Stopped In Our Tracks
Stories of U.G. In India from the Notebooks of K. ChandrasekharTranslated and Edited by J.S.R.L. Narayana Moorty 2d/3d Series
Thinking Cannot Solve Your Problems
Q: You say that the silence will express itself. How is it that it failed in our case?
U.G.: Because you are waiting for the silence to express itself, or because you still have the knowledge of that silence.
Q: If the natural state is an equilibrium, how come this disturbance?
U.G.: Because you are pursuing and seeking a phony equilibrium which does not exist at all, and this is the thing which has been put into you by your culture and society. It is the knowledge of self or silence that is creating this disturbance. The idea or concept of silence you have about silence is causing this disturbance. You are that idea, and you want to understand how that idea has come into being.
Q: Is there a way to be thinking and at the same time be free from the limitations of thinking?
U.G.: No, that will be another, parallel movement of thought. It is a mechanical thing and can solve only mechanical problems, but you want to use it to understand something living. That is the problem. It is not intended for that. Human problems are something living. You cannot use thinking to solve those problems.
U.G.: Because you are waiting for the silence to express itself, or because you still have the knowledge of that silence.
Q: If the natural state is an equilibrium, how come this disturbance?
U.G.: Because you are pursuing and seeking a phony equilibrium which does not exist at all, and this is the thing which has been put into you by your culture and society. It is the knowledge of self or silence that is creating this disturbance. The idea or concept of silence you have about silence is causing this disturbance. You are that idea, and you want to understand how that idea has come into being.
Q: Is there a way to be thinking and at the same time be free from the limitations of thinking?
U.G.: No, that will be another, parallel movement of thought. It is a mechanical thing and can solve only mechanical problems, but you want to use it to understand something living. That is the problem. It is not intended for that. Human problems are something living. You cannot use thinking to solve those problems.
