Instinct And Intuition
Intuition is like instinct because you cannot do anything about it.
It is part of your consciousness, just as instinct is part of your body. You cannot do anything about your instinct and you cannot do anything about your intuition. But just as you can allow your instincts to be fulfilled, you can allow and give total freedom to your intuition to be fulfilled. And you will be surprised at what kinds of powers you have been carrying within you.
Intuition can give you answers for ultimate questions – not verbally but existentially. You need not ask: “What is truth?” Instinct won’t hear, it is deaf. Intellect will hear but it can only philosophize; it is blind, it can’t see. Intuition is a seer, it has eyes. It sees the truth – there is no question of thinking about it.
Instinct and intuition are both independent of you. Instinct is in the power of nature, of unconscious nature, and intuition is in the hands of the superconscious universe, the consciousness that surrounds the whole universe, the oceanic consciousness of which we are just small islands – or better, icebergs, because we can melt into it and become one with it.
In some ways intuition is exactly opposite to instinct.
Instinct always leads you to the other; its fulfillment is always dependent on something other than you.
Intuition leads you only to yourself.
It has no dependence, no need for the other; hence its beauty, its freedom and independence.
Intuition is an exalted state needing nothing. It is so full of itself that there is no space for anything else.
In some way intuition is like intellect because it is intelligence.
Intellect and intelligence are similar at least in appearance, but only in appearance. The intellectual person is not necessarily intelligent and the intelligent person is not necessarily intellectual. You can find a farmer so intelligent that even a very great professor, a very great intellectual, will look like a pygmy in front of him.
It happened in Soviet Russia after the revolution, that they changed Petrograd, the city of Petrograd, to make it a new city named after Lenin, Leningrad. In front of Petrograd’s huge, beautiful, and ancient castle there was a big rock which the czars had never thought to remove – there was no need. Now cars had come into existence and that rock was blocking the whole road, it had to be removed.
But the rock was so beautiful that they wanted to remove it and keep it as a memorial, so they did not want to destroy it or dynamite it. But all the great engineers – all they could think about was to dynamite it or to start cutting it up piece by piece and then later on to put the pieces together. But Lenin said: “That won’t do – that will not be the same thing. The rock is so beautiful, that’s why the czars have kept it just in front of their palace.”
At that point a man came, a poor man on his donkey. He stood there listening to all this argument; then he laughed and started moving on. Lenin said: “Wait, why did you laugh?”
He said: “It is such a simple matter. Nothing much has to be done: all that you have to do is to dig around the rock. Don’t touch the rock at all; just dig around the rock and the rock will settle deeper into the hole. You will not be disturbing the rock – the rock will remain there – but it will not be blocking anybody. There is no need to dynamite it or to destroy it.”
Lenin said to his engineers: “You are great engineers and architects, but what this poor fellow is saying is more intelligent.” And that’s what was done. The rock was saved and the road was saved, but the idea came from a poor man who was nobody.
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