I’m not for one second suggesting that I don’t need the master’s agya – in fact, this is the point – I know that I do need it but why do I need it? Maharaji’s dad used to say (on a regular basis) a crocodile is a crocodile, a fish is a fish and a gorilla is a monkey – making his point that all the animals know what they are and how to behave in relation to this understanding whereas humans on the other hand? Maharaji says “Man’s (and I’m sure this is the use of the royal Man’s which of course includes da chicks) truest nature is to be at peace”. I definitely recognise within myself something not quite right: i.e. the missing piece is missing peace but my question is why? Why do we as a species have the need of instruction from the outside regarding the fundamentals of what transpires on the inside: “our truest nature”. This situation: man in need of guidance and assistance – has been so for centuries where a teacher would appear that seemed to ‘know’ something that the rest didn’t ‘know’ but that they wanted to ‘know’. Returning to me as petri dish there is a part of me that responds to this message: i.e. the idea that there definitely is something to know – but it would seem that I am one of a very limited few. If it is so that to be at peace is my truest nature – and therefor the same for all wo/men – why are there so very few that have the desire to consciously attempt being conscious? Due to my experience of how I feel when (in that peace as I) I follow the master’s agya I can say with as much certainty as might be conjured and applied that the missing piece is this knowing – the knowledge and because only the tiniest of numbers (of people) actually have access to this understanding and experience we have now collectively both men and women – brought our home: i.e. planet earth – to the brink of annihilation. The vast majority in western first world communities are wilfully ignorant: they do not want to know, the preference is to remain in a state of hedonistic sleep walking. It would seem there is a flaw in the design, the default setting has been applied to the wrong part of the psyche so that instead of being awake and making our world better we remain asleep and make it worse.