FROM BONDAGE TO FREEDOM
This whole earth belongs to us
FROM BONDAGE TO FREEDOM
This whole earth belongs to us
BELOVED MASTER,
DO I BETRAY MY REAL SELF, AND ONLY MYSELF, BY NOT LETTING GO?
In this commune, you cannot betray anybody except yourself. In the outside
world the situation is different. You can betray Christianity, you can
betray Jesus Christ, Moses, Mohammed. You can betray communism, Karl Marx.
You can betray a thousand and one things, for the simple reason that they
are all asking for your faith. Betrayal comes as the other side of faith.
I am not asking for your belief, I am not asking for your faith. There is
no way to betray me or anybody else here. This is a commune of individuals,
totally independent, living out of their freedom and responsibility.
There is nobody above you. You are alone here! So if you betray, you can
betray only yourself. Let this sink as deep as possible in you, because
every faith creates rebels, and every belief creates disbelief. The very
seed of betrayal is sown in the idea of obedience.
God thought that Adam and Eve had betrayed him. In fact, he had created the
whole situation himself. The Christian-Judaic God is a fascist. He orders
his own children not to be wise, not to have eternal life. He is provoking
them to betray. If they have any guts, they will do just what he is telling
them not to do. And then he dumps on them that they have betrayed, they have
not followed, they have not been faithful, reliable, trustworthy. They have
committed a sin, they should be punished for it. And not only are Adam and
Eve punished; generation after generation, each human child is being
punished because thousands of years ago Adam and Eve had betrayed God.
You cannot betray me. You cannot betray anybody else in this commune. You
are here out of your freedom, you can leave out of your freedom. You are
welcome to come in; you are welcome to go out. Our respect for your
individuality, for your freedom, for your decision, is absolute.
So remember: either you can fulfill yourself or you can betray yourself. If
you fulfill yourself, your freedom will become a fragrance. If you fulfill
yourself, your individuality will reach to its ultimate potential.
If you betray yourself, you will remain retarded. But nobody is punishing
you. It is your action and its consequence.
Question 2
BELOVED MASTER,
IF ALL THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS HAVE BEEN DOING THINGS NOW IN THE HOPE OF
REWARD LATER -- IN THE HEREAFTER FOR THE CHRISTIANS -- HOW CAN WE AVOID
FALLING INTO THE SAME TRAP, BECAUSE OF HABIT, OF MEDITATING NOW TOWARDS
ENLIGHTENMENT LATER, AND IN THAT WAITING FOR IT TO HAPPEN, MISSING NOW?
That is this enlightenment all about? What do you understand by
enlightenment?
The first thing: it can never be in the future. You cannot make a goal of
it; it can never be tomorrow. Either it is here and now, or never. Remember
those words: now or never!
You have misunderstood the idea of enlightenment. The idea of enlightenment
is to remain in the present moment. I call it meditation -- not to go into
the past, which is no more, not to go into the future, which is not yet --
because if you go into past and future, you are going to miss the present
moment, which is the only reality.
Just be here, now. And if you are here and now, enlightenment comes of its
own accord. It is not a goal that you have to reach. It is not somewhere far
away, so that you have to travel a path to it. It comes to you, you never go
to it. It is not your doing, it is a happening.
All that you have to understand is: be authentically in the present,
because there is no other reality anywhere. This small moment, this silence
-- and suddenly you will feel something arising from the very depths of your
being. It has always been there; you never gave it a chance. You have been
wandering everywhere, but you have not allowed your innermost core just a
little space, a little time.
All the other religions teach you that God is there far away; you need a
savior, a messiah, a prophet, a holy book, a religion, to help you to reach
there. They teach you that heaven is far away, and you have to accumulate
virtue to deserve it. They are keeping your eyes focused on a faraway
future.
This is a very cunning strategy so that life goes on slipping out of your
hands. From the cradle to the grave, you are just hoping and hoping and
hoping. And what comes is neither God nor heaven, but death. And you missed
the tremendous opportunity of being alive! You simply vegetated, because you
were not interested in life itself. Even great thinkers, theologians....
One Christian theologian, a great intellectual, respected all over the
world, was Stanley Jones. He was traveling all around the world, preaching
the gospel of Christ.
I met him in one of his discourses. After the discourse I asked him, "Your
discourse was beautiful, but do you understand what you are doing? You are
harming all these simple people. You are proving exactly what Karl Marx used
to say, that religions are nothing but opium to the people. I don't agree
with Karl Marx on anything else, but on this statement I cannot disagree.
You are giving them dreams of the future, of an eternal life beyond death.
Have you been beyond death?
"Being a Christian, certainly you cannot say that you have been beyond
death. A Hindu may be able to say yes, because he believes in many lives; he
has been many times through the process of death. But you cannot say that.
Christians, Jews, Mohammedans believe only in one life, so there is going to
be only one death. Have you been beyond death? Have you come experiencing
what you are saying?
"Be sincere. And I hope that you will be honest. And if you don't know what
is beyond death, then why destroy these people's lives? Focusing their mind
on the future, which is unknown, is really murderous. In my eyes, you are
not a theologian but a murderer! The law may not catch you as a murderer,
but you cannot deny that you have murdered many people; you have taken them
away from the present -- and that is the only life there is. Live this
moment in its totality."
Other religions have goals. This is not a religion, this is a mystery
school. This is a religio -- the root from where the word "religion" has
come. Religio means putting you together. Nothing else -- no God, no heaven,
no hell, just putting you together, a crystallization. And that can happen
only in the present.
I don't sell opium, I am not a dope dealer. For that you will have to go to
Christian bishops and cardinals and the pope -- they are dope dealers. The
dope is so subtle that the law cannot catch them; it is invisible. But it is
far more dangerous than the ordinary dope. Once you get accustomed to
focusing your life, your longing, your hope, in the future, you are
finished. You have committed suicide, you will not be able to live.
I teach you life.
I teach you love.
I teach you meditation.
They all mean the same thing: to be in the present. And see the beauty of
being in the present -- the silence that descends, the serenity that
surrounds you, a tremendous contentment that arises for no reason at all.
And as you become more and more attuned to the present, as your depth
within yourself grows, suddenly one fine morning you really wake up! Not the
everyday waking -- you really wake up, because you are at your very center,
and you see the whole life in a new light. The whole existence becomes
luminous. Everything becomes a glory unto itself. Small things start having
tremendous meaning. And what God had forbidden.... You have eaten the fruit
of wisdom and the fruit of eternal life; now you know those trees are not
outside you, they are your very being.
The Garden of Eden is not somewhere outside, it is within you. And once it
is felt, what a relief, what a blessing! This I call enlightenment. Then
moment to moment you go on growing more and more into light, into life, into
love. There is no end to it. Even the sky is not the end. You are far bigger
than the whole universe. You are carrying within yourself all the millions
of stars, all the flowers, all the music of the world. There is nothing that
you are missing.
This experience I call enlightenment. But please, don't make it a goal;
otherwise you will miss it. Make it a goal and you have missed it. You
simply learn how to be in the present, and enlightenment comes to you. You
don't have to go anywhere.
Question 3
BELOVED MASTER,
A FRIEND IS GOING TO VISIT RUSSIA IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS. DO YOU HAVE A
MESSAGE FOR YOUR SANNYASINS OVER THERE?
Yes, a few things....
Tell my sannyasins in the Soviet Union: one, that not only are they
underground, now my whole sannyas movement is underground. I have taken away
everything outside and left you with only meditation. No government, no
fanatic religion is capable of finding the treasure of meditation that you
are carrying. And outer things don't matter.
Russian sannyasins have always felt sad because even though they live in a
red country, they cannot use red clothes. Now there is no problem: we have
claimed the whole rainbow. Now all colors are our sannyas colors, so they
should not feel sad anymore. And now it is possible in the Soviet Union to
spread meditation more easily; hence the Soviet Union is one of the most
potential countries.
It needs meditation, because Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Lenin -- the
communist trinity -- had no idea of meditation at all. They have never been
to their inner being. They have never touched their own self and felt its
benediction. They were poor people.
And in Russia, after the revolution, everything that is in any way related
to religion has become a crime. But what I am giving, even the Soviet Union
cannot deny, because we don't have any God, we don't have any heaven and
hell, we don't have any priesthood, we don't have any prayer, we don't have
any kind of ritual.
We have declared that we are no longer a religion. We don't have any
theology. We are seekers of our own interiority -- that has nothing to do
with religion. And who can prevent you from going inwards? You can be
prevented from going to some place outwards, but you cannot be prevented by
any force, atomic, nuclear -- no force can prevent you from going inwards.
And there is no principle in the whole literature of Marxism which says
that going into your own being is against communism. It has nothing to do
with communism. Communism is just a political phenomenon. To go inside is
just like sleep; what has sleep to do with communism? Going inside is
absolutely unconnected with any kind of politics.
So tell the sannyasins in the Soviet Union that they need not be afraid.
The KGB is persecuting them -- make it clear to them that we are not a
religion, and we don't have any politics. What we are doing is an
"insearch." And, according to the Soviet constitution, insearch is not a
crime. So don't be afraid. Be straightforward and up front.
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Meditation is not a prayer. Prayer needs a God: meditation needs no God.
Meditation needs only you, ready to explore what is inside you: What is this
life? What is this consciousness?
And Russia has more potential, because for sixty, seventy years the Russian
people have been deprived of any inner journey. It is just like a land which
has remained unused for seventy years. No crops have been grown. The land is
ready to burst forth -- just the seeds are needed. That's why I say Russia
is one of the most potential countries. And meditation is the seed.
Meditation can become a wildfire in Russia, because everything else is
difficult. The government is continuously after you; even walls have ears.
Everybody is a detective -- but nobody can detect your meditation. Spread it!
Many people need it.
The second thing: tell the Russian sannyasins not to feel in any way sad
that in other countries sannyasins are free. It is not true. Our experience
in America proves it -- that all democracy is simply talk. The American
Constitution is beautiful, but the politicians are just as ugly as anywhere
else. The Constitution is a dead book. The power is in the hands of the
politicians, and they are doing everything that they can do to destroy
sannyasins. That is the reason that I am telling my sannyasins to go
underground. And it is so easy for my sannyasins to go underground: no red
clothes, no mala -- you are underground.
I am not a sadist. I don't want you to be unnecessarily persecuted,
tortured, harassed. There is no need when you can go underground so easily.
The politicians will prove absolutely impotent; they cannot do anything to
you.
In Mohammedan countries we have sannyasins. They were also feeling bad that
they cannot be like every other sannyasin, and the movement cannot grow. Now
it can grow everywhere; now there are no barriers.
It is the same thing -- the politicians may talk of democracy, they may
talk of dictatorship, it doesn't matter. Politicians are simply politicians.
Their minds function in the same way, their cunningness is the same. Yes,
their masks may be different. In these four years we have seen that the
American politician has only the mask of a democrat. Behind democracy is
hypocrisy and nothing else.
This whole world is tortured by politicians in different names, exploited
in different names. The only way to get out of this exploitation is to
spread meditation to as many people as possible -- because the meditator is
no longer gullible. He has a maturity and an intelligence; words cannot
deceive him.
And if the major part of the world becomes meditative, it will release such
a great energy of peace, love, compassion.... That, to me, is the only
possibility of preventing the third world war, because meditators will
refuse to fight, meditators will refuse to be violent. It does not matter
whether they are American or Russian or Indian, the quality of meditation is
the same. It makes you so sensitive that you cannot be destructive.
And if the whole world simply refuses to fight, then if these politicians
are so interested in fighting they can have wrestling matches, boxing
matches, and meditators will enjoy it tremendously. But the world is not
going to be destroyed by these idiots.
I am not a pacifist. I will not tell you to go on a protest march to Moscow
or to the White House or to anywhere. Those protest marches have been going
on -- they don't make any difference. I want you to be peaceful -- not
pacifist, but just a deep pool of peace. That is the only possibility of
saving humanity.
And if we can avoid the third world war, then many doors open. There is no
need of nations... what is the need of nations? I don't see the point. It is
because of the wars that nations are needed. It is a vicious circle; because
of the nations, war is needed. If there is no need of any war, then there is
no need of any boundaries.
Then why America? Why Soviet Russia? Why India? Why China? This whole earth
belongs to us. And if the whole earth becomes one organic whole, poverty can
be destroyed very easily. Seventy-five percent of the whole world's energy,
income, is going into the service of death, making more and more
sophisticated nuclear weapons. If the world is one, all this energy can
become creative; all these scientists can change the whole direction of
their work, and this seventy-five percent energy and income will become
available to people.
There is no need for any Ethiopia -- one thousand people dying every day;
there is no need. There is no need for India to remain undernourished. Fifty
percent of the people -- and that is a big number, four hundred million
people -- are eating only one time a day. Soon, within months, India will be
another Ethiopia.
But if the world is one, if war is no longer needed, the whole energy
devoted to war can be devoted to getting rid of poverty, can be released for
people's comfort, luxury.
Meditation can bring the only revolution there is. All other revolutions
have failed.
Question 4
BELOVED MASTER,
GURDJIEFF'S LAST WORDS TO HIS DISCIPLES WERE, "BRAVO, AMERICA."
I HAVE HEARD YOU APPRECIATED HIS INSIGHT ABOUT AMERICA, BUT RIGHT NOW THE
WAY AMERICAN BUREAUCRACY AND POLITICIANS ARE BEHAVING WITH YOU AND WITH THE
COMMUNE, IT SEEMS THE WORDS OF GURDJIEFF ARE NO LONGER RELEVANT.
No, they are still relevant. A man like George Gurdjieff never becomes
irrelevant. People of that category are eternally relevant. Politicians may
be behaving in an ugly way -- the only way they know -- but America is not
just the American politicians.
Gurdjieff's last words before he died were "Bravo, America." His disciples
were at a loss to figure it out. Their whole life they had been in trouble
with this man, and now at the last.... Nobody could have expected that his
dying words would be, "Bravo, America." And he was dying in France! And now
he is dead so you cannot even ask, "What do you mean?" But what he said was
more significant, meaningful, than ordinary intellect can understand.
America is the youngest country in the whole world, its history is only
three hundred years. It is nothing compared to the histories of China,
India. In India, three hundred years mean nothing. The Indian astrologers
prove -- and nobody has been able to contradict them yet -- that Indian
civilization is at least ninety thousand years old.
In the RIGVEDA, the most ancient book in the whole world, a certain
constellation of stars is described in detail, in every particular,
precisely. That constellation happened ninety thousand years ago, according
to the scientists. Since then that kind of constellation has not happened
again.
There is no way for the people who were writing the RIGVEDA to describe the
stars and their constellations in such precise and exact detail unless they
had observed it. Now the proof is such that no argument can defeat it. A
country which is ninety thousand years old -- what does three hundred years
mean to it? China perhaps is even older.
Gurdjieff's statement means first that America has no burden of past
conditioning -- one thing. It is a very thin layer of conditioning, three
hundred years, in comparison to ninety thousand years. To change the Hindu
mind is almost impossible. It is so old, so thick; so deep have gone the
roots. But the American mind is only very superficially conditioned -- one
thing which makes it possible that America can be deprogrammed, and
Americans can become the first citizens of a new world. Perhaps Gurdjieff
was remembering the words, "brave new world," when he said, "Bravo,
America."
Secondly, America is the only country where all kinds of people -- Spanish,
Italian, English, German, Swedish, Belgian, Swiss -- all kinds of people
have mixed. It is not a race; it is more cosmopolitan than any other
country.
The man of the future has to be cosmopolitan. He cannot be an Italian, a
German, an Indian, an African. No, he can only be a human being. There is
more possibility in America for it to happen. All other countries are
racial; America is a nonracial country. It is a tremendous opportunity to
create a new world without any racial mind.
Thirdly, America is more receptive to new ideas, new technologies, new
scientific research, than any other country, for the simple psychological
reason that a child has no past, he has only a future. That's why he is
always ready to learn -- in fact, asking too many questions because he wants
to know what this life is all about. He harasses his parents by asking
questions which the parents themselves don't know how to answer. They don't
know the answers either, and they are not courageous enough to say, "We
don't know."
An old man has no future, only past. The old man looks backwards, not
forwards. In the future there is only darkness and death, in the past are
all his golden memories; he lives in the past. The same is true about
countries. A country like India or China has such a long past -- they live
in the past. India thinks it has seen its golden age.
You will not believe that in India the theory of evolution is not
acceptable. India has another theory: the theory of involution. Things are
not going, growing, towards better states, evolving -- no. Things are
falling down -- involution.
India has the idea that the best age was thousands of years ago; they call
it the "age of truth." Then the second stage came, the fall started. They
call it simply "the age of three legs." The reason is that the first age
they compare to a table with four legs -- completely balanced, with no
possibility of falling. The second stage has lost one leg, so it is a tripod
with three legs, treta -- still not too bad, because even with three legs a
tripod has a certain balance. The third stage they call dwapar -- the age of
two legs. Now things are becoming dangerous. A table with two legs -- it is
not a bicycle, it is bound to fall. The bicycle will also fall unless you go
on riding it so that it has no chance to fall. Slow down and it starts
wavering; stop and it falls. But a table is not a bicycle, so it is bound to
fall. The fall is inevitable. The fourth stage has only one leg. They call
it "the age of darkness" -- kaliyuga. We are living in the age of darkness.
Now, a country which thinks in such terms cannot accept evolution. It has
happened -- now there is no future. The golden age has come and gone; now
there is only darkness and death.
America is just like a child. Three hundred years compared to ninety
thousand years -- it is just a small child. It has its eyes open, ready to
evolve, to grow. It has no past to be bothered about. Gurdjieff is still
relevant, and will remain relevant always. People like him never become
irrelevant. In spite of the third-rate politicians, America is going to
evolve, evolve into the new man, evolve into a new humanity.
I have chosen to be here, I have called you to be here, because I don't
want Gurdjieff to become irrelevant. His prophecy has to be fulfilled.
Question 5
BELOVED MASTER,
TODAY WE GOT RID OF GACHCHHAMIS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I WANT TO SUGGEST WE
DROP ALSO THE WORDS "TEMPLE" AND "WORSHIP." THEY ARE APPARENTLY AN INVENTION
OF OUR HIGH PRIESTESS, SHEELA.
Done!
Question 6
BELOVED MASTER,
THE COMMUNE IN SWEDEN HAS NOW CLOSED AS ALL THE OTHER SMALL COMMUNES HAVE
ALREADY DONE. THERE ARE NOW ONLY A FEW BIG ONES LEFT IN THREE COUNTRIES. IS
IT TIME TO START NEW, FRESH COMMUNES NOW? OR SHALL THE CENTRALIZATION TO THE
BIG COMMUNES CONTINUE? PLEASE COMMENT.
It is time to start fresh communes. I am absolutely against centralization.
Question 7
BELOVED MASTER,
IS THERE ANY REASON THAT YOU TELL US THE SAME THINGS DAY AFTER DAY?
You are the reason!
Okay?
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