RamKrishna Paramahansa, Raman Maharshi, Hui Neng - The outstanding, incontrovertible examples of men who lived, each in his own way, for long years in a state of illumination, in a state of freedom from living itself. None was at any time an intellectual. Each spoke as a separate entity from the plane on which he lived, in that time, in that culture.
Their 'verbal formulae' differed, but the sense of their words is amazingly identical. They were speaking precisely of what they know from their experience. Their words do not excite controversy or arouse in us an expression of opinion. They go straight to our hearts like stones thrown into a pond.
Besides the words of the Jivanmuktas, what is the value of the theories of the metaphysicists and philosophers who write about something they seek and hope to find? These are obviously necessary for discussion amongst students, for teachers talking to students, but let us not forget that these are merely opinion and theories, interesting and stimulating though they may be.
It is, of course, a fact that an intellectual approach could lead to the necessary institutional approach. But do we truly know of any man, histrionically speaking, who realized the Truth through a strictly intellectual approach, merely through studying the Vedas and the Upnishads?
Their 'verbal formulae' differed, but the sense of their words is amazingly identical. They were speaking precisely of what they know from their experience. Their words do not excite controversy or arouse in us an expression of opinion. They go straight to our hearts like stones thrown into a pond.
Besides the words of the Jivanmuktas, what is the value of the theories of the metaphysicists and philosophers who write about something they seek and hope to find? These are obviously necessary for discussion amongst students, for teachers talking to students, but let us not forget that these are merely opinion and theories, interesting and stimulating though they may be.
It is, of course, a fact that an intellectual approach could lead to the necessary institutional approach. But do we truly know of any man, histrionically speaking, who realized the Truth through a strictly intellectual approach, merely through studying the Vedas and the Upnishads?
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