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Going Beyond Words

For example, when you look at a rose, you create the word 'rose' in your mind and start thinking about all the ideas which you have about roses, the ideas connected to roses, and all the roses which you presented to somebody about roses, or you think about all the roses presented to you and how you responded…

Slowly, in few seconds, you are away from the rose. You are no more connected to the rose. With anything in the world, you can see for yourself, the moment you see words are created, you are away from the reality. You are now in your own dream world, in your own dreams.

Try to see but not create a word; directly try to connect just like kids. Kids will not know the word. But you see, when kids see something, the whole being sees it as if they are enjoying it, as if they are living it.

So, see without using the name, without using the word. Then suddenly you will see strange things happening between you and the rose. The idea or the boundary that you are separate from the rose will slowly disappear. You will feel like you are just slowly becoming one with the rose because the boundary is disappearing, you are becoming one with the reality, you are becoming one with the Truth, you are becoming one with satya.

Suddenly you will see you feel so deeply connected to the rose when you see the rose without the word. In the same way with anything, with a tree, with a person, with a situation - always you have a prejudice. If you drop your prejudice and see, you will see it completely differently. For example, if in a particular situation, you think that you should be depressed, usually you respond only as depression, in a depressed way, to that situation. When that situation arises you will see that you will be depressed. There is no other way.

Psychodrama of Life

We call this as a psychodrama - if you are prepared, and if you are given the dialogue of depression at a particular moment, you will repeat the same mood, the same dialogue throughout your life when that kind of situation arises in you. So the whole life is nothing but psychodrama.