Freedom

Doubt about Enlightment
is clinging to suffering and bondage.
So suffering will not leave you until doubt does.

Doubts and negativity poison everything:
mind, food, and world.
A serpent can kill once,
but a doubt can kill you millions of times.
Doubt is "I am bound," and "I am suffering."

Your doubts are like clouds,
how long can they stay in front of the sun?
But Freedom is not shy of doubt,
so when doubts come, let them come,
and when they go, let them go.
To any doubt that arises
just say, "I know who I Am!"
You say a "part" of you has doubts.
There can be no part of you which has doubts
because you are that Whole which has no parts.
When you do not inquire you are in parts
and become that which can be destroyed.

When "knowing" drops away
have no doubt in what remains.
"I do not know," is the Knowledge.
Who is the "I" which does not know?

It is very important to remember:
dormant tendencies rise as manifest thoughts.
Even gods will tempt you and only Buddha survives.
So reject pleasures of heaven and earth,
what is not Here will never be Freedom.

Give up all doubts.

~ Sri Poonjaji 'Papaji'