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>>16022843
nigger wut???? speak english

>>14389770
>Also where do I start with the Upanishads? Can I just read the Bhagavad Gita?
Many may feel difficulty and trouble with this. They may say that I am bringing the Gita down; that I should call it a spiritual scripture. But I would like to say to you that there can be no spiritual scripture. At the most, scriptures can pertain to the mind. And yes, the scripture of the mind may lead one to the point where spirituality begins, but this is all that can happen.

There is nothing like a spiritual scripture – there cannot be. There is spiritual life, but there are not spiritual scriptures. The most words can do is make one capable of touching the ultimate heights and depths of the mind. So I would not make the Gita worthless by calling it a spiritual scripture – there is no such thing. Every scripture that claims to be a spiritual scripture… And it is not the scriptures that make this claim, it is their adherents who claim that they are spiritual scriptures, and by doing so they unnecessarily put them out of the range of usefulness to man.

Spirituality is an experience that is beyond words and beyond description. It is beyond explanation, and as the scriptures themselves keep saying, cannot be attained through the mind. It is attained beyond the mind, and that which is attained by going beyond the mind cannot be written in words.

This is why the ultimate reach of any scripture is the mind. If it can take one as far as that point, it is a great scripture. And the jump that takes place beyond that will be the beginning of spirituality.

I call the Gita a scripture of psychology because it contains the threads that lead one to the point from where this jump takes place. But no scripture is a spiritual scripture.

Yes, there can be spiritual statements. For example, the Upanishads are spiritual statements. But they do not contain any system in them; hence they are not of much use to man. The Gita, however, is tremendously useful.

A statement such as “There is only brahman,” is all very well, but we do not know this – it is a bald statement. The one who knows says, “It is.” The one who doesn’t know says, “Maybe.”

So the Upanishads can only be useful when you have experienced spirituality. Then, when you read the Upanishads you can say, “That’s right. I have also had the experience that only brahman is.” Thus the Upanishad can confirm your experience – but only after you have already experienced it for yourself.