Guiding Light: How To Live The Mystery Of Life Totally?

What is the purpose of knowledge? The purpose of knowledge is to make you feel that you ‘don’t know!' If the knowledge makes you feel that you know it all, then it has not fulfilled its goal. The more you know, the more you become aware of the unknown.

The purpose of knowledge is to create awareness of the being. This creation is enormous and infinite. It is a mystery. Mysteries are there not to understand but to love. Love is a mystery, sleep is a mystery, your mind is a mystery and all that you see around you is a mystery. Trying to understand mystery is confusion, but living it fully is called enlightenment.

There is one ‘I don’t know’ that comes out of ignorance. Then it passes through knowledge and becomes a transformed ‘I don’t know!’ This is a beautiful ‘I don’t know!’, which is a wonder. This is how every question turns into wonder. What is the difference between a wonder and a question? The question is associated with sorrow and restlessness, whereas wonder is joy in expression.

What is your life? How many years are you planning to be on this planet? Sixty years or 70 years or 100 years? A span of life is insignificant. In terms of space, you simply don’t exist! This understanding dissolves the ego. Ego is ignorance of your reality, ignorance of your existence.

Ignorance is necessary. It keeps joy in the game. If you know you are going to win a game, you won’t put your 100 per cent in it. If you know that you are going to lose a game, then also there is no charm in playing the game. The game is joyful when its results are unknown. Nature is so kind and loving to you that it does not tell you about your future and does not remind you of your very old past. But, even with the short little memory it has given us, we try hard to make ourselves miserable.

Just be in the simple and innocent state of “I don’t know!” This life is a beautiful mystery. Just live it! When we live this mystery of life so totally, then joy dawns.