Truth cannot be revealed to those who approach the master only with their mind, their intellect. The encounter with the master is necessarily an antagonistic situation.

Truth of which the master is an echo seems foolishness, madness, and lies. The darkness engendered by mind cannot stand the light that springs from an awaken consciousness because this light would annihilate itself.

This is the reason why Truth can not be unveiled to those who try to grasp it with their mind. Then the master cannot be understood, and he is considered as a lunatic, a crazy man.

Truth cannot be revealed either to those who meet the master mainly to be understood and acknowledged. These ones are looking for support, for attention, they are in search of someone who will listen to them attentively. They actually need a friend. But the master cannot be their friend.

For the master is the friend of the soul, of consciousness, not of the ego.

So those who want to become the master's friend go the wrong way, because it is their ego who wants that and the ego is precisely the "enemy" the master will help you fight. In other words, if you simply want to be the master's friend, you will never receive the quintessence of his message. The master can only pass it on to a disciple. Not to a friend. Because one day, the disciple will become the master's alter ego, his brother, his sister, whereas the friend will remain no more than a friend.

Truth cannot be revealed to those who are in search of a master for a confrontation with the intention of proving themselves that they are equal to the master on the spiritual path. Those who come to the master in order to compare themselves to him may find similarities with him. They can even discover themselves more learned than him on several subjects.

That will make them believe even more strongly that there is no difference between them and the master. This self-delusion will be all the more important that they know that no master, as great as he may be, is superior to the most humble among men. Besides they also know that the real master is not outside them but inside.

And they know above all that they are masters themselves !

And all this is true. However, they forget an essential point.
This point is that it is not easy to reveal the inner master by oneself. It is almost always necessary to resort first to an outer master before reaching the inner master. Because he knows how to break your shell, your ego, so as to free the master within you. And those who approach the master with such a state of mind have not a mere shell but a carapace which is not easy to break, especially when they want to do it on their own.

Truth is unveiled to those who go at the feet of the master, that is to say to listen and learn in all humility. Because these ones, in spite of appearances, are not fools - on the contrary, they are on the path of wisdom. To show humility is much more difficult than acting with arrogance and pretentiousness. Those who put their ego down at the master's feet, listen to the master with their heart and beyond human appearances, can see the divine in the master, will one day be able to reveal the divine in themselves.

Spiritual teaching is passed on from master to disciple since the mists of time, because it is the purest love relationship from the human point of view. It is unconditional, it is based on faith and intuitive intelligence, it is the very essence of relationship based on love. And Truth can only be revealed in an atmosphere of true love.

If you aim at Truth and wish from all your heart to elevate, then meeting the master will unfailingly happen to you one day.

However what this meeting will bring to you depends on your state of mind at that very moment.

This is why the question to ask oneself before this encounter is : how shall I approach the master ?

With the assurance of my ego ? Shall I go and meet him as a friend ? Shall I compare myself to him, or sit down at his feet ?

And for the ones who have already met the master, the question is : how did I approach the master ?

Amedee