We go through our life being pulled by our senses and our ego, seeking new experiences, because without experience we can’t get knowledge, and without
knowledge we can’t gain liberation. But along the way we become entwined with ignorance and darkness because of our ego and our association with material
energy. So, although we are made of God, we can’t reflect God because of all the pollution that’s gathered along the way; and it’s such an epic battle
to get all of that out of your system. A bee goes to a flower to collect pollen, and then tries to find one that’s got more. It’s the basic nature of the
bee to seek more nectar, just as it’s the soul’s nature to always seek a better experience. When you’ve had all these experiences –met all the famous people,
made some money, toured the world and got all the acclaim –you still think: ‘Is that it?’ Some people might be satisfied with that, but I wasn’t and I’m
still not.
Being in The Beatles did help speed up the process of God/realisation, but it also hindered it as there were more impressions and more entanglements to
get out of. Every experience and thought has been recorded on your file within. Meditation is only a means to an end. You do it to release all the clutter
out of your system, so that when it’s gone you become that which you are anyway. That’s the joke: we already are whatever it is we would like to be. All
we have to do is undo it.
All we wanted to do was be in a rock band but, as Shakespeare said, ‘All the world’s a stage and the people are only players’. We were just playing a part.
Being The Beatles was like a suit that we wore for that period of time, but that isn’t us really. None of us are. Our true nature is looking to re-establish
that which is within. All knowing”.
- George Harrison (p. 263 – The Beatles Anthology © 2000)