All passion is of the body – there is no passion of the heart.
Yes, there is compassion of the heart and there is a tremendous difference
between the two.
Passion is lust and ugly; compassion is love, beautiful, spiritual.
But people go on living in fallacies, they go on thinking their body lust is their
love.
Mind knows nothing of love, because it does not
appear in the curriculum of any university.
It is not part of mathematics or physics or chemistry or
geography.
Love simply does not exist for the mind.
Love exists in the heart.
But you never reach to the heart, you remain in the body, dominated by the mind.
The body has only lust; it is nothing spiritual, it is very
earthly.
It is simply a biological strategy to continue the species,
to create children.
The people of the head need to descend from the mind into the heart because all our social
systems and educational programs are based on a very
cunning device: they avoid the heart.
Don't bring the heart because there is no place in any
subject, there is no department in any university where
love is being taught.
On the contrary, every effort is made so that your whole energy moves into the
head and remains closed there.
It never blossoms like a flower.
Everybody has a heart, and certainly a right education will be divided into three parts:
Education for the body – because the body has a mystery
of its own.
Education for the mind – because the mind has its own great strength as far as inquiry
about objects is concerned.
And education for the heart,
for love – which is completely denied.
If you ask a physician or a doctor where the heart is, he will say, "There is no heart,
there is only a pumping station for blood, for purifying blood;
it has nothing to do with love and music and poetry."
And the physicians are not deceiving you, they are themselves deceived.
The heart which the mystics have been talking about is not the
pumping station.
The heart is part of the body, but just behind the pumping station... an invisible
force.
All forces are invisible.
Nobody has seen electricity.
Have you seen electricity?
Perhaps you will think you have seen it.
You have seen only the expression of electricity.
It happened...
The man who worked the most on the subject of electricity was Thomas Alva Edison.
He had gone for a holiday to a small village on the
sea coast.
They had a small school there, and just by coincidence he saw something was happening
and inquired.
They said, "The students have made things.
It is their annual festival.
And people are coming and going to see the things that the students
have made."
So having no other work, he walked into the school.
The school children had made an electric train, a small train: push the button and the train
makes a circuit.
Edison just jokingly asked the student who was showing it, "What is the force that
makes the train move?"
The boy said, "Electricity."
Edison said, "Have you seen electricity?"
He said, "I have not seen it, but perhaps my teacher – he is a graduate of science
– he may have seen it."
So he called his teacher.
The teacher said, "Seen electricity?
I have not seen electricity.
I have seen only the effects of electricity: it can become
light, it can drive engines....
It can do many mechanical things, but what is it?
Perhaps our principal who is a postgraduate in science may have seen it."
The principal was called.
And the principal said, "Forgive me, nobody has ever asked.
Energies cannot be seen.
You can see only their effects."
Edison laughed.
He said, "Don't be worried.
Don't look so worried.
My name is Thomas Alva Edison."
They said, "You are Edison?
You have created so many electrical devices and you are asking this
question?"
He said, "I am asking because I myself have not seen what electricity is."
Love is not part of your body system.
Love is a hidden source in the body of pure energy which can
make anybody rejoice, can quench the thirst.
And unless your energy called the heart, blossoms, you are not perfectly alive, you are just
a robot.
Mind is a computer.
Just the other day I received the news that for fifteen years in Japan they have
been keeping the head of a monkey without the body, wired with all kinds of nourishment
that the brain needs.
And because they have been successful, now they are going to try on human beings.
Just your head is enough; then mechanical lungs
and mechanical wiring, blood that is needed for
your brain – reaching through the wires, being purified by the mechanical lungs and
you will be perfectly alive.
And the strangest thing is that you will feel love, you will feel emotions, you will be
angry if somebody insults you.
You will talk, you will answer questions which have been taught to you before this
calamity, this scientific calamity happened to you.
This whole body has to be understood as a robot.
Behind it is another body referred to in the esoteric schools as the astral body.
The heart is part of the astral body.
That's why love is such a nourishment.
That's why love makes you so alive.
That's why love gives your legs a dance – and if
you allow it to fill your robot, for the first time you will feel what life is.
And behind the astral body is
your real being, your immortal body.
You are asking, Prabhati, if you have some spiritual passion of the heart that needs
to drop away....
Don't jump ahead of yourself.
All that you have to do is to drop out of your mind – and that does not mean that
you have to cut your head off.
That simply means the energy that you are continuously giving to the mind, you need
to change its route and divert it towards the astral, the heart.
The heart has no passion, but it has tremendous compassion.
I am using the word 'compassion' because 'love' has been contaminated.
People have used the word 'love' almost synonymously with
'lust'.
Just say to someone, "I love you," and there will be no problem.
But if you say, "I lust for you," there is going to be trouble.
Then be prepared for the police station – "This man is dangerous."
In fact, when you say, "I love you," that's what you are saying.
But a little homework is needed before you reach the bedroom, before lust can be
accepted – it must not be announced!
The very word seems to be somehow animalistic.
Animals have lust – and you are human beings.
But the reality is that all the introductions, and the parties,
and meeting on the beach, and the gardens, and the
presents... ultimately lead you to the animal.
Without all this introduction, if you are a very direct man, you will go to jail – "Why
bother about this ice cream?
Just let us do the thing."
No, that is not human.
Humanity has to be a little sophisticated: first hold the hand, first talk about beautiful
things, poetry and music...
All the time you are thinking of something else, but you have to create
this camouflage.
To be straightforward would mean going into jail.
The heart has been completely ignored; society
does not need it.
It is the need of the individual and society does not need even individuals, it
needs only personalities.
It needs bogus people, obedient, always ready to follow the order, always ready
to be enslaved.
A man of heart is a man in revolt – revolt against anything that is ugly, revolt against
anything that is simply mechanical.
Society does not want individuals because they will create trouble.
So from very childhood, it starts destroying individuality,
and the best way to destroy the individuality is to let them
pass around the heart, not through the heart.
All our educational systems are managed in such a
way so that you can move without ever being aware that you have a heart.
I am using the word 'compassion' because 'love' has become mechanical.
Everybody is "loving" – it has lost its depth.
A woman said to her husband when the hero in the movie kissed the heroine very lovingly,
very romantically...
She said to the husband, "Look, you
never do that to me."
The man said, "That is only a film, it is not reality.
And moreover, who knows whether that man is married to somebody else or that woman is
married to somebody else.
About these actors nobody is certain – and anyway, it is all acting.
Do you want me to act?"
The woman said, "I know the woman personally.
She is married to the hero in actual life."
The man said, "My God, then the hero is really an actor.
To be so loving and so romantic to your own wife...
I cannot do it.
It is too difficult..."
The moment you remember that it is your own wife and what are you doing... it looks as
if you are doing something nasty.
The movies, the films, television, the poets and literature have all reduced and contaminated
the word 'love' – polluted it and destroyed
its beauty.
That's why I am saying the heart has compassion.
Compassion is the purest love which gives and asks nothing in return.
You don't have to renounce it.
You have to go deeper into it.
You have to become it.
Because by becoming it, you will come closer to your being.
Mendel Kravitz opens a new business and wants an international staff.
So he hires Klaus a German, Paddy the Irishman, and Wu, a Japanese.
"Klaus," says Mendel, "I'm putting you in charge of production.
I want you to make things efficient around here.
And Paddy, you will be in charge of personnel.
Make sure the morale stays good.
And Wu," he says to the Japanese, "I am putting
you in charge of supplies."
A couple of weeks later, Mendel is touring the business and finds Klaus and Paddy together.
"Everything is going smoothly?"
"Ja!" says Klaus.
"Production is up double."
"Everyone's getting on great," says Paddy.
"People are all liking each other."
"How is Wu doing in supplies?" asks Mendel.
But neither of them have seen Wu since the first day.
Mendel starts to get worried and looks all through the factory.
As he is walking between some large stacks of boxes, suddenly Wu leaps out and shouts,
"SUPLISE!"
It has been a good morning....
You listened silently to things which are very essential to your spiritual
growth, and you laughed heartily.
More than that is not needed – a good laughter and a deep silence
together are enough to transform you.
You are on the right path, unless you get stuck somewhere.
The path is simple and easy and all that it needs is a let-go – either in silence
or in laughter, either in music or in dance.
Remember the most spiritual words in existence are let-go.
Okay, Maneesha?
Yes, Beloved Master.
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