Inner Sense

A boy was constantly scratching his head. His father looked at him one day and said, “Son, why are you always scratching your head?”
“Well”, the boy responded, “I guess because I am the only one who knows it itches.”

This is inner sense! Only you know. Nobody else can know. It cannot be observed from the outside. When you have a headache, only you know – you cannot prove it.. When you are happy, only you know – you cannot prove it. You cannot put it on the table to be inspected by everybody, dissected, analyzed.
Inner sense has it own validity. But because of the scientific training, people have lost trust in their inner sense. They depend on others. You depend s much that if somebody says, “You are looking very happy,” you start feeling happy. If twenty people decide to make you unhappy, they can make you unhappy. They just have to repeat it the whole – day – whenever you come across them, they have to say to you, “you are looking very unhappy, very sad. What is the matter? Somebody died or something?” And you will start suspecting; so many people are saying that you are unhappy, you must be.
You depend on people’s opinions. You have depended on people’s opinions so much that you have lost all tract of inner sense. This inner sense has to be rediscovered, because all that is beautiful and all that is good and all that is divine can be felt only by the inner sense.