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what the moon is saying to you. That dialogue will relax you immensely, and it will start changing your emphasis from the male side to the female side.
The female side is the receptive side. All that is great always happens through the female side and all that is trivial happens through the male side. So the greatest art in life -- even if you are a man -- is how to continue to remain feminine inside.
It is not coincidental that god has chosen woman to be the womb for the new child, for new life. In fact, the feminine mind is the womb of all that is new. Even when great scientists come to discover something, they come to discover it from the feminine side, not from the male side. The male side formulates it, systematises it, argues for it, but the insight, the intuitive flash, is not' from it; it comes from the other side.
Many scientific discoveries have been made in dreams, in moments of reverie, fantasy. And all the great insights ever -- religious, scientific, poetic, literary -- all the great insights have bubbled up from the feminine side. The feminine is the mother, mother of all, and the moon is the symbol for the feminine. So this will continuously remind you to become more and more feminine in your approach towards life -- more poetic, more illogical. Allow a little bit of madness! A little bit of madness is perfectly okay. In fact a man without any kind of madness is mad! A little bit of madness keeps you sane; it helps you remain sane. Don't become too serious... a too serious person becomes neurotic. So before one becomes a neurotic, one should become a lunatic!
Deva means divine, and shyama is a very very small bird, a black bird, that you will come across. Its singing is just divine. It is a very small bird but with great music in it. The indication is that music is going to help you.
And the second thing: think yourself as being more like a bird than like a human being. When you see birds flying in the sky, fly with them... at least in your imagination. Empathise with them and feel how they are feeling high in the sky. Sometimes lying on the grass, close your eyes and feel like a bird. It will be an experiment in
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