Introduction🔗

Now He says, 'After attaining Me the great souls who are steeped in yoga never return to this temporary world, which is full of miseries, because they have attained the highest perfection.' The understanding of this science, the very intellectual understanding, gives the inspiration to experience truth and naturally leads us to the ultimate Truth. Here Kṛṣṇa says, 'If you achieve this state, you never come back.' He inspires us; He persuades us to enter that state, to enter thoughtless awareness.

The only job of an Enlightened Master is to make everyone realize the truth that he himself has experienced. That is the only aim. There is no ulterior motive or vested interest. People again and again look at an Enlightened Master with suspicion. They suspect foul play.

Understand one thing: A person who remains at the inner source of bliss never cares for anything external. Please understand that he does not need external sources of happiness because he has something more powerful. The inner guide is so powerful that the being is always blissful. That is the reason he does not see the world as a collection of miseries. You see, an enlightened Master may not get food for days, yet he is always blissful. Even in such situations, the only things that he experiences are gratitude and compassion.

He is neither attached to sorrow nor to happiness. He is detached from both to the same degree. He is always in a state of gratitude to the Universe. Worldly things do not affect him. Happiness and sorrow are not in his dictionary. An enlightened Master looks at misery and happiness with total gratitude and surrender to the Universe. Enlightened beings are beyond happiness as you understand it. They are not attached to anything. They are pure compassion.