34. Exponential and Experiential Logic🔗

How does interpreting the present moment based on past incompletions lead us to misconception or wrong understanding?

Understand: we carry two kinds of logic in us - experiential logic and exponential logic.

The logic that tries to interpret the whole of Life based on a few past experiences is called exponential logic. When we get one kind of understanding, one kind of perception, in a certain situation, we keep multiplying it and applying it to all situations! 'Interpreting based on past conditioning' is nothing but trying to understand Life using your exponential logic.

Listen: Life is never the same - because it is alive! Whatever is alive will be continuously changing, continuously growing, continuously evolving. We cannot grasp Life with our exponential logic. Life can only be understood through experiential logic.

In your life, so many times, you play with exponential logic, instead of looking at experiential logic. The unfortunate things is, whenever you have pain and suffering, you always feel that your whole life is going to be like that. Because, with the pain and suffering, exponential logic works more, that gets more strengthened. With joy, experiential logic gets more strengthened. Understand?

The more you use exponential logic, the more you carry the conditioning from the past, the more you are stuck in wrong knowledge.

Now, I want you to look in and do an acid wash of your belief system, whatever belief system you carry about you. For example, you think, 'I cannot wake up at 4 am I for yoga; I will be too sleepy and tired the whole day if I do that.' Even if this was your experience for only one day, you make that into exponential logic and start living that forever! Even if your body is ready to wake up, you tell it, 'No, no, remember one day, six months ago, I woke up early for yoga and felt sleep and tired the whole day afterwards?' This is the way you create conditioning and limitations for yourself using your exponential logic!

Sometimes, you stick to exponential logic and miss even the Guru standing and pointing experiential logic to you. Again and again, the Guru comes and points out experiential logic, but you go on holding on to your exponential logic and argue with him!

Measuring your life with exponential logic is what I call 'illusion.' Thinking that just because you didn't experience bliss yesterday, you may not experience it tomorrow also, is illusion. Yesterday does not make tomorrow. Only today makes tomorrow!

Those who believe that yesterday makes tomorrow are not living; only those who understand that today makes tomorrow are living. Fools are those who believe that yesterday makes tomorrow. Blessed are those who believe, cognize, realize, that today makes tomorrow.

Let experiential logic, not exponential logic, be more and more alive in you for running your life. Move life in the space of experiential logic, not in the space of exponential logic.

Maybe, in the outer world, exponential logic will be useful for something, in certain situations. But that does not mean that it is the complete life solution. Brick is good for making buildings, but not for breakfast!

With experiential logic, you always remember the possibility; you give space for more and more possibility. Keeping the possibility alive is what I call being a 'seeker.'

When you don't keep the possibility alive, when you don't keep that opening for life to happen, you burn the whole land with exponential logic. So, the possibility never gets a chance to grow.

When a land is burnt, unless it is ploughed again, no seed will grow, because the surface has become hard like brick. On that brick, nothing will grow unless it is ploughed again, or it rains, and the soil becomes loose. When you burn your future with your exponential logic, the possibility-seed never grows, the enlightenment-fruit never happens.

Recollect any recent situation where you have applied exponential logic. Now relook at that same situation, applying experiential logic, and see how your interpretation of the same situation will be different.