You cannot reach for “That”

 “You still imagine that truth needs pointing at and telling you: 'Look, here is truth'. It is not so.

 

Truth is not the result of an effort, the end of a road.

It is here and now, in the very longing and the search for it.

 

It is nearer than the mind and the body, nearer than the sense 'I am'. You do not see it because you look too far away from yourself, outside your innermost being. You have objectified truth and insist on your standard proofs and tests, which apply only to things and thoughts.

 

Truth is not a reward for good behavior, nor a prize for passing some tests. It cannot be brought about. It is the primary, the unborn, the ancient source of all that is. You are eligible because you are. You need not merit truth. It is your own. Just stop running away by running after.

 

Stand still, be quiet.”

 

Nisargadatta Maharaj

 

Most of us spiritual travelers instinctively know that the higher energies always surround us, yet, sometimes we are carried by them while sometimes we are caught in our self identification. Can we then just drop everything and connect with “That”? Who is it exactly who is doing the dropping? Who is that looks for “That”?

 

Ramana Marashi encourages us to look for the interference when we feel disconnected instead: “Leave liberation alone. Is there bondage?

Know this. See yourself first and foremost.”

 

J. Krishnamurti expressed the same caution, Truth cannot be reached for: “The highest form of this energy, the apogee, is the state of mind when it has no idea, no thought, no sense of a direction or motive, that is pure energy. And that quality of energy cannot be sought after.”