Wordless Experience – In Gita Verse 18.54 One who is thus transcendentally situated at once realises the Supreme Brahman and becomes fully joyful. He never laments or desires to have anything. He is equally disposed toward every living entity. In that state he attains pure devotional service unto Me.
Krishna says these three things – BIRTH, LOVE and DEATH – come from the unknown. They suddenly enter you like a breeze and they suddenly disappear. You cannot solve these problems but you can transcend them. And the way to transcend is to accept that they are there. And don’t think that they are problems, they are mysteries.
Once you understand and know the mystery then whatever you do it will be devotional service unto Me.
Once you start feeling that they are mysteries suddenly you are en rapport with life – and there is celebration, there is trust. This is possible only if the mind is not allowed to play games.
The heart is the centre where love happens, birth happens, death happens. When death happens it is the heart that stops. When love happens it is the heart that dances. When birth happens it is the heart that starts beating. All that is real happens in the heart. And all that is unreal happens in the mind.
The mind is the faculty for the unreal, for the fictitious, for the games.
So the only transformation that is needed is how to shift your energy from the MIND to the HEART.
The mind has some difficulty in accepting the idea that there is something that is not explainable. Mind has a very mad urge for everything to be explained. Anything that remains a puzzle, a paradox, goes on troubling your mind.
The whole of history, of philosophy, religion, science, mathematics, has the same root, the same mind – the same itch.
You may scratch yourself one way, somebody else may do it differently, but the itch has to be understood. The itch is the belief that existence is not a mystery.
Mind can feel at home only if somehow existence is demystified.
Ideas are substitutes for where life is mysterious and you find gaps that cannot be filled with reality. You fill those gaps with ideas; and at least you start feeling satisfied that life is understood.
But it is not possible. Whatever you do, life is a mystery and is going to remain a mystery.
In my Bhagavad Gita Verse 2.47, blog I wrote – Existence is always waiting and willing, welcoming. You just have to learn a little courage, just a little courage. One jump and you are gone forever into the mysterious.
We always have questions about Love. We fall in love. We question why we fall in love.
Question is unanswerable. This is the only question which cannot be answered, hence the beauty of it. Whenever you come across a question which is unanswerable, you are very close to the truth.
Love is a mystery, not a problem. It can be lived but it cannot be solved. In fact, it is not a question, that’s why it cannot be answered. You can make a question out of it, but your question remains just a linguistic formulation of something which can never be reduced to a question.
But the question arises because the mind knows only how to create questions. It can’t accept something which is a mystery. The mysterious creates fear in the mind because the mind cannot manipulate it. The mind starts raising a thousand and one questions and will not feel at ease unless those questions are answered. If those questions are not answered, then the mind itself has the tendency to deny the whole phenomenon. Then the mind will say, “If the why cannot be known, then love cannot be.”
The mind believes only if it is capable of manipulating something. That’s why the mind goes on denying godliness – because godliness is nothing but the very essence of love. The mind goes on denying love, and goes on denying beauty, and goes on denying everything that comes as a mystery. Either the mind has to reduce it to knowledge… And if the mind feels impotent to reduce it to knowledge, it starts denying it: “There is no godliness, there is no love, there is no mystery.”
The mysterious is frightening because the mysterious is vast. The mind feels lost in the mysterious.
Drop the why. If you have fallen in love, go on falling more and more. There is no end to it, it is a bottomless abyss; the more you fall, the further you are able to fall. And the deeper you go into the abyss, the greater and greater are the mysteries that become available. Then life is poetry, not prose. Then life is not a noise but a melody. Then life is, not matter but godliness.
For Krishna transcend means all “whys,” all “hows” will disappear. You will live in the is-ness of the moment. Your life will have a tremendous presence, but no answers. You will know what life is, but you will not have any knowledge at all.
Knowing is one thing, knowledge another. Love is a phenomenon which can be experienced; knowing is possible but knowledge is not possible. It cannot be communicated in words. It remains such a deep taste in you; you cannot bring it into any verbal communication.
Words are meant to be for the mundane life of the marketplace. You cannot use them in love, you cannot use them in prayer, and you cannot use them whenever and wherever the unknown is felt. When you come to the boundary of the known and the unknown, words start disappearing from you like dead leaves falling from the tree. A totally new experience evolves: a wordless experience.
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