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CHAPTER 20. BASE YOUR RULE ON THE RULE
It is interesting to know that when you raise your right leg you are wholly with your tight leg, and
when you raise your left leg you are completely with the left leg. In the same way you have to be
whole when you speak, and you have to be whole when you are silent.
Disorder begins when we choose. And when the chooser is separate the world of choices is
unending. Therefore witnessing is not a very lofty stage of being, it is just in the middle. It is,
however, a higher thing than the doer, because a doer cannot take a jump into the non-dual – the
one without the other.
Witnessing is like a jumping board from where a plunge into the rivet of oneness becomes possible.
But in one respect the doer and the witness are alike: they are holding on to the rivet’s bank, neither
of them is in the river yet. It is true that while the doer is away from the rivet, the witness is at a point
close to it from where he can easily take a jump. But as long as they are out of the rivet, they are on
the same land, in the same trap – the trap of duality. Only after a leap into the rivet can you be out
of duality, you can be one with the one.
When Krishna talks about an unperturbed and steady state, he really talks about adwait, the non
dual state, where there is no one to be disturbed. So I hold that Krishna’s vision does not violate
sensitivity; on the contrary, it is the attainment of total sensitivity.
So fat as Krishna’s reference in the GEETA to the northward and southward movement of the sun
is concerned, I think it has been grossly misconstrued always. It has nothing to do with the sun who
makes our days and moves northward and southward the year round, and who presides over our
solar system. It is not that one dying during the sun’s northward move. ment attains to liberation and
another dying during his southward trip misses it. The whole thing has nothing to do with our planet
and the sun; it is a different matter altogether. It is really a symbolic statement, a metaphor.
Like the sun on the outside, there is an inner sun, a sun of consciousness inside us which has
its own ways and spheres of movement. And as we divide our earth into northern and southern
hemispheres, so we divide our inner sky into similar hemispheres. Inside us too there is a movement
of the sun, or light or truth or whatever you call it, and a network of centers which can compare with
the stellar system on the outside.
If in this inner world a particular space is lighted at the time of one’s death, he attains to liberation,
otherwise not. This subject is important, but needs to be explained at length, so it is better to
take it up another time. For the present, it is enough to know that Krishna’s reference to the sun’s
movement in the Geeta is not concerned with the outer sun.
Each one of us, in our interiority, is a miniature universe with our own inner suns and moons and
stars and their movements. It has its own spatial movement of light or consciousness or truth or
whatever you call it. The Geeta says that if someone dies when his inner sun is on its northward
movement he is freed from the cycle of birth and death. It is like we say that water turns into vapor
when it is heated to one hundred degrees temperature. Short of a hundred degrees – even at
ninety-nine degrees – water remains water.
To understand it we will have to go into the whole matter of inner bodies and their centers. So I leave
it here for the present.
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