INTELLIGENCE AND THE INSTRUMENT
Dialogue 27P: I wanted to ask you, Krishnaji, whether there was one question that needed to
be asked by an individual which would open the door to reality. Could all
questions be reduced to that one question?
F: Is there such a thing as a door? We cannot ask a question about that for which
there can be no metaphor.
K: I think she means it in the sense of an opening or a breakthrough.
F: From your own experience, what would you say is breaking through? There is
no point of reference for us.
K: What is the question?
P: There are many things which we have discussed during the last few days. Can
all these questions converge into one question?
K: I think so.
F: I would not put it that way. I come to you because in you there is an
imponderable quality, a tiny seed of something which makes you entirely
different. I do not look for differences in manifestation, but there is in you that
‘elseness’. Now, is there a key to that? Is there a question which opens that up?
B: If I may ask: What is it that prevents one from seeing? This is our difficulty.
Last evening when we heard Krishnaji’s talk, we felt that there was nothing
which we would not be prepared to do, if it was in us to do it. Can all that you
say be held in one question? To you it is a very simple thing. You have an
amazing capacity of converting diversity into a single thing. This convergence
has not taken place in us. Could there be some action which would make all
questions melt into one question?
P: I have a further question. During the past few days Krishnaji has been saying
that there is a region where thought is necessary and a region where thought has
no place. What is the instrument, the mechanism, which makes it possible for
thought to operate only where it is legitimate, and not impinge into areas where it
should not function, where it creates illusion?
K: Now, what is the question?