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Experiences of the Heart Should be Enjoyed Not Questioned
My mind is losing control,
and my heart starts singing.
What is happening?
The mind is a habit. –
Even if
there are moments
when the heart is singing
and the whole being
is full of joy,
the mind cannot leave its old habits.
It will
certainly ask what is happening.
Can't you allow
things to happen
without asking why?
what?
Do you understand why we ask
such questions?
The mind asks these questions
because it wants to control
your lifestyle;
it wants to know
everything that is going on.
Nothing should happen
which is beyond it;
everything should be in its control.
The mind is a great controller.
And if everything remains in its control,
it will be
a tragedy
because nothing great can happen to you.
Everything that is great,
magnificent,
is beyond mind.
And mind can never get the answer
why,
what,
how.
You have to learn one thing:
that it is not necessary
to satisfy the mind
about every experience.
Experiences of the heart,
experiences of the being,
experiences of
the transcendental
should not be
made
a point of inquiry.
You should not ask why,
you should enjoy them.
You should not ask what is happening,
because if you insist on these questions
the happening will stop.
These questions are not your friends.
Let the mind ask questions only when something is going wrong.
You are sick,
you have a headache,
your stomach has cramps –
let the mind ask;
that is the right
realm for the mind.
But your heart is dancing –
what has the mind to do with it?
Just tell the mind,
"Keep quiet,
this is not your world.
You look at your affairs.
You should not
go on poking your nose everywhere."
The heart is a higher reality.
The being is still higher,
and there are realities higher than the being.
Mind cannot ask questions about them,
and no answer is possible.
You will have to learn some new ways,
and you will have to drop some old habits.
So just make it a point, simple:
if there is something
wrong,
you are miserable...
misery is perfectly
the right terrain where
mind is needed.
Without mind, you cannot create misery;
it is the world of mind –
then ask why.
But it is strange: nobody comes to ask, "Why am I miserable?"
But when the heart is dancing,
people ask, "Why?
What is happening?"
The reason is because your heart has not danced for centuries,
so the experience is so new
that you get scared.
You start feeling perhaps you are
a little bit crazy,
getting old,
senile.
What is happening? –
because the experience is new.
But remember,
the mind's area is
concerned only with
anything going wrong.
The mind has the right to ask
and to find the right cause
and to put things right.
But celebration,
rejoicing,
ecstasy –
mind has nothing to do with them.
Just tell the mind, "You rest.
Everything is going fine,
you need not worry."
If you can teach the mind
to ask the right questions
and not to interfere
in realms which are beyond it,
you will have
disciplined yourself
for more and more,
greater and higher experiences.
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