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The True Teaching You must have observed that my way of talking to you is not always the
same. I don't know whether you are very sensitive to the difference, but for me
it is considerable. Sometimes, on rare occasions, because of
something read or for another reason, there comes to me in the wake of a
question what is called an experience but what is simply the fact of entering
into a certain state of consciousness and, having entered into it, describing
that very state. In such a case, the Force, the Consciousness that express
themselves pass across the individual mind, use it like a storehouse of words
and draw from it by a sort of affinity the words necessary for the expression.
That is the true teaching, the teaching that is difficult to find in books. It
can be there, but one must be oneself in that state of consciousness to be able
to discover it, whereas, with the spoken word, the sound vibration transmits at
least something of the experience and this can be contagious for all who are
sensitive. On other occasions, the question posed and
the subject chosen are conveyed by the mind to the higher Consciousness. The mind
receives a response from that Consciousness and conveys it through the word.
This is what generally happens in all teachings, provided that the one who
teaches has the capacity to pass the question on to the higher Consciousness –
a capacity not always present. I should tell you that the second method does
not interest me much. Very often, when the question or the subject fails to give
me the possibility of entering into a state of consciousness that interests me,
I far prefer to keep silent. And it is, as it were, a sense of duty that makes
me talk. I
am informing you in advance, because in the past I have cut short the
conversation and passed abruptly into meditation.
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