25. Live From Your Being

If I ask you, 'What did you eat for breakfast,' some of you might be able to say a few things you ate. But if I ask you how it tasted, you will have no answer.

The truth is, you are always in a hurry. Your tongue never tastes the food when you eat. Your eyes never see when you look. Your ears never listen when you hear. Your body never feels when you touch.

Consider the simplest of things you do. Consider shaking hands with people or visitors. How many times do you shake your hands in a bubbling way? For you it has become a mechanical action. Your hand is practically a dead man's hand. Your handshake is a dead man's handshake. All you do is, stretch your hands; you never stretch your being. Never has your inner being penetrated through it.

How does one do anything from one's being? The answer is simple. Be in the truth. When you live in the truth, if you are truthful in thought, word and deed, there is no need to prepare a script, or hold a mental rehearsal, or decide how to say something to another person.

Consider the many ways in which you lie everyday. When there is no truth in you, it will reflect in your actions. That is the simple reason why almost all love affairs end in failure. How long can you continue to act? How long can you keep on preparing? How many times? How many days? How many times can you remember what you said the previous time? Not more than once, certainly.

The truth will come out eventually. And when it comes out, you start feeling uneasy and start another round of lies. Whe I say lie, I dont mean the gross lies that you speak. I mean the subtle lies that you talk, act and do every minute unconsciously to hide the truth from expressing in you. Every minute, you resist being relaxed inside the truth; that is the problem.

Because no one is really relaxed in the truth, everyone feels unconsciously cheated in some way or the other. The woman says you have cheated her. And you say she has cheated you. Both feel cheated by the other. In reality, nobody is cheating. It is just that your true nature or reality suddenly emerges and you feel grossly disappointed about something you can't really express.

A love affair is like a dye and powder. When you go in the rain, the color changes as the dye runs. Black runs into white and white into black. How long can you maintain the pretense? Naturally, the truth has to come out. The truth comes out when you relax. After that, you find yourself in big trouble. But there is no need to panic. Truth is the best thing that can happen to you.

Fall in tune with the truth. This way, there will be no need to remember what you said when. Then there will be no problem. Then there will be no fear of having to create any script. You can live as you are.

Live in the truth. That is the easiest way to eternal bliss!