Attachment and False Knowledge

People have forgotten their real nature and believe that they are the body, the senses, etc. When these (instruments) crave for objective pleasures, people ignorantly convince themselves that this pleasure is wanted by them! Under this mistaken notion, they seek to fulfill the cravings. They delude themselves that they can secure bliss (ananda) by catering to the body and senses. However they are rewarded with disillusionment, defeat and disaster, and reap pleasure and pain. Though the objective world appears real, one must be aware that it is deluding us. As a result, one has to give up the yearning for deriving pleasure from the objects that appear and attract, both here and hereafter. The false knowledge (a-jnana) can be destroyed only when one knows the Atma (the Divine Self) principle. When the false knowledge disappears, the sorrow produced by one’s involvement in the ups and downs of the world of change (samsara) also gets destroyed. 

This truth we have to accept it is a must. Only when false knowledge disappears, the sorrow gets destroyed and how is that sorrow produced? It is by our involvement in the ups and downs of the world of change. 

And that is why we have to see it in our own life and accept truth, because without getting aware in our own life we don't get aware of the involvement in the ups and downs of the world of change, we are trapped in it and it is false knowledge. We have to find the reason for false knowledge and on that level we can only solve it with the divine principle of Atma, the 'I am that'. 

The false knowledge (a-jnana) can be destroyed only when one knows the Atma (the Divine Self) principle. When the false knowledge disappears, the sorrow produced by one’s involvement in the ups and downs of the world of change (samsara) also gets destroyed.

We have to think it over and see it in our own life. 

In my mother was pain, because she changed a lot with the years. When I noticed ‘joy’ in my daughter, there was the memory that it had been also present as child in my mother and there was no difference, mother is God, it is the same principle for all mothers, I realized nothing was gone. 

The pain was destroyed, because it was my mother’s problem not mine and the mother value is still going on, but as long as it was sorrow, it was produced by one’s involvement in the ups and downs of the world of change. 

And that is what Baba said, when he asked ‘how do you feel?’ and I felt great in his presence and I said, 'fine Swami' and he answered, 'that is not true, up and down, up and down.’ That is reflected in these words and in this truth, and we have to accept the truth.

If I felt the TM-national leader was still a friend still after all what had happened in Seelisberg with him and others and courses and so called friends turning into the opposite and now they felt like enemies, it was based on false knowledge and due to the presence of the yogi. Only he was not present as master and therefore, there was no discrimination, but Baba said also that it is very difficult to understand.

The false knowledge (a-jnana) can be destroyed only when one knows the Atma (the Divine Self) principle. When the false knowledge disappears, the sorrow produced by one’s involvement in the ups and downs of the world of change (samsara) also gets destroyed.

In that case it was binding and fooling. We excused everything what happened with the national leader because of the feeling of friendship and I guess that was in purpose made like that. In the insight it was a pyramid and he was on the top of it and he was in touch with the Maharishi and the others not, nobody could pass him, behind him was the master and everybody thought he understood the master, what was all based on illusion. He was just an actor and in the mind and it was only about his role and not about yoga, while the feeling of friendship is based on yoga. 

That is false knowledge and it only went away with the right insights, but to get those insights, that was really difficult, because we need to look inward and we need to think it over to understand the insights or to accept truth and we also have to accept what is right and what is wrong action.

I had no idea how difficult it would be to understand it.

It always feels like friends again if we have involved with TM and I had been a TM-teacher. We are closer friends than my ex ever was on that TM-level, because we have more knowledge, he has no knowledge at all and no experience as he never did it. He just took advantage of it.  

The false knowledge (a-jnana) can be destroyed only when one knows the Atma (the Divine Self) principle. When the false knowledge disappears, the sorrow produced by one’s involvement in the ups and downs of the world of change (samsara) also gets destroyed.

When it is about false knowledge and that is why up and downs and only when the false knowledge disappears, the sorrow produced by one’s involvement in the ups and downs of the world of change also gets destroyed. So the knowledge we got with TM was not enough to destroy the false knowledge that is why I went to Sai Baba. 

We changed the master and with Maharishi it was only intellect and on the knowledge level and that is the problem. We cannot solve the problem of false knowledge with ‘pure love’, there cannot be any ‘pure love’ until the false knowledge is gone.

We have to accept truth and we have to get aware of the false knowledge by insights and listening to Baba's words and when we accept the path of truth, we also have to accept the path of right action and act accordingly and not ignore it and that way we understand peace and only if those three are present, truth, right action and peace, we are able to make the experience of ‘pure love’.

So we have to first accept truth by getting aware of the false knowledge and love cannot help us on that level and love will not be there as long as it is not understood.

False knowledge is also about the body. Baba has left the body and it is sorrow as long as we are attached to the body. If we get aware that he is the divine principle and that everybody living that principle is the same 'I am that', he was never in the body and he will never not be here. 

That is the lesson we have to learn and we do not wait for another avatar to come and teach us the same, when we can learn it in the here and now.