It is just like a small young bird. The bird, sitting in the shelter the mother and the father have made,watches them fly, can see the delight of their flight. He himself would also like to fly in the same way,be on the wing in the infinite sky, under the sun. Seeing them going higher, moving with the winds,a great urge arises in him also. But he is not aware that he is capable of the same flight, the same delight, the same dance. He is not even aware that he has wings.
It takes a little time for the mother and the father to persuade him. And they have a certain
methodology to persuade him. The mother may sit just a little higher on another branch and give a call to the child. The child tries to fly but is afraid he may fall. But the mother goes on calling him; that gives him confidence. Sometimes it is needed for the father to actually push him out of the shelter.
There is fear, he is nervous, but one thing is certain: for the first time he knows he has wings.
He flutters his wings. He does not know how to fly, but the mother is not far away; he manages to
reach her – the miracle has happened. Now the mother’s call will be coming from a second tree,
and then the call will be coming from a far-off forest. But once he knows that he has wings, then
distances don’t matter. Slowly there is no need for the mother to call or the father to push him.
One day comes when he simply says goodbye to his father and mother and flies and never comes
back. He has become an individual on his own.
Whatever you see in me, feel in me, is there in you, but only as a potential.
MAN’S mind is a Pandora’s box.
It contains the whole of evolution from the lowest creature to the highest genius. They are all living together in man’s mind simultaneously, they are all contemporaries. It is not that something is past,something is present, something is future: as far as mind is concerned everything is simultaneous,contemporary.
It has to be understood very clearly because without understanding it the question will remain
unresolved. The idiot is in you, so is the genius. Of course the idiot is much more powerful because it has a longer history, and the genius is a very still, small voice. From Khomeini to Einstein you are spread; and the trouble is that Khomeini is in the majority, much more in you than Albert Einstein,who is in a very poor minority.
Think of man’s mind as a pyramid. The base is made up of Khomeinis, millions of Khomeiniacs, and as you go upwards there are fewer and fewer people. At the peak they are not in millions, not in billions, only in dozens – and at the very peak, perhaps there is a single individual.
~~~MKS.
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