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but they do not know how to ¿ gure their
own life. They do not even know how to
sit here peacefully and at total ease within
themselves. If there is true intelligence,
the ¿ rst thing that you need to ¿ gure out is
how to make life happen. You know how
to make the wor ld happen, but you do not
know how to make your life happen. You
do not know how to conduct your mind,
your energies, your emotions or your body.
If you ask people to become ¿ t, they
become tight. If you ask them to live in a
more natural way, they become fat. Where
is the intelligence? There is only intellect.
Intellect looks good only in comparison.
Suppose you are the only person on
the planet, your intellect will not mean
anything. Only because there are a few
idiots around you, you shine. By itself,
intellect will not be of any consequence.
The Sense of Identity
The intellect directly connects with the
third dimension of your mind, called
ahankara. Ahankara is sometimes translated
as ego, but it is much more than that.
Ahankara gives you a sense of identity.
Once your ahankara takes on an identity,
your intellect functions only in that context.
It is important to function beyond the
intellect, because the intellect is seriously
enslaved to your identity.
Our identities, such as belonging to
a certain nation, community, or whatever
else, are necessary for our survival in a
particular society. But you cannot think
beyond this because you are functioning
only from your intellect, and the intellect
takes its sustenance from ahankara. Only
along the axis of ahankara, the intellect can
function. The intellect cannot transcend
this, because that is its nature. But there
are other ways to know life beyond the
identities we have taken on for our survival
in the world.
The Cosmic Intelligence
The fourth category of the mind is called
chitta. Chitta is mind without memory –
pure intelligence. This intelligence is like
the cosmic intelligence – simply there.
Everything happens because of that. It does
not function out of memory – it simply
functions. In a way, what you call cosmos
is a living mind. By “mind”, I do not mean
mind in the sense of intellect. Chitta is the
last point of the mind. It connects to the
basis of creation within you. It connects
you with your consciousness.
Chitta is always on – whether you are
awake or asleep. Your intellect comes on
and goes off. Many times it fails, even
when you are awake. If chitta or the
intelligence within you was not always on,
you could not stay alive. Try to conduct
your breath with your intellect – you will
go crazy. Chitta is keeping you alive,
keeping you going, making life happen.
If you touch this dimension of your
mind, which is the linking point to one’s
consciousness, you do not even have to
wish for anything, you do not have to
dream of anything – the best possible thing
that can happen to you will anyway happen.
The Divine Enslaved
When people touch this dimension of
the mind, it is called ishwara pranidhana
in yoga. This means God becomes your
slave – he works for you. You know,
yogis say, “Shiva is my servant. He does
everything for me.” In a way, otherwise, I
would not be here. Once you know how to
consciously access your chitta, everything
that is needed will simply happen in the
best possible way. If you go by your
intellect or your buddhi, today you think
“this is it,” tomorrow morning you think
“that is it” – like this it goes on endlessly.
But if you touch that dimension of
intelligence that we call chitta, you can live
in this entire edi¿ ce built of past memory,
but you can be free of it, untouched by
it. You can remain in such a way that
this memory, which gives you a certain
physical and psychological structure, has
no inÀ uence on you.
Once you know how to consciously
keep your chitta on, once the Divine is your
servant, when someone really ef¿ cient is
working for you, you do not have to do
anything. Simply sit; the best things will
happen – things that you could not imagine.
People always think if their dreams come
true, their life will be great. I think that is
a very poor life, because you cannot dream
about anything that is not at all in your
experience. My wish and my blessing for
you is things that you could not dream of,
things that you never thought possible,
must happen to you.
If these aspects of life do not come into
the experience of individual human beings,
they will naturally seek other means for
excitement. If people are not offered a way
to engineer themselves the way they want
to be – joyful and blissful – drink and drug
will become the biggest phenomena on the
planet. It is already becoming so. It has
already become prevalent in the West, and
it is becoming very big in urban India too.
In another seventy to eighty years’ time, if
we do not sweep the world with a logically
correct, scienti¿ cally veri¿ able spiritual
process, I would say 90% of human beings
will be on drink and drug – chemical
solutions to keep themselves pleasant.
Larger Slice of Life
This will happen because every human
being is trying to have a larger slice of life.
Whether someone goes to the temple or
the bar, whether someone gets doped out
or meditates, they are essentially looking
for a larger slice of life. The question is
only about what is sustainable. If you
want human beings to have a phenomenal
experience within, but without causing
damage to themselves, you have to turn
them inward.
Once you know
how to consciously
access your chitta,
everything that is
needed will simply
happen in the best
possible way. If you
go by your intellect
or your buddhi, today
you think “this is it,”
tomorrow morning
you think “that is it”
– like this it goes on
endlessly.
Turning inward can mean many things.
One simple way of understanding it is
that you touch chitta – that dimension of
intelligence which is the very basis of your
making. There is no such thing as your
chitta and my chitta. It is just there. The
question is whether you as an individual
have access to it. This is not yours or mine.
This is a cosmic intelligence – the source of
creation.
Chitta is beyond ahankara, beyond
buddhi, beyond judgment, beyond divisions
– simply there, just like the intelligence of
existence that makes everything happen. If
you access this, you do not have to worry
about what happens or what does not
happen. It will happen in a way that you
never imagined possible.
Once you have access to your chitta, it
is also a multi-pointed telescope. It makes
you see things that no one else can see – in
every direction. It is your crystal ball. It is
a magnifying glass that brings the very core
of life close to you. For everyone else, it
is far way. Everyone thinks the Divine is
somewhere up there. Where exactly, no one
knows. All they know is, it seems far away.
The moment you start looking at life
through your chitta, where there is no
memory, there is no karmic substance
and no division, suddenly, the Divine is
right there, bang on, in your face all the
time. You cannot miss it. The Divine
works for you from now on. You don’t
even have to wish for what you want in
your life. Everything that is needed will
simply happen in the best possible way.
Your life in the hands of an intelligence
beyond you.
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