"In deep hypnosis, everything that you have experienced ever, knowingly and unknowingly, can all be recalled – your past lives also. The simple expanse of mind is really vast. These memories are good if you can use them, but these memories are dangerous if they start using you.

"A pure mind is that mind who is master of its own memories. An impure mind is that mind which is continuously impressed by the memories. When you look at a fact, you can look without interpreting it; then the consciousness is in direct touch with reality. Or you can look through the mind, through interpretations; then you are not in touch with reality. The mind is good as an instrument, but if the mind becomes an obsession and the consciousness is suppressed by the mind, then reality will also be suppressed by the mind. Then you live in a maya; then you live in illusion.

"Whenever you see a fact, if you see it directly, immediately, without the mind and the memory coming in, only then is it a fact. Otherwise, it becomes an interpretation, and all interpretations are false because all interpretations are loaded by your past experience. You can only see things which are in tune with your past experience, you cannot see things which are not in tune with your past experience – and your past experience is not all. Life is bigger than your past experience. Howsoever big the mind may be, it is just a tiny part if you consider the whole existence – so small. The known is very little; the unknown is vast and infinite. When you try to know the unknown through the known then you miss the point. This is the impurity. When you try to know the unknown by the unknown inside you, then there is revelation.

"It happened:

"Mulla Nasruddin caught a very, very big fish in the river. A crowd gathered, because nobody had ever seen such a big fish. Mulla Nasruddin looked at the fish, couldn't believe that it was possible – such a big fish! With bulging eyes he moved around the fish, but still couldn't believe it. He touched the fish, but still couldn't believe it, because he had heard about such a big fish only in fishermen's tall tales."