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The effort drops, and with effort, the ego of search drops. Likely, it dropped of Gautam Buddha on the bank of the river Niranjana on the fateful night of his enlightenment when he let go his ego along with the river. But for him effort was not the waste of time and energy. He exhausted all efforts to realize effortlessness.
He exhausted knowing to realize that it is unknowable. He exhausted self to realize that there is no self. With no self, there is no body to be right or wrong.

Which is why our sages have never been too concerned in listing our morals, ethics and commandments. They never bothered about mapping the darkness and telling the people how to avoid the pitfalls. Instead they emphasized on finding the light, lighting up the inner lamp, enlightenment. Once the lamp is lit within, one does not need to ask what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.

One automatically does the right thing and follows the right path because one can ‘see’ clearly. Which is why Indian philosophy is called ‘darshan’ or to see. Not to think, learn, ponder, contemplate, debate and analyze. To see without the tinted glasses of scriptures and collective wisdom. Scriptures can never help ‘one see’ the Truth, however, they can validate the ‘seeing’ and confirm it because they too came out of people who have seen it.

Knowledge is Boring

The ego wants to control everything; wants to be sure and secure. But most man-made things become prisons because they domesticate joy by ensuring it and lose it in the process.

I tried to explain to my friend that information may be power but knowledge is boring. Even the most beautiful woman, after you have known her, becomes ordinary. The known makes everything ordinary. So even a not-so-beautiful woman, till there are things to her ‘not known’, retains a sense of mystery, and hence, some interest and attraction.

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* Contributed by -
S. Karthikeyan, an Automobile Engineer from PSG College of Technology, has worked as Member of Research & Development Team at TAFE Ltd., and is currently a student of PGP1 at BIM, Trichy,
Article published in KRIYA, March 2006 Issue, BIM's monthly magazine.