If the Self chooses, if you are utterly, totally open. Craving realisation, craving liberation is the last impediment for self- realization

🌷 Katho Upanishad 🌷

         

      Chapter 3

        

      The grace of the diivine

     🌻Day 31 🌻

नायमात्मा प्रवचनेन लभयो 

न मेधया न बहुना श्रुतेन ।

यमेवैष वृणुते तेन लभ्यः 

तस्यैष आत्मा विवृणुते तनूँ स्वाम् ॥

The Self cannot be known through the study of scriptures nor through the intellect nor through learned discourses. It can be attained only by those whom the Self chooses. Verity unto them, the Self reveals himself!

Relax! It is a futile exercise. Forget about it. This is the last straw of the ego because the ego wants to do something, acquire it, grab it. Now when it is said “No, you can’t,” the last hope is ditched.

This is so amazingly beautiful. You are first kindled and coaxed to have interest in it. You would have been immersed in name and form in life. “Oh! Leave all this. You

have to look something great – Self, self-realisation. Go for it.” Then you say. “I am going for it.” You are galloping and running, “Yeah, I want it,” try to acquire it. Then you realise, it doesn’t exist. This is releasing from the clutch of ego, doership, wanting to possess, wanting to have. For that last strain of the ego to go, you have to relax. That is why it is said, “No, you cannot have it,” but only if the Self chooses, if you are utterly, totally open. Craving realisation, craving liberation is the last impediment for self- realization. Till now you are galloping on the horse. At some point you say, “Stop,” and everything totally breaks down.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji

Katho Upanishad