I was once asked by a visitor: "Ramesh, are you enlightenment? And what did you achieve through enlightenment?" I found myself answering: " I don't know what you mean by 'enlightenment', but I would rather use the phrase 'ultimate understanding'. What is my ultimate understanding? It is that everything is happening according to a Cosmic Law; no individual can be the doer of any deed. What have I achieved? Only the understanding that I cannot blame anyone for 'what-is' in the present moment - neither 'me' nor the 'other'. This means that, whatever happens, I cannot hate myself or the 'other'. The understanding has given me total freedom from hatred. And absence of hatred means the presence of peace with myself and harmony with the 'other'. That is what I have received from the understanding."
When the visitor heard this, there were tears in his eyes and he responded with the words: "I am really deeply impressed - not so much by what you precisely said, but by the utter innocency with which it was said".
For some time afterwards I thought about the spontaneously used word 'innocency'. I suddenly remembered that it was used by J. Krishnamurti, who wrote: "One must be alone, but this loneliness is not isolation. This loneliness implies freedom from the world of greed, hate and violence with all its subtle ways, and from aching loneliness and despair. To be alone is to be an outsider who does not belong to any religion or nation, to any belief or dogma. It is this loneliness that come upon an innocency that has never been touched by the mischief of man. It is innocency that can live in the world, with all its turmoil, and not be of it."
Innocency means the total acceptance of 'what-is' and not comparing it with any 'what-should be'.
When the visitor heard this, there were tears in his eyes and he responded with the words: "I am really deeply impressed - not so much by what you precisely said, but by the utter innocency with which it was said".
For some time afterwards I thought about the spontaneously used word 'innocency'. I suddenly remembered that it was used by J. Krishnamurti, who wrote: "One must be alone, but this loneliness is not isolation. This loneliness implies freedom from the world of greed, hate and violence with all its subtle ways, and from aching loneliness and despair. To be alone is to be an outsider who does not belong to any religion or nation, to any belief or dogma. It is this loneliness that come upon an innocency that has never been touched by the mischief of man. It is innocency that can live in the world, with all its turmoil, and not be of it."
Innocency means the total acceptance of 'what-is' and not comparing it with any 'what-should be'.
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