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is also an experience. And if you want to experience it, it is possible only with one's totality.
The process of thinking is a small fragment of man -- and a very superficial one. It has no depth. It is not part of the interiority, not of the center, it is on the periphery. Even if thinking stops man can live. And now thinking machines have been developed. They make it very clear that a machine too can think. It is no special glory of man.
Aristotle and thinkers like him have called man the thinking animal, the rational animal. This definition should be changed, because now computers can think -- and with greater efficiency, with greater skill than man. Man makes mistakes but with computers there is no possibility of error.
Man's greatness is not in his thinking. Man's greatness is in his experience.
Just as when you taste something, the taste is not just a thought. ... it happened! It happened in your very cells. You are immersed in the joy of tasting.
When you drink wine, the effects of drinking are not only in your thoughts, your limbs begin wobbling.
Have you seen a drunkard walking? The wine has reached to his very cells! It is visible in his stride, in his eyes, it is visible in every move, it doesn't just show in his thoughts, but encompasses his totality.
Religion is like wine -- one who drinks it will know. One who drinks it and becomes delighted, will experience it.
Janak's words were uttered in a moment filled with this wine. If you consider them without tasting there is a possibility of misunderstanding and his meaning will seem something quite different. Then you will add your own interpretations.
For example when Krishna says in the Gita, "Drop everything Arjuna and surrender at my feet."
When you read it you will feel this declaration is very egotistic: "Drop everything Arjuna and come to my feet." To 'my' feet!
Then the meaning you give to this 'my' will be yours, not Krishna's. In Krishna no I remains. It is just a reference. It is only a symbol. For you the symbol is much more. In your illusion the symbol has become the truth. For Krishna it is merely practical, not indicating
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