for forty years. What an awful waste. When you need tremendous energy, a great
passion to find out, you drink at other people’s fountains that are dry. You have
to be a light to yourself. In that there is freedom.
Q: [Inaudible]
K: Sir, how can I convey it to you? Explanation is not the explained; the
description is not the described. You may describe to me the most marvelous
food, but I must eat it. The description will not satisfy. It will satisfy only a mind
that has lived superficially. But if I want to eat food, I must have it, touch it, taste
it, not be caught up in descriptions and philosophy, which are apart from life,
which deal with theory not with reality. The reality is life, living, my sorrow,
your sorrow. Unless we resolve that, to inquire if there is a transmigration of the
soul, you can just as well ask if the moon is cheese. But you see, you want
explanations. You don’t give your life to this; you think by just giving an hour at
the end of the day when you are tired that you are going to understand this
extraordinary phenomenon of living. And you say, “Well, if you can’t answer
this question, you are not a philosopher.”
Q: I didn’t say that.
K: I am saying that, sir; you didn’t say that. I don’t want to be a philosopher
spinning words and theories and ideas. We have to deal with life as it is and
understand and go beyond it. Right, sir?
Q: Do you believe in evolution?
K: Do I believe in evolution? It’s very simple, sir. I’ll answer it. There is
evolution from the bullock cart to the jet. That’s also evolution. Going to the
moon is evolution. Probably human beings have reached their height
biologically. And is there an inward evolution? Will “I” evolve, become
marvelous? Now, before you put that question, you have to find out what the “I”
is, not ask, “Will I evolve?” That has no meaning. What is the “I”? The “I” is
your furniture, the house, the books that you have collected, the memories that
you have had, the remembrances, the pleasure, pain. The “I” is a bundle of
memories. Right? Is there any more to the “I”? You say the “I” is spiritual, that
the “I” has a spiritual quality in it. How do you know? Is that an invention of
thought? Therefore you have to inquire into why thought invents such things.
Don’t accept a thing, including your own self, because to find truth the mind
must be free of the self. And the higher-self is part of the lower-self; that is just
another invention of duality. So you have to find out, sir, if there is an evolution.
There is obviously physical, biological evolution, but we are talking about
psychologically, inwardly, about the thing that is continually striving to become.
Find out what it is that is becoming.
Q: Sir, how can the lower-mind find the intelligence of the higher-mind?