Root Pattern

 Intellectual seekers, with years of questioning behind them, come to me and ask, 'Swamiji, why is it that when I come to you with hundreds of questions, when I am in front of you, there is no need to ask you about them?  I feel as if the answers are already there.'

This is not imagination; this is the truth.  Questions are a reflection of your inner ego, your root pattern, which is violence.  When you are in front of the Master, with sravana, integrated listening, the first thing that happens is the melting of your root pattern like snow melting in the sun.  Therefore, questions also disappear.  You start feeling that miraculously, the answers appear in front of the Master.  The truth is that the answers were all already there.  The Master's presence dissolved the root pattern and let the answers out.

You can open up to the Master at three levels.  You can converse and convey through words and the Master will listen.  At the next level you can communicate from the heart in silence; you can visualize instead of verbalizing in speech.  Finally, you can commune in silence through Upanisad and the Master will grasp this even more powerfully.

Here Krsna allows Arjuna to verbalize, He allows him to speak into His pure listening, so that to begin with, Arjuna himself will develop the ability to have integrated listening and understand his problem.  Once Arjuna cognizes and expresses his confusion, he can relapse into silence and commune with the Master of completion in the space of Upanisad.

SOURCE: BHAGAVAD GITA DECODED

SPH JGM HDH BHAGAVAN NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM