This is in continuation to the previous articles:
Development of the Navel Center (Part I),Development of the Navel Center (Part II)

These are different centers being used for expression, but the experience is the same. One can paint the experience-Zen masters have painted their experience. When they became enlightened, they would paint it. They would not say anything, they would just paint it. The rishis, sages, of the Upanishads have created beautiful poetry. When they became enlightened they would create poetry. Chaitanya used to dance; Ramakrishna used to sing. Buddha and Mahavira used the head, reason, to explain, to say whatsoever they had experienced. They created great systems of thought to express their experience.

But the experience is neither rational nor emotional: it is beyond both. There have been few persons, Very few, who could express through both the centers. You can find many Krishnamurtis, you can find many Ramakrishnas, but only sometimes does it happen that a person can express through both the centers. Then the person becomes confusing. Then you are never at ease with that man because you cannot conceive of any relationship between the two; they appear contradictory.

If I say something, when I say it I must say it through reason. So I attract many people who are rationalistic, head-oriented. Then one day they see that I allow singing and dancing and they become Uncomfortable: What is this? There is no relationship... But to me there is no contradiction. Dancing is also a way of speaking-and sometimes a deeper way. Reason is also a way of speaking- and sometimes a very clear way. So both are ways of expression.

If you see Buddha dancing, you will be in difficulty. If you see Mahavira playing on a flute, standing naked, then you will not be able to sleep. What happened to Mahavira? Has he gone mad? With Krishna the flute is okay, but with Mahavira it is absolutely unbelievable. A flute in the hand of Mahavira? Inconceivable! You cannot even imagine it. But the reason is not that there is any contradiction between Mahavira and Krishna, Buddha and Chaitanya; it is due to difference of Expression. Buddha will attract a particular type of mind-the head oriented mind-and Chaitanya and Ramakrishna will attract quite the opposite-the heart- oriented mind.

But difficulties arise. A person like me creates difficulties: I attract both, and then no one is at ease. Whenever I am talking, then the head-oriented person is at ease, but whenever I allow the other type of expression the head oriented one becomes uneasy. And the same happens to the other-when some Emotional method is used the heart oriented one feels at ease, but when I discuss, when I reason out something, then he is absent, he is not here. He says, This is not for me.

One lady came just a day before, and she said, I was at Mount Abu, but then there was a difficulty. The first day when I heard you it was beautiful, it appealed to me; I was just thrilled. But then I saw kirtandevotional chanting and dancing-so I decided to leave immediately; that was not for me. I went to the bus station, but then there was a problem. I wanted to hear you talk, so I came back. I didnt want to miss what you were saying. She must have been in difficulty. She said to me, It was so contradictory.