7/27/2019 Fulfillment Comes Only if You Know Who You Are
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It may be doing great harm to you; that is not the point. It may
be going against your grain, IT MAY BE CREATING ADIVISION IN YOUR
BEING, it may be creating a duality, a schizophrenia, but that is
not the point. Respect has to begained -- because only through
respect can you have a beautiful decorated self; and everybody will
be supporting it.
A SANNYASIN HAS TO BE VERY MUCH AWARE OF THIS TRAP. You are not
to invent your self, you have to discover it. Anddiscovery means an
inward journey. Discovery means not asking the other but asking
oneself "Who am I?" ASKING INONE'S ALONENESS "WHO AM I?" letting
this question penetrate deeper and deeper, like an arrow, so that
it penetratesyour very core -- and there, one day, is the
revelation.
AND THE MOMENT YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE, YOUR WHOLE LIFE IS
TRANSFORMED. Your whole life becomes divinebecause you are gods.
Your faces are different, your talents are different, your colors
are different, your minds, yourconditionings are different, but
these are only layers around you; they don't constitute your core.
The core is your originalface, uncontaminated by the society.
AND WHEN YOU COME TO KNOW YOUR ORIGINAL FACE -- the face that
you had before you were born and the face thatyou will again have
when you have died, the face that has been given to you by God --
that face is the greatestexperience. KNOWING IT, ONE KNOWS ALL. Not
knowing it, you can become very knowledgeable, but you are just
hidingyour ignorance.
The people who are very much concerned with inventing a self
live a very mediocre life. They have to live a mediocre
life,because they have to satisfy the mediocre crowd around
themselves.
In India, if you want to be respected as a mahatma you will have
to starve, you will have to fast. Unless you fast nobody isgoing to
respect you as a mahatma. If you want this identity then you will
have to fast. You will have to adjust to thedemands of a mediocre
society.
AND EVERYWHERE THE SOCIETY CONSISTS OF MEDIOCRE MINDS -- the
middle class, the bourgeoisie; THOSE WHO HAVEKNOWN NOTHING EXCEPT
CHASING AFTER MONEY AND POWER, those who have never seen anything
in depth, those whoare not aware at all of the vertical dimension
of life, those who go on running as fast as they can on the
horizontal plane.And then one day they fall in their graves without
knowing at all what they have missed, without knowing the glory
andsplendor of life and existence.
SOCIETY CONSISTS OF THE MEDIOCRE PEOPLE, and to adjust yourself
to the mediocre people is to become a mediocrityon your own. Beware
of it. Watch your steps. The trap is all around and the trap is
very alluring because it gives you thecheap satisfaction of being a
certain self. And all kinds of selves are available; you can go
window-shopping. IF YOU WANTTO BECOME A MAHATMA, then the mask is
sold in the marketplace; you just have to know a few requirements
of how tobe a mahatma: what to eat, what not to eat; when to sleep,
when not to sleep; how to move, with whom to move; whatscriptures
to read, what books to avoid. Just small things, trivia... ANY
STUPID PERSON CAN MANAGE IT.
In fact only stupids can manage it. IF YOU HAVE INTELLIGENCE,
YOU WOULD LIKE TO LIVE YOUR OWN LIFE ON YOUROWN TERMS. You will not
compromise. You will live like a Jesus. Even if it means
crucifixion, it's okay. Jesus died on thecross, but died with a
self, died with a discovered self. That's why he was not angry with
the people who were killing him,
because now he knew nobody could kill. PEOPLE CAN KILL ONLY THE
SELF THAT THEY HAVE GIVEN TO YOU. They arepowerful about it: they
can withdraw their support and you will start collapsing.
PEOPLE CAN ONLY KILL POLITICIANS, NOT THE MYSTICS. People can
kill the politician because the politician exists only onpeople's
votes, their opinions. They can withdraw their opinion and you are
nobody.
THE THRONE OF THE POLITICIAN IS CARRIED BY THE MEDIOCRE CROWD;
any moment it can change its mind, anymoment somebody else can
satisfy it more, can be more compromising with the mediocre people.
It can changeimmediately.
You cannot destroy a religious man; that is impossible. You can
kill him, but even in your killing him he remains deathless.
OSHOThe SecretCh #11: The lion and the foxam in Buddha Hall
