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CHAPTER 6. SYMPHONY FOR A SEABIRD
It so happens that those few people who wrote the Upanishads were poets, musicians; they had an
ear for sound. Then the whole universe turned into a sound – OMKAR, ANAHATA. A man who has
never been in love with music goes on trying with the mantra AUM – nothing happens. He goes on
repeating it inside – nothing happens. He goes to this master and that and never thinks about his
own capacity.
If you have a musical ear, if you have a heart which can understand music – not only understand but
feel – then a mantra will be helpful. Because then you can become one with the inner sounds, then
you can move with those sounds to more and more subtle layers. Then a moment comes when all
sounds stop and only the universal sound remains. That is AUM. That is why Hindus say that the
whole world consists of sound. This is not true, this is not an absolute truth; this is the truth of the
musician.
Remember there are no absolute truths, every truth is individual – it is your truth. There is no truth
as an objectivity. Your truth may not be a truth to me, my truth may not be a truth to you, because
truth is not objective. I am there, involved in it, my truth means me – your truth means you.
When Buddha reaches, when Jesus or Chuang Tzu reaches they have reached the same universal
source, but their interpretations differ.
A Buddha is not a musician at all; he finds no sound there. He is not a painter; he finds no colour
there. He is a very silent man, silence is his music. That is why he finds a formless void – SHUNYA
– everything empty. That is his truth. He has come to the same source, the source is one, but the
people who come are different. They look, they see, they feel in different ways. That is why there
are so many philosophies, so many religions. When Meera comes to the same source she starts
dancing. You cannot conceive of Buddha dancing, you cannot conceive of Jesus dancing! Meera
starts dancing – she has come to the beloved. The heart of a woman, the feeling of love – then
the source becomes the beloved. She has come to her lover. The source is the same, the truth
ultimately is the same, but the moment someone says it – it is different. And remember, nobody’s
truth can be yours; YOU have to uncover it.
The first thing is to remember your capacity, but you are so confused you cannot feel what your
capacity is. Hence the need of a master who can take your pulse with his hand and who can feel
what your capacity is. You may go on making much effort in a wrong direction but the outcome will
be nothing. You can reach only in a certain way; you can reach only through you.
YOU CANNOT PUT A BIG LOAD IN A SMALL BAG, NOR CAN YOU, WITH A SHORT ROPE,
DRAW WATER FROM A DEEP WELL.
Know your capacity – that is the first point. If you rightly know your capacity, then the first step has
been taken and the last is not very far away. If the first is wrong, then you may walk and walk for
lives together and you will not reach anywhere.
HAVE YOU NOT HEARD HOW A BIRD FROM THE SEA WAS BLOWN INSHORE AND LANDED
OUTSIDE THE CAPITAL OF LU?
A beautiful parable – a bird from the sea landed outside the capital of Lu, a beautiful bird.
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