FROM BONDAGE TO FREEDOM
Truth is enough unto itself
FROM BONDAGE TO FREEDOM
Truth is enough unto itself
BELOVED MASTER,
I HAVE SPENT THREE BLISSFUL WEEKS HERE, AND NEXT WEEK I RETURN TO GERMANY.
I AM NOT A SANNYASIN, BUT I HAVE AGAIN BEEN DEEPLY IMPRESSED BY THE GENUINE
SPIRIT OF THIS COMMUNE AND BY YOUR DISCOURSES. IT WAS THE FIRST TIME I HAVE
HEARD YOU SPEAK, AND YOUR WORDS HAVE GONE TO MY HEART AS WELL AS TO MY BRAIN.
IN GERMANY I WILL BE CONFRONTED WITH DISCUSSIONS FROM MANY DIFFERENT SIDES,
MOSTLY INFLUENCED BY THE PRESS, WHO ARE KNOWN FOR THEIR EXAGGERATIONS AND AN
UGLY PLAY WITH SENSATIONAL NEWS.
I WILL DO MY BEST TO DESTROY ANY MISUNDERSTANDING AND MISBELIEF, AND I AM
GOING TO FIGHT AGAINST ANY LACK OF GOODWILL. BUT I EARNESTLY DOUBT WHETHER I
WILL SUCCEED. WHAT DO YOU THINK I COULD DO?
There are so many questions in your one question. Let me go into it step by
step.
First, truth needs no defense; only lies need defense. Truth needs no
argument, it is self-evident. So the problem with truth is always how to
convey it to the other person.
Lies can be argued about. The other can be convinced about them; logic can
be used to convince the other. Hence, I hate the word "missionary," because
the missionary can only spread lies. He convinces, argues, quotes scriptures.
But truth needs nothing. Truth is enough unto itself. So, if you have felt
something of truth here, just please don't try to convince anybody. You
cannot succeed. Only make your experience available -- naked, with no logic,
with no argument. Truth has its own way. It will come through the shine of
your eyes, through the aura of your being, through your very presence, that
you have been in a garden -- you are still fragrant.
A man who is standing with closed eyes -- you cannot convince him that
there is light. But you can describe the beauties of light. As the sun rises,
flowers start blossoming, birds start singing, the whole existence comes out
of sleep refreshed, alive, younger. You can tell this to the man who is
standing with closed eyes. This is not giving an argument for the existence
of light; it is simply creating an urge in the man to open his eyes. And
that urge exists in everyone.
There is not a single human being in the world who does not want to know
beauty, to know love, to know truth. But the problem has been created by the
missionaries, theologians, the so-called religious people. They try to
convince him of something which needs to be experienced.
Be loving to your friends. If in Germany they can feel that something
German has disappeared from you, you have given evidence. Be loving. Be
rejoicing. Sing, dance with them. Let them feel your energy; in your singing,
dancing, let them feel the difference. You cannot say it, but you can show
it in every gesture, in every word, in every silence. Show the difference
that has happened to you. Allow yourself to be available to your friends.
Open all the doors and all the windows of your being so they can see that
some ray of light has entered in you.
And if they inquire, tell them the only way is to come here, to be here.
Man can go to the moon, which is a silly project, because what are you going
to do on the moon? -- just stand there looking stupid! There is nothing to
see, not even a juniper tree. Just create the urge in them sometimes to have
a few days in this oasis. This is the first thing to remember.
The second thing: you say you are not a sannyasin. That is wrong -- you
are. There are sannyasins who are not sannyasins; there are nonsannyasins
who are sannyasins. Sannyas is not something outward, it is something inner.
If you could enjoy these three weeks, you are already initiated. These three
weeks are going to change your whole life.
So drop that idea that you are a nonsannyasin. Anybody who is so open, so
available, so unprejudiced that, just being a visitor here, he fell in tune
with the commune, its sincerity, its love -- the initiation has happened.
The outer initiation may follow in its own time, there is no hurry. And even
if it doesn't follow, it doesn't matter. What matters has happened!
Third: you say that my words have reached your heart and your brain. Just
let them reach your heart. The brain is dangerous; it is German. The heart
is human. And the brain is continuously distorting everything. So don't go
via the brain, because the brain is conditioned by millions of years, by
many lives, by many different stages, and anything moving through it cannot
retain its purity. But it can be bypassed; there is no necessity to go
through it.
We are being educated that everything should go through the brain. That is
one of the strategies of the vested interests all over the world, because
truth, love, beauty -- any great value going through the brain will not be
the same by the time it reaches to the heart. In fact, it may have turned
upside down. The brain distorts everything. It pollutes all that is innocent.
Learn to put the brain aside -- that's what I call meditation. Put the
brain aside. Let me talk to you heart to heart. It is a totally different
experience. Your heart starts beating in the same rhythm, a great
synchronicity happens, and with it comes understanding, experience, vision,
insight.
The brain cannot give anything to you; the brain is only a mechanism. Don't
put things like love, truth, beauty, through any mechanism. They will be
distorted, crippled, crushed; and by the time they reach to the heart they
will be dead, they will not be breathing.
But this has been taught to us, that everything has to go through reason,
through the brain, rationality. These are standing at the door of your heart;
they guard your heart. They don't allow anybody in unless they are satisfied.
And it is not possible for real values to satisfy them.
Yes, a theology can satisfy them, it can give all the arguments they want.
But what argument can beauty give? What argument can you give that the
sunset is beautiful? If some idiot starts asking, "Please give me a rational
explanation of your statement. Why do you call the sunset beautiful?" you
will be absolutely incapable of doing it.
This is what your brain is continuously doing. It won't allow beauty,
truth, love, without their being searched, asked all kinds of questions --
inquiries to which they cannot provide answers; it is not in their nature.
So put the brain aside. Let the heart function in its own right, and you
will start growing into new dimensions of being which were not available to
you before. And then you will know that the brain is good as a servant, but
not good as a master. A machine should always remain a servant, it should
never become the master. Once a machine becomes a master, it destroys
everything that has any intrinsic value. Those values are very delicate,
very fragile.
Try to have a direct connection, from heart to heart, and see the
tremendous revolution that comes to you. And then you can say the same thing
to your friends back home: "What I have brought is something not of the
mind, for the mind, from the mind; it is something of the beyond."
So if you can, put your friends' brains aside -- and if they are your
friends this small thing can be done. If you cannot do it for a friend, then
for whom are you going to do it? A friend wants to connect directly with
your heart. There is no harm, no loss. So just tell them, "Don't argue about
it. Just for a few moments let me hold your hand, let me hug you, and put
the mind aside. Feel my warmth, my love, and let our hearts synchronize."
You may be able... something may transpire. This is not missionary work.
This is the work of pure love.
You say that you are afraid you may not succeed. If you try through the
mind, it is certain you will not succeed. On the contrary, those people may
succeed in destroying something that was growing in you. They will make you
suspicious of your own experience. They may convince you: "Perhaps you were
hypnotized. Perhaps seeing five thousand sannyasins, living amongst them,
you became too gullible." And you may start thinking: Who knows? Was it true,
or just my imagination? Was it true, or just my projection? Was it true, or
did I have a dream? You cannot succeed in convincing them, but they can
succeed.
Intellectually, destruction is very easy. Intellectually, to lead people to
a creative experience is impossible. You are aware that all those people
back home are full of negative attitudes, gossips, the sensational news that
journalism thrives on. Journalism has not yet been able to become an art; it
is still third-rate. It is unfortunate, because journalism has a tremendous
power over people's thinking, being. Journalism simply lives on
sensationalism. The more sensational news is, the more you can sell it to
the masses.
There is an old saying: No news is good news. I feel it is not complete. I
want to complete it: Good news is no news, because good news does not create
sensationalism. Murder is needed, suicide is needed, rape is needed; all
kinds of crimes are needed. But to go on feeding people on all this kind of
news -- do you think you are serving humanity? Do you know the psychological
effect of all this? A person who reads every morning about murders,
suicides, rapes -- all kinds of crimes -- by and by becomes immune, it does
not make him feel bad about it. It is the way life is; it is happening all
over the world.
If war is the only reality that covers the front pages of all the
newspapers, televisions, radios; if cunning politicians are the only people
whose statements are always on the first page.... Have you seen, ever, on
the first page, a musician's statement, a sculptor's statement, his photo, a
poet's statement, his photo? No, they are not news. They are too good to be
news.
Journalism is corrupting humanity. It is making people feel that crime is
the way of life. If you are not committing crime, you are just a fool.
Everybody is doing it and getting away with it. Criminals become presidents,
prime ministers. You have never heard that a great scientific genius has
become a president of a country, or a great guitarist has become a prime
minister of a country. These people are struggling just to survive somehow.
Perhaps they will live anonymously and die anonymously.
Do you know, in the times of Alexander the Great, how many poets there
were? how many musicians there were? how many great creative artists there
were? Not even in the footnotes of history are their names available. They
lived anonymously. They made this life more beautiful, they made human
experience more rich. They brought something from the beyond -- but they
remained unknown and they will remain unknown. And what has Alexander the
Great done, other than murdering thousands of people, burning cities, trying
to conquer the whole world? This murderer becomes "the Great" Alexander.
This has to be changed. All politicians' names should disappear from the
front pages of the newspapers, from magazines, television shows, radios.
What do they have to give to the world? Why should people go on seeing the
face of Ronald Reagan? -- just a third-rate cowboy film actor. What
contribution has he made?
Is there no one in America who has contributed to life immensely? There are
poets, musicians, there are people who have created great literature. The
front pages of all the newspapers and magazines should be concerned with
those who beautify life, who give something to existence, who don't destroy.
Politicians should be pushed to the last page!
There is no need to continuously insist on murders, suicides. You may not
think so, but it is absolutely certain that your insistence on these stories
makes people, by and by, murderers, suicidal, criminals. Who is responsible
for that? And now the world is so small that anything happening anywhere,
immediately reaches within hours, through modern media, to every nook and
corner of the earth.
Journalism should understand its responsibility: it is great. Up to now, it
has been irresponsible. Its only interest is how to sell more, how to earn
more. Whatever happens to human beings is not its concern. Journalism needs
a total change.
A California University has been surveying and studying in California, for
one year, what happens when there are boxing matches. By thirteen percent,
crime immediately rises, and for one week steadily that thirteen percent
increase remains. Then slowly it tapers off. Knowing this, still the
government of California has not done anything. Boxing matches should be
made a criminal offense! If they create a thirteen-percent rise in crime....
Those criminals will be punished -- and the real crime is coming from the
boxing matches! It looks like such an insane world.
Stop such nonsense as boxing matches. But no, Muhammad Ali becomes a great
hero -- and what has he done? What has he contributed? He may have broken a
few people's ribs, a few people's noses, a few people's eyes, and he may
have created a wave of crimes -- that is his contribution. And journalism
will give great credit to him.
Journalists have to learn that it is time to become more mature, more
responsible: they should understand that just selling stories, whether true
or untrue, just for the sake of earning money -- without any concern what
they are going to do to human beings.... It is poison that is being spread!
So I can understand your concern that journalism has been spreading all
kinds of lies about me, and people believe them. People have a certain
psychology: they believe anything which is printed. It becomes something
very significant that it is printed: it must be true.
Just the other day -- I do not understand German, fortunately -- Sheela, in
one of her interviews given to the German sensationalist magazine STERN, a
twenty-five-page interview full of lies, not a single word true in it.... I
just looked at the translation quickly, because what is the point of going
through all those lies? And you see how journalism works.... After that, the
STERN representative was here interviewing me, but he never mentioned
Sheela's interview, neither did he bring any question: "Sheela has brought
such-and-such allegations against you and the commune" -- not a single
point.
Do you see the cunningness? He knew perfectly well that I would contradict
it and say the truth; then it would be difficult. And they have been living
on lies. He asked many questions, but not a single question related to
Sheela's interview.
So certainly, back in Germany, you will be faced, encountered by people who
are just full of such nonsense, garbage. Don't argue with them. Just tell
them, "The best way to know is to go there. It is an experience. I had also
the same ideas you have, because I have also read all these magazines and
watched the television shows, and naturally I had believed."
Humanity is raised in such a way as to believe that anything that is
brought on the television screen, on the radio, in the newspapers, has a
validity. Nobody bothers to inquire about the truth. And anybody can come
here and inquire of my people, "What kind of nonsense is this?" This is the
only place in the whole world where there is no prostitution, for the simple
reason that we don't believe that married partners should monopolize each
other.
My basic approach is that the more you love, the more freedom you give to
the other. Even the freedom that, if your woman wants to go with a man just
for two days on a holiday, you will be immensely happy that she will be
happy. You are not her owner, she is not a thing. You love her and you want
her to be happy; if this is her happiness, then she can go. There is no need
to hide it, there is no need to pretend. Things are frank here in the
commune. And for two days she is free, for two days you are also free. You
may have been attracted to another woman -- because there is no natural law
that you can only be attracted to your wife. In fact, it is very difficult
to be attracted to your wife. That is the last woman in the world you can be
attracted to.
Two days' freedom for you... and after two days, when you meet again, it is
as if a fresh relationship begins. Those two days have given a break -- a
love break, just like a tea break, a coffee break. I don't know the English
language exactly, but I don't care either. If I can manage to make you
understand, that's enough: love break! And in two days' time she realizes
that all men are alike. In two days' time you realize all women are alike:
just put the light off and there is no difference. A great reunion, again a
small honeymoon....
There is no need for prostitutes in this commune. Prostitutes exist in the
society where marriage is a monopoly, where marriage is ownership; there is
no way to have just a little holiday. Female prostitutes have existed always
-- it is called the oldest profession -- but now there are male prostitutes
also. That is the latest profession.
But in this commune there is neither a female prostitute nor a male
prostitute -- and there is no need for a pimp. What will he do? He will
simply die, seeing that he is not needed at all. People are making their
arrangements themselves. He was needed very much in the outside society, as
a mediator. The man cannot directly manage to find a prostitute, he has to
save his respectability. The prostitute cannot manage to find a man, because
it is absolutely unfeminine to go to a man and to say, "I want to sell
myself to you for one night." The pimp was a necessary link. It helped the
prostitute to remain feminine. It helped the man to protect his reputation,
his children, his parents, his wife, his family, his society. Everybody
believes that he is really a proper husband, this is an ideal couple. The
pimp functions, does a very necessary work. But in the commune there is no
need for a pimp.
Tell those people that if they have any questions which third-rate
journalism has created in them.... And I emphasize it! -- all journalism is
third rate. There is only yellow journalism, there is nothing else. It has
not yet become an art. It has to become an art.
So tell those people, "I had also believed in all these lies. They simply
disappeared the way dewdrops disappear in the morning sun. You just go and
experience -- there is no other way."
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Question 2
BELOVED MASTER,
CAN YOU EXPLAIN THE FINE LINE BETWEEN OUR TRUST IN YOU AND THE SAYING, "IF
YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD, KILL HIM."
There is no fine line. Unless you trust, you don't have a Buddha, you don't
have a master.
Buddha has made the statement: "If you meet me on the way, kill me." It is
not said to those who don't trust him, who don't love him, who have not
merged their identity with his being. Once you are in deep trust with a
master, there is a danger that you may become so blissful with the merger of
your identity with the master that you may not like to become enlightened on
your own; hence, the statement.
The statement is saying that you are feeling so blissful, just being in
tune with an awakened being, you don't know how much more bliss is possible
if you yourself become awakened. But to become awakened you will have to
drop this identity. You will have to forget even the master.
It is something about the inner journey. When a person is moving in
meditation on the inner journey, the last thing is the master. It is easy to
drop other ideas, other feelings; it is easy to drop greed, anger. But
finally you come to a point when you have to drop the master too. That is
the last barrier. It is just in your mind. You have loved the man so much,
your love has made it so difficult, that you would prefer to remain
unenlightened than to drop the master. And a real master will say, "Drop me,
so that you can also become a master in your own right."
It happened in Ramakrishna's life -- and Ramakrishna was alive just in the
last part of the preceding century, so he is not very far away, he is very
close to us. He was a great devotee of the mother goddess, Kali. And it was
not a formality, it was not just like going every Sunday to the church. He
was the priest of the temple of Kali, but his behavior was strange.
Sometimes he would worship, sometimes he would not open the doors of the
temple at all. Sometimes he would worship the whole day, from morning to
evening, till he fell down unconscious from dancing.
Rani Rasmani had made the temple near the Ganges in Calcutta -- a beautiful
temple and a very scenic place. But Rani Rasmani, although she was a queen
of a small kingdom, belonged to the fourth caste of the Hindus, the
untouchables. So no brahmin was ready to become a priest in the temple of an
untouchable. For years there was no priest. Rasmani was very much in
trouble. She looked all over Bengal; she was ready to give any salary the
priest wanted, but no brahmin was ready to worship in a temple of a sudra,
an untouchable.
But when Ramakrishna was approached, he said, "I will come." Even Rasmani
was a little puzzled: the man seems to be a little mad, because no brahmin
was ready to come. Ramakrishna said, "Whether the temple is made by an
untouchable or by a brahmin, the highest caste, the mother Kali is the same;
it doesn't matter. I am coming, and whatever salary you feel is right, must
be right. I don't know much about money -- you are a queen, your decision
will be far better."
When she heard that sometimes he dances, sings songs the whole day, and
sometimes he does not even open the door, Rani Rasmani called him and said,
"This is not right."
He said, "Nobody can say to me what is right and what is wrong: it is a
love affair. Only I know and my mother Kali knows. Sometimes I get angry at
her when she does not behave. I have been for three days dancing, and she
has not even given a little vision to me? Now let her be punished! I am not
going to open the doors, and I am not going to offer the food."
Rasmani said, "You are strange! You are supposed to be a priest -- you have
to do the ritual."
He said, "I am not a priest, and I am not supposed to do any ritual. I
love! I love the Kali in my village. I will continue; if you are worried you
can stop my salary... because when I prepare food for Kali first I taste it,
then I offer it to her. So that's enough, I don't need much -- I can just
taste a little more!"
This was unimaginable. In India you cannot taste anything and then offer it
to God, or to a goddess. Rasmani said, "This is too much!"
He said, "No. My mother used to do the same. She would taste everything
before she gave it to me. Was it worth giving or not? Has the taste come out
right or not? I cannot offer anything to my mother without tasting it."
This man, Ramakrishna, was really in love with that statue. Nobody was
there, but his love was real. The goddess was unreal, but his love was not
unreal.
One wandering mystic came to the temple and said to Ramakrishna, "You have
not yet attained to the ultimate consciousness, and I can see you are
capable of it. You are very close to it. Only one thing is blocking the way:
this mother goddess, Kali. You love her too much. She does not exist, but
your love certainly exists. And you have created a great image of her. You
have dropped everything else from your mind, you are ready to reach to
ultimate samadhi, ultimate ecstasy, but you will have to cut off the head of
Kali."
Ramakrishna said, "That is a little hard. Killing one's own mother? -- what
are you saying? I would rather remain unenlightened. And anyway, the moment
I close my eyes I see her; she is so beautiful and so alive, I cannot do
this."
But the mystic insisted. He said, "I have never come across a man who is so
close -- just one step!"
Ramakrishna was a simple man. He said, "Then you will have to help me,
because when I close my eyes I will not remember you. And Kali is standing
before me, so gorgeous, so beautiful! And it is such an immense bliss to see
her, I completely forget."
Many times he tried. He would close his eyes, and soon he was swaying, as
if from an inner dance. And the mystic would say, "Wake up! Don't forget
what I have said."
Ramakrishna would open his eyes and say, "But this seems to be impossible."
Then the mystic found a way. He brought a piece of glass, really sharp,
like a knife, and he said, "I will do one thing: I will just cut your
forehead with this piece of glass. It will be painful, but it will remind
you. The same way, you cut the mother Kali."
Ramakrishna said, "Let us try."
The mystic cut Ramakrishna's forehead and the mark remained all his life.
Blood started flowing, the pain was intense, and he remembered: with great
courage, he cut the image of Kali in two parts -- it was just in his
imagination -- and Kali fell in two parts. And he went into transcendental
ecstasy. It took six days to wake him up, he was so deep in ecstasy. And the
mystic said, "Don't disturb him."
After six days he was awakened, and his first words were, "The last barrier
has fallen! I am grateful to you," he said to the mystic. "If you had not
insisted, I would have remained happy, but now I know what bliss is. It is a
millionfold more."
That is the meaning of Gautam Buddha's saying. It is not for all, because
you don't have that love. When you go inside you will not find Gautam
Buddha. You may find all kinds of idiots there: the attorney general of
Oregon, Governor Atiyeh, Ronald Reagan -- anybody.
The statement is not for you. The statement is for those who had loved
Buddha so much that Buddha knew that they could drop everything else, but
they could not drop him. So he had to say, "When you meet me on the way" --
that way is the inner way -- "just chop my head off, so that you can become
an enlightened person on your own." And that is the joy of a master, to see
his disciple also becoming a master.
This is the meaning when I say that this commune is a mystery school. The
effort is to have everyone become a master; just disciplehood won't do. I
want you all to be masters. The world needs masters. Only a great energy of
masters around the world can prevent the catastrophe of a third world war,
which is looming on the horizon.
So it is not only a question of your enlightenment. It is also a question
of the life or death of this whole planet.
Question 3
BELOVED MASTER,
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RIMU -- RAJNEESH INTERNATIONAL MEDITATION
UNIVERSITY -- AND RAJNEESH ACADEMY?
The Rajneesh International Meditation University is an educational
institution. It teaches you everything about meditation. It makes you
knowledgeable about the art of meditation, but it is not existential or
experiential. It is educational -- just the way all other universities are.
There are universities of different kinds in the world. They give you
knowledge about the subject. And the meditation university gives you degrees
according to your knowledge, your acquaintance with all the literature about
meditation.
Let me emphasize: it is about meditation, but it is not meditation.
Rajneesh Academy is an existential, experiential institute. It does not give
you knowledge about meditation; it gives you the experience of meditation.
From the university we can create teachers of meditation, writers, Ph.Ds,
scholars, D.Litts. But as far as they themselves are concerned, they have
not tasted anything of meditation.
There are one hundred and twelve methods of meditation; they were
discovered ten thousand years ago. I have made a few new methods for the
modern man, because those methods were created for a totally different kind
of humanity, for very simple people. The contemporary man is not simple, he
is very complex. Those methods were for people who were not repressed, who
were natural. In these ten thousand years religions have made everybody
repressed; sexually, and in other ways, they have driven humanity against
its own nature.
So I have created new methods which are cathartic, so that you can throw
out all repressions, all garbage out of your being, and can become clean, a
tabula rasa. Then those one hundred and twelve methods -- any one method
that appeals to you will be enough to transform your being.
The Academy also gives titles, because the meditators -- although they
experience the same space of blissfulness, of eternal life, they come from
different paths, and after their experience their expressions are different.
For example, siddha is one of the titles that the Academy gives. He knows
the meditation, he knows the ultimate experience, he knows the deathlessness
-- but he cannot express it, he cannot say anything about it. In fact, the
experience is inexpressible, and the siddha remains silent.
In India, we know only of eighty-four siddhas in the whole of history.
There may have been thousands, but even to know a siddha is difficult. He
keeps it to himself, he is not articulate.
The second category is the arihanta. He is very articulate, but the way he
expresses himself is rarely understood because he tries to remain close to
his experience, rather than thinking of the audience. He does not come down
into the valley; he remains on top of the hill, and from there he speaks. So
you can hear a few sounds, but you cannot make any sense of it.
The arihanta is more articulate than the siddha. The siddha is absolutely
silent. He will be helpful only to those few people who can understand
silence, who can communicate through silence. The arihanta helps more
people, but not many. His statements are maxims: you will have to figure out
what he means, and most probably you will figure out something which is not
the right thing. Your mind cannot understand that experience; but he is
closer to his own experience and is not much concerned whether you
understand him or not.
The third category is the acharya. He is the most articulate of all the
three categories. His effort is to come closer to you, to bring the truth in
such a way that it can become of some use to you. He does not speak in
mysterious language, he speaks in ordinary language. He creates devices so
that he can lead you towards the way. He helps the biggest number of people.
These three categories are of equal value. It is not that some category is
higher than the other, because their experience is the same. But their
expression is different.
The siddha simply denies expression. The arihanta tries, but tries in such
a way that in no way is the truth polluted by language and words. His
expression goes above your heads. The acharya is more humane; he tries to
reach you in your language, in your ways. He comes down from the hill into
the valley to pick you up and lead you up towards the peak. Their
experiences are exactly the same; hence, nobody is lower or higher.
Rajneesh Academy is an experiential university; the Meditation University
is informative. It creates teachers, the Academy creates masters -- and
there is a great difference. The teacher is only saying what he has learned
from his teachers, from the books, but he cannot support it by his own
experience. The master does not care about the books, about the teachers. He
is his own authority, he is his own scripture.
Hence, I have made two different institutions. The University will prepare
you to be acquainted with meditation, so that you become interested in
having the real taste of it. It will lead you towards the Academy. The
Academy has a far higher status than the University.
Question 4
BELOVED MASTER,
WHEN I HEAR PEOPLE SAY THAT THEY HAVE DROPPED SANNYAS, I WONDER IF THIS IS
POSSIBLE. I FEEL THAT ONCE YOU HAVE STARTED ON THIS PATH OF SANNYAS, THERE
IS NO RETURN.
PLEASE COMMENT.
You are right. Once you are a sannyasin, you are a sannyasin forever. You
can drop the clothes, you can drop the mala, but sannyas is something that
has entered into your being.
You cannot drop it, unless you drop your heart. And I don't think anybody
is going to drop his heart.
Sannyas is initiation of the heart: the individual heart moving towards the
universal heart. There is no way to drop it.
So before you enter, think twice!
Okay?
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