"It is the barrier.

"If you know that you know, you will never know. If you know that you know, what is the point of knowing? You can go on sleeping and dreaming.

"The moment you recognize that you don't know, that recognition of ignorance goes like an arrow into the heart, pierces you like a spear. In that very piercing, one becomes aware – in that very shock.

"Knowledge is a kind of shock-absorber. It does not allow you to be shaken and shocked. It goes on protecting you. It is an arm our around you. I speak about knowledge, against knowledge, so that you can drop the arm our, so that life can shock you into awareness.

"Life is there ready to shock you every moment. Your being is there inside you ready to be awakened any moment, but between these two there is knowledge. And the more of it there is, the more your self-awakening will be delayed.

"Become unknowledgeable.

"And never think of spirituality as a growth. It is not a growth. You are already Gods, Buddhas, from the very beginning. It is not that you have to become buddhas: the treasure is there – only you don't know where you have put it. You have forgotten the key, or you have forgotten how to use the key.

"You are so drunk with knowledge that you have become oblivious of all that you are. Knowledge is alcoholic; it makes people drunk. Then their perception is blurred, then their remembrance is at the minimum. Then they start seeing things which are not, and they stop seeing things which are.

"That's why, I have not talked about how to evolve your being. Being is already as it should be, it is perfect. Nothing is needed to be added to it, nothing can be added to it. It's God's creation. It comes out of perfection, hence it is perfect. Just withdraw all the hindrances that you have created.

"And our whole society goes on working, endeavoring, to create hindrances.

"A child is born. Immediately we start creating hindrances in him. We create comparison m him: 'Somebody else is more beautiful than you, and somebody else is healthier than you, and somebody else's child – look! look at his marks, at his grades, at his intelligence, and what are you doing?'

"We start creating comparison."