How to think more thoroughly, and whom should we select brain or heart?

How can we think for the better option from the trouble situation and how can we select the right to do something? This is more difficult to select the right way because there always a fear roaming in mind, not to select or initiate the wrong path. This topic is more valuable because everybody in this world hasn't aware of it! This topic is more practical so, we will discuss the topic in a more practical way.

The heart is not trying to say anything. It is just trying to make sure every part of the body gets the nourishment of blood flow. So, it’s your brain speaking in different tongues. So, before you invest this life into something, you must look whether today if I invest my life into this, after twenty-five years will it still mean a lot to me? After fifty years will it still mean a lot to me? At the end of my life, if I turn back and I look will I be proud of this, or will I be ashamed of what I am doing right now? Head or Heart, which one to listen to?

The heart makes only two sounds lub-dub. Unless the local girls are disturbing it and it's going a little crazy, otherwise it makes only two sounds. The rest of the noise is all coming from your head. This idea that something comes from the heart, something comes from the brain is a... it's metaphoric. But unfortunately, a whole lot of people are taking it. There was a time in many parts of the world, particularly in Arabia, medical science in Arabia believed the blood is pumped from the liver. You might have heard the Urdu sayings about Calleja (Referring to Urdu word meaning liver). Because they believed blood is being pumped from the liver because the liver is a far more complicated organ than the heart. The heart is a simple pump. So, do not give it any more responsibilities other than continuously pumping the blood and keeping you alive. Unless somebody here breaks it. This happened, a very celebrated scientist was at a dinner and he was not grandly dressed or anything. He was looking very ordinary. So the lady who was, you know, sitting next to him didn't pay much attention to him. She doesn’t know who he is. But after some time just to be polite, to make some conversation, “May I know what do you do?” He said I am studying science then replies She said, I finished that in my tenth class. So, you are not in the last year of engineering, maybe the course. But not the last year of engineering, because for your entire life if you learn to engineer when you are dying after a hundred years, okay? I am not preponing it.

After a hundred years when you are dying, you would still know... if you are a constant learning process, you would still know you know very little about engineering. With that little, many things happen, that's different. So don't be in the last year of engineering. I know the program may be closing. But not the last year of engineering, okay? So… And engineering, essentially engineering means to have things the way we want, yes? When we say this building is well-engineered - I am not saying that - if we say this building is well-engineered or an automobile is well-engineered, what it means is its functioning the way we want, yes? Of all the pieces of engineering on this planet, of many pieces of engineering – a tree is fantastic engineering, even a mountain is fantastic engineering because it stood there for a million years, that means it must be good engineering, isn't it? Yes? Something that stands there for a million years must be well engineered. Of all this, the most sophisticated piece of engineering is a human mechanism, isn’t it so? Most sophisticated of all the pieces of engineering. Now because it's a sophisticated piece of engineering, it needs a certain level of attention, otherwise, you don't figure it.

How can they make such fantastic engineering without a user's manual? Maybe it doesn't come with a booklet attached to your neck when you were born. But indications must be there, isn't it, how to use it, hmm? Is it true, somebody who is an athlete or a gymnast or someone else like that, learns to use their body than a whole lot of other people, yes? Obviously, at least one aspect of the physical engineering of the body, they seem to have read the user's manual about the physical aspects. Is it true certain people are able to use their minds better than others? Maybe they read another part of the user's manual. So now, with this heart manual and the brain manual… See the problem is, most people are prejudiced against the brain.

The common question everywhere, we will stop the liver, we’ll stop the kidney, we’ll stop the heart, we’ll stop everything, okay?” So, you want the liver to function when you are meditating, you want the kidneys to function, you want even the spleen to function. This is simply because the brain is new equipment that you got in the evolutionary process. This level of cerebral development happened more recently compared to the other systems. If you cut open any mammal, they all have all these parts, isn't it? Every part that you have here, all of them have. Even if you open a frog, even if you open a frog, almost everything that you have he also has. It is only... the big difference is only cerebral development which is a more recent happening. Because it's a more recent happening, most people have not figured how to handle it. So, the user manual is very important. You don't read a user's manual just before you discard the machine. 

If you buy a phone, do you want to read the user's manual in the first three days or after three years when you are throwing it away, the first three days, isn't it? So, knowing how these functions are very important. Never did ever. So, the heart is not trying to say anything, it is just trying to make sure every part of the body gets the nourishment of blood flow. So, it’s your brain speaking in different tongues. What’s your native language? What’s your mother tongue? So, because when you know two, three languages, sometimes it gets confused, sometimes it speaks in English, sometimes in the Assamese, sometimes in something else. So, you are thinking different people are speaking, the heart is speaking, the mind is speaking, no. There is thought and there is emotion, people think these two things are saying different things, that we have to just think. Then my emotions become sweet towards her. I cannot think she is horrible and have sweet emotions. I cannot think she is wonderful and have nasty emotions. Isn’t it so? But today I thought she is the most wonderful person and my sweetness was flowing, suddenly she did something tomorrow that I don't like, I think she is horrible. The thought is agile. It changes direction just like that.

Emotion is a little sappy and may also approach to depression, it takes time to turn around. So that period, you struggle as if there are two dimensions of things happening. As thought is saying one thing, but the emotion is still going sweet. Because it takes time to become nasty, tch. Everybody struggles, but it catches up or no after some time, hello? Today you thought she is wonderful; the sweetness was flowing. Tomorrow she did something you don't like, you thought she is horrible. Mind... thought is clearly saying she's horrible, but emotions are struggling because they can't turn quickly. They take time to turn. But after a week, or ten days, or two months, depending on how deeply you are engaged after sometime emotion catches up with the thought. Emotion also says, “Yes she is horrible, so we’ll… let's be nasty to her.” So, they are not speaking different languages. One is agile, another is a little slow in its corners. So, it looks like they are speaking different languages. When it comes to what you want to do, you must think clearly, it's very important. Thinking clearly means – the question is not about “What will get me this, what will get me that?” Are you Is your life precious to you? So, before you invest this life into something, you must look whether today if I invest my life into this, after twenty-five years will it still mean a lot to me? After fifty years will it still mean a lot to me? At the end of my life, if I turn back and I look, will I be proud of this, or will I be ashamed of what I am doing right now? It doesn't matter what other people say. But you should not do anything that you will feel ashamed of. Isn’t it so? Hmm? It doesn't matter people say so many things. Everybody has an opinion, it’s their business. But you don't do something that you will feel ashamed of, isn't it? Then you are going to turning against yourself. Somebody turns against you; you can leave them and go somewhere else.

 

So this is all you have to look at it. Something will get you money, something will get you comfort, that's not the point. What you choose to do, will it give you a life? When I say give it... give your life, are you just trying to make a living, or are you trying to make a living out of this? This’s important. Making a living is not an issue. A worm, an insect, a bird, an animal, all of them are making their life… making a living. Isn’t it so? They’re even making a living out of it, but definitely, they’re making a living. So, making a living with such a big brain is not an issue, earning your food is not an issue, making a living is not an issue. The only problem is, you want to live like somebody else.

That's an endless problem. “I want to live” is not a problem. The problem is people say I like to live your life instead of seeing his life. So, it is important, if you consider your life as a precious life, you must make sure you make a wonderful life out of this, hmm? Whatever opens up in that direction, that is the thing you should do. But when you are under the pressure of peers, somebody is saying “I am going to America,” somebody says “I am going to the government job,” somebody says “I am going to do this”. So one thing that all of you should do before you make big decisions in your life is, withdraw from these pressures of peers, professors, parents, everybody. Live a week with yourself, what is it that you really want to do? Not under pressure from other people. What does this life want to do? Do that! It doesn't matter what other people think about it.