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CHAPTER 13. KRISHNA GOES TO THE WEST
dialectician; nobody could think of defeating him in polemics. Students from all over India went to
Navadip to learn logic. Scholars of logic went there to debate with their counterparts, and if once
someone won a debate he immediately became famous all over the country; he was acclaimed as
the greatest pundit – the scholar laureate of India. Often enough it happened that someone who
went to Navadip to debate got defeated at the hands of some scholar and became his disciple. It
was impossible to defeat Navadip; the whole town was full of logicians; every home was the home of
a scholar. If someone defeated one scholar there was another round the comer ready to challenge
him. The town was a beehive of scholars.
Chaitanya was born in Navadip, and was himself a towering scholar of logic. He was the top logician
of the Navadip of his time, held in great respect by all. The same Chaitanya one day said goodbye
to scholarship and went dancing and singing ecstatically through the streets of Navadip saying that
everything is unthinkable. When such a person says something it is bound to have tremendous
significance. Chaitanya too represents the climactic point of a great tradition. After exploring and
analyzing every nook and comer of thinking and intellectual understanding, after going to the very
roots of words, concepts and their meanings, he renounces knowledge and returns to his basic
ignorance and declares he is now going to sing and dance like a madman. He said that he would
not argue any more, not search truth through logic, he would simply live and live with abandon.
Life begins where logic ends.
Question 6
QUESTIONER: YOU EXPLAINED TO US CHAITANYA AND HIS PRINCIPLE OF THE
UNTHINKABLE TOGETHERNESS AND SEPARATENESS. YOU SPOKE ABOUT GINSBERG AND
HIS IRRATIONALITY. EARLIER YOU DEALT WITH THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WORDS BECOMING
MANTRAS AND ALSO WITH THE CHANGING OF NAMES. YOU HAVE ALSO SAID THAT WORDS
GIVE RISE TO DUALISM. BUT KRISHNA SAYS WITH AUTHORITY THAT ONE WHO UTTERS
”AUM” AND MEDITATES ON GOD WITH AWARENESS AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH ATTAINS
TO MOKSHA, THE HIGHEST STATE OF BEING. IT MEANS THAT THERE IS A WORD – ”AUM”
– THAT CAN LEAD TO NON-DUALISM. HOW DO YOU LOOK AT ”AUM”? IS IT RATIONAL OR
IRRATIONAL? AND WHAT DIFFICULTIES CAME IN YOUR WAY OF GIVING ”AUM” A PLACE IN
YOUR DYNAMIC MEDITATION?
Words are not the truth. Not even the word truth is truth.
Truth is found in a state of wordlessness, in utter silence. Even if one has to express truth, words
cannot do it. Truth is best expressed through silence. Silence, not word, is the language of truth. As
I said this morning, silence is the voice of truth.
If it is so then a question arises how a word, as I say, can serve as a seed and a basis for
spiritual discipline. There is no contradiction in the two statements; in fact, they are just different
dimensions of approaching the same thing. I said this morning that words are not the truth, but if
those surrounded by untruth want to attain to truth they will have to take the help of untruth, there
is no other way. Of course, if they can make a leap, they can go straightaway from word to silence.
But in case they lack the courage to make a leap, they will have to get rid of words gradually, step
by step.
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