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Part VII : Sannyasins are Friends not Followers
The real master creates masters, not followers. The real master
throws you back to yourself. His whole effort is to make you independent
of him, because you have been dependent for centuries, and it
has not led you anywhere. You still continue to stumble in the
dark night of the soul.
Only your inner light can become the sunrise. The false master
persuades you to follow him, to imitate him, to be just a carbon
copy of him. The real master will not allow you to be a carbon
copy, he wants you to be the original. He loves you! How can he
make you imitative? He has compassion for you, he would like you
to be utterly free—free from all outer dependencies.
But the ordinary human being does not want to be free. He wants
to be dependent. He wants somebody else to guide him. Why?—because
then he can throw the whole responsibility on the shoulders of
somebody else. And the more responsibility you throw away onto
somebody else's shoulders, the less is the possibility of your
ever becoming intelligent. It is responsibility, the challenge
of responsibility, that creates wisdom.
One has to accept life with all its problems. One has to go
through life unprotected; one has to seek and search one's way.
Life is an opportunity, a challenge, to find yourself. But the
fool does not want to go the hard way, the fool chooses the shortcut.
He says to himself, "Buddha has attained—why should
I bother? I will just watch his behavior and imitate. Jesus has
attained, so why should I search and seek? I can simply become
a shadow to Jesus. I can simply go on following him wherever he
goes."
But following somebody else, how are you going to become intelligent?
You will not give any chance for your intelligence to explode.
It needs a challenging life, an adventurous life, a life that
knows how to risk and how to go into the unknown, for intelligence
to arise. And only intelligence can save you—nobody else—your
own intelligence, mind you, your own awareness, can become your
nirvana.
Be a light unto yourself and you will be wise; let others become
your leaders, your guides, and you will remain stupid, and you
will go on missing all the treasures of life—which were
yours! And how can you decide that the other's character is a
right character for you to follow? dh0209
People even follow, but then too they follow out of misunderstanding.
Just by becoming a follower it does not change anything in your
life. It is not a question of following somebody: it is a question
of understanding somebody who is awakened. Hence, I don't call
you my followers but only my friends. If you can be my friends,
if you can be in deep love and trust here in my presence, if you
can be present to my presence, if we can face each other and mirror
each other, tremendously important things will start happening
of their own accord—because your heart will understand,
and when the heart understands, immediately transformations happen.
dh0205
You say: I watch myself as I act superior around non-sannyasins,
and inferior around those who have been with you longer than I.
This is what has been told to everybody: that you have to put
yourself higher and higher, that you have to climb the ladder,
that you have to be ambitious, that you have to be the first.
My whole effort here is to tell you that you have to be just
yourself, neither first nor last. And you are so unique that nobody,
has been like you before, and nobody is going to be like you again.
Hence, there is no question of comparison at all; you are so unique
that you are incomparable. So drop this whole idea of comparison.
It is comparison which creates trouble; then somebody is higher
than you and somebody is lower than you. If you drop this comparative
habit, then nobody is higher than you and nobody is lower than
you. Then suddenly you recognize everybody's uniqueness. And the
moment you can see everybody's uniqueness, your life has a different
flavor. It becomes non-ambitious, it becomes non-egoistic. Then
you are not trying to imitate, then you are not trying to compete—then
you are simply being yourself, relaxing with yourself, and a great
love for yourself arises. And not only for yourself: a great love—for
everyone else also, because everyone is so unique. And it is because
of the uniqueness of individuals around the world that the world
is so beautiful….
Drop this whole attitude, this whole approach. With me, nobody
has to play the game of holier-than-thou. To me there is no division
between the profane and the sacred, between the holy and the unholy—it
is all one. wildgs11
You say: In the old days you used to hammer us fiercely. Now
you come into lecture looking around happily, like a farmer looking
on his golden cornfields. Are you happy with us?
I absolutely happy with you. I am one of the most fortunate
Masters in the world, because a great many intelligent, alive,
loving people have gathered around me. The very cream of the modern
mind has gathered around me. I am tremendously happy, yes, just
like a farmer when he looks on his golden cornfields.
You are my golden cornfield. The crop is becoming more and more
ripe every day. Many are blossoming, many are coming to fruit.
Many are growing—in love, in awareness, in trust, in every
possible way. I am tremendously happy that you are here with me….
Jesus was not very fortunate. Buddha was far more fortunate.
But I am even more fortunate than Buddha, because Buddha had only
one kind of people around him. My disciples are multi-dimensional;
they come from every nook and corner of the world. This is a universal
brotherhood. This is for the first time that religion is taking
off—from local limitations, becoming airborne. This is for
the first time that religion is losing racial associations, national
associations—Indian, Chinese, Japanese, German, Hindu, Mohammedan,
Christian, Buddhist. We are creating a kind of religiousness without
any name; a nameless religion can only be true to a nameless God.
Yes, I am tremendously happy. The moment I look at you my heart
dances with immense joy. And this is only the beginning. Many,
many more are going to come, they are on the way. You are just
heralding the coming of millions more. Hence your responsibility
is great, because you will be preparing the way; the others who
will come will learn from you. The others will learn love, awareness,
discipline, spontaneity, individuality, freedom, all of these
dimensions, from you.
The new commune will have at least ten thousand sannyasins resident,
and thousands and thousands will come and go. You are also fortunate
because you will be the first bricks: out of you this great temple
is going to be created, you will be in the foundation. Remember
that responsibility, and remember that such a responsibility comes
only as a benediction. guest08
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