What can I say?

 Years ago, while trying to build a relationship with a woman, we fell into a painful trap. She had been speaking to me for a long time, trying to explain something, but I simply could not understand her. When I honestly told her that I didn't understand, she erupted. She yelled at me with fierce intensity and walked away. My own ego flared up in response, and I yelled back with the same intensity and the same superficial rubbish.

After so many years of inner work, I finally understand what happened that day. I still don't know what her exact words meant, but I understand something much more profound: I understand where her words—and my reactions—were coming from.

If you give a pen to a young child, they will happily scribble on a piece of paper for hours. Then, they will hold it up to you and say, "See how much I have done? Do you understand it?" If you look at the child and say, "No, this is just scribbling," the child will cry. They will feel entirely invalidated. But what else can you say? You cannot pretend the scribble is a profound novel. You simply have to smile, hold your peace, and wait until the child receives a basic education and naturally understands what was wrong. You don't fight the child; at most, you gently drop clues and teach them when the opportunity strikes.

Human adults operate the exact same way when they are completely disconnected from their divine center.

A human mind with no center—a mind identified entirely with a narrow ego and devoid of any touch from the deeper inner presence—will always speak "rubbish," because it is operating exclusively from surface-level, acquired knowledge. Because this uncentered mind is so fragile, it will wildly defend its scribbles if anyone with actual wisdom questions them.

Some of the "intelligent" among these uncentered minds just create more complex theories, gather followers to validate their scribbles, and build institutions. Our history proves that no culture, no religion, and no education system has ever sustained itself permanently. They all eventually have to go, as they are born from a half-baked mind, fading away as the human mind continues to evolve.

So, what can anybody say to an uncentered mind?

You just need to wait until life forces them to realize the truth on their own. You hold your peace, you stay anchored in your own divine center, and at most, you gently drop clues of wisdom whenever the opportunity strikes.

I remember once hearing the mystic Osho say that there is no sin in this entire universe. I fully understand that now. Just as it is impossible to attach the concept of "sin" or "malice" to a toddler for scribbling on a page, it is impossible to attach sin to a human mind that is operating without a center.