Your Being Is Completely in Harmony with the Story Book Narrative

It's like I was sharing this story—I don't remember whether it was on the broadcast or this when we were meeting in the camera here—but rather when he was younger, he would share a lot of stories. Like he would say, 'Oh, I met... there's a famous cricketer in India called Kapil Dev.' So he said, 'Oh, I went out of the house and I met Kapil Dev and then he threw a ball at me and I hit it for the six.' And you know, all of this kind. Younger than three years, age difference makes a lot of difference. So I would just like smile and nod, and it was not that I was in opposition to what he was saying. And there was so much love that I was accepting; I was accepting everything that he would say, but I would not take it to be the truth.

So you can be in harmony with what is being said, but it doesn't mean that you have to confirm that its limited ideas about who you are have to be taken to be true. So this is a distinction which is important. So the heart actually is never in opposition to anything that shows up in the world, although outwardly it may seem like, you know, there's a strong opposition and leave the mind all this thing. But really, in the heart, it is not in opposition to any of that. But being in harmony with it does not imply that you take its utterances or ramblings to be representative of reality.

So to recognize that it is a limited instrument with only so much capability and scope, and not able to decipher even a moment in reality. Like right now, the mind cannot answer what this is. Even a moment of what this is, even the manifest aspect of what this is, you see? If we say that, 'Okay, Mr. Mind or Miss Mind, you just define this much, which is what is this right now,' it will not be able to define it. And the way it does that is that everybody will have a different idea about what this is. So it is impossible to gain the truth out of it. But to accept that it is an instrument which is limited in its nature, that doesn't mean you go to war with it and you don't accept that it is an aspect of consciousness. You accept it, but you don't take... if it is telling you that you are a snail or you are a rabbit or whatever, you will not take it to be true.

In the same way, when it is saying that you are this entity which somehow is an owner of this body in some way, you see, it is not even clear about what that definition of 'me' is. You see, sometimes when put in a spot, it says, 'No, but I'm just saying you are this body.' But if you look at its goals, it has nothing to do with the body. What it wants to do, what it wants to gain—fame and money and all of that—the body is not concerned with at all. So although it uses the body as a pivot, like as a central pivot to its ability to identify, it is not really setting goals which are body-oriented. Most of the goals are about this entity which nobody can find.

And having thoroughly investigated that and seen that there is nobody like that, then to go to its words and take those to be a truth about yourself, that would be a disservice to yourselves in the overall play, of course. So that would be a disservice that you don't have to do. You can allow it to speak, you can allow it to come and go, but you can rely on your own insight about what you are more than you rely on what the words that are being represented coming from the mind are saying about what you are. Just in the same way that you would not limit yourself to just what your sight is saying about you. You see, if you limited yourself to just sight and not count hearing, not count taste, not count smell, not count any of the other ways to perceive, then that would be a limitation. And that is too small for even your manifest reality.