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Question 13
How is it
possible to lose a desire but not shut down the heart?
(03.11.2002)
Please understand we have confusion
about the portfolios here. Mind is the centre of desire, whereas
the heart is the centre of feeling. The mind is dual; the heart is
non-dual. The mind is diversified; the heart is unity. The mind is
emotional; the heart is balanced. The mind is always for
convenience; the heart is for conviction. The mind is physical;
the heart is spiritual. I don’t mean the physical heart -- that
needs a cardiologist. I mean the spiritual heart. So shutting down
your heart means that you are closing the doors of your soul — you
are closing the doors of your consciousness.
If you shut down your heart, then
you don’t want to turn inward. You just want to grope in the
darkness of the whims and the fancies, the likes and dislikes and
the vagaries of the mind. The mind is full of vagaries, likes and
dislikes, choices and preferences. When I move about in the realm
along the horizon of the mind, I become mental or psychotic. I
should not shut down my heart at any cost. The heart should be
open. The more and more the heart is given a chance and a
preference, the mind gets closed automatically — the mind will
shut down automatically on its own.
© Anil Kumar Kamaraju 2004 - Here
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