Reply to a Young Girl

Dear Jyoti,

If i am not enlightened does that mean that i do not know love and i cannot say i love you ..

Jyoti .. i do not know why am sending this email to you maybe cause i feel that you will be a real reflection..  i feel that i do not have any desire to read about the beloved ..i just want to be sooo simple have a simple life .. i want to know how i am .. why i came here.. and this  readings which make my mind  and heart open i feel that it makes me more thirsty and sometimes i feel  that it makes a kind of rules even if it is right .. i want to live more than reading  even if i get lost ..   sometimes really it is soooo good to be alone to find god find ur self before fallen in love with a person that u see god in him ..but if that happened what

should i do am afriad of attachment affection.

i want to learn how to let goooo..how to be like a river...
 

thank uuu...

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Dear S,

Yes, to be like "a river" is good - not hanging on to the river bank, but letting go and letting yourself be lived by life itself!  But, when you think that you are separate, an individual, it is like hanging on to the river bank - getting stuck in ideas about who you think you are does not allow you to be free.   So true freedom is really freedom from ideas you have about yourself and the world. Letting go of fixed beliefs.

When you are free from limiting ideas (and ALL thoughts are limiting), love fills your life.  Love radiates from you, you become the expression of love.

This thing that we call "enlightenment" is also an idea.  I say this because if you become a seeker after "enlightenment" you are already believing certain ideas about yourself: that you are limited and separate from the "Beloved."  And this is not true.  But if we believe our mind, it will tell us that we are not complete here and now, as we are; the mind (our thoughts) tell us that we are lacking and that we have to struggle to get the "enlightenment" that we seek.  So, the mind tells us that we must seek enlightenment because we do not have it here and now.

This is false.

You have heard already from your readings I am sure that you are already what you are seeking.  Even though the clouds cover the sun, the sun is still there - yet not visable.  Even though our thoughts veil Absolute Consciousness, the Absolute is still there - yet not seen by the mind.

Be more interested in Consciousness, than what you are conscious of. This is the best practice, and the fastest way to wake up to your true nature.  Be fascinated with the Source of your self. Be attentive to your thoughts throughout the day without getting involved with them - like going to a movie and watching the film of your life.  After doing this for some time you will realize that you are the witness, the awareness only, of everything that is happening.  Try this.

With love,

Jyoti

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Dear Jyoti my heart give the answers for what i sent uu before but ur reply was not just an answer ...
 
with loooove ...