The Alpha and the Omega - Kabir Kadre.Com

take the risk, and I say it is a risk, because there is
no guarantee. The whole thing may prove just a
wastage, but it is better to take the risk, because
even if it is proved a wastage, you have learned
much. Now no other person will be able to deceive
you so easily. At least you have learned this much.
And if you move with trust, if you move totally
follow a Buddha like a shadow, things may start
happening, because they have happened the person:
to this Gautam Buddha, to Jesus, to Mahavira.
They have happened, and they know the path; they
have traveled. If you argue with them, you will be
the loser. They cannot be the losers. They will
simply leave you aside.
In this century this has happened with Gurdjieff.
So many people were attracted towards him, but he
would create such a situation for the new disciples
that unless they can trust totally, they will have to
leave immediately # unless they can trust even in
absurdities. And those absurdities were planned.
Gurdjieff will go on lying. In the morning he will
say something, in the afternoon something else.
And you are not to ask! He will shatter your logical
mind completely.
In the morning he will say, "Dig this ditch. And
this is a must! By the evening this must be
complete. And the whole day you have been
digging it. You have exerted, you are tired, you will
be perspiring, you have not taken food, and by
evening he comes and he says, "Throw the mud
back in the ditch! And before you go to bed it has
to be completed."
Now even an ordinary mind will say, !What do you
mean? The whole day I have wasted. And I was
thinking it was something very necessary, by the
evening it has to be completed, and now you say,
"Throw the mud back!" If you ask such a thing,
Gurdjieff will say, "You simply leave! You go away!
I am not for you; you are not for me."
The ditch or the digging is not the thing. What he
is trying is whether you can trust him even when he
is absurd. And once he knows that you can trust
him and you can move with him wherever he leads,
only then real things will follow. Then the test is
over; you have been examined and found authentic
# a real seeker who can work and who can trust.
And then real things can happen to you, never
before.
Patanjali is a Master, and this third source he
knows very well through his own experience with
thousands and thousands of disciples. He must
have worked with many, many disciples and
seekers, only then it is possible to write such a
treatise as YOGA SUTRAS. It is not by a
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