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CHAPTER 6. SYMPHONY FOR A SEABIRD
just becomes more alive in the brain. But that has to be decided by a master, not by you – you
cannot do it through books. Only a living master can decide how many seconds will be enough for
you, otherwise you will be moving in danger. But the human mind is childish. If something goes
wrong with your watch, the first inclination is to open it to see what has gone wrong, and to do
something. Please don’t do anything, otherwise many more things will go wrong. Because a watch
is a subtle mechanism and only somebody who knows should open it. You will not be repairing it;
you may do so much harm that it will become almost impossible to repair it. And a watch is nothing
– before a brain a watch is nothing. Don’t do anything through books; books cannot be helpful.
Somebody is needed who can look through your mind, through the whole brain system, who can
feel how your inner brain is functioning; only he can decide how many seconds and whether it will
be good or not.
And this is just an example. Many people go on trying things through books. Life is very complex,
books can only give you dead rules, and if you follow them you are moving into a dangerous zone.
It is better not to do anything than to do something wrong. It is better to remain ordinary – remain in
an ordinary life. If you cannot find a living master, if you cannot trust in somebody, then don’t do it.
At least you will remain sane; otherwise, you can go insane.
The inner system of your bio-energy is very complex – the whole universe is nothing compared to it.
The whole universe moves on very simple lines.
Man is the most complex being; that is why no lion can go mad but man is always on the verge.
Almost any moment you can go mad. It is such a complex phenomenon that one should move in
it with great alertness. And understanding is needed, not rules. Through books, scriptures, rules,
you can have knowledge but not understanding. Each person is different: man is different from
woman, each individual is different from the other. Not only that, every day you are different from
the day before. Yesterday you were one person, today you are somebody else, tomorrow you will be
somebody else again. A very, very deep understanding is needed; rules cannot be the substitute.
Now we will enter the sutra:
SYMPHONY FOR A SEA BIRD.
YOU CANNOT PUT A BIG LOAD A SMALL BAG NOR CAN YOU, WITH A SHORT ROPE, DRAW
WATER FROM A DEEP WELL.
But this is what everybody is doing: trying to put a big load in a small bag. You never bother about
the bag or what your capacity is. The first thing is to know your limitations, then think about your
achievement. What is your capacity? What are you capable of? What is your intrinsic capacity?
Nobody bothers about it. If a man who has no musical ear goes on trying to become a musician his
whole life will be wasted because a musician is born, not made. A man who has no feeling goes on
trying to become a poet or a painter. If a man who has no eyes tries to become a painter he is going
to be a failure, because a painter has a different type of eye – almost the third eye. When you look
at the trees you see one green, when a painter looks he sees thousands of greens, not one. Each
tree has a greenery of its own. And he feels colour; colour has a vibration for him; the whole world
is nothing but colour.
Hindus say that the whole world is sound.
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