Reports from a dharma talk I heard
Once a small bud asked : Bhagwan, why & when does a Buddha gives initiation ? The brightest flower said, Intellect is the starting point of Dharma , not the end point. This is why there is initiation. This is why there is invitation. But this invitation is not just for anybody, only for those who have gone beyond refusal and rejection. For anybody who comes, they are given analysis and explanations. Then those starts to infer, explain, searches every nook of all the scriptures and finds that they are just completely useless, and they say “you’re absolutely right!!! Dharma is not tradition ( parampara ); Dharma is rebellion ( vidroha ); we thought and thought, and now all our thoughts are finished, Now what? Now lead us further…” Then the Buddha gives initiation. To the one who is beyond inference, completely devoid of inference, standing outside the net of inference, receives initiation. One who out of fear, chants Buddha, Buddha and count beads, never chante...