Maharshi's Gospel - [89]

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D. For men like me, who have neither the direct experience of the Heart

nor the consequent recollection, the matter seems somewhat difficult

to grasp. About the position of the Heart itself, perhaps, we must depend

on some sort of guesswork.

Maharshi:

If the determination of the position of the Heart is to depend on guesswork

even in the case of layman, the question is surely not worth much

consideration. No, it is not on guesswork that you have to depend, it is on

an unerring intuition.

D. For whom is the intuition?

 

 

Maharshi:

For one and all.

 

D. Does Sri Bhagavan credit me with an intuitive knowledge of the Heart?

 

Maharshi:

No, not of the Heart, but of the position of the Heart in relation

to your identity.

 

D. Sri Bhagavan says that I intuitively know the position of the Heart

in the physical body?

 

 

Maharshi:

Why not?

 

D. (Pointing to himself) It is to me personally that Sri Bhagavan is referring?

 

 

Maharshi:

 

Yes. That is the intuition! How did you refer to yourself by gesture

just now? Did you not put your finger on the right side of the chest?

That is exactly the place of the Heart centre.

 

 

D. So, then, in the absence of direct knowledge of the Heart center, I have

to depend on this intuition?

 

Maharshi:

 

What is wrong with it? When a schoolboy says, "It is I who did the sum correctly",

or when he asks you, "Shall I run and get the book for you?", would he point to the

head that did the sum correctly, or to the legs that will carry him swiftly to get you

the book? No, in both cases, his finger is pointed quite naturally toward the right

side of the chest, thus giving innocent expression to the profound truth that the

source of "I-ness in him is there. It is an unerring intuition that makes him refer to himself,

to the Heart which is the Self, in that way. The act is quite involuntary and universal,

that is to say, it is the same in the case of every individual.

What stronger proof than this do you require about the position of the Heart center

in the physical body?