Heart says to the mind thus... [Series - 2]

Mind: Hey, how are you doing?, I've been waiting for you.
Heart: Oh, I'm doing great, as usual. Okay, let me start with a small question. 'Who do you think is more important for a human being to live, you or me? :)
M: Hmmm, I feel both of us are essential. I'm very much required to think and plan out things, help in logical analyses, and so on.
H: That is what you think. If I tell you that you are absolutely wrong...is that fine? Please understand friend, the world does not run because of you, it runs inspite of you. There is something beyond you and your friend, that is ego.

[Mind listens on, ofcourse puzzled]

Paramahamsa Nithyananda in one of his discourses says that we have been taught from our childhood that we can not survive without our mind.

A small story to be shared here. A blind man goes to the doctor and asks him, ‘Doctor, please do something and give me my eyes’. The doctor says, ‘don’t worry, I’ll do an operation, you’ll have your eyes back. You can walk without the stick then’. The blind people use a stick to find their way, actually.

The blind man says, ‘doctor, I can understand you’ll do an operation, I can understand I will have my eyes back. But I can’t understand how I can walk without the stick!’.

By and by, he has started thinking the stick is part of his walking. Initially, he started using the stick just to feel and navigate. By and by, the moment he started walking, he would have the stick in his hand. In his mind he started associating having a stick and walking; and that both are directly connected. Now he thinks he can not walk without the stick even after he gets his eyesight.

Then the doctor says, ‘I CAN'T convince you intellectually; please have your eyes, then you yourself will understand’.

Only when the man opens his eyes, only when he gets his eyes back, he can understand that he can walk without the stick. In the same way, only when we relax and understand that by our very nature we are unattached, suddenly we will realize we can live without the mind.

The walking stick is just extra for the blind man. Same way, the mind is extra for us, because by our very nature we don’t need the mind to live. Because we have gone to such an extreme of relying on our mind, we cannot understand that we can live without the mind.

M: [now thoroughly shaken, feels himself losing ground] Hey, do you mean to say I am useless to anyone? All this while, it was me whom all were listening to. I would play my own tunes, and people would dance accordingly. Now, you are saying the reverse...!

H: Sorry to hurt you so directly, my friend. But this is the truth. I can perfectly understand how you are feeling now. All who read this article will surely start rejecting you from their system... Hope to see you in sometime, if you still exist ;)