Knowledge Leads to Surrender
People come and ask me 'Swamiji, all these great things are ok, I understand, but unless I experience it, will I not go through suffering, pain, when I leave the body, when I die? It should all become an experience in me.' I tell you, this very understanding is so powerful, it will transform the quality of your suffering. It will transform the quality of your pain. If you don't have this understanding, all your sufferings will lead to more and more sufferings. If you have this understanding, all your sufferings will trigger this understanding. It will lead to more and more understanding, that is the greatness of satya.
Understand, you will never be the same again after listening to these Truths. Without these Truths in your life, when pain and suffering come, you will try to escape from it. Just by trying to escape from it, you will create more and more clutches and pains and sufferings towards you. With this knowledge, they will not trigger the mechanism of escaping, they will trigger the mechanism of accepting, surrendering, the Truth. That is the greatness of this knowledge.
Anybody who has heard the Truth, even if he has not experienced it inHis life, even if he has just heard it sincerely and felt connected with it, whenever he goes through suffering, only the Truth is triggered. Only these high ideals are triggered in him. He starts moving towards these great things, not towards the ordinary mundane things of escaping or creating more and more clutches. The greatness of these Truths is, even suffering or pain is used as a bridge, as a technique to achieve the higher states of consciousness, higher states of enlightenment.
Remember this one thing, whether you believe it or not, you are in the ocean. You have never become separate.
You are never away from the ocean. You are never away from the consciousness. I can add any number of words, but I do not want to leave you with my words. I want to leave you with Mahāvīra's words. He is so perfect, he has expressed it so clearly, even after 2500 years I can't develop it. We can't add few more words to it. He is so clear, that is the reason I feel at loss, I can't add, he is so pure and so clear. There is nothing much to explain. There is nothing much to comment. All we can do is to repeat those words with reverence and respect and digest those great Truths with reverence and respect and relax into those words with trust and deep devotion, and they will work on us. They will penetrate and do the miracle of transformation inside our being.