Man’s Energies
Man’s energies have three layers.
The first layer is only for day-to-day activities:
It is a very thin layer. It is enough for your office, wife, children – the ordinary life.
The second layer is for emergencies:
Your house is on fire; you may have been feeling very tired after the whole day’s work and you were coming home and hoping to have a good rest, and suddenly when you come home your house is on fire. Immediately, all fatigue disappears; you are no longer tired. You have forgotten all about rest, and the whole night you try to put the fire out. And even after the whole night’s work, you are not tired. It was not the ordinary level of energy that worked – that was exhausted – the emergency layer started working.
The third layer is deeper than that:
You go on and on…. For example, if for one day, two days, three days, you go on working, then the emergency level will also be finished – and then you come in contact with the cosmic layer. That is the source of life, and that is inexhaustible. Whenever you are in contact with it, tremendous joy starts overflowing you.
It happens to joggers, to runners, to swimmers sometimes. First layer finished, then the second layer, and if you go on running the second is also finished – and the moment you are in contact with the third, tremendous ecstasy happens for no reason at all.
It may happen to you while making love. It may happen to you while listening to music. It may happen to you while simply lying in your bed doing nothing. It may happen to you while painting, absorbed, utterly absorbed in it. Or it may happen in a thousand and one ways. But watch: whenever it happens, whenever that tremendous blissful moment comes to you, when the divine knocks on your door, watch in what context it is happening. Be alert! Look around – in what space it is happening. Then you have the key. Whenever you will be able to create that context, that space, the moment will come again.
You cannot make it happen, but you can make yourself available for it to happen.
You cannot force it to happen, but you can create all that is necessary for it to happen. It is not a doing on your part: it is a happening. But, still, you can play a great role. That’s how all techniques of meditation have been developed. That’s how Yoga came into existence.
