolve in it…! The Masters/scriptures
do not address the wayfarer… nor the one about to embark the bridge of gyan…
the Masters/scriptures know there is a time for knowledge and a time to get
off… The Masters/scriptures know it is natural process and knowledge will drop
once its role is done! And yet so many who have traveled their path or are in some
seemingly finale stages… make blanket statements out of these words of Masters
and scriptures which are addressed to a certain segment! They discourage
knowledge, gyan, seeking! They spout its use-less ness and redundancy! And in
this they do grave injustice to all three….to the Masters/scriptures by quoting
them out of context… to the beautiful sacred bridge of
gyan/knowledge/learning/seeking …and to the wayfarer who needs the bridge of
knowledge to go beyond it….!
Yes, if we go a little deeper, and understand that everything we
hear/read is a message from the universe has come to us for a reason… then
we can understand that those passages from scriptures or words of masters…
those quotes from fellow way farers… have come our way for a reason… maybe to
alert us not to get stuck on the bridge when we near its end…maybe to sow the
seeds of recognition of our inherent state so that when the time comes it
‘happens’ more easily …maybe because the universe has tapped into some soul
pattern and is aiding us to not get stuck in it again….! So yes, if as
seeker…while on the bridge of gyan…we come across such gems…let us value them
yes, but know where we are in the current moment…! I always tell my fellow
travelers to do the tango- to experientially (not intellectually) know where we
are in the now and wholly embrace the ‘truth/step’- and yet be open to the
'next' and 'next' … (which is first intellectual, then experiential as our
truth) thereby catalyzing our consciousness… into higher/finer levels of
beingness…into the larger vision of ‘truth’!
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