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I have heard about a great saint who died. And after one day his chief disciple also died – the chief
disciple could not live without the master. The disciple was very much exhilarated because he was
being taken to heaven and he was thinking, ”My master must be swimming in the rivers of alcohol,
wine, and the most beautiful woman must have been given to him – because he was such a great
ascetic.”
And it was really so! When he reached, under a golden tree, leaves of gold and flowers of diamonds
and emeralds, the master was sitting there naked, as he used to live on the earth, and a very
beautiful woman, a very improved edition of Marilyn Monroe, was hugging him.
The disciple simply fell at the feet of the master and he said, ”My Lord, I knew it! that you would be
rewarded. And why not? You have suffered so much in the world: you never touched a woman, you
never looked at a woman, you never loved a woman. You escaped to the caves. But all that austerity
is paid well – now, for eternity, on and on....”
The master looked at the disciple and said. ”You stupid. stop! You don’t understand what is
happening. This woman is not a reward for me: I am a punishment for her.”
Your heavens and your hells are just imaginations of repressed people. But you have been taught
in such a way, you have been brought up with such a stupid education, called ’religious education’,
that you live always in an inner conflict.
This inner conflict creates fear and greed in you, and then your fear and greed has to find some
outlet. From where it finds it is irrelevant; if you stop one outlet it will come from another outlet. So
rather than stopping outlets, please understand the root cause of it.
If you remain divided in yourself, if you remain split, if you can’t accept yourself as you are, if you
remain dominated by the priests and the politicians, you will remain afraid, trembling. They want you
to remain in trembling, because only a person who is in deep trembling can be dominated, can be
possessed, can be reduced to a thing, to a commodity.
The person who is in fear is ready to become a slave to anybody. The moment you drop all your
fears... and they can be dropped because they have been artificially created. They have been
imposed upon you, they are not part of your nature, so they can easily be shaken off. The moment
you shake off all your fears, for the first time you will start existing as a single unit. You will be unitary,
you will become an individual.
Remember the meaning of the word ’individual’: one who is indivisible. That is the root meaning of
the word ’individual’. You are not yet individuals. You will have to go into a kind of individuation. And
the way to it means dropping all the false divisions that have been imposed upon you. Once you are
an individual, all fears disappear.
AND I AM NOT SAYING that the disappearance of fear means that the bus driver will go on honking
the horn and you will go on walking in the middle of the road. That is stupidity, not fearlessness. I
don’t mean by the disappearance of fear that a snake will pass just in front of you and you will not
care – that is stupidity again. There are fears which are intelligent. You have to jump out of the way
of the snake – that is intelligent; that fear is not a problem. That fear is helpful; it protects you, it is
your friend.
But fears like the fear of touching your own navel, the fear of being in love, the fear of being alone,
the fear of sitting silently unoccupied, or the fear of the crowd, or the fear of sitting in a small cell,
or the fear of travelling in an aeroplane, or the fear of remaining in a constant paranoia that you are
being persecuted, that the whole world is against you – all these fears will disappear. Abnormal
fears will disappear; normal fears are perfectly okay.
disciple could not live without the master. The disciple was very much exhilarated because he was
being taken to heaven and he was thinking, ”My master must be swimming in the rivers of alcohol,
wine, and the most beautiful woman must have been given to him – because he was such a great
ascetic.”
And it was really so! When he reached, under a golden tree, leaves of gold and flowers of diamonds
and emeralds, the master was sitting there naked, as he used to live on the earth, and a very
beautiful woman, a very improved edition of Marilyn Monroe, was hugging him.
The disciple simply fell at the feet of the master and he said, ”My Lord, I knew it! that you would be
rewarded. And why not? You have suffered so much in the world: you never touched a woman, you
never looked at a woman, you never loved a woman. You escaped to the caves. But all that austerity
is paid well – now, for eternity, on and on....”
The master looked at the disciple and said. ”You stupid. stop! You don’t understand what is
happening. This woman is not a reward for me: I am a punishment for her.”
Your heavens and your hells are just imaginations of repressed people. But you have been taught
in such a way, you have been brought up with such a stupid education, called ’religious education’,
that you live always in an inner conflict.
This inner conflict creates fear and greed in you, and then your fear and greed has to find some
outlet. From where it finds it is irrelevant; if you stop one outlet it will come from another outlet. So
rather than stopping outlets, please understand the root cause of it.
If you remain divided in yourself, if you remain split, if you can’t accept yourself as you are, if you
remain dominated by the priests and the politicians, you will remain afraid, trembling. They want you
to remain in trembling, because only a person who is in deep trembling can be dominated, can be
possessed, can be reduced to a thing, to a commodity.
The person who is in fear is ready to become a slave to anybody. The moment you drop all your
fears... and they can be dropped because they have been artificially created. They have been
imposed upon you, they are not part of your nature, so they can easily be shaken off. The moment
you shake off all your fears, for the first time you will start existing as a single unit. You will be unitary,
you will become an individual.
Remember the meaning of the word ’individual’: one who is indivisible. That is the root meaning of
the word ’individual’. You are not yet individuals. You will have to go into a kind of individuation. And
the way to it means dropping all the false divisions that have been imposed upon you. Once you are
an individual, all fears disappear.
AND I AM NOT SAYING that the disappearance of fear means that the bus driver will go on honking
the horn and you will go on walking in the middle of the road. That is stupidity, not fearlessness. I
don’t mean by the disappearance of fear that a snake will pass just in front of you and you will not
care – that is stupidity again. There are fears which are intelligent. You have to jump out of the way
of the snake – that is intelligent; that fear is not a problem. That fear is helpful; it protects you, it is
your friend.
But fears like the fear of touching your own navel, the fear of being in love, the fear of being alone,
the fear of sitting silently unoccupied, or the fear of the crowd, or the fear of sitting in a small cell,
or the fear of travelling in an aeroplane, or the fear of remaining in a constant paranoia that you are
being persecuted, that the whole world is against you – all these fears will disappear. Abnormal
fears will disappear; normal fears are perfectly okay.
