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and you yourself just be a passive listener.
Let her do whatsoever she wants to do or not do
and soon everything will be okay.
Do not worry at all.
I will always be there beside you –
and if you can see, you will be able to see me also.
Of course Bhakti will feel my presenceand become aware
of me so many times in these days. Convey my blessings to her.
239. Love.
One day a man came to the Sufi teacher, Bahauddin.
He asked for help in his problems
and guidance on the path.
Bahauddin told him to abandon spiritual studies
and to leave his court at once.
A kind-hearted visitor began to remonstrate
with Bahauddin.
You shall have a demonstration, said the master.
At that moment a bird flew into the room
darting hither and thither,
not knowing where to go in order to escape.
The master waited until the bird settled
near the only open window
of the chamber and then suddenly clapped his hands.
Alarmed, the bird flew straight
through the opening of the window
to freedom.
To him that sound must have been something of a shock,
even an affront, do you not agree? said Bahauddin.
240. Love.
Fu Ta Shih says:
Each night one embraces a Buddha while sleeping,
each morning one gets up again with him.
Rising or sitting –
both watch and follow one another
Speaking or not speaking –
they are in the same place.
They never part even for a moment
but are like the body and its shadow.
If you wish to know the Buddha’s whereabouts,
in the sound of your own voice
there he is.
Do you understand this?
If not now – when will you understand?
And this is not being asked for the first time,
but many many times in many many lives
the same question has been raised –
and you have not yet answered!
Now, is it not time enough?
241. Love.
Mind is localization of consciousness,
and it can be localized in any part of the body.
Ordinarily we have localized it in the head,
but other cultures and other civilizations in the past
have tried other parts of the body also,
and on other planets
there are beings with other parts of their bodies
working as their minds.
But whatsoever the part chosen
localization of consciousness means its freezing,
and whenever it ceases to flow freely as is needed
it is no longer consciousness in its suchness.
Meditation means: consciousness in its suchness.
So let consciousness fill the whole body,
let it flow throughout the totality of your being
and you will have a feeling of aliveness
which is never known and felt
by localized consciousness.
Whenever there is localization of consciousness
the part in which the localization happens
becomes tense and diseased
and the remainder of the body becomes a dead weight.
But with meditative consciousness
or flowing consciousness
everything changes completely:
the whole body becomes alive, sensitive and aware
and consequently weightless.
Then there is no center at which
tensions can exist and accumulate:
they cannot exist without frozen blocks of consciousness.
The flowing, moving consciousness
washes them out constantly with every movement.
And when the whole body is alive
only then do you begin to feel
the cosmic consciousness all around you.
How can a frozen consciousness,
and that too surrounded by a dead body,
feel the cosmic?
242. Love.
Now man knows more about man than ever
and yet no problem is solved.
It seems that something is basically wrong
with our so-called knowledge itself.
This whole knowledge is derived from analysis,
and analysis is incapable of penetrating
the depths of consciousness.
The analytical method is all right for matter
or for things
because there is no inside to them,
but consciousness is insideness,
and to use the analytical method with consciousness
is to treat it as an object,
while it is not an object at all.
And it cannot be made an object;
its very nature is subjectivity,
its being is subjectivity,
so it must not be approached from outside
because then whatsoever is known about it is not about it.
Consciousness must be approached from inside –
and then the method is meditation and not analysis.
Meditation is synthetic:
it is concerned with the whole and not with the parts,
it is subjective and not objective,
it is irrational or super-rational and not rational,
it is religious or mystic and not scientific.