Knowing the Inner World

 

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Knowing the Inner World

If one is a mirror, if one is silent, if there is no turmoil within one, if there is no thought process and traffic of the mind inside one, the other is simply reflected.

If we go to the lake and there are no ripples and waves on the lake, we are reflected in the lake, the moon and the stars are reflected in the lake. The lake knows no art; anyway, it is not an art, it is a simple phenomenon. If a person is sitting silently, with no traffic of the mind. Another person comes in front of him, the mirror reflects that person. The lake of one consciousness reflects the other - he sees the other person, all and all, from one end to another end, in complete totality. But this knowing is not knowledge, this knowing is just mirroring. It is as simple as that.

A story explains this concept. Satish had gone camping in Yellowstone National Park. There were warning signs asking visitors not to feed the bears. A bear approaches Satish’s camper and he shouts, ‘bear, bear’ and goes out with a couple of sandwiches. His wife warns him saying that we are not supposed to feed the bears, But Satish says a sandwich is not going to hurt anybody and goes anyway. He gives one sandwich and the second, but the bear comes after him, he talks to the bear, saying he has given him all he had. But the bear starts chasing him and he rushes into the camper and slams the door shut. He tells his wife in a surprised tone, “The bear doesn’t understand English!”

There is no need to understand our language, there is no need to understand anything about us. There is no need to understand us at all - we are simply reflected. A bear is a bear. How do we know that a bear is a bear? How do we know that a rose is a rose? There is no analysis involved in it, no technique, no technology.

Things are very simple. We just have to be a mirror, and people reveal everything themselves. We need not even ask a single question. The way they walk, the way they sit, the way they look, the way they talk, reveals everything. It is not revealed to us, because we are not looking at them at all. We are so preoccupied in ourselves, we are so preoccupied with our thoughts, that we are surrounded by a fog.

Otherwise, everybody is revealing everything. Everybody is exposed. We just need to open eyes, a silent mind, and we will be surprised - nobody can hide anything from us, there is no way of hiding anything.