Part 2: Why Tapas
The courage to go with that click. To go behind the click and see the end of it.
This is what I call, courage of Tapas.
Courage of tapas is when a click can do the same thing to you. I am not saying you will leave the wealth and go. No! I am not saying that, but it can do such a big transformation in you. Falling in tune, by putting your day to day activities in tune with a click is taking the jump.
Suddenly, you will see, that the click will reveal deeper and deeper truths and understandings to you. Understand, initiation is like giving you one light. That light can be put off by any cyclone or air or blowing wind. But if you protect it, then it can't be blown away. It cannot be put off. Protecting means, making your day to day decisions and life in tune with the click. Whenever you receive a click, protect it.
I know for sure, Pattinathar did not become enlightened the moment he read what the palm leaf said. He only had a click. A strong initiation. The next thing he did is put all his effort and energy to tune himself to that click.
He immediately started rearranging his thinking and mental setup towards that click. He rearranged his lifestyle to be in tune with that click. The moment he did that, the deeper and deeper truths of that click was revealed, in a few months or a few weeks, he become enlightened.
He achieved the ultimate truth. So allow a click or an initiation to work on you. For example, the understanding which you have that you are the center and your desires, your property, your fears, and your mind is yours is a lie. You are the property of your mind. This will bring so much of disrespect to your mind. So much of rest and unclutching between you and your mind.
As long as you think, your mind is yours, you will never be able to stop fulfilling what it says, and what it anticipates. You will never be able to escape from its roots. Even if you escape from the desires, it will attack you in the name of fear. Your mind is very intelligent.
When you escape from desires, it will create fears and make you do the same thing that it wants you to do in a different. It will enter through the back door. Whether it is your fear or desire, it is not yours. The very understanding your fears are not yours, will leave you so free, with so much of rest, you don't have to stop or you don't have to escape from them.
At the most what can happen? Death? Let it happen. For whom is it not going to happen? For everybody it is going to happen. Not only for you, even for me, or at least what you think as me this body, is going to die. Everything is going to die. There is nothing which is not going to die. Let us have this courage. What can happen? That's all.
Shraddha is not only dedication. It is the commitment to discover the truth, and the courage to follow that truth no matter where it leads!