Eyes Cannot See

 

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Eyes Cannot See

We see through our eyes. Remember, we see ‘through’ our eyes. Eyes cannot see; we see through them. The seer is hidden behind, the eyes are just the opening, just the windows. But we go on thinking that we see by the eyes; we go on thinking we hear by the ears. No one has ever heard by the ears. You hear ‘through’ the ears, not ‘by’ the ears. The hearer is hidden behind. The ears are just receptive organs.

I touch you: I give you a loving touch, a handclasp. The hand is not touching you: I am touching you, through the hand. The hand is just instrumental, so there can be two types of touch - when I really touch you and when I just avoid touch. I can touch your hand and avoid touch. I may not be there in my hand; I may have withdrawn. Try this, and you will have a different, a distant feeling. Put your hand on someone and withdraw yourself. A dead hand is there, not you. And if the other is sensitive, he will feel a dead hand. He will feel insulted. You are deceiving; you are just showing that you are touching, and you are not touching.

Women are very sensitive about it; we cannot deceive them. They have a greater sensitivity of touch, of body touch, so they know. And women have an instinctive feeling when we are with them and when we are not with them. It is difficult to deceive them unless one is a Master. Unless one is a Master of one’s own Self, one cannot deceive them.

Whatever we say will be false; our touch will show it. Children are very sensitive; we cannot deceive them. We may pat them, but they know that this is a dead pat. If our hand is not a flowing energy, a loving energy, they know. Then it is just as if a dead thing is being used. When we are present in our own hand in complete totality, when we have moved, when our centre of being has come to the hand, when our soul is there, then the touch has a different quality.

Look through the eyes, change focus, and the eyes just become windows – we see the change in quality of our ‘vision’. – this becomes meditation. Similarly hear through the ears and remain in awareness of the inner centre. When touching, feeling, just touch through the hand and remember the inner one who is hidden behind. From any sense we can have a feeling of the inner centre, and every sense goes to the centre. That is why we see, hear, feel as the brain analyses the impressions.

When one becomes aware through some particular sense, keep in the awareness. Remain with the awareness; keep in the awareness; remain alert. It is difficult in the beginning, but by and by we get the hang of it.

In a world which is just an appearance, the senses have deceived us to feel that they are real. If we can look through the senses and remain alert, the world will by and by appear to us as illusory, dream-like, and we will be able to penetrate to the substance - to the very substance of it. That substance is the BRAHMAN.