"I tell you to move from the head to the heart. It is just to give you a goal which is not very far away, because a distant goal cannot appeal to you. If it is too far away it appears impossible; the goal has to be within your grasp.

"Rooted in the mind, the world of being is very, very far away; it looks almost nonexistential. Hence the heart is a midway place, a resting place; it is not the goal. One day you have to be ready to leave it too, but before that I use it as a temptation for you.

"I talk about love and the beauty and the ecstasy of feeling – it is only a device so that you can move from the head to the heart. Once you have moved from the head to the heart, then I start hammering on your heart too. Then I have to help you to get rid of the feelings because feelings are as stupid as thoughts.

"Logic is stupid, love is not less stupid – sometimes it is even more stupid! Logic is a game, love too is a game, and you have to be aware of all the games that you are capable of playing. Logic deceives, love does too. One has to rise to the heights or dive to the depths where logic and love both disappear. They are two sides of the same coin: on the one side is your head, on the other side is your heart.

"The philosopher deals with the head, the poet with the heart, but the mystic is beyond both. The mystic is transcendental; he is pure being, just consciousness, neither thought nor feeling.

"Hence, Somendra, I have to break your heart. I have destroyed your mind – the first step has been taken. The second step is harder, because the heart is closer to the being than the head. It is very easy to see the rubbish of the head. It is very difficult to see the rubbish of the heart. The head reflects nothing of the being, hence to disidentify yourself from the head is not such a great problem. It is easy to see that thoughts are separate from you; it is very difficult to see that feelings are different from you."