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The scriptures
talk about three types of students. The best, most competent listens
to the Master's words with his whole being. If the Master tells him
"You are Brahman" - he immediately realizes Brahman the
Absolute Reality.
How does this happen? Because he listens totally - his whole being
participates in that listening. He listens with undivided faith and
unconditional love. Such a student must have an unquenchable thirst
to know. He drinks in his Master's words - nay - he drinks in the
Master, Himself, his whole being.
The saying "You are Brahman" goes straight into his heart
and he realizes.
Such a disciple maintains the attitude of a beginner, an innocent
beginner. He may have learned all the scriptures but he still remains
a beginner, innocent as a child. He is extremely humble and therefore
true knowledge flows into him.
The deepest knowledge is available only when you learn how to participate
with your whole being, only when you learn the art of bowing down
before all of creation in utter humility.
The second type of disciple listens, but only partially. It will take
much more time for him to realize the truth. He does listen, but only
emotionally - he does not listen totally. His listening is divided;
his faith and love are divided. The Master therefore has to be very
patient with him, so that he may learn how to listen fully.
He doesn't yet know the art of forgetting everything and participating
with his whole being. True knowledge can enter into him only when
he listens to the Master with such intensity that he forgets himself.
The ever vacillating and doubtful mind will not allow him to be an
innocent beginner, so that the knowledge may flow into him. He sometimes
manages to do it, but before long his mind comes back.
The receptivity comes and goes!!
The mind does not allow him to remain firmly in that state. The mind
shouldn't interfere at all. It shouldn't ask any questions. Only then
does the mind cease to interfere and total listening becomes possible.
Until then the disciple will listen only partially. But a true Master
who is patience and compassion embodied will help him reach the final
goal.
The third type is the disciple who is intellectually inclined. He
is very talkative within, and his mind contains so much information
that cannot listen at all. Such a disciple will be very egocentric,
and the attitude of 'I' and 'mine' will be very predominant in him.
The Master has to wait with endless patience to bring him to the light.
The disciple's ability to listen is extremely poor, because he does
not know how to be an innocent beginner at all.
He cannot bow down and be humble and therefore true knowledge will
not flow into him. Even if the Master constantly repeats to him "You
are God… You are Brahman the Absolute" - the disciple will
constantly be asking within "How?", "Why?", "What?",
"When?" - ad infinitum, because his intellect is crammed
with his own ideas and those of the scriptures.
The Master must have tremendous patience to bring this kind of disciple
to the right track. The divine discus of true knowledge to break open
the ego of the disciple. He will empty his intellect by making him
feel the heavy burden of his storehouse of limited knowledge, and
he will then fill the disciple's heart with true knowledge and with
the light and love of God. This is a tremendous job which can only
be done by a true Master.
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info on Ammachi, you can visit her official website at:
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