Each of these methods which we will be discussing has been told by someone who has achieved. Remember this. They will look too simple, and they are. To our minds, things which are so simple cannot be appealing. To our minds, things which are so simple cannot be appealing. Because if techniques are so simple and the abode is so near, if you are already in it, and the home is so near, you will look ridiculous to yourself—then why are you missing it? Rather than feel the ridiculousness of your own ego, you will think that such simple methods cannot help. That is a deception. Your mind will tell you that these simple methods cannot be of any help—that they are so simple, they cannot achieve anything. “To achieve divine existence, to achieve the absolute and the ultimate, how can such simple methods be used? How can they be of any help?” Your ego will say that they cannot be of any help. Remember one thing—ego is always interested in something which is difficult, because when something is difficult, there is a challenge. If you can overcome the difficulty, your ego will feel fulfilled. The ego is never attracted toward anything which is simple—never! If you want to give your ego a challenge, then you have to have something difficult devised. If something is simple, there is no appeal, because even if you can conquer it there will be no fulfillment of the ego. In the first place, there was nothing to be conquered: the thing was so simple. Ego asks for difficulties—some hurdles to be crossed, some peaks to be conquered. And the more difficult the peak, the more at ease your ego will feel. Because these techniques are so simple, they will not have any appeal to your mind. Remember, that which appeals to the ego cannot help your spiritual growth. These techniques are so simple that you can achieve all that is possible to human consciousness to achieve, at any moment that you decide to achieve it.
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