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Part V : Best-selling Book
Many persons came to me when the book From Sex to Superconsciousness
was published. They came and they said, "Please change the
title." The very word 'sex' makes them disturbed - they have
not read the book. And those who have already read the book also
say to change the title.
Why? The very word gives you a certain interpretation. Mind
is so interpretive that if I say 'lemon juice', your saliva starts
flowing. You have interpreted the words. In the words 'lemon juice'
there is nothing like lemon, but your saliva starts flowing. If
I wait for a few moments, you will become uneasy because you will
have to swallow. The mind has interpreted; it has come in. Even
with words you cannot remain aloof, without interpreting. It will
be very difficult, when a desire arises, to remain aloof, to remain
just a dispassionate observer, calm and quiet, looking at the
fact, not interpreting it. vbt17
I am in a difficulty continuously, because the society forces
you to remain celibate, at least up to the twenty-first year.
That means the greatest possibility of achieving sex, learning
sex, entering sex, will be missed. By the time you reach twenty-one,
twenty-two, you are already old as far as sex is concerned! Near
the age of seventeen you were at the peak - so potent, so powerful,
that the orgasm, the sexual orgasm, would have spread to your
very cells. Your whole body would have taken a bath of eternal
bliss.
And when I say sex can become samadhi, I don't say it for people
who are seventy, remember. I am saying it for people who are seventeen.
About From Sex to Superconsciousness... old men come to me and
they say, "We have read your book but we never achieve anything
like this."
How can you? you have missed the time, and it cannot be replaced.
And I am not responsible; your society is responsible, and you
listened to it. justlt10
I have written one book - not written, my discourses have been
collected in it - it is called From Sex to Superconsciousness.
Now fifteen years have passed. Since then nearabout two hundred
books have been published, but nobody seems to read any other
book - not in India. They all read From Sex to Superconsciousness.
They all criticize it also, they are all against it. Articles
are still being written, books are written against it, and mahatmas
go on objecting to it. And I have written two hundred books, and
no other book is mentioned, no other book is looked at.
Do you understand?... as if I have written only one book.
People are suffering from a wound. Sex has become a wound. It
needs to be healed. sos210
I have been discussed around the world, condemned, just because
I am talking about going from sex to superconsciousness. But nobody
has given any explanation why they are condemning me because of
my book - which has been translated into thirty-four languages,
has gone into dozens of editions, and is read by all the monks
whether they are Hindu, Jaina, Christian, Buddhist. Monks are
the best customers for that book.
Here there was a Jaina conference just a few months ago, and
my secretary, Neelam, informed me, "It is strange. Jaina
monks come and they ask for one book only, From Sex to Superconsciousness.
Then they hide it in their clothes and just get out of the door
silently so nobody finds them out."
The book, From Sex to Superconsciousness, is not about sex,
it is about superconsciousness. But the only possible way for
man to find that there is some door, some way to go beyond his
thoughts into eternal silence...Even though it lasts only one
moment, that moment is eternity - everything stops. You forget
all the worries, all the tensions. celebr01
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