Q4. DearSwamiji, 'I think therefore I am'. Is that true?
The same question in the opposite way! Like old wine in a new bottle.
Be very clear, you neither think nor you are. I am giving the same answer in the other way. You neither think nor you are. If you think you must be. If you think you must exist, if you exist you can't think.
If you exist you can't think. If you think, you must exist. Actually, it's a very intricate question. The same old question, whether we are in the world or the world is in us. Whether we exist and think, or we think and then exist. See, It's like a boundariless thing. Again you want to stand at some point, again you want to stand . Either you want to take bath in the left side of Ganga or in the right side of Ganga. You are neither in the left nor in the right. You are in the Ganga. When you understand, thinking and being are not different, there is no boundary. Today Raj was asking me in the car whether both matter and energy exist in the world. I told no, there is no matter, only energy matters. And when there is only energy, how can you say even the word energy? If there is something called matter, then you can use the words energy and matter. If there is only one thing, how can you call it either matter or energy? Just like that, there are no 'two things' - thinking and being. There is only one thing. But you make a boundary because we are not comfortable without boundaries.
The logic, the very quality of logic is cutting things into pieces. Unless you cut things into pieces, you can't understand. That way of understanding is by labeling things, by making them more intellectual, by making them more logical. So just for your utility's sake you can say the left side of the Ganga or the right side of the Ganga. But in actuality, no two Gangas exist. Only in comparative reality, left side and right side exists. In existential reality, there are no two Gangas. Just like that only in comparative reality, thinking and being exists. In reality, in existential reality, You exist. That's all. Only the word 'exists' exists. There is nothing different called thinking and being. If you make a boundary, then you think that this is thinking and this is being, But there is no boundary actually. There is no boundary that at this boundary you are being and after this boundary you are thinking. There are no such two things. There is no Shakti & Shiva. There is only one thing - pure Shakti. When it is one, the word shakti also cannot be uttered. As long as you think whether you exist, whether you think because you are or you are because you think, you will have confusion. Both are just words with which we play. For play it is perfectly alright, not for real life. If you fly in the small aeroplane, the toy aeroplane, you know where you will land? It's the same with words, they are good to play with but taking them too seriously can never lead you anywhere.
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