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Madame Curie... 

was trying and trying, to solve a mathematical problem. 

She did her best, all that was possible. Then she got fed up. For days together, weeks together, she had been working, and nothing had come out. She was feeling just mad. No path was leading to the solution. 

Then, one night, just exhausted... 

she fell down and slept. 

And in the night, in a dream, the conclusion bubbled up. She was so concerned with the conclusion that the dream was broken, she awoke. Immediately, she wrote down the conclusion. 

Because there was no process in the dream.

Just a conclusion.

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She wrote it down on a pad... 

and then slept again. 

In the morning she was puzzled. The conclusion was right, but she didn't know how it had been achieved. There was no process, no method. Then she tried to find the process. 

Now, it was an easier affair. Because the conclusion was in the hand. And it is easy to go back from the conclusion. 

She won the Nobel Prize because of this dream. 

But she always wondered how it happened.

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When your mind gets exhausted... 

and cannot do any more... 

it simply retires. 

In thát moment of retirement... 

the inner guide can give hints. 

Clues, keys. 

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The man who won the Nobel Prize... 

for the inner structure of a human cell... 

saw it in a dream. 

He saw the whole structure of the human cell, the inner cell, in a dream. And then, in the morning, he just made a picture of it. 

He himsélf couldn't believe that it could be so. So he had to work for years. After years of work, he could conclude that the dream was true.

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With Madame Curie it happened... 

that when she came to knów this inner process of the inner guide... 

she decided to try it. 

Once there was a problem which she wanted to solve. So she thought: "Why worry about it, and why try? Just go to sleep!" 

She slept well, but there was no solution. 

So she was puzzled. 

Many times she tried... When there was a problem, immediately she would go to sleep. But there was no solution! 

First, the intellect has to be tired - completely! 

Only thén, can the solution bubble up. 

The head has to be completely exhausted. 

Otherwise... it goes on functioning!! 

Even in a dream.

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So now scientists say... 

that all the great discoveries are intuitive. Not intellectual. 

This is what is meant by 'the inner guide'.

~osho~

vigyan bhairav tantra

(1972) - vol.ii, ch.37