Follow your heart
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22 March, 2012
At the end of your life, is your mind going to judge whether you are a success or failure, or is your heart going to judge whether you are a success or failure?
Understand, only your heart is going to judge. Your mind loses its power on you. When you are doing the final calculation of your life, your heart is going to be the judge, not your mind. If your mind is the judge, all the rich fellows should have a complete, satisfying death, because as far as the mind is concerned, money, status, enjoyment, beauty, this, that and everything - it was a great life.
If the mind is going to be the judge, then all the fellows who are rich, who asked for all these things: good husband, amazing kids, wonderful house, and good friends and family, should be having a very fulfilling death, a very satisfying end. But that is not happening.
I tell you, it is your heart which is going to be the judge of whether your life is satisfied, complete, or if you wasted your life. The heart is the one which is going to tell whether you are fulfilled or not. The mind is just a prostitute. It will just play any side it wants. One small reason is enough for the mind to completely tumble you, make you lose the very basis of your life.
Why do you think millions of people commit suicide? Because when the mind tumbles you, makes you imbalanced, you do some things impulsively which you can never repair after that. Suicide is always the decision of the mind, never of the heart. People say, Oh, his heart is broken, so he committed suicide. No. His mind is broken, so he committed suicide. It is never the heart.
Whenever you have a dilemma between the mind and the heart, always choose the heart, because even if you are a failure as per the mind, the heart is the one who is going to make the judgment at the end of your life.