Differences Are Just an Idea

One important tip I want to give you, is that if you go to the wrong instrument you will only get the wrong measurements. So what are the wrong instruments for truth, as we call the truth? [Silence] Everything that you can use is a wrong instrument. Everything what you can try or put effort. That’s why I say, if you try you've already gone too far. So anything you can use which is: I can use my sight, “Where is it? Where is myself?” I can use my sight and I can look for everything that sight can go to, but I will not find the Self. Same with hearing, same with touch, same with taste, same with smell, same with everything. So understand that. The second thing is that you can use your head: I will think of God, I will believe in God, I will convince myself that I am Brahman itself. It will not help. That is the wrong instrument. Anything else you got, any other tools? Try and use the body to do some Hatha Yoga and Pranayama and things like that. It may make you a little peaceful, peace of mind, all those things may come. But it is not so that you come to the direct discovery of God. What else can you use? You may say, “I can use my intuition.” But actually you can’t. You can't use your intuition. When you stop using your other stuff then intuition is apparent. You can't go to this intuition and say, “Intuition please help me. I'm going to use you.” I’ll give you another example. Another child wrote to me, she said, “I am trying to intuitively grasp something.” This is when this point became apparent here. That actually it is another mind trick, subtle as it may be. Because the minute we say, “I’m intuitively trying to grasp something”, it is not intuition. The mind grasps. Intuition doesn't need to grasp, Divine Intelligence, your true intelligence. There is no question of grasping over there. So grasping is the way to suffer. So don't let your mind convince you that ‘Okay I’m going to try and use my intuition about this and try to solve this with my intuition’, or something like that. So that is one tip that if you're trying to use intuition, it is not intuition. When you stop trying, intuition becomes apparent. And the second tip is: Don't use intuition to try and be right. ‘Oh I went to my intuition but intuition said “Ah, it's going to rain tomorrow” You see? It was supposed to rain today according to my intuition. And then my intuition may need some servicing or maintenance because it didn't rain today. It's not for things like this. So intuition will just guide you in a way that is most auspicious for you. It is not concerned with your idea of true and false or right and wrong. The very important point. Because we feel like, we will use intuition like a superpower in this world. And then we will have some great mastery in this realm because we are intuitive. That is not the point. Your intuition can tell you something which is completely different from how things will play out just because that was most auspicious for your growth. It is not constrained by our notional ideas of truth and false. Okay? So but the main point is: If you find yourself being [Makes an action of grasping] like that, then you're not searching for Truth. Forget about it. Seekers feel like, “I only want the truth. I'm really all for it!” You've already gone too far. You’re sitting on the Truth, no? [Chuckling] “I'm going to spend the rest of my life looking for truth only!” But see where you are first. What is here? Whose presence is this? So don't mistake egoistic sort of stands to be Truth or intuition. [Pause] So whatever you can use, forget about it. And if they can get used in the normal functioning of life, and they will be used in the waking state - perception is bound to appear. Your thoughts don't have to stop. All that can continue. But try to use perception or thought for the discovery of that which is prior to any of this phenomenal stuff. It is impossible. Okay, so how to find it? Stop using the right instrument and tell me if you've not succeeded. Stop using the lens of the wrong instrument or the wrong spectacles, It’s clear. That’s why I've been saying these days: What do you find without your mind?