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is that.
You too are that.
Tat tvam asi – that art thou.
152. Love.
Religion too has to take new birth in every age.
Bodies – all kinds of bodies – grow old and die.
Sects are the dead bodies of religion,
their souls have left them long ago.
Their languages have become out of date.
This is why they no longer touch
the human heart any more. Nor is their echo heard any more
in the human soul.
Once Dr. John A. Hutton, while speaking in a gathering of priests asked,
“Why have the preachings of religious leaders turned
so lifeless and dull?”
When nobody stood up to answer, he himself answered it by saying:
“They are all dull because preachers are trying to answer questions
that nobody is asking.”
Religiousness is eternal.
But its body should always be contemporary.
Neither is the body eternal, nor can it be – not even the body of religion.
153. Love.
Drop the fear,
because the moment you hold on to it, it multiplies.
To hold on to it is to nourish it.
But dropping fear does not mean fighting with it.
To fight is also to hold on to it.
Just know that fear is.
Do not run away from it,
do not escape.
In life there is fear,
there is insecurity,
there is death –
just know this.
All these are facts of life.
Where would you run from them?
How would you avoid them?
Life itself is such.
And its acceptance, its natural acceptance, is the freedom from fear.
Once fear is accepted, where is it?
Once death is accepted, where is it?
Once insecurity is accepted, where is it?
Acceptance of the wholeness of life is what I call
sannyas, initiation on the path.
154. Love.
Attainment of meditation is not a question of time,
it is a question of will.
If the will is total, meditation happens in a moment too.
And a mind without will can go on wandering
for lives upon lives.
Intensify the will.
Crystallize the will.
Make the will total.
And then, meditation will knock
upon your door on its own.
And the mind certainly tortures one as long as meditation is absent.
Mind is the name for the absence of meditation,
just as darkness is the name for the absence of light.
As the light arrives, darkness leaves.
As meditation arrives, the mind leaves.
Hence, now drown into meditation.
All else follows on its own.
155. Love.
The world is neither unhappiness nor happiness.
The world becomes the same as we see it.
Our vision is the world.
Each person is the creator of his own world.
If every moment of life gives you unhappiness,
then the mistake is somewhere in your own vision.
And if all that you see around you is darkness,
then certainly you are keeping closed the eyes that see light.
Give a fresh thought to yourself.
Look at yourself from a new angle.
If you put the blame on others, you will never be able to see
your own mistake.
If you put the blame on circumstances, you will not be able
to penetrate the roots of your own mental state.
Hence, whatever the situation, proceed to discover
its causes in yourself.
Causes are always in one’s own self.
But they always appear to be in others.
Avoid this mistake and it will be difficult
to preserve your unhappiness.
Others function only as mirrors.
The face seen is always our own.
Life can become a celebration.
But it is necessary to create oneself anew.
And that is not a difficult thing.
Because in the very seeing of the fault in one’s own vision the mistakes
start dying and the birth of a new person begins.
156. Love.
Do not fight with yourself.
Such a fight is futile.
Because victory never, ever comes through it.
To fight with oneself
is nothing other than a gradual suicide.
Accept yourself.
Happily. In gratitude.
What is, is good.
Sex too, anger too.
Because whatsoever is, is from the divine.
Accept it and understand it.
Search and uncover the hidden potential in it.
Then, even sex feels to be a seed towards the divine.
And anger becomes the door to forgiveness.
Evil is not an enemy of goodness.
Rather, evil is only imprisoned goodness.
157. Love.
Strive for meditation.
Then all problems of the mind will disappear.
In fact, mind is the problem.
All the rest of the problems are only echoes of the mind.
Nothing will come of fighting
each and every problem separately.
Fighting with echoes is futile,
there is no outcome of it other than defeat.