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now you are sleeping with your feet stretched out on the desk."
Mulla said, "Boss, this is the secret of my not getting tired."
We go on interpreting our own way. And as long as we go on interpreting, the meaning of the sutras will not be apparent. A special art is needed to read sutras. To read sutras a mind free of projections is needed, a mind emptied of projections. Reading sutras don't be in a hurry to interpret: the capacity of listening, of tasting, of relishing joyfully and patiently is needed.
Listen to these sutras:
LIGHT IS MY VERY NATURE. I AM NOT OTHER THAN LIGHT. WHEN THE UNIVERSE IS ILLUMINATED, IT IS ILLUMINATED BY MY LIGHT ONLY.
Janak says this whole universe is illuminated by my light.
Certainly this light Janak is talking about cannot be the light of the 'I'. This light can only be a light void of I. Hence don't look at the language, don't be a rhyme maker, don't let the intellect meddle. The meaning is plain and simple, don't twist and distort it.
LIGHT IS MY VERY NATURE. If one is to speak, one has to speak this way, because language belongs to the ignorant. The enlightened have no language. If two enlightened ones meet they remain silent, what is there to say? There is neither language, nor anything to say; neither any subject to speak on, nor the language to say it in.
It is told that when Farid and Kabir met, they remained silent for two days. They took each others hands in their own, they embraced each other, tears flowed in streams, they began swaying in great ecstasy.
Their disciples freaked out. The disciples had a great expectation that, "If they speak together it will shower on us too. If they say something we can also hear it. If we catch even a single word, it will give meaning to life."
But they didn't speak. Two days passed. Those two days became very long. The disciples were waiting while Kabir and Farid sat silently. Finally, when they had left, when Kabir had seen Farid off, Farid's disciples asked, " What happened? Why didn't you speak? Ordinarily you are always speaking. If we ask anything you speak. And we had brought you together with Kabir in the hope
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