D: For men like me, who have neither the direct experience of the heart nor the consequent recollection, the matter seems to be somewhat difficult to grasp. About the position of the heart itself, perhaps, we must depend on some sort of guesswork.
Maharshi: If the determination of the position of the heart is to depend on guesswork even in the case of the layman, the question is surely not worth much consideration. No, it is not on guesswork that you have to depend, it is on an unerring intuition.D: For whom is the intuition?
Maharshi: For one and all.
D: Does Sri Bhagavan credit me with an intuitive knowledge of the heart?
Maharshi: No, not of the heart, but of the position of the heart in relation to your identity.
D: Sri Bhagavan says that I intuitively know the position of the heart in the physical body?
Maharshi: Why not?
D: (Pointing to himself) It is to me personally — that Sri Bhagavan is referring?
Maharshi: Yes. That is the intuition! How did you refer to yourself by gesture just now? Did you not put your finger on the right side of the chest? That is exactly the place of the heart-center.
D: So then, in the absence of direct knowledge of the heart-center, I have to depend on this intuition?
Maharshi: What is wrong with it? When a schoolboy says “It is I that did the sum correctly”, or when he asks you, “Shall I run and get the book for you”, would he point out to the head that did the sum correctly, or to the legs that will carry him swiftly to get you the book? No, in both cases, his finger is pointed quite naturally towards the right side of the chest, thus giving innocent expression to the profound truth that the source of ‘I’-ness in him is there. It is an unerring intuition that makes him refer to himself, to the heart which is the Self, in that way. The act is quite involuntary and universal, that is to say, it is the same in the case of every individual. What stronger proof than this do you require about the position of the heart-center in the physical body?
– Maharshi’s Gospel
Lotus Sutra 