VBT – Meditation 29.0
Devotion Frees
The technique is very simple in one sense and the most difficult in another, and it is only of two words. The technique says, DEVOTION FREES.
Just two words: DEVOTION FREES. It is simply one word really, because FREES is the consequence of devotion. What is meant by devotion? In VIGYAN BHAIRAV TANTRA, there are two types of techniques. One is for those who are intellectually oriented, scientifically oriented, and another is for those who are heart oriented, emotion oriented, poetically oriented. And there are only two types of minds: the scientific mind and the poetic mind – and these are poles apart. They meet nowhere, and they cannot meet. Sometimes they run parallel, but still, there is no meeting.
Sometimes it happens in a single individual that he is a poet and a scientist. Rarely, but sometimes it happens that he is both a poet and a scientist. Then he has a split personality. He is really two people, not one. When he is a poet, he forgets the scientist completely; otherwise the scientist will be disturbing. And when he is a scientist, he has to forget the poet completely and move into another world with another arrangement of concepts – ideas, logic, reason, mathematics.
When he moves to the world of poetry, mathematics is no more there – music is there. Concepts are no more there: words are there – but liquid, not solid. One word flows into another, and one word can mean many things or it may not mean anything. The grammar is lost; only the rhythm remains.
It is a different world.
Thinking and feeling – these are the two types, basic types. The 27th technique was for a scientific mind. This technique, DEVOTION FREES, is for a feeling type. Remember to find out your type. And no type is higher or lower. Do not think that the intellectual type is higher or the feeling type is higher – no! They are simply types. No one is higher or lower. So just think factually what your type is.
This technique is for the feeling type. Why? Because devotion is toward something else and devotion is a blind thing. In devotion the other becomes more important than you. It is a trust.
The intellectual cannot trust anybody; he can only criticize. He cannot trust. He can doubt, but he cannot trust. And if sometimes some intellectual comes to trust, it is never authentic. First he tries to convince himself about his trust; it is never authentic. He finds proofs, arguments, and when he is satisfied that the arguments help, the proofs help, then he trusts. But he has missed the point, because trust is not argumentative and trust is not based on proof. If proofs are there, then there is no need for trust.
You do not believe in the sun, you do not believe in the sky – you know. How can you believe in the sun rising? If someone asks what is your belief about the sun rising, you do not have to say, “I believe in it. I am a great believer.” You say, “The sun is rising and I know it.” No question of belief or disbelief. Is there someone who disbelieves in the sun? There is no one. Trust means a jump into the unknown without any proof.
It is difficult – difficult for the intellectual type, because the whole thing becomes absurd, foolish.
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