Are We Living from the Head or the Heart?

Exactly, exactly. So this is the question that everyone that is coming to a true spirituality needs to grapple with, and I provided some tools to help you with this. So if you notice the presence of an unconditional love—like unconditional love—and if you're checking with integrity... because many times our mind itself will just try to pose, you know, and say, "Yes, yes, but love is here, it is my heart that said it." But you have to just start with the silence. Start with not rushing.

So the first tip is the presence of an unconditional love as the guidance is being received. So actually, even before that, it is important to say that if your intention is to follow God or to follow your heart—the Holy Spirit within—then even if you get tricked by the mind, it's all right. He's going to take care of it. You don't have to worry. So it's your intention that counts more than anything else. So we don't have to worry that much about it. But having said that, I'll still give the tips so that we can discern more clearly.

Like the head—the head is always rushing, is always authoritative and troublesome, even when it's pretending. Like some of you feel like you're hearing Ananta's voice saying, "My dear child, I want you to..." but you can still smell that if it's coming from the head, it's a head which is posing. Because there's no love there, there's no patience there. Your heart is never going to push you. It is never going to be authoritative. It is not going to say, "We're running out of time." See, all this is the mind's rushing, grasping. So if you notice tendencies to rush and to grasp, then you can notice it is the mind. If you notice the presence of an unconditional love, then you can be pretty certain it's the heart.

But the subtler clue is that if you notice it coming from the presence itself, from the Atma within. So the presence is palpable to you. It's subtler, but it's almost impossible to replicate for the mind because this is purely intuitive inside. The presence is purely intuitive. So while that is happening, the mind cannot function. So that is the second: the presence being tangible or palpable. And the third, which is the subtlest—beyond subtle, actually—is that the reality of the pure witnessing, the pure awareness which is your truth, your reality, that is apparent to you as this guidance is being received. Then you can trust that guidance to be coming from Divinity, from the higher place.

I've given all of it now, not expecting all of it to be immediately clear. But how it works in satsang is that we seed it, you see? We seed it and then it flowers within you. It just flowers because something is heard. Even if most things the mind will not be able to grasp, you see, it gets assimilated somewhere and then it starts to flower within. So how to distinguish between the selfish egoic voice of the mind versus the holy voice of the Atma within? The presence of unconditional love, the guidance coming from the presence itself, and the truly non-phenomenal insight of your absolute reality being apparent. Those are the tools which you can use to check. Soon it will become second nature. Just become second nature. The texture of it actually is so distinct. Initially we may need these tools, but soon the love-soaked words from the heart are quite apparently distinct.

I know what you're talking about. When that happens, there's nothing stopping it. There's no thought, you're just... the action comes. Again, that knowing that you're talking about. And so the goal in some ways is to trust that the knowing will come and take action when it does instead of...

Yeah, and allow that to move you. When it comes, don't even make that like, "Okay, guidance came, now I must act on it." God, You move me. You move me. Then He moves you. You'll see the beauty of this. If you start your day also like saying, "You do it, let me see." The mind is very scared of that because it feels like you'll become irresponsible, you'll sit on the bed all day, you'll not be productive or efficient, all of that. But those who have tried it never have a complaint, really.