I have stilled the restless mind…
(Part of the songs of Kabir)
When the mind is silent, the heart is radiant. When the mind is chattering, the heart is dead. You cannot exist in the heart if you exist in the mind. If you exist in the mind… Mind is very jealous and very possessive; it does not allow you to move towards the heart. The mind is a very jealous wife: it absorbs you totally, it does not leave a single moment to move toward the heart. And even if you start thinking about the heart, the mind creates a false heart in the head. The mind even starts manufacturing feelings.
…Thinking is a false thing, but the mind produces pseudo-coins to deceive you. It says, “You need love? Okay, have it” – and it creates a thought of love, it creates a thought of feeling. Mind is tremendously inventive; it can go on playing games. And this has to be watched, otherwise you will always be lost in the head. The head is very tricky and it goes on tricking you again and again. It is a tremendous trap, it can create anything, it is very efficient in producing false good.
… for in thatness I have seen beyond thatness…
(Part of the songs of Kabir)
Through the mind you have come across your own projections. Through the mind you never come to the real. The mind goes on creating ideas about the real. You never face reality as it is; there is always a screen of thought, and the thought goes on distorting the reality. You never see that which is, you are not objective. Your imagination goes on working, your wish-fulfillment goes on working. Your desire go on coloring things. You can never see things as they are unless the mind is completely put aside. When you see through the heart, you see reality.
He who found both love and renunciation…
(Part of the songs of Kabir)
Very difficult to understand, the very extreme of illogic. We can understand love. But then what about renunciation? We can understand renunciation, but what about love? They seem to be the greatest contradiction possible. When you love how can you renounce? And when you renounce how can you love?
Try to understand it. Ordinary love is sort of sleep: you become attached to the object of love, you start feeling jealous, you become possessive – and your possessiveness and jealousy really poison the whole love. They destroy it. Love is destroyed by jealousy, possessiveness. The moment you try to possess your love object, you have denied love; you have already denied. You have declared that you don’t love.
Love is possible only if there is no possessiveness and no jealousy. That means love has attained renunciation. You love the person but you renounce the possessiveness; you love the person but you renounce jealousy; you love the person but you don’t want to make a slave out of him or her; you love the person but you respect his or her freedom; you love the person but your love does not become an imprisonment. You love, yet you remain unattached. You love, you love tremendously, but still you don’t cling: that is renunciation.
Love the world, and don’t be attached. Be in the world, but don’t be of the world – that is what renunciation is. That is what I call sannyas: a great harmony between love and renunciation; a great harmony between this world and that; a great harmony between God the creator and the world, the created; a great harmony between the body and the soul; a great harmony, with no conflict – the disappearance of all conflict.
If your love is so great that it contain renunciation, only then is it love. If your renunciation is so great that it can contain love, only then is it renunciation. A man who can be loving and yet in renunciation is the greatest growth, the destiny. That is the destiny we are seeking. And unless it is attained. You will never feel fulfilled. God is the lover and the sannyasin.
Look: he loves the world, and yet you cannot find him anywhere but he loves the world, and yet you cannot find him anywhere. He is completely absent; his renunciation is utter. He loves the world – he goes on creating it. He loves tremendously, otherwise why should he create? He cares tremendously, but is so unattached that he never comes in the market place to declare, “Look, I am the creator.”
He has no “I.” he is the creator without ever feeling, “I am the creator.” His renunciation is utter, his love is utter.
A sannyasin will be a miniature of God: his love will be total, his renunciation too. And Kabir says:
Never descend to death.
He goes beyond death; he becomes deathless. He has attained to the nectar of the divine. He has attained to the elixir. For this elixir, the alchemist all over the world have been searching and searching. This elixir can happen to you. Just one combination is needed, one great synthesis: the synthesis between love and renunciation.
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