How Much Spirituality, How Much Life?

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How Much Spirituality, How Much Life?

Once you walk the spiritual path, this question and this struggle of how much of a spiritual process should I do, and how much of whatever is called this life I should do? For most people, the struggle is when they’re involved in their day-to-day mentalistic functions of life, they will long for the spiritual process. If you give them a spiritualistic process, they will long to go back to their mentalistic life. How much of what or how should I do these two things? You should do your mentalistic life. When we say mentalistic, that which concerns and satisfies one’s physical body and one’s mind is mentalistic life. It’s not right to divide this, but anyway invariably, people divide it. That which satisfies your body and your mind, how much of it you should do, or how you should do, means you must do it like you are going to live forever. How much or how I should do my spiritual process? You must do it like today’s your last day?

On a certain day, a hunter caught a tiny little bird. He was about to take its life and the little bird said, “You have caught and eaten many far bigger animals in your life, but it has not satisfied your hunger. Me, a little bird. This much, I am. What can I do for you? So why kill me? If you allow me to live, I’ll give you three invaluable teachings with which your life will be phenomenally rich. One teaching I will give you when I am still in your hand. The second teaching I will give you when I sit upon the roof of your house. The third teaching I will give you when I sit on top of the tree.”

Then the hunter thought about it, looked at this little bird. He doesn’t even work as an appetizer, too small. He said, “Okay, give me the teaching.” The first teaching that the bird gave is, “It doesn’t matter who. Whatever pronouncements they make, don’t ever believe it.” He took off from his hand, went and sat on the top of the roof. Then he said, “You fool. You let me go. Do you know who I am? In my belly, I have a diamond which weighs five ounces.” Then the man started wailing about his misfortune. “Oh, such a huge diamond. I let it go. What a fool I am.” Then the bird said, “You are definitely a fool. I already told you, ‘Never believe any pronouncements made by anybody, whoever they may be.’ See, I weigh just two ounces. How can I have a diamond five ounces in my belly, you fool. The second teaching is, never look back and regret anything that is passed.” Then flew and went and sat on top of the bird.

The man started screaming and wailing, “Now, I missed the diamond, and now you’re telling me not to regret. You fooled me.” The bird went and sat there and waited. Then he recovered, “Okay. Never regret for what has happened. Okay, tell me what’s the third teaching?” The bird said, “Anyway, you did not listen to the first two. What is the use of the third? Never waste your energies and wisdom upon those who don’t listen. That’s the third teaching.” And flew away.

Now, whatever I say is not going to work. Now, your mentalistic life, you must life it as though you’re going to die today. Your spiritual life, you must do it that you are eternal, not other way around. Don’t say this to everything. No, said Guru, whatever you say. That’s not true. If that is really true, that you have become like this, that there is no value for reason in your life, you have become a duty and there is no value for reason, then all this teaching is no good. Don’t bother. Just … You know, when we were doing all this program, the 90-day program, this is a place where we went about exploring and revealing various aspects of life, which they have never thought was possible. As we went by, every time I asked a question and asked yes or no. After some time, some of them at least, their logic was completely defeated. They said, “There’s no point, Guru, we saying yes, no, yes, no. No good.” Well, yes and yes. When I came one day, they had written on a big board, “Said Guru, yes and yes.”

If you have realized there’s no value for your logic, then everything doesn’t matter. You don’t even have to do this. You don’t even have to say, “yes.” When you still live by logic, whatever is said by whoever, you have to put it to the test of your logic, because if you do not do that, your logic will not evolve. Logic is a horrible thing if it is in a rudimentary condition. If you refine your logic, it can be the way to your liberation. It can be a stepping stone to your liberation if you refine it. If it’s in a rudimentary condition, it is a horrible thing. It blocks you from everything. It makes you suspicious about everything. It will not let you experience anything. You have not given up your logic, have you? You’re not listening, that’s why.

If you live your mentalistic life like you’re going to live forever, what will you do? You will buy 1,673 pairs of shoes. I went to somebody’s house in the United States. I was sitting in their house. Then I needed to use the bathroom, so I went and opened a door thinking it was the bathroom. I opened it. It was a large room, about, let’s say, one segment of this hall, like this. It was full of shoes, hundreds of pairs of shoes. I don’t know. Are they in some kind of shoe business? Then I came out and the lady of the house was trying to guide me to the bathroom and I said, “What are all the shoes?” She said, “I don’t know.” Not two dozens, hundreds of shoes. I’m buying shoes for twelve lifetimes just in case when I come back, the shoe price is high in my next life. You know? I already bought them kept them.

You don’t live your mentalistic life like you’re going to live forever. You life your mentalistic life like today’s the last day. You live your spiritual life like you’re eternal. Without listening, without applying your logic, don’t say, “yes,” unless you become just yes and yes.