Enlightened masters, and lack of clarity
The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.
Question: Have received so many practices of meditation by meeting so many enlightened masters, but I am unable to get what to follow. All gave different methods.
Even if the mind intends to follow certain methods, it gets confused.
What to follow?
Acharya Prashant: Jyoti (the questioner), then you have come to the wrong person. In this world where nothing is definite, of one thing I am very definite — ‘I am not Enlightened’. And you have already met so many enlightened masters. The wonderful thing is that all the enlightened masters have only confused you.
(laughter)
(Pointing at himself) Now, how can this unenlightened one clear the confusion? I swear that I am not, and would never be enlightened in this life. Of this one thing I am definitely sure — no Enlightenment for me.
Jyoti, kid, where have you been roaming? Little kids wandering out at night, meeting enlightened ghosts, and getting scared and confused. I am a normal human being. If you are confused, how are you not equally confused in whether or not those people are enlightened?