Know yourself

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Can this incessant search, this longing, give us the extraordinary sense of reality, that creative being which comes when we really understand ourselves? Does self knowledge come trough search, through following someone else, trough belonging to any particular organization, trough reading books, and so on? After all, that's the man issue, is it not? That as long as I do not understand myself, I have no basis for thought, and all my search will be in vain. I can escape into illusion, I can run away from contention, strife, struggle, I can worship another, I can look for my salvation trough somebody elese. But as long as I'm ignorant of myself, as long as I'm unaware of the total process of myself, I have no basis thought, for affection, for action, but that's the last thing we want: to know ourselves. Surely that is the only foundation on which we can build. But before we can build, before we can transform, before we can condemn or destroy, we must know that which we are. So to go out seeking, changing teachers, gurus, practising yoga breathing, performing rituals, following masters and all the rest of it, is utterly useless, is it not? It has no meaning even though the very people whom we follow may say; Study yourself. Because what we are the world is. If we are petty, jealous, vain, greedy that is what we create about us, that is the society in which we live.