Listening and Expressing Dharma🔗

Reminding your system that you can radiate enlightenment is what I call meditation, tapas. As of now only your mind knows you can become enlightened. It should sink into you. Your blood, your bones, your muscles, your whole being, every cell in your body should know that you can become enlightened.

Radiate enlightenment, that is what I call seeking. Seeking will completely purify your being. When your whole being knows, you can radiate. Teaching your being you can radiate enlightenment is what I call tapas and meditation. When your whole being knows you can radiate, you simply start radiating, that's all.

Only one who is capable of listening to pure dharma and finds trust in it, through right contact, releases the baggages of karma and attains the higher consciousness. One more thing, he says, only one who is capable of listening to pure dharma and finds trust in it, feels connected to it. If you are sitting and if you are able to listen to everything without prejudice and if you are feeling really connected to whatever words I am saying, then 66% of the work is done.

Mahāvīra says three things - capable of listening to pure dharma, finding trust in it and expressing through the right contact. So if you can listen to the pure dharma and trust and feel connected to it, then 66% of the work is over and the other 33% you don't even have to do.

Just maintain that feeling connection. By feeling connected to these teachings, simply these words will work on you. Feeling connected is like a bridge. On one side of the bridge is the enlightened being and on the other side is human being who is ready for enlightenment. Feeling connected is the bridge.

Here Mahāvīra says, one who is capable of listening to pure dharma, the seeker, is on one side of the bridge which is the feeling connection, and on the other side is the enlightened being. So naturally His energy passes through the bridge to the being of the seeker and works on him.

Listening to the Truth and feeling connected is what is needed. Many times people clap their hands during the lecture. If they feel what they think is expressed by the speaker, if they hear exactly what they want to hear, they feel like clapping. They acknowledge to the speaker that is what they exactly want to listen. So they feel connected with what the speaker is expressing.

So now you need to be capable of listening to pure dharma. Understand, the capacity to listen to pure dharma does not mean only having ears, only not being deaf. No, it also means being here without prejudice. There are so many kinds of prejudices which can come. If you feel connected to whatever you are listening without prejudice, 66% of the work is done. The last thing is having the right contact, this releases the baggage of karma.

In Sanskrit we have two words nivrutti and pravrutti. Pravrutti means acquiring more and more karma. Nivrutti means going towards the unclutched space. If you just listen to the Truth and go to the space of unclutched-ness, it is called nivrutti. The very listening and feeling connected is more than enough to lead you towards nivrutti.