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Part VI : Gibberish Meditation
In India we used to have camps where, in the afternoon, for
one hour there would be a gibberish period, everybody saying whatsoever
he wants to say - one thousand people together. It is not
a conversation, because you are not talking to anybody, you are
simply talking.
It was a rare experience - because I was the only listener
and because of what people were saying! One day a man in front
of me was phoning, actually talking on the phone. And I heard,
"Hello, hello." Everyone looked: "What are you
doing?" He was talking on a long-distance call with no phone,
nothing. He was a businessman and just the habit...But it
was a tremendously relaxing experience for people. After one hour
talking nonsense...
One of my very intimate sannyasins...what happened to him
was that just talking and shouting, he went and started pushing
the car in which I had come. It was standing there on a slope.
He was a very sane man but he was pushing the car and he was talking
all the time against Jayantibhai, whose car it was that he was
going to throw into the ditch. And they were friends - but
something must have been incomplete in his mind. Somehow a few
people stood up and prevented him. Because he was prevented, he
climbed up a tree...and he is not mad! He started waving the
branch of a tree so strongly that it seemed that it would break
and he would come down on the whole group who was sitting underneath.
And all the time he was shouting at Jayantibhai.
With difficulty he was brought down. And nobody had ever thought
that this man would do such a thing.
After the hour was over he was so silent - more silent than
anybody.
I asked him, "How are you feeling?"
He said, "I am feeling more relaxed then I have ever felt
in my life. Even though I have been doing stupid things...but
you allowed us to do everything that we wanted to do, and I am
feeling very relieved. A lot of burden is thrown away, and I am
feeling so much love for Jayantibhai. All anger is gone."
The camp used to be for five days or seven days and that man on
the phone continued for seven days, "Hello," and he
was very serious. As the meditation would begin he would start
phoning and he was certainly listening to something, and answering,
and deciding about business. "Put this money there, and do
this, and purchase that. This is the time to purchase it. Prices
are going up." And so serious that finally the last day I
asked him, "How are you feeling?"
He said, "I also wonder...this meditation is strange.
I am not mad, and I know that there is no phone but that is the
only idea that comes to me. And you have said, `You have to allow
it.' And afterwards I feel for hours absolutely silent, joyous.
A great burden..." It must have been his daily routine
and he was missing it.
It has never been used by groups, but the very word `gibberish'
comes from the name of a Sufi mystic, Jabbar. He used to talk
nonsense. You would ask about the moon, and he would talk about
the sun; he never answered the question he was asked. He would
make up his own words.
It is because of his name, Jabbar, that the word gibberish came
into being; it is the language of Jabbar. He is one of the enlightened
Sufi masters. He used gibberish for others; otherwise he was silent.
For days, if nobody came, he would be silent. If anybody came
and said anything to him, then that person triggered him. Then
he would say anything - sentences without meaning, words without
meaning. You could not make any sense out of what he was saying.
Jabbar was asked again and again by his disciples, "Why
do you do such things? - otherwise you are so silent. Not
only do people laugh at you, we all feel embarrassed that we are
your disciples. And they think that we are idiots: what can we
learn with this man?"
Only to his disciples would he say, "You know that these
people are unnecessarily coming with questions. They don't intend
to understand or to change, and my gibberish stops them from coming
so I can work in silence with you. And it is good for my mind
too, because most of the time I am silent. It is good, just as
an exercise for the mind: if it is needed, I can use it. So just
to check that it is still working, I use all this gibberish."
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But this is a strange world. The government of Rajasthan passed
a resolution in their assembly that I cannot have camps in Mount
Abu, because they had heard all these things were happening there - people
who are perfectly alright become almost mad, start doing all kinds
of things. Now these politicians in the assembly don't have any
idea of human mind, its inhibitions and how to exhaust them, how
to burn them. I had to stop that meditation because otherwise
they were not going to allow me to have camps in Mount Abu. tahui20
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