Scriptures Are Meant for Contemplation - 29th November 2016

These scriptures are meant to bring us to contemplations about who we are in reality. Especially these scriptures like Bhagavad Gita, Ashtavakra Gita, Avadhuta Gita—see, they are not speaking at a behavioral level at all. They just... every word is meant to be just contemplated and bring us to pointers about the reality of who we are. So, it is unconcerned with the outward actions, the behaviors, the functioning of life. There are those who can be prescriptive about how to behave, whether to have friends, what is the attitude to cultivate, but these are talking about just that, and the purpose is for contemplation.

Now, if we start using them as if they are behavioral guidelines—that 'I must not have friend or enemy'—they are usually so non-prescriptive in terms of behavior. There is no strategy you can make to 'neither have friend nor enemies.' You can just say, 'Okay, I am going to just... if I meet someone, I'm just going to sit and not talk' or something, but 'I'll have a smile on my face so they don't think I'm an enemy.' Something... these are impossible strategies to have in the behavioral realm. So, it is not to be taken as behavioral advice on how to behave in the outward functioning. The advice is to allow the functioning to happen as normally as it can, while you are using this to point to that which is the truth of what we are.

When he says, 'I have in reality no friends nor enemies,' and in the functioning of the life there will be some friends and enemies, then the point of the voice is just to check and see: Who is that here that really has no friends or enemies? Just to check like that. That this primal witnessing has no concept of friendliness or resentment or grievances. So, that is what we are looking for.