SO FAR , SO GOOD

…Man has committed suicide, he has destroyed himself. Knowledge without love is dangerous, because poison is in its very root. Love keeps balance, never allow knowledge to go too far, so it never becomes destructive. Science is knowledge without love – that is the danger. But it is one of the valid approaches: the object, the material, can be known without love, there is no need for love.

                  But life is not only matter; life is suffused with something tremendously transcendental. That transcendental is missed. And then science, by and by, automatically turns into a technology, it becomes mechanical. More and more it becomes a mean to exploit nature, to manipulate nature. From the very beginning, science has been with that idea: how to conquer nature. That’s a foolish idea.

                  We are not separate from nature, how can we conquer it? We are nature, so who is going to conquer whom? – it is absurd. With that absurdity, science has destroyed much: the whole of nature is destroyed. The climate is poisoned, the air, the water, the seas, everything polluted. The whole harmony is dying the ecology is being continuously destroyed. Please remember – this is enough, more than enough.

                  Don’t turn science inward. If the application of scientific methodology has been so devastating for the outer nature, it is going to be more devastating to the inner nature – because you are moving towards the more subtle. Even for the outside nature a different kind of knowledge is needed, which is rooted in love; but for the innermost core of your being, the subtlest, the transcendental, knowledge is not needed at all. Innocence is needed, innocence with love – then you will know the inside, then you will know the interior of your being, the subjectivity.

…If you understand, nothing is needed. Just being silent and just being yourself, not moving in any direction, not moving at all, and you will se the benediction, the meditation, when this meditation has become such a spontaneous flow that you need not even sit in a certain posture for it. That you need not  find a small corner in the house where nobody disturbs you; when it is also there in the market place, talking, walking, doing, eating, it is there; when it is always there, even, when you are asleep it is there – you go on feeling it, it goes on like breathing, or the beating of the heart – that’s what Kabir calls shaj samadhi spontaneous ecstasy. It needs no technique; it needs only spontaneity, it needs only naturalness, it needs only simplicity.

                  …”Can curious, suspicious persons not become a good followers?” A curious person, a suspicious person, cannot even become a follower. “A good follower” is far away because to follow, you need to be in trust. To go with somebody into the unknown, at least you will have  to have a little trust. And this man know no trust. He is suspicious, but he knows no trust.

                  Doubt can lead you into the inner journey. Doubt is good in science, science depend on doubt. Doubt is a method in the world science. If you trust, you will not move into science at all; you have to distrust. Science is an inimical method; it depends on antagonism. Religion, mysticism are totally different, dramatically opposite. Trust is the method there, not doubt.  If you trust me, you can come with me. There is no other way.

Excerpts from “The Path of Love”

On the Songs on the Indian Mystic Kabir.