I would like to tell you one parable. One Sufi fakir used to say that a man was presented an airplane, a very small aircraft, by his friend, who was a great king. But the man was poor. He had heard about airplanes, but he had never seen one. He knew only bullock carts, so he thought that this was new device - a new type of bullock cart. He used his two bullocks to bring the airplane home, and then he used the airplane as a bullock cart. He was very happy. Of course, the small aircraft worked as a bullock cart. But then, by and by, he started studying it. He came to understand that bullocks were not needed. It had a motor and it was able to go by itself, so he fuelled it and used it as a motor car.

By and by, he became aware of the wings, and he thought, "Why are they there?" And it seemed to him that the man who had devised this machine must have been very intelligent - a genius. Thus, he could not have added something unnecessarily. The wings showed that the machine could fly so he tried, and it became vertical and it flew!

You are using the mind that you have as a bullock cart. The same mind can become a motor car; then bullocks will not be needed. It has an inbuilt mechanism, but then too it will be moving horizontally. However, the same mind has wings. You have not observed: that is why you don't know that it has wings. It can fly! It can move upwards! Once it moves upwards, once your energies start moving upwards, the whole world is different. Your old questions simply fall down and your old problems are no more there, because you are now moving vertically.

All those problems were there because you were moving horizontally. The problems of a bullock cart are not problems for an airplane. The road was not good, so there was a problem, The road was blocked, so there was a problem. Now this is not a problem because the road is not used at all. Whether blocked or not, whether good or not, it is irrelevant.