The more simple we become the easier it is for us to grasp the reality C.G. Jung Institute of New York, New York City (United States)

Advice given at C.G. Jung Society’s Hall. American Tour, New York (USA), 16 September 1983. At the very outset I have to confess that I have no academic interest in philosophy and I don’t know anything academically. Neither have I known much of Jung till he died, and there was a report about him in one of the Indian journals and I felt that there was a great soul who has gone away. Now you are all great scholars and great intellectuals, while I’m a simple housewife, and all that is simple is reality. Reality is not complicated. One must know it’s the most simple thing is reality and the more simple we become the easier it is for us to grasp the reality. Now to understand Jung’s problem, I have no way out because I was not a student of psychology, but I got hold of some dictionary to know what he was meaning by saying “unconscious” and “collective unconscious,” and all these words. Then later on in London I met a Indian, an Indian boy, studied in Oxford and all that, then he became a psychiatrist also he did his M.B.B.S., and then he became a psychiatrist. A very clever, intelligent person and I found that because he had an Indian background he could integrate properly, and he related to Me all the beautiful things about Jung. Of course he also brought Doctor Adler to meet me, who got somehow cured of his trouble, I think. And Doctor Read More …