FROM BONDAGE TO FREEDOM
Truth - not a highway but a hill track
FROM BONDAGE TO FREEDOM
Truth - not a highway but a hill track
BELOVED MASTER,
GOD IS DEAD, RELIGION IS DEAD; THEN WHAT IS LEFT?
God has never been in the first place. It is the greatest lie that has been
told to humanity. When I say God is dead, it simply means the lie is dead,
the fiction is dead. And when a lie dies, no corpse is left behind.
So remember it, don't misunderstand the statement that God is dead. It does
not mean that he was alive. It does not mean that he was sick, it does not
mean that he was on his deathbed, it does not mean that you have to go to
the crematorium again. He has never been there. Existence knows nothing of
God. It is only the crafty priests who had invented the fiction. With the
death of the fiction, the profession of the priests becomes irrelevant.
When I say religion is dead, there is something very significant to be
understood. Religion is alive only when it is unorganized, when it is an
individual search out of your own freedom; not based on any belief system,
but simply based on a deep inquiry -- which is man's privilege. That makes a
man a man, when he starts looking into what life is all about, who he is.
When he turns in to find out the very center and the source of life, of love,
of consciousness, religion is alive.
Religion is dead the moment it becomes something collective, organized.
When it becomes Christianity it is dead. When it becomes Hinduism it is dead.
When it becomes Buddhism it is dead. When it becomes Rajneeshism it is dead.
If you are here as an individual seeker, then there is a beauty. There is
no hierarchy, there is no dogma, no creed. You have to find your way
yourself. In fact, the very effort of finding the way crystallizes you. To
be closer to the truth -- the very fact of inquiring into the truth means
you have completed almost half the journey.
When religion becomes organized it becomes a catechism. You are handed over
a belief system. You have only to believe, there is no need for you to
inquire. You have to believe in Jesus Christ -- that's enough. You have to
believe in Gautam the Buddha, and that's enough.
Belief is the most dangerous thing against truth, because it prevents you
inquiring. It makes you knowledgeable, but it does not make you wise. It can
make you a great scholar, a theologian, but deep inside you are full of
darkness; you don't know who you are.
Organized religions have been deceiving humanity for thousands of years.
But they could do it because you allowed it to be done. Belief is cheap; you
don't have to do anything. You don't have to go into the unknown, the
mysterious. You have just to cling to your belief system and Jesus will save
you, Buddha will save you.
Nobody can save anybody else. That will be against human dignity. If I save
you, I am not your friend. I have taken away your birthright -- the most
important, the most significant glory of your being. I have not allowed you
to discover the truth yourself, and I have destroyed you, not saved you.
Truth can be known only as an individual experience. It is just like love.
You don't have organizations of love. Just think of organizations of love!
-- and they say to you, "You have just to believe, you have not to do
anything else. The savior will do everything; he will make love on your
behalf." But truth is an even higher quality.
And people have been telling you, "We will do it on your behalf -- you just
have faith in us." That's why religions are called faiths. And every
religion is fake, because whatsoever you do, your doubt will remain within.
You can repress it as deeply as possible, but the deeper you repress it, the
more dangerous it becomes. The result is fanaticism.
All believers who find that there is still some doubt, somewhere, become
fanatic. It is a simple psychology. By becoming fanatic they are trying to
repress their doubt below their consciousness. But even if you drive it
beyond your consciousness into the unconscious, you are not free of it. In
fact, you are more full of it.
All the religions are afraid of reading other religions' books, listening
to other religions' teachers, for the simple reason that they all differ in
their belief systems -- they may create doubt in you. They are so afraid of
doubt -- but it is within you, and the only way to get rid of it is to know
the truth of your own accord.
My truth cannot dispel your darkness. You can believe in me -- it is cheap.
You can believe and console yourself, and waste your whole life in believing.
But you will die as ignorant as you were born.
So when I say religion is dead, I mean religiousness is always alive --
that is something individual -- but religion is always dead. Religion is an
organization; religiousness is a search. I want my people to understand the
difference very clearly. Howsoever difficult it may be, the only way to find
the truth is individual. There are no superhighways, only small footpaths,
and they too are not ready-made, available. You create them as you walk.
You cannot walk in somebody else's footsteps. That is suicidal, because you
have a unique individuality, the person you are following has his own unique
individuality. His path can never be your path. He can be an inspiration for
you, but he cannot be a leader for you. Leaders exist only in politics. The
moment leaders start existing in religion, religion is no longer religion.
It has become another name for politics.
The most basic thing to recognize is that it is your privilege to find the
truth yourself. Only that finding can save you, can release you from all
bondage; can make you aware of eternal life, can take you beyond death, can
take you into the benediction that existence is.
So when I said the religion is dead, I mean that I don't want you to become
a religion. I want you to remain simply seekers, searchers. And it is a
great excitement to seek, to search, to find on your own. Small things make
you so ecstatic when you are the finder.
For example, what happened to Archimedes? He had not found something great,
but he had found something which was not known before. The king of his
country had received a beautiful golden crown. He wanted to know whether the
crown was solid gold or if there were other metals mixed in it. And the
crown was so beautiful he did not want it destroyed to find out. He said to
Archimedes, "You are the greatest scientist. You have to find out, without
destroying the crown, whether it is solid gold or not."
It was an almost impossible task. But one morning, when he entered his
bathroom... his bath was full of water, he entered the bath -- and strangely,
he found what he was seeking. As he entered the bath, naturally, to make
space for him, a lot of water spilled out. He became very intrigued with the
phenomenon. He came out, weighed himself, weighed the water, the quantity of
water that had gone out -- and he figured out the solution. If gold is put
in water, if it is pure gold, then a certain quantity of water will come out
to make space for it. But if it is not pure gold, then a greater quantity of
water will come out, because every metal will bring a different quantity of
water out of the tub.
It was such a great excitement -- he was naked in his bathroom, but the
excitement was such that he forgot. He just rushed out, ran on the streets
towards the palace shouting, "Eureka! Eureka! I have found it! I have found
it!"
When he reached the palace, a great crowd was following him. "What has
happened to the man? He has gone insane!" He was involved in such
experiments that they were always afraid that some day he would go crazy.
Now that had happened.
Even the king was suspicious when he looked out of his window -- a big
crowd, and Archimedes naked, shouting, "Eureka!" Naturally, he thought
Archimedes had gone insane, but he called him in and asked, "What have you
found? What is the matter? What is so much excitement about?"
Archimedes said, "I have found out something which nobody has known before!
Now I can say whether your crown is solid gold or mixed with other metals. I
will just have to dip it into water." Not a big discovery....
But when you find the truth of your being, it is the greatest discovery
there is. And beliefs prevent you. They say you need not bother; you simply
believe, you worship, you pray. Jesus Christ has already found, why should
you bother? Gautam Buddha has already found, you can just follow him. But
this is fallacious. For twenty-five centuries millions of people have
followed Gautam Buddha, in his footprints; none of them has become another
Gautam Buddha. For two thousand years, how many people have been following
Jesus Christ? And how many have become a Jesus Christ?
To be a Christian is ugly. To be a Buddhist is ugly. It simply says you are
blind; you don't know anything, and you are following somebody because you
believe that he knows. In fact, in existence, no individual is repeated
again. Existence is very inventive.
It happened that one of Picasso's paintings was purchased by an American
for one million dollars. Naturally, he wanted to know whether it was an
authentic Picasso or not. He approached Picasso himself -- because that was
the only way to find out -- and he asked Picasso, "Is this painting
authentically yours, or has somebody made a copy of your painting?"
Picasso looked at the painting, and he said, "It is not authentic."
Picasso's girlfriend was amazed by the answer, because Picasso had painted
that painting in front of her. She said to Picasso, "This is an inhuman
joke! That man has spent one million dollars! He has come from America to
France to ask you -- and you are lying, because I am an eyewitness. You have
painted this painting; this is absolutely authentic!"
Picasso said, "You are not wrong. I have painted it, but still I say it is
not authentic."
Now the man who had purchased the painting was absolutely in confusion. The
girlfriend was also puzzled. What does Picasso mean? If he says he has
painted the painting, and still insists it is not an authentic Picasso, this
is a contradiction.
The man said, "This is even more confusing. It was good that it was not
authentic; at least things were settled. But now you are saying you have
painted it, and still it is not authentic. What do you mean then?"
Picasso said, "It is very simple, there is no contradiction. I have copied
it from one of my old paintings. It is not authentic, it is just a copy. I
have painted it, but it is not original. Somebody was insisting that he
wants a painting, and I was not getting any ideas, so I simply used an old
painting of mine and painted -- it is a copy. Now it does not matter who
copies, Picasso or somebody else: a copy is a copy, it cannot be authentic."
I am telling you this incident to remind you that existence never produces
copies. It only produces authentic individuals -- never again the same
person, never before. You are unique: you have never been in the whole
eternity that has passed before you, and you will never be in the coming
whole eternity. This uniqueness is something to be proud of.
Your truth has to be discovered only by you.
Yes, the person who has discovered his truth can be a guide, but he can
only say how he has discovered his truth. And he can make you alert that
"You are not to follow my path." But he can give you tremendous
encouragement, that a fellow human being, someone just like you, is capable
of finding the truth. Maybe you have to find your path, but his presence is
a guarantee, is an encouragement that truth can be found, that it is not
something utopian; it is something realistic.
I call this state of affairs religio, the root from where the word
"religion" comes. Religio is individual; religion is organized. And the
moment you organize the truth, it dies. There are things, values, which
cannot be organized at all. They are so delicate that organization is
impossible.
And you are asking me: "God is dead, religion is dead; then what is left?"
In fact, because God is not there -- which was a fiction covering your
eyes; and organized religion is dead -- which was sheer stupidity, ignorance
-- therefore nothing is lost, everything is gained. You have simply lost
layers of fictions from your eyes. Now you can see the real existence as it
is. Everything that is becomes available to you -- it was not available to
you before because of your lies and fictions and beliefs. So nothing is lost
and everything is gained. The whole existence, all its beauty, its
tremendous benediction, its infinite bliss -- all is available. You had just
put thick layers on your eyes which were making you blind.
You have lost your blindness and you have gained your insight: this is a
good bargain!
Question 2
BELOVED MASTER,
WE DROPPED RED CLOTHES, MALAS, TEMPLES, GACHCHHAMIS, WORSHIP. DID WE FORGET
SOMETHING -- LIKE DROPPING OUR EGOS?
Just look how easily you can drop red clothes, how easily you can drop your
malas, how easily you can drop gachchhamis, because you were never
authentically and sincerely in love with them. You pretended, you were
hypocrites.
You had pretended you loved your mala, but the moment you found the chance
to drop it, you dropped it immediately. And you must be thinking you dropped
it because I have said so. But I have been telling you for years
continuously to drop the ego -- that you don't drop.
Strange... I said only one day, "Drop the malas," and you were so happy and
so clapping, rejoicing. But when I say, "Drop the ego," you don't clap. You
know that you are not going to drop it. Ego seems to you to be very
precious, and ego is nothing but poison. The mala cannot harm you, red
clothes cannot harm you. But the ego is constantly harming you.
The ego means your ambition to be superior to others, to be higher than
others, to be bigger than you really are; in every field to be more
important, to be somebody who has power over people either through politics
or through money. All these are different dimensions of your ego. And if you
go on fulfilling these desires you can never come to a state of contentment,
fulfillment, because the ego is just like the horizon. It looks so close --
as if you just have to walk a little more and you will reach it. But by the
time you have reached there, the horizon has also moved away.
The distance between you and the horizon remains always exactly the same,
because the horizon does not exist in reality; it only appears to. It is an
appearance, because the earth nowhere meets the sky. But because it is
round, the fallacy is created: you feel that somewhere, just close by, it is
meeting the sky.
The ego is your psychological horizon. You can go on, but you will never
come to a point when you can say, "My ego is satisfied." That is not in the
nature of the ego, to be satisfied. To remain in discontent is its very
nature. I have not seen a single person who can say that his ego is
satisfied -- and I have known all kinds of people.
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In Indore, India, I used to be a guest of one of the richest men of the
world -- perhaps the richest man of the world -- Sir Seth Hukumchand. He has
beautiful palaces made all of Italian marble. His own private temple is a
unique piece of art. It is made only of glass crystals -- a huge temple made
just of glass crystals. You stand in the temple and you see yourself
reflected in millions of mirrors. You are surrounded by a crowd of your
selves.
He was the only man in the whole world who had a Rolls Royce made in solid
gold -- even the engine! Nothing else but solid gold was used. But I have
never seen a more frustrated person in my life. He had everything, but
whenever I used to stay with him he was always talking about his
frustrations, anxieties, and that he was becoming old and his desires were
not fulfilled.
Desires are millions, and your life is so small. He had perhaps become the
richest man -- but that was not certain, because the Nizam of Hyderabad had
so many diamonds, emeralds and rubies that every year, when they were
brought out of the treasury, seven terraces of his palaces were filled by
them. They were not counted; they were weighed. Counting was impossible,
because in his small kingdom of Hyderabad was the best diamond mine, from
which all the great diamonds of the world have come. The Kohinoor, which is
in the crown of the queen of England, has come from the Nizam's collection.
His collection is immense. Nobody has been able to evaluate it.
Sir Seth Hukumchand used to say to me, "Who knows, perhaps he is richer
than me! Perhaps I am not the richest man, the Nizam of Hyderabad may be the
richest man."
I said, "Strange -- why should you be worried? You have everything that you
want, you can have everything that you want." But this is how the ego
functions.
Working his whole life, earning -- he had thousands of businesses,
industries, around the country -- naturally, he had destroyed his health.
Now that was a problem for the ego: even his servants were more healthy than
he was. He had the healthiest horses in India -- because he was a lover of
horse races, and he had unique horses. I have never seen that kind of horse
anywhere else. Those horses were living in marble palaces, the stable was a
marble palace. And they were as healthy as any horse can be.
But his ego was suffering because even his servants, even his horses were
healthier than him. And he was not a man you could call beautiful. He had
beautiful palaces and beautiful collections of all kinds of things. He had
his own private museum. From all over the world everything that he wanted
was purchased for his museum. But he was just an ordinary, homely man -- not
beautiful, not handsome -- and that was hurting his ego. He was not very
tall -- that was hurting his ego.
I said, "You are just unnecessarily creating problems for yourself. A
six-foot man, or a five-foot man -- it doesn't matter, because the five-foot
man also reaches the earth, his feet are on the earth. So you may be six
feet, seven feet, it doesn't matter; your feet are on the earth. And as far
as the sky is concerned, nobody's head touches the sky. So what is the
problem? You are not hanging one foot above the earth because you are only
five feet tall. That would have been a real problem. But I don't see the
problem -- your feet reach the earth perfectly well!"
But the ego is impossible. And because you are trying to fulfill the ego,
you forget your real task. Who is going to discover your real self, which is
not the ego? Ego is something made up, a facade. It is a palace made of
playing cards: a small breeze, and the palace disappears. And that's what
happened.
Sir Seth Hukumchand was known as the silver king of India because he was
the dominant figure as far as silver was concerned. It was in his hands to
control the price of silver; to bring it down or to bring it up was within
his hands. But before he died he was almost bankrupt. Somebody else had
become the silver king.
Before his death I had gone to see him, and I told him, "Now you can relax.
All that stupidity is gone; you are bankrupt. You could not enjoy all those
riches, now enjoy bankruptcy." And in his old age -- he was almost eighty --
he started crying. I said, "You have not lost anything, because when those
things were there you were not happy, you were not rejoicing -- so what is
the loss?"
He said, "I am not crying for all that. I am crying that death is coming
near and I have not looked even for a moment into myself. And you have been
telling me again and again that the ego will not help, you will have to find
the self; ego is a false substitute."
But when I say to you, "Drop the ego," you all become deaf. "Drop the
mala," and you are immediately ready. But all have not dropped the mala.
Those who had loved it, those who had accepted it as symbolic of a
relationship with me -- they have not dropped it. Neither have they dropped
their red clothes, because red clothes have become their remembrance of
being a sannyasin, that they are initiated into a mystery school. Those red
clothes twenty-four hours a day remind you that your work is to find
yourself. They have not dropped them.
A few immediately dropped... and it was simply a great experiment to see
who is really an initiate, and who is here just by accident. Those who did
not drop the mala and did not drop the red clothes may perhaps be able to
drop their egos first. Then those who dropped the mala and the red clothes
and rushed to the boutique to find new clothes, they will be the last to
drop the ego.
And I am not Jesus, who said, "Blessed are the last" -- no. Blessed are the
first! Cursed are the last!
Question 3
BELOVED MASTER,
IN THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL, OSCAR WILDE SAYS, "FOR ALL MEN KILL THE
THINGS THEY LOVE. YET NOT EVERYONE HAS TO DIE." IT FEELS LIKE THIS INSIGHT
DOES NOT ONLY APPLY TO SHEELA, IT SEEMS TO REFER TO EACH OF US.
PLEASE FORGIVE OUR DEAFNESS, BELOVED MASTER, AND FROM YOUR COMPASSION, GO
ON ENCOURAGING OUR SOULS TO GROW AND NOT FALL BACK AND DIE.
Oscar Wilde is not an enlightened person, but a very keen observer of life,
and he has many great insights. This is one of his great insights: People
kill those things they love.
Why does it happen?... because your love is not pure love, it has many
other things. Just hiding behind it there is jealousy, there is a power
trip, there is fear of losing the loved one.
So lovers try to make each other prisoners -- afraid that if they don't
make them prisoners, then their freedom may take them away from them. They
cut their wings so that they cannot fly. They are so jealous and suspicious
that they destroy each other's joy in life. They want the other to be
loving, and the other wants the same, so it becomes almost a dead ritual.
You can see a husband kissing a wife: he is just doing a dead ritual because
it has to be done; otherwise there will be trouble.
The American philosopher, Dale Carnegie, whose books have sold next to the
BIBLE -- and he could be a philosopher only in America, because whatever he
is talking is such nonsense and rubbish -- he suggests that you remember to
say two or three times in the day to your wife, "I love you." The same "I
love you" the wife has to say two, three times a day to the husband.
But it is not coming out on its own, you are following the book of Dale
Carnegie and just repeating like a parrot "I love you." And both know that
the love has disappeared long ago, only words have remained. They have
killed the love, they have tried to possess each other; and when you try to
possess someone you reduce his humanity to a commodity. A wife is not human,
she is a thing. A husband is not human, he is a thing.
In China, for thousands of years, until the communist revolution three
decades ago, to kill one's wife was not a crime because the wife was your
possession. If you destroyed your table or your chair, nobody could say that
it was a crime. It was your chair and if you wanted to burn it, it was
nobody's business to interfere. The wife was a possession; hence, the
husband was allowed to murder a human being and it was not counted as a
crime.
In China, the small girl babies had their feet bound so that their feet
didn't grow big; that was thought to be one of the most beautiful things in
a woman. Only the poor could afford, in China, to have natural feet. In
higher society the women were almost crippled; they could not walk, their
feet were so small. The body had grown and the feet had remained encaged, so
they had not grown. To have the smallest feet was one of the most beautiful
things. This is inhuman, but you can do it if it is only a question of
possession. Then you can make the possession as beautiful as possible.
And the woman is bound to take revenge in her own way. All the women around
the earth have turned bitchy, for the simple reason that they have been
tortured in every way. They are boiling with anger. That anger comes up in
nagging, in fighting, in continuously quarreling, in beating the children,
making the life of the husband as impossible as possible.
In India, for thousands of years, the woman had to jump alive into the
funeral pyre of her husband, because now she had no right to live. The
husband possessed her while he was alive; he cannot drop the possession,
even though he is dead. He wants to keep the domination and possession even
after he is dead. He wants to make sure that his wife will not fall in love
with somebody else, so the best way is that she dies with him.
So women were forced to die -- because it is not an easy thing: you can
just try putting your hand in a small candle flame, and that will give you
the idea. A living woman has to be forced into the burning funeral pyre. She
will rush out to save herself, so they had made arrangements....
Much purified butter would be poured into the funeral pyre. It creates so
much smoke that what is happening there, people cannot see. And around the
funeral pyre are standing the priests with long torches in their hands, so
if the woman tries to get out of the funeral pyre, with their burning
torches they push her back. And you cannot see it because so much smoke is
there. And in the second line, behind the priests, there are musicians
playing so loudly that whatever she screams cannot be heard. And the crowd
is standing behind them. This continued for thousands of years. Even today,
once in a while -- although it is against the law -- it happens in small
villages.
This is not love. Oscar Wilde's insight is true as far as your so-called
love is concerned: you kill the person you love. He may remain alive, but
you destroy his freedom, you destroy his humanity; you reduce him to a
thing. If this is love, then what is hate?
Jesus says, "Love your enemies just like yourself." He should have said
rather, "Love your husbands just like yourself, love your wives just like
yourself." These are the real enemies -- intimate enemies. But to attain to
that love, just preaching is not enough. You have to go through a total
transformation. You have to move from mind to a state of no-mind. That's
what I call meditation -- the process of moving from mind to no-mind, from
thought to a state of thoughtlessness, silence.
Once you start experiencing the space of no-mind, everything in your life
goes through a transformation. The ego dies, your love becomes absolutely
clean and pure. Then it does not follow what Oscar Wilde is saying. Oscar
Wilde himself became so much disturbed with his love relationships that he
became a homosexual.
It is not strange that homosexuals are known as gay people; they are gay.
Heterosexuals -- you cannot say that they are gay. They are so sad, so
serious, so burdened; just waiting for death to free them from all this
nonsense that they have created themselves -- the wife, the children....
They have messed up their whole life, and their house has become a madhouse.
But homosexuality is not a way out; it is just a slight change, because
homosexuals start becoming as jealous, as possessive, and destroy the other
as much as heterosexuals. And it is good that Oscar Wilde is not alive
today; otherwise, he would be suffering from AIDS. So all his wisdom would
have led him to the disease AIDS.
Love has certainly to be purified, and just by changing objects of love
nothing is changed. Change your subjectivity.
You ask me not to take note of your deafness, of your blindness. I never
take any note. I may talk about it, I may hit you as hard as I can, but I
don't take any note of it. What can you do? This is enough, that you are
here. You have taken a great step, even in your blindness, to come close to
someone who is not blind.
So don't be afraid. My love is not the love Oscar Wilde is talking about.
He has no idea of the love that I have for you. It does not destroy; it
helps you to become free of all bondages, it helps you to become yourself.
My only joy is if you become absolutely free individuals, finding in
yourself the source of eternal light.
And there is no need to worry. My compassion for you and for all the
sannyasins around the world will keep me in the body long enough, until you
open your eyes and wake up. So if you really want me to remain in the body
forever, then keep your eyes closed and remain deaf. But that is not good on
your part. You should wake up as quickly as possible, because my work as far
as I am concerned is finished. I am just hanging around for you.
Even though you go on doing stupid things, it does not change my love for
you. I know that what else can you do in your state? Whatever you are doing
is expected. But don't continue it: bring it to an end, to a full stop.
I want you to become free of all bondage. Help me, so that I can become
free of my body too. That will be your response to my love -- because to me
my body is a bondage.
This is my last life. Once I get out of this body I am not going to be born
again. Then I will be part of this vast universe, that tremendous
freedom....
How long are you going to force me to wait?
Question 4
BELOVED MASTER,
AFTER TWO YEARS HERE, I HAD HEARD BODHIDHARMA'S LAUGHTER. I NEVER HEARD HIM
AGAIN. IS HE STILL AROUND?
He has always been around. Who do you think is sitting in this chair? But
if you do not hear the laughter, that simply means you are not hearing, you
are not listening; otherwise, the laughter is happening every moment.
In fact, in the whole history of humanity there has never been such a
commune, with so much laughter. And a commune that is in search of truth, a
commune that is in search of religiousness, a commune that wants to attain
to the ultimate heights of ecstasy -- no, this type of people have never
before been laughing. They thought laughter was something below them.
My understanding is totally different. Laughter is one of the greatest
religious qualities. The sense of humor has not been indicated by any
religion as an essential quality for their followers. But here there are no
followers, only individuals. They are together here because their search is
the same. They are together here because their love is the same. They are
together here because they have fallen in love with the same guide.
But the guide is nobody other than Bodhidharma; hence, laughter is our most
essential quality. And a sense of humor, playfulness, fun, is something
sacred -- nothing profane in it. Just listen to it.
I don't laugh, for the simple reason that if I laugh, you will stop
laughing immediately. To allow you to laugh, I have to contain myself. I
laugh in my room when I am alone!
Question 5
BELOVED MASTER,
HOW MANY IDIOTS ARE HERE?
It is a very simple question. There are only two types of people in the
world: either you are enlightened, or....
Okay?
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