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Joy – the
Ultimate Peak
One can have pleasures without meditation because
pleasures are of the body, but one cannot have joy without meditation. Joy
belongs to the spirit. Pleasures belong to the body, happiness to the mind and
joy to the soul.
We all are aware of the physical body being available
for physical fulfilment of our desires
which naturally give us immense pleasure. The nature of the physical body is
such that it is linked to our animal heritage, it is our past, it is our animal
instinct – it is already there and it is fully developed. If we want happiness,
we have to do something. Happiness is human, it is a little above the animal
base instinct. Pleasure consists of only two things, food and sex - those are
the two polarities of pleasure. Happiness consists of many things, but for
happiness one has to grow sensitivity and creativity. To be happy is an art.
One has to learn music, then one can be happy with
it. One can learn painting, poetry, sculpture, gardening, music, dance - there
are thousands of possibilities. As we rise above the mind and we start becoming
a little artful and alert about the dimensions available and we start using all
those doors, we learn something more than any animal can ever do. No animal can
enjoy painting, no animal can enjoy poetry; it is not possible. And no animal
can be condemned for that. If it is not possible what can animals do? But if humans
are not able to enjoy music, then they should be condemned; they are living
lower than they are capable of.
Joy comes at the ultimate peak. It belongs to the
soul. For that we have to learn to be meditative. Pleasure is dual; sex and
food are the two polarities. Happiness is multi-dimensional. Joy is one; it is
neither two nor many. Joy has simply one taste - the taste of silence, the
taste of no-mind, shunya or nothingness.
If one wants to be full of joy one has to put both
body and mind behind one, one has to transcend both. Meditation is the
transcendence of the body-mind structure, it is to become aware of both body
and mind. The moment we become aware of both we are separate; the moment we are
aware of both we go above both. That quality of going beyond and remaining in
that state is joy.
That is the ultimate peak – a state of joyful bliss
– where the mind does not exist, a state of complete silence prevails – it is
the beyond mind state – silence and only golden silence.
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