The Heart's Intelligence vs. Mind's Limitations

We only feel that there must be a helpful aspect of the mind because we don't know the ability of the heart yet. Because we feel that Atma Gyan, which comes from the heart, is only about the reality of what we are, not about how to navigate in the world. You see, but actually to be in the heart gets us in touch with the true mode of knowledge which helps us, which guides us about every step in the world as well as who we really are. You see, so it's like replacing—you may not, you're too young, but when I was young there was an operating system on computers called DOS, Disk Operating System. So there was no user interface over there. You would just have to type the command, you see. So then when these user interfaces came, the graphical user interfaces, we felt a bit like, 'How do we do this? We just want to type and get our work done.'

But basically, moving from head to heart is an upgrading of our operating system. You see, like you have these iOS upgrades that come, right? So you go to a higher level of intelligence, hopefully. In the same way, we move away from a very limited, very primitive 'me here, me want, me don't want'—type very caveman type thinking, which is all that our ego and mind is made up of—into a much more nuanced, loving, kind, compassionate, faithful, patient, grateful mode of living through living in the heart. So we don't lose anything of value.

But the question then is, because we are so used to the mind, is there anything that is safe for us to keep in the mind? So let's not worry about even 'helpful' for a moment. What is safe to keep in the mind? God's name. Praising God, loving God, anything to do centered on God is safe to keep in the mind. But don't worry, you won't be lost. We feel that moving from head to heart, we'll be lost because how will I run my practical life? Firstly, there is no such distinction between practical life and spiritual life. But that spirit itself is the light of this whole universe. So we must never feel that that spirit can't guide us. That Atma can't guide us into what to do with the world. So all that we lose is our burden.