Feel the Inner Centre

 

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Feel the Inner Centre

The eyes cannot see, we see through them – the seer is behind, the eyes are 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. We hear through the ears, not by the ears. The hearer is hidden behind. The ears are just receptive organs.

Women are very sensitive about it; we cannot deceive them. They have a greater sensitivity of touch, of body touch, so they know. The husband may be talking beautiful things. He may have brought flowers and he may be saying, “I love you,” but his touch will show that he is not there. 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 we are masters. Unless one is a master of one’s own self, one cannot deceive them. But a master would not like to become a husband, that is the difficulty.

Whatsoever 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 totality in our hand, when we have moved, when our center of being has come to the hand, when our soul is there, then the touch has a different quality.

The senses are just doors, receiving stations, mediums, instruments, receptors. We are hidden behind. While listening to music, we shouldn’t forget ourselves in the ear, don’t lose ourselves into the ear. Remember the awareness that is hidden behind. Be alert! We are standing there behind the eyes, looking through the eyes, just as if someone looks through a window or through spectacles.

When hearing, just hear through the ears and remain aware of the inner center. When touching, 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 center, and every sense goes to the inner center. It has to report. That is why, when we are seeing someone and are listening to someone, when we see someone through the eyes and we hear Someone through the ears, deep down within we know that we are seeing the same man whom we are also hearing.

If we look at someone through the eyes, he will feel as if we are trespassing upon him, as if we are doing something unmannerly. If we look through the eyes, the other will become aware suddenly that we are not behaving properly, because our look will become piercing, our look will go deeper. If it comes from our depth, it will penetrate to the other’s depth. That is why society has a built-in security: don’t look too deeply into anyone unless we are in love. If we are in love, we can look deeply into the other; we can penetrate to the very depth because the other is not afraid.

In a world which is just an appearance, they have deceived us to feel it as 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.