Knowing

One of the predicaments which many (probably most) come across in the
process of Awakening, is the difficulty of "who" wants to wake up. The
impetus behind waking up comes directly from the ego wanting to end
suffering. But the ego can't end suffering because it IS suffering. It is
essentially the identification with the ego/thoughts that cause all
suffering and in fact, bondage. The Ashtavakra says "Where there is an I
there is bondage, and where there is no I, there is freedom."

In Sanskrit, there is a grammatical noun called an agential noun. It is the
adding of the suffix 'tr' to a verbal root. Thus, drastr is a seer; kartr
is a doer, and conceivably jnatr is a knower, i.e. one who knows. However,
when speaking of an actual knower of the Truth, they don't use the term
jnatr, knower, but rather jnani, which could conceivably be translated as
one who IS knowledge.

So wisdom or enlightenment is not KNOWING, but rather NOT knowing. It is
freedom from the beliefs or concepts, and BEING knowledge rather than
understanding it.

On another note, we're not even close to 1,000,000 yet (in case you were
wondering); however, we are up past 3 dozen. For only a couple of
weeks.....well, keep putting the word out there. And if anybody wants to
start getting this out in other languages...that would fantastic.