Evolution of Love 2

Self-realization is Effortless

To the question 'what does one have to do, what efforts must one make to stop
conceptualizing',
Maharaj's answer is: Nothing; no efforts. Who is to make the effort?
What effort did you make to grow from a tiny sperm cell to a full grown baby in your mother's womb?
And thereafter, for several months when you grew from the helpless baby to an infant, what efforts did you make to sense your presence?
And now you talk of 'efforts', which 'you' must make!
What efforts can an illusory, conceptual 'I' make to know its true nature?
What efforts can a shadow make to know its substance?

Realizing one's true nature requires no phenomenal effort. Enlightenment
cannot be attained, nor forced. It can only happen, when it is given the opportunity to do so, when obstruction by concepts ceases. It can appear only when it is given a vacant space to appear in. If someone else is to occupy this house, says Maharaj, I must first vacate it.
If the conceptual 'I' is already in occupation, how can enlightenment enter?
Let the conceptual 'I' vacate and give
enlightenment a chance to enter.

Even making a positive effort to stop thinking as a method of getting rid of conceptualizing, is an exercise in futility, and so is any other kind of 'effort'!
The only effective effort is instant apperceiving of truth.

See the false as false and what remains is true. What is absent now will appear when what is now present disappears.
It is as simple as that.
Negation is the only answer.