Secret Power of Words                                 Words of Knowledge:
                                                                           Barriers to Understanding

them to feel secure about themselves. And if you let that happen, you also sin.
     The following telephone conversation took place on Roy's radio call-in program on Station KIEV (870 AM) in Los Angeles:
     MAN (to Roy): The last caller mentioned Zen and Krishnamurti. My question is whether you can explain the meaning of the "fall" as a fall to language, especially in respect to the Judeo-Christian tradition.
     ROY: A person should be moved by nothing but the Word in his own heart. This wordless knowing, and the relation­ship between the wordless knower of the Word source is called faith. Through this mystical bond comes the energy force of love. If I please you, and you love me, then, humanly speaking, I can thrive on that, can't I? People have been known to perish for want of some kind of approval. And, in order to get approval, the ego has to behave in a way that is acceptable to the source. So, a personal relationship exists in a verbal or non-verbal way between people, much as it should between man and his Creator, through the wordless Word in his heart. The bondage we now have to the world is the result of language's appeal to our pride. Because the original appeal to our ego came through language, we are inherently sensitive to language to this day. And because the appeal of language-illuminated knowledge is the goal of glory, knowledge is bound up into language. For that reason, we think in a one-dimensional way. We analyze with words and study words as

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