"Gradually, as we listen to the teachings, certain passages and insights in them will strike a strange chord in us, memories of our true nature will start to trickle back, and a deep feeling of something homely and uncannily familiar will slowly awaken." S.R.
There is a not too subtle brainwashing in all of this. The difference is in what remains after the washing: rather than a whole new set of concepts and prejudices, Jnana washes clean. We aren't using soap and water here, but industrial strength solvents. Shuttered windows resolve into an absence of walls - into the great wide open that was there before, during and after our ego had its day in the sun.
There is a not too subtle brainwashing in all of this. The difference is in what remains after the washing: rather than a whole new set of concepts and prejudices, Jnana washes clean. We aren't using soap and water here, but industrial strength solvents. Shuttered windows resolve into an absence of walls - into the great wide open that was there before, during and after our ego had its day in the sun.
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