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the divine is. And when you are not how can there be any difference between you and the divine?
When you are not, you are divine.
So through the approach of will or the approach of surrender you reach the same point. Through one approach 'the other' is killed, and through the opposite approach 'you' are killed. In both cases, in the end only one remains: the amness remains.
I have talked about 112 techniques. There are so many different techniques, but the only difference between them is one of appearance, of structure. The difference is based not on the techniques themselves but on the particular person who is going to apply them. One example may make it clear to you.
There are people who are intellectuals intellectual in the sense that their intellect is more functioning than their emotions. They cannot directly feel anything. First they think about something and then they can feel it. Even when they love, they think they feel love. Thinking must be there; it cannot be dropped. They cannot feel anything immediately without the mind. The mind is always there.
Then there are people who are emotional. They cannot even think without feeling. First they have to feel something. Even if they are solving a mathematical problem they say "I feel it should be done like this. Do it like this -- I have a feeling about it." No reason is given: "I feel that it is like this." Feeling is foremost.
For those who are intellectually-oriented, emotional methods will not do. The intellect must go through reason, and motion must go through faith. Emotion cannot doubt; reason cannot trust. Even if reason is able to trust, it trusts only because it has found that there is no reason to disbelieve. The trust is just a logical conclusion: "I should believe there is no reason to disbelieve."
Truth is negative with an intellectual person. It is always negative, it is never positive. It is not that trust has flowered in him; it is just a reasoning process. "Because I cannot disbelieve -- there is no reason to disbelieve -- I belive." It is almost a defeat. For the intellectual person to trust is like a defeat. He feels it like that, so he goes
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