Being Will Flower – In Gita Verse 11.51 When Arjuna thus saw Kṛṣṇa in His original form, he said: O Janārdana, seeing this humanlike form, so very beautiful, I am now composed in mind, and I am restored to my original nature.
Arjuna after going through the rollercoaster of Krishna’s opulence form becomes silent. We also have experience that after the storm has gone we feel silent. When you pass through the inner storm and then the silence which you will experience will be real silence.
Pass through the storm and allow a real silence to come: The flowering of your being will happen only when real silence has happened to you, never before.
You cannot force the flower to open. It opens by itself. You cannot force your being to open; there is no possibility of it. You cannot rape it, you cannot be violent toward it. It will simply be destroyed. The flower opens by itself. The only soil needed is authentic, real, spontaneous silence.
With a cultivated silence the flower will never open. With cultivated silence you will simply become dull. Your being will be less alive, that’s all. With less life you will be in less trouble. That’s okay, but remember that trouble is training. You should not try to have less troubles. Be with your troubles and move through them. Don’t leave them, don’t escape from them. A moment will come when you have gone beyond them, but that moment always comes from passing through them.
Pass through the storm and allow a real silence to come. Then your being will flower, not till then.
Only in deep silence there is a merger and a meeting and the boundaries dissolve. Something of the universe enters you, and something of you enters the universe.
What you are understanding as love now, will disappear.
But don’t believe – go through it. It always disappears; it is just like the dewdrops in the morning. They look so beautiful, and while they last they are – pearls.
But as the sun rises, they evaporate and disappear without even a trace behind. Love is beautiful while it lasts. I am not against love; I am all for it. But it is like dewdrops. What can I do? I am helpless.
So while it lasts, enjoy it. At your stage of mind it must be a need: it will fulfil something. Never drop out of it unless you have ripened, unless it disappears of its own accord; and then, don’t complain; and then, don’t feel frustrated. When love, love that you call love disappears, then a different kind of love arises. Only that love can bring you near the universe.
Right now, the love that you feel can be of two types. Either it can be just a biological attraction of two bodies, feminine and male, yin and yang, positive and negative; of two energies – because they are opposite they attract each other. That is the lowest type of love. Nothing wrong in it, remember, because the lowest love is also very beautiful. And there are people who are lower than the lowest love; there are people, millions of them, who have not even known the lowest love. That is the lowest rung of the ladder.
There are people who are after money; they have not known even the biological attraction. There are people who are after power, politics, and have not known even the biological attraction. It is the lowest rung, but it is still a rung of a ladder which is of love; so, good. It has been called sex; the word has become very degraded, because religions have condemned it too much. I have no condemnation for anything. I am all for using everything, and going beyond. Step over everything and go beyond: every obstacle can become a stepping-stone. Use it.
So either it can be the physical, the biological attraction of the body – then it is sexual. Good, but much more is possible; don’t cling there. Remember:… PROMISES TO KEEP, MILES TO GO BEFORE YOU SLEEP.
Then there is a second rung of the ladder: the attraction of two minds. That is what is called love; the attraction of two minds, the feminine and the male. As bodies are feminine and male, minds are also feminine and male. The male mind is aggressive; the feminine mind is receptive and passive – they fit together.
It is higher than the first. The first is almost of the animal kingdom; the second is human. In the first, there can be an oblivion, a forgetfulness, a deep intoxication for a few seconds. In the second, there is much more of poetry, much more of romance, much more of aesthetic sensitivity. Very few people reach to the second – where the beloved becomes the friend; where the lover becomes the friend.
In the first, possessiveness and jealousy spoil the whole game. Possessiveness has to disappear otherwise the second will not be possible. Then you are two fellow-travellers. In the first you face each other; in the second, you both face something else.
For example, if two persons who are attracted to each other’s body are sitting in a full-moon night, they will be looking at each other, holding hands, looking at each other.
In the second stage, they may be holding hands, or they may not be holding hands, but they will not be looking at each other; they will both be looking at the moon – a tremendous difference. Now they are being held together by something else higher than both, deeper than both. This second type of love is very beautiful, but still, like dewdrops, it disappears.
If you are frustrated in the first and don’t become hopeless, you then enter the second. If you are frustrated in the first, get so caught up in the frustration, and become hopeless, you never enter the second. Then you remain a body; you never come to know that you are also a mind. In the second, if you are frustrated, as you will be – it has to be so, because the second is not the goal, not the end – if you are frustrated and you become hopeless, then you are caught in the second.
But if you are frustrated and don’t become hopeless, and your search and enquiry goes higher and higher, and you try to see why this love failed… The first love failed because it was only bodily – it could not satisfy the mind; the second failed because it was only of the mind – it could not satisfy the soul: and when the third type of love arises, then you will be near to the universe, God.
To be with the universe, you have to be in silence. If you talk, you miss the chance, because words become barriers. Words are not means of communication, they are means of avoiding communication. Whenever you want to be with someone, you want to be silent: only in silence there is communion.
Only in deep silence there is a merger and a meeting and the boundaries dissolve. Something of the universe enters you, and something of you enters the universe.
If you talk, and talk, and talk, you don’t allow the universe to enter. And you don’t allow yourself to be vulnerable. But it is natural when you silently watch yourself for the first time and suddenly you feel that you cannot talk, that you cannot communicate through words. You feel as if you are not communicating at all, because all your life you have been communicating through words and you don’t know that there is another dimension of communion, there is another way. With the universe words are useless.
To be with the universe, the only way is to be in deep silence, deep receptivity, in a deep opening so that the universe can pour himself into you. If you are too full of words and talking too many things, you will miss the universe. Silence is the language with the universe.
Arjuna first got an inner storm when he saw the unexpected form of Krishna and then he calmed down. Now when he saw Krishna as in the human form he became silent. In this silence he and Krishna dissolved in each other.
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