Passage 12

In English

There is a small example. After this discourse is over, you will be trying to go to the shed in which you are staying. On the way there is something like a crooked rope. As soon as you see this rope, a fear comes that there is some snake there. The moment that the idea of the snake comes into your mind, your body goes far away from this particular rope. Not only does the body move as far as possible from that rope, but all the sense organs will start trembling. This will also give rise to a certain amount of desire in you by which you begin to make an enquiry. This will show itself, as in the example, by your searching for a torch light. As soon as you bring a torch light and turn it on the rope, then you will learn that it is not a snake. The moment you learn that it is not a snake, then a large amount of courage comes from nowhere and you will go very close to this rope. But the snake which was imagined to be there has not gone away anywhere. The rope, which is really there, did not come there from anywhere else. The fact is that there is a rope and that it was mistaken for a snake. Later when you had brought the light, you realised that it was not a snake and that it was a rope.