Mind, Heart and Being

The heart should be listened to first if there is any kind of conflict between mind and heart. In any conflict between love and logic, then logic cannot be decisive, love has to be decisive. Logic cannot give you any juice - it is dry. It is good for calculations; it is good for mathematics and good for scientific technology. But it is not good for human relationships, not good for the growth of your inner potential.


Above the heart is your being. Just as mind is logic and the heart is love, being is meditation. Being is to know yourself - and by knowing yourself, to know the very meaning of existence.


Being should be your ultimate..... there is nothing beyond it; it is part of God within you. It will give you that which neither the mind nor the heart can give; it will give you silence, it will give you peace, it will give you serenity, it will give you blissfulness - and finally, a sense of being immortal.

A poem by Papaji

Self is what you are.

You are That Fathomlessness in which experience and concepts appear.

Self is the Moment that has no coming or going.

It is the Heart, Atman, Emptiness.

It shines to Itself, by Itself, in Itself.

Self is what gives breath to Life.

You need not search for It, It is Here.

You are That through which you would search.

You are what you are looking for!

And That is All it is.

Only Self is.