June 25, 2021
This discussion is from the Morning Talk on the 8th day of the Jnana Yoga Talks, given in 1975 at Yoshodara Ashram in British Columbia.
"To be able to look within without taking anything for granted and without stopping--continuous questioning without assuming--that seems to be the pattern that emerges from The Upanishads. I [the student] am not allowed to take anything for granted, but I’m not allowed to stop questioning [either]. If you put these two together, you discover that a certain amount of faith is necessary and that faith must be accompanied, not by a destructive doubt, but by a constructive doubt.
Such is a questioning doubt--a doubt that does not doubt the possibility, but doubts the immediate reality. And, I must have faith that there is, perhaps, something beyond this world that I see--because when I ask the Master, he says that there is something other than this [world that I see]. I must have faith in that, but I shouldn’t assume that I have got it [already]. Without assuming that this is the ultimate truth, the final truth, I must look forward to the discovery of truth. Without assuming that either he is right, or I am right, [I must have] what you call an open mind, and an open heart, and [running through this openness] there [must be] a razor sharp intelligence."
Jñāna Yoga #15 Part 1 - 31:56 - MP3 -- (20.17 MB) -- (8am-1)
Jñāna Yoga #15 Part 2 - 22:02 - MP3 -- (19.26 MB) -- (8am-2)
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From The Yasodhara Jnana Yoga Talks
British Columbia, 1975