Early Writings, Volume VII | Talks at Adyar, India 1932-33
What I have to say concerns the hindrances which prevent in you the instantaneous recognition of truth. I say that there is an ecstasy of life, and eternity, an immortality, which is in the completeness of your daily living and not in some distant future which is but a passing fantasy. I say that this everlasting reality can be understood only in the fullness of the present. But it cannot be imagined or fancied, and that which can be explained is not truth. That for which you struggle, which you conquer, is not reality. That ecstasy of truth comes spontaneously, naturally, sweetly, without the slightest effort, without self-discipline, without analysis, without introspection. It must come without toil, with ease, with quietness. I say that there is ever this living ecstasy of truth, and that I have realized it. I do not say this out of conceit, but to show you that this realization is in the present, not reserved for a distant future. It can be understood only when the mind is free of the past, which creates the future, and freedom form the past comes when there is the realization of the full significance, the completeness of the present.
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