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The Secret
La Illaha Ill Allah
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The Secret
La Illaha Ill Allah
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MAN CAME TO BAHAUDIN NAQSHBAND, AND SAID, "I HAVE TRAVELED FROM ONE TEACHER
TO ANOTHER, AND I HAVE STUDIED MANY PATHS, ALL OF WHICH HAVE GIVEN ME GREAT
BENEFITS AND MANY ADVANTAGES OF ALL KINDS.
"I NOW WISH TO BE ENROLLED AS ONE OF YOUR DISCIPLES, SO THAT I MAY DRINK
FROM THE WELL OF KNOWLEDGE, AND THUS MAKE MYSELF MORE AND MORE ADVANCED IN
THE TARIQA, THE MYSTIC WAY."
BAHAUDIN,
INSTEAD OF ANSWERING THE QUESTION DIRECTLY, CALLED FOR DINNER TO BE SERVED.
WHEN THE DISH OF RICE AND MEAT STEW WAS BROUGHT, HE PRESSED PLATEFUL AFTER
PLATEFUL UPON HIS GUEST. THEN HE GAVE HIM FRUITS AND PASTRIES, AND THEN HE
CALLED FOR MORE PILAU, AND MORE AND MORE COURSES OF FOOD, VEGETABLES,
SALADS, CONFITURES.
AT FIRST THE MAN WAS FLATTERED, AND AS BAHAUDIN SHOWED PLEASURE AT EVERY
MOUTHFUL HE SWALLOWED, HE ATE AS MUCH AS HE COULD. WHEN HIS EATING SLOWED
DOWN, THE SUFI SHEIKH SEEMED VERY ANNOYED, AND TO AVOID HIS DISPLEASURE, THE
UNFORTUNATE MAN ATE VIRTUALLY ANOTHER MEAL.
WHEN HE COULD NOT SWALLOW ANOTHER GRAIN OF RICE, AND ROLLED IN GREAT
DISCOMFORT UPON A CUSHION, BAHAUDIN ADDRESSED HIM IN HIS MANNER.
"WHEN YOU CAME TO SEE ME, YOU WERE AS FULL OF UNDIGESTED TEACHINGS AS YOU
NOW ARE WITH MEAT, RICE, AND FRUIT. YOU FELT DISCOMFORT, AND, BECAUSE YOU
ARE UNACCUSTOMED TO SPIRITUAL DISCOMFORT OF THIS REAL KIND, YOU INTERPRETED
THIS AS A HUNGER FOR MORE KNOWLEDGE. INDIGESTION WAS YOUR REAL CONDITION.
"I CAN TEACH YOU IF YOU WILL NOW FOLLOW MY INSTRUCTIONS AND STAY HERE WITH
ME DIGESTING BY MEANS OF ACTIVITIES WHICH WILL NOT SEEM TO YOU TO BE
INITIATORY, BUT WHICH WILL BE EQUAL TO THE EATING OF SOMETHING WHICH WILL
ENABLE YOUR MEAL TO BE DIGESTED AND TRANSFORMED INTO NUTRITION AND, NOT
WEIGHT."
THE MAN AGREED. HE TOLD HIS STORY MANY DECADES LATER, WHEN HE BECAME FAMOUS
AS THE GREAT TEACHER SUFI KHALIL ASHRAFZADA.
LA ILLAHA ILL ALLAH -- There is no god but God. This is the fundamental
essence of the way of the Sufis. This is the seed. Out of this seed has
grown the Bodhi Tree of Sufism. In this small proclamation, all that is
valuable in all the religions is contained: God is and only God is.
This statement makes God synonymous with existence. God is the very isness
of all that is. God is not separate from his creation. The creator is in his
creation; there is no duality, there is no distance, so whatsoever you come
across is God. The trees and the rivers and the mountains, all are
manifestations of God. You and the people you love, and the people you hate,
all are manifestations of God.
This small statement can transform your whole life. It can change the very
gestalt of your vision. The moment one recognizes that all is one, love
arises on its own accord. And love is Sufism.
Sufism is not concerned with knowledge. Its whole concern is love, intense,
passionate love: how to fall in love with the whole, how to be in tune with
the whole, how to bridge the distance between the creation and the creator.
The so-called, organized religions of the world teach a kind of duality
that the creator is separate from the creation, that the creator is higher
than the creation, that there is something wrong with creation, it has to be
renounced. Sufis don't renounce, they rejoice. And that's what I am teaching
you here: Rejoice!
My sannyas is a way of rejoicing, not a way of renunciation.
Rumi has said:
If you are not one with the Beloved
Seek!
And if you are in Union,
Rejoice!
This assembly is a Sufi assembly. You are my Sufis, the Sufis of the new
age. I am introducing you to the world of love. I am initiating you into the
ways of love.
Sufis talk about two kinds of love. One they call muhabbah; it means the
ordinary love, lukewarm, momentary, partial. One moment it is there, another
moment it is gone. It has no depth, no intensity. You call it passion, but
it is not passionate. It is not such a flame which can burn you. You don't
become aflame with it; it remains something under your control. You don't
become possessed by it, you don't lose yourself in it. You remain in
control.
The other kind of love, the real love?. the authentic love, Sufis call it
ishq; ishq means love with total intensity. One is lost in it, one is
possessed by it. One goes mad in it.
I have heard, the great Sufi Master Ruzbihan was once on the roof of his
khaniqah while in a state of WAJD....
The khaniqah is the place where Sufis meet; it is a temple of love. It is a
temple of madness, of utter rejoicing. This is a khaniqah. No other god than
love is worshiped, no other prayer than love is preached. In a khaniqah,
only those who are becoming aflame with love are invited, who are on the
verge of madness.
Ruzbihan was on the roof of his khaniqah while in a state of wajd. Wajd is
a moment when you are not and God is, a moment of absolute harmony. A window
opens, and you can see the whole sky, you are no more confined within the
walls of your body and mind. For a moment, a lightning happens and all
darkness disappears. Wajd is a momentary samadhi, a glimpse, a satori. It
comes and goes. Slowly, slowly, it establishes itself.
But even to know God for a moment is of immense beauty and benediction.
Even to know for a single moment that you are not separate from existence,
that there is no ego, that all is one -- La illaha ill Allah -- even to know
this just as a passing experience, just like a breeze that comes and is gone
-- by the time you become aware of it, it is no more there, but it has been
there, it has refreshed you, rejuvenated, resurrected you...
Ruzbihan was on the roof of his khaniqah in a state of wajd -- in a state
of oneness with existence...
... It happened that a group of young people was passing by in the alley
below, playing musical instruments and singing...
They were singing:
"O heart, in the neighborhood of the Beloved there is no wailing,
nor are the roof, door, or windows of her house guarded.
If you are ready to lose your soul,
get up and come now, for the field is empty. "
They were completely unaware of Ruzbihan. They were just singing. They were
even unaware of what they were singing, what they were saying. It is a Sufi
provocation; it is a Sufi song. The moment Ruzbihan heard it -- "If you are
ready to lose your soul, get up and come now, for the field is empty" -- and
he was in a state of wajd, of unity, oneness, unio mystica -- his ecstasy
was such that he was not there in that ecstasy at all; when Ruzbihan heard
this, something possessed him, something from the beyond, and he flung
himself from the roof...
... whirling and turning in the air, to the ground below.
On witnessing this, the group of young people cast away their instruments,
left their former ways, entered the khaniqah, and became Sufis.
What happened to that group of young people? For the first time, they saw
ecstasy, wajd, love, madness for God. For the first time, they came across a
man who could risk his very life. This is ishq. Ishq means you are ready to
lose your life for your love. Ishq means love has become a higher value than
life itself.
Hence the people who are in love are thought to be mad by people who have
not known love, are thought to be blind by people who have not seen through
the eyes of love. The intellectual condemns the ways of love; he is afraid.
Love is dangerous. To go through the heart is risky because the heart is
non-calculative, illogical.
Just remember this man, this madman Ruzbihan, jumping from the roof of the
khaniqah just because a few people were singing a song and they said, "If
you are ready to lose your soul, get up and come now, for the field is
empty" -- and he jumped, without hesitating for a single moment. This is
madness. The calculative mind is going to condemn it. But he was not hurt.
He was so drunk, he was not even aware of what was happening. Nothing was
happening to him, because he was not there: as if God jumped through him. He
was possessed by God, he was utterly drunk.
Seeing him coming from the roof, turning, whirling in the air... They had
seen many dervishes, whirling dervishes, but not a man like this. And when
he came onto the ground, he was so innocent, he was so silent, his joy was
such, seeing him, just seeing him, was enough for them to renounce their old
ways. They threw down their instruments, entered the khaniqah, and became
Sufis.
That's how you have become Sufis with me. You have also jumped from your
roofs. To become a sannyasin is a quantum leap: it is a non-calculated step.
It is only for the mad ones. But God is only for the mad ones. Those who
calculate remain part of the marketplace. Calculation keeps you in the
world.
One needs to be in such love that one is ready to risk all. That love is
called ishq. You have all known muhabbah, the so-called ordinary love, which
is just an emotion, a sentiment, superficial. One day you are in love,
another day you are in hate. One day you love the person and you are ready
to die for the person, and another day you are ready to kill the same
person. One moment you are so nice, so beautiful, another moment you are so
nasty, so ugly to the same person. This is not ishq, ishq has depth. This is
only circumference. This is just a mask; this is part of your personality.
Ishq, passionate love for God, is not of the personality. It is of the
essence. It comes from jour center; from the very ground of your being it
arises and possesses you. It is not within your control; on the contrary,
you are in its control. Yes, you are drunk and you are mad.
Sufis have found ways and methods of how to create ishq. That is the whole
sufi alchemy: how to create ishq in you, how to create such passion that you
can ride on the wave of it and reach to the ultimate.
It is said about Majnu... The story of Majnu and Laila is a sufi story, a
great love story. No other love story can be compared with it. There are
many in the world, almost every country has its own love stories, but
nothing compared to Laila and Majnu because it has a sufi message in it. It
is not just an ordinary story of muhabbah, it is the story of ishq.
It is said that Majnu decided one day that, seeing Laila, he had seen all
that was worth seeing, so what was the use of keeping his eyes open anymore?
He decided that whenever Laila would come he would open his eyes; otherwise
he would remain blind because there was nothing else worth seeing.
For months Laila could not come -- the parents were against, the society
was against -- and Majnu waited and waited under the tree where they used to
meet, with closed eyes. Days passed, weeks and months passed, and he would
not open his eyes.
And the story says God took compassion on him. He came to Majnu and said,
"Poor Majnu, open your eyes. I am God himself. You have seen everything in
the world, but you have not seen me. Look who is standing before you. "
Majnu is reported to have said, "Get lost. I have decided only to see
Laila; nothing else is worth seeing. You may be God, but I am not concerned.
Just get lost, don't disturb me."
Shocked, God said, "What are you saying? I have never come to anyone on my
own. Seekers and devotees pray and search and practice -- then too it is
very, very difficult to see me -- and I have come on my own and you have not
even asked for me. I am coming just as a gift, and you are rejecting?"
And Majnu said, "If you really want to be seen by me, come as Laila,
because I cannot see anything else. Even if I open my eyes I cannot see
anything else. I look at a tree, and Laila is there. I look at the stars,
and Laila is there. Laila is in my heart and she has possessed my whole
heart, and whatsoever I see I see through my heart. I am sorry, but there is
no possibility, because there is no space left in my heart for anything
else. I am sorry. Excuse me, but go away. Don't disturb me."
This is ishq. Even God... yes, even God can be renounced.
When you love, when you really love, there are no conditions. It is
unconditional. You love for the sheer joy of it. And love is absolute -- it
knows no wavering, it knows no hesitation.
Sufism is a great experiment in human consciousness: how to transform human
consciousness into ishq. It is alchemy.
And this is what I am doing here with you. You may be aware, you may not be
aware of it, but this whole experiment is to create in you as much love
energy as possible. Man can be transformed into pure love energy. Just as
there is atomic energy discovered by physics, and a small atom can explode
into tremendous power, each cell of your heart can explode into tremendous
love. That love is called ishq. Sufism is the path of love.
Remember that it is a path, it is not a dogma. Mohammedans have a
particular word for dogma: they call it shariat. Dogma, doctrine, religion,
morality, philosophy, theology, all are contained in shariat. Sufism is not
a shariat, it does not depend on books. Sufis are not the people of books.
Sufism is a tariqat: a methodology, a technique, a science, a path, a way to
truth, to haqiqat, to that which is. Remember the difference between shariat
and tariqat.
Theology thinks about God. That is the very meaning of "theology"; it
consists of two words, theo and logy: logic about God, contemplation,
thinking, philosophizing, speculation about God. Sufism does not think about
God, because, Sufis say, how can you think about God? Thinking is utterly
inadequate. You can think about the world, but you cannot think about God.
You can only be in love with God, so it is not a theology, but it is a
method. It is an experiment in your consciousness, an experiment to
transform it from gross energy into subtle energy, from material energy into
divine energy.
Tariqat is the way by which the Sufi comes into harmony with the whole.
And two things are basic requirements to follow this method. One is FAQR
:FAQR means spiritual poverty, simplicity, egolessness. When Jesus says,
"Blessed are the poor in spirit," he is exactly talking about faqr. It does
not mean poverty, it means spiritual poverty. Even a king can be spiritually
poor, and even a beggar may not be. If the beggar is egoistic he is not
spiritually poor, and if the king is egoless he is spiritually poor.
Spiritually poor means there is nobody inside, utter emptiness, a silence
prevails. This poverty has nothing to do with outer poverty. Outer poverty
can be easily imposed; that is not going to help. An inner poverty is
needed.
If you follow faqr, if you slowly, slowly dissolve the idea of separation
from existence, the ultimate result is fana. Fana means a state of
non-being, what Buddha calls nirvana. You simply disappear, but your
disappearance is the appearance of God. If you are in the state of fana,
then suddenly, out of the blue, another state is born, that is called baka.
Baka, means being. Sufism is the bridge between fana and baka. First you
have to be dissolved as an ego, then you are born as God. The dewdrop has to
disappear as a dewdrop, into the ocean; this is fana. But the moment the
dewdrop falls into the ocean, it becomes the ocean; that is baka.
Non-being is the way to being, and love is the most adequate method to
disappear.
That's why millions of people have decided not to love. If you decide in
favor of the ego you will have to remain loveless. Love and ego cannot go
together. Knowledge and ego go together perfectly well, but love and ego
cannot go together, not at all. They cannot keep company. They are like
darkness and light: if light is there darkness cannot be. Darkness can only
be if light is not there. If love is not there the ego can be; if love is
there the ego cannot be. And vice versa, if ego is dropped, love arrives
from all the directions. It simply starts pouring in you from everywhere.
Just as nature abhors a vacuum, God also abhors a vacuum. You become a
vacuum, and God rushes into you.
The first thing is faqr, and the second thing is zikr. Faqr means spiritual
poverty, egolessness, simplicity, dissolving the idea of "I". And zikr means
remembrance. Disappear as a person, then presence is left; in that presence,
remember God, let God resound in you -- La illaha ill Allah. Let this
remembrance arise in your nothingness. In that purity of non-being let there
be only one music heard -- La illaha ill Allah. Repeat it, sway with it,
dance with it, twirl, turn, whirl, and let this music fill yoU. Each cell of
your body should start repeating La illaha ill Allah, La illaha ill Allah,
La illaha ill Allah....
And you will be surprised, it creates a kind of drunkenness. The very sound
of this mantra is such, it is one of the most potential mantras ever
invented by man, discovered by man. Just repeating it, and you will find
that something inside you is becoming psychedelic, something in you is
changing. You are becoming light, you are becoming love, you are becoming
divine. And not only that you will feel it, even others will feel it.
Meditate on these beautiful words of Nurbakhsh:
Those who suffer for you sit waiting for relief.
They have renounced
themselves, their hearts, and religion. In good faith your lovers have
traveled the road of loyalty. Now sit waiting on your threshold, pure of
heart. The beggars sit in the royal court of your grace, hearts content,
needs fulfilled. Your dependents, they have nothing to do with worldly
kings, but prefer to sit in total poverty within your kingdom. Worshipers of
your wine circle the cask, take up the glass and sit there, no longer
questioning, serene. Afflicted, wounded by you, they judge their souls
worthless. Why then should they sit waiting for medicine? In God's house
God's men Cannot sit negligent, like you false pretenders. Light shines to
the highest heavens from the gathering of the Sufis, wild ones, sitting for
God, by God, in God.
A very significant statement by a great mystic, Nurbakhsh.
He says, wherever Sufis are, "Light shines to the highest heavens from the
gathering of the Sufis, wild ones, sitting for God, by God, in God."
If only God is, then Mansur was right when he declared, "Ana el haq!" -- I
am the reality, I am the truth! Then the Upanishadas are right when the
seers declared, "Aham Brahmasmi!"I am the absolute! Buddha is right when ke
declared, "Not only I have become enlightened, but the moment I became full
of light I saw the whole existence as enlightened. I declare the whole
existence as enlightened! You may not be aware, but I can see the light in
you."
That's the function of a Master -- to see the potential, to see that which
can become at any moment actual, and to help to make it actual. You are gods
in disguise.
And when I said this is a Sufi assembly, I literally meant it. See this
silence, this grace, this benediction that is showering on you? See this
stillness? See this faqr? In this moment there is no ego in you, but only a
pure silence. The personality has disappeared, there is only presence, and
the light rises to the highest heavens. Wherever the wild ones meet, the mad
ones meet, wherever there is simplicity and love, and wherever there is
prayer, zikr, remembrance of God, this miracle happens. You may not be able
to see it. It is happening. You will have to become tuned to this miracle
that is happening here.
I am not just teaching you about God. I am not interested in giving you
knowledge about God. I am sharing my God with you; it is a sharing. I want
to challenge your God which is asleep inside you, to provoke it. And that is
the work Sufis have been doing down the ages: provoking the potential into
the actual.
Khwajah Esmat Bokhari says:
This is no Kaaba
For idiots to circle
Nor a mosque
For the impolite to clamor in.
This is a temple of total ruin.
Inside are the drunk, from pre-eternity
to the Judgement Day,
gone from themselves.
The Sufis call their assemblies "temples of total ruin" kharabat -- because
you have to die, you have to disappear. When Sufis really meet, there is
nobody to meet. The Sufi assembly is utterly empty of persons. Only God is.
It is a kharabat, a temple of ruin. Very revolutionary words of Bokhari:
"This is no Kaaba for idiots to circle."
I also say the same about this assembly: this is no Kaaba for idiots to
circle -- hence idiots are very much angry with me"nor a mosque for the
impolite to clamor in." This is not a place for the mob and the crowd. This
is a place only for the chosen ones, only for those who are ready to die in
their love, only for those who are ready to risk all in their search for
God.
This is a temple of total ruin -- kharabat. If you come close to me,
remember, you are going to die.
Mohammed has said, "Die before you die." That is a Sufi statement: die
before you die. Death is coming, death will take you away, but that will not
be a voluntary death. It will not be a surrender. You will be forced to die.
A Sufi dies voluntarily; he dies in love. He does not wait for death to
come, love is enough to die for. And to die in love is beautiful because to
die in love is to go beyond death. Listen to Mohammed: die before you die.
If you can die here with me... I am a dead man. I have died. And all that I
am teaching you is an art of dying so that you can move into the state of
fana, you disappear. If you fulfill that condition of disappearing, God
immediately rewards you with baka -- being descends in you -- and that being
is eternal.
The door that you have to pass through is the door of love because only a
lover is ready to die voluntarily. Nobody else can die voluntarily, only a
lover, because the lover knows that death is not death, but the beginning of
an eternal pilgrimage.
We are not creating a Kaaba here for idiots to circle, not a mosque for
mobs to clamor in. We are creating a scientific energy field, where your
energies can be transformed into their optimum potential. And when a man is
really aflame with love, God has happened. And only with the happening of
God can you be contented and can you be blissful. Only with the happening of
God does misery disappear and do hells become non-existent.
God is already the case! But you have not been able to gather courage
enough to die in love. Sufism will persuade you, will seduce you to die in
love.
A Sufi mystic says:
l thought of You so often
that I completely became You.
Little by little You drew near
and slowly but slowly I passed away.
If you remember God.... And to remember God means to see God in the trees
and the birds and the people and the animals. Wherever life is look for God,
wherever existence is search for God, because only God is -- La illaha ill
Allah. So he can be found anywhere. He has to be found everywhere. Don't
look for God as a person, otherwise you will go on missing.
That's why millions of people search for God but go on missing. They are
searching for a certain image. God has no image; God is not a person. God is
this wholeness, this totality. So don't start looking for a certain
personage, otherwise you will never find him, and, not finding him, you will
start thinking there is no God. You started from a wrong vision.
Because God has been thought of as a person, there are so many atheists in
the world. The atheists are there because of your so-called religious
people. The so-called religious people talk about God as if God is a person,
and they cannot prove him. They naturally create a climate in which atheism
flowers. Almost half of the earth has become atheist. All the communists are
atheists, and the remaining people are only so-called religious; they are
ready to turn to atheism any moment.
Do you know? Before the Russian revolution, Soviet Russia was one of the
most religious countries of the world? It was as religious as India is. And
just after the revolution, within five years, all religions simply
disappeared. What kind of religion was this which took only five years to
disappear? And when the atheists came into power, people simply surrendered
to atheism. That religion was false; it was pseudo.
The same is going to happen in India. Any day this country will become
irreligious; just let the irreligious people come into power, and all the
temples and all the gurudwaras and all the mosques will start disappearing
because this religion is not real religion.
In fact, the very idea of God as a person creates doubts in you. How many
hands has he? What kind of face? Is he black or white? Does he look like a
Chinese or an American? What height? Old or young? Man or woman? How many
faces has he? A thousand and one questions and not a single question is
answerable, because you have taken the very first thing wrongly. God is not
a person at all.
God is this impersonal existence.
Keep this continuously in your heart -- that in Sufism God is synonymous
with existence, synonymous with isness, the suchness of existence is God --
and then things will become easier for you to understand.
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Now the story.
A MAN CAME TO BAHAUDIN NAQSHBAND, AND SAID, "I HAVE TRAVELED FROM ONE
TEACHER TO ANOTHER, AND I HAVE STUDIED MANY PATHS, ALL OF WHICH HAVE GIVEN
ME GREAT BENEFITS AND MANY ADVANTAGES OF ALL KINDS."
Bahaudin is one of the greatest Sufi Masters ever. He is of the same status
as Buddha, Krishna, Mohammed, Christ. "Naqshband" means "a designer"; and he
was a designer, and this story is a design. He used to create situations
because people can only be taught through real situations. And he was one of
the greatest designers.
Gurdjieff learned his devices from the Order of Naqshbandis, the followers
of Bahaudin Naqshband. They are called Naqshbandis, "The Designers", still.
No other school of human transformation has created so many devices.
Bahaudin used to say that people are so asleep that if you simply talk with
them, they will listen and yet they will not listen. They will only hear,
and they will not listen. And even if they hear, the meaning that they will
give to you and your words will be their own. They have to be brought to
actual situations. People are so asleep, they have to be hit by actual
realities; only then can something penetrate into their thick, dense,
insensitive, unintelligent heads.
A MAN CAME TO BAHAUDIN NAQSHBAND, AND SAID, "I HAVE
TRAVELED FROM ONE TEACHER TO ANOTHER..."
There are many people who go on traveling from one teacher to another, from
one philosophy to another philosophy, from one school to another school, and
these people think they are gathering much knowledge. They are gathering
just rubbish. Knowledge cannot be attained in this way. A rolling stone
gathers no moss. A spiritual seeker has to be in an intimate love
relationship with a Master. It is a delicate phenomenon, it takes time. You
cannot just go from one door to another; you will remain a beggar. Yes, you
can collect some information, but all that information inside you will
become chaotic because each school has its own methods, and those methods
are perfectly right in that school, in that particular milieu. They have
been designed by Masters; there is a pattern which has to be followed. Those
methods cannot be mixed by other methods, with other methods.
If a person goes from one teacher to another teacher thinking that this way
he is going to accumulate much knowledge, he will go neurotic, because all
those methods are right in their own context, but without the context they
are dangerous. And the context exists with the Master because only the
Master is fully aware of what is being done.
A few people come here, and they will watch and they will try to collect a
few fragments, and then they think they will try on their own. They are
doing something very dangerous. I would like them to be alert, beware: these
methods can be dangerous without the context. And the context exists in me,
and the context exists here in the total situation that is being created.
You have to be here to know something which can be beneficial. And you have
to be very, very patient, because these things cannot be delivered to you
like goods, and these things take time.
The love that exists between a Master and a disciple is not like seasonal
flowers. That love needs long, long periods of intimacy. The disciple needs
to be in immediate contact with the Master as long as possible; only then
slowly, slowly something dawns on his consciousness; slowly, slowly a ray
starts penetrating him.
Now, this man is like almost all so-called seekers.''I have traveled," he
said to Bahaudin Naqshband, "from one teacher to another, AND I HAVE STUDIED
MANY PATHS." Now this is foolish, this is utterly foolish. You need not
study many paths, one path is enough to follow. Why waste time studying
paths? Follow, travel. If you want to go to the Himalayas you don't study
all kinds of roads, you simply choose one and you follow it. Why waste time?
Life is very short. Nobody knows, tomorrow may be the end. One cannot go on
throwing time and energy into unnecessary things.
If you come across a Master and you feel, "Yes, this is my home, " then be
drowned. Then forget that any other methods exist, that any other paths
exist. Then let love possess you. Only then, slowly, slowly, patiently
waiting, something starts growing.
It is like a child growing in the womb. If the mother is not ready to wait
for nine months the child will not grow. And the child that grows between a
Master and the disciple may take more than nine months -- nine years, ninety
years? One never knows because with each disciple it is going to be
different. It depends on the pace of the disciple.
But this man is a representative of the so-called seekers. They go from one
teacher to another, studying all paths.
"... ALL OF WHICH HAVE GIVEN ME GREAT BENEFITS," he said, "and MANY
ADVANTAGES OF ALL KINDS." That is all nonsense; that is just consolation.
You are collecting dregs. You are begging, and a few pieces from here and a
few pieces from there... just dregs. You have never been an invited guest to
any Master's world. And one has to earn it, to become an invited guest to a
Master's table. One has to pay for it; it is not cheap.
People come here also. They will do one group, and they are finished and
they say they have learned and now they are going somewhere else. For two,
three days they have done meditations, and they think that they have known
what meditation is. Now they will go somewhere else to learn some other
methods. These are stupid people.
And these people create neuroses for themselves and for others too because
when they start gathering too much, they start advising others. Sooner or
later these kinds of people become teachers on their own. The world is in
too much of a chaos because of false teachers. And who is a false teacher?
The false teacher is one who went from one teacher to another, never stayed
anywhere, never got rooted into any path, but has gathered much information,
has become knowledgeable. Now he can teach. All that he teaches is
gibberish, but he can enjoy teaching it; it is very ego-fulfilling. You are
the knower, and the other is ignorant. It is very gratifying.
Beware of these pitfalls; they are on every seeker's path. And one can
always convince oneself that many have been the benefits, many advantages.
Man's ego is such that he cannot confess that he has been foolish.
Just a few days before, one man took sannyas. He is a Jaina, has followed
Jaina monks for many years. He is an old man. After taking sannyas, he said,
"Should I start your meditations, or can I continue my meditation that I
have been doing for at least thirty years?" I looked into the man; there was
not even a trace of meditation. I asked him, "How have those meditations
been? Have they been of some help, have you been growing through them? Have
you become silent, blissful, contented? Are you fulfilled? Has some light
penetrated you through those meditations? Have you become aware of that
which is?" He said, "Yes. They have been of great benefit. I have learned
much; I have grown through them. "
So I said, "Then it is okay, you continue your old meditations. There is no
need. But why have you taken sannyas?" He said, "I thought maybe something
more, or maybe something is missed -- although I have been doing perfectly
well on my own -- but maybe something more can be gathered." I said, "You
continue with your old meditations. Ask only when you see that they have not
given you anything. I will not tell you to do my meditations before that. "
And the next day he wrote a letter: "I am sorry. I could not sleep the
whole night. What a fool am I? Nothing has happened. And how was it that I
could say in front of you, 'Yes, much has happened'? I was thinking," he
wrote, "that even if I am saying that much has happened, you will still say
to me to do my meditations, but you simply said okay, then continue. Then I
pondered over it. I went back, looked into my past, and those thirty years
have been a wastage. Really that's why I have come to you to take sannyas,
but my ego would not permit me to say that I have been stupid continuously
for thirty years, doing some unnecessary things, meaningless things. "
This has been happening to many people. Whenever people who have been doing
something in their past come, they always pretend that much has happened. It
is so difficult for the ego to confess.
But when you come to a Master you have to be true. If you are not true to
your own Master, where else are you going to be true? And how can the Master
help you if you are untrue? I could see that man was almost a desert; not
even a single flower had bloomed in him, he had not known anything of the
spring, but still he said what he said.
Watch. This man is in everybody. This ego is hiding in everybody's being.
It goes on pretending.
This man said, "Yes, many kinds of benefits and advantages have
happened.... "
"I NOW WISH TO BE ENROLLED AS ONE OF YOUR DISCIPLES, SO THAT I MAY DRINK
FROM THE WELL OF KNOWLEDGE, AND THUS MAKE MYSELF MORE AND MORE ADVANCED IN
THE TARIQA, THE MYSTIC WAY. BAHAUDIN, INSTEAD OF ANSWERING THE QUESTION
DIRECTLY, CALLED FOR DINNER TO BE SERVED....
This is a design. In the modern age, Gurdjieff designed many things,
exactly on the same lines as Bahaudin. The people who are not aware of the
designs of a Master will not be able to understand at all.
For example, a man will come to Gurdjieff who has never eaten meat, and
Gurdjieff will force him to eat meat. Now, just think of a vegetarian. He
will simply escape; he will say, "What kind of religion is this?" But by
giving meat, Gurdjieff wants to disturb your whole status quo, your whole
chemistry, because only in a disturbed state can your reality be known;
otherwise you are too cunning. If a non-vegetarian comes to Gurdjieff, he
says, "Wait. For thirty days be a vegetarian, and then for three days fast,
and then I will start work on you." Neither is Gurdjieff for vegetarianism
nor against; he is a designer.
He will give parties for his disciples, particularly the new disciples, and
will prepare many kinds of foods, and then all kinds of alcoholic beverages;
and this will continue almost to the middle of the night, eating and
drinking. And when everybody is utterly unconscious, then he will watch.
Then he will sit silently, will go to people, and watch, because people are
so cunning -- unless they are drowned in a drug they will not reveal their
truth.
Just the man who was pretending to be a celibate, when he is drunk, starts
flirting with the woman who is sitting by his side. And he is a celibate and
he is pretending that he is a monk and he has remained celibate -- he is a
brahmachari -- but once he is drowned in alcohol, he forgets all celibacy,
all brahmacharya. His reality surfaces.
The woman who was pretending to be very elegant, ladylike, sophisticated,
cultured, holier-than-thou, far above the ordinary human beings, once she is
under the impact of alcohol, she is just the opposite; she starts behaving
almost like a prostitute.
Gurdjieff will watch his disciples only when they are unconscious. And once
he has known their situation, then he knows. Then he will not bother with
what they say; he will start working on what they are.
BAHAUDIN, INSTEAD OF ANSWERING THE QUESTION DIRECTLY, CALLED FOR DINNER TO
BE SERVED.... And this is one of the Sufi methodologies: they never answer
directly. Their work is indirect because you have become so cunning that
there is no way to change you directly. You have to be hit from the back
door.
... WHEN THE DISH OF RICE AND MEAT STEW WAS BROUGHT, HE PRESSED PLATEFUL
AFTER PLATEFUL UPON HIS GUEST. THEN HE GAVE HIM FRUITS AND PASTRIES, AND
THEN HE CALLED FOR MORE PILAU, AND MORE AND MORE COURSES OF FOOD,
VEGETABLES, SALADS, CONFITURES. AT FIRST THE MAN WAS PATTERED...
That's what happens when you start gathering knowledge: you are flattered,
you start thinking now you know, you become very, very egoistic. You don't
know a thing, but the knowledge that you have gathered gives you a false
impression, as if you know. And slowly, slowly you forget that "as if"
completely; you become knowledgeable. You start pretending -- to others and
finally to yourself. You deceive others in the beginning, and then you are
deceived by the impression that you create in others. When others start
thinking that you know, you start believing. How can so many people be
wrong? If so many people think that you know, you must be knowing. Alone you
may have doubts, but when you gather many disciples, doubts disappear. "So
many people believe in me, I must be right." First deceive others, and then
be deceived by those who are deceived by you. It is a mutual arrangement.
IT FIRST THE MAN WAS PATTERED, AND AS BAHAUDIN SHOWED PLEASURE AT EVERY
MOUTHFUL HE SWALLOWED...
Bahaudin was creating a perfect situation. That's what happens if you go to
the so-called teachers. They will be very happy when they see that you have
started learning, that you have started repeating like parrots; they will be
very happy. When they see that you are repeating them, they are gratified,
their egos are more fulfilled. Now they have many people who have become
"his master's voice", who have become imitators. They will be very happy,
just as parents are happy when they see their children are growing, looking
just like them. And if somebody says, "Your boy looks just like you," the
father is gratified. He may be stupid and the boy may look stupid and just
like him, but that is not the question. He is very gratified that he will
not leave the world alone. He will leave this child in the world to remind
it that he has been here; he is going to leave a signature on the world. And
every parent tries to mold the child just in his own image. Down the ages
that's what parents have been doing with children.
Children are the most exploited class in the world, and utterly helpless.
And there seems to be no way to help them to get out from the imprisonment
that parents create for them in the name of love, in the name of the
children's welfare, for their future. And all that is being done is the
parents are trying to leave replicas in the world, imitators in the world.
That is what their parents had done to them, and so on, so forth. It must go
back to Adam and Eve: they created children in their own image. And the
Bible says God created man in his own image. He is the father, he must
create children in his own image. Then Adam and Eve must have created in
their own image, and it has gone on and on.
So you are not only a carbon copy. You are a carbon copy of carbon copies
of carbon copies. The original seems to have never existed.
And then there is no wonder if you are in misery, because only an original
person can be in bliss -- because truth brings bliss. You are false.
But a teacher will be very happy when he looks at his disciples and they
start repeating what he is saying. He pats them. That's what Naqshband was
doing with this poor man.
AT FIRST THE MAN WAS FLATTERED, AND AS BAHAUDIN SHOWED PLEASURE AT EVERY
MOUTHFUL HE SWALLOWED, HE ATE AS MUCH AS HE COULD.
And just to satisfy the so-called teachers, people go on accumulating
knowledge as much as they can.
WHEN HIS EATING SLOWED DOWN...
but there is a limit to everything --
... THE SUFI SHEIKH SEEMED VERY ANNOYED.
And that's what happens with teachers. They are happy only up to the point
you are swallowing, repeating. And when you are really fed up, literally fed
up, and you are too full and on the verge of vomiting, they start becoming
annoyed: "So you have stopped growing." And now out of fear, out of their
annoyance, out of their anger, you will try a little more, whatsoever you
can manage.
... THE SUFI SHEIKH SEEMED VERY ANNOYED, AND TO AVOID HIS DISPLEASURE, THE
UNFORTUNATE MAN ATE VIRTUALLY ANOTHER MEAL. WHEN HE COULD NOT SWALLOW
ANOTHER GRAIN OF RICE, AND ROLLED IN GREAT DISCOMFORT UPON A CUSHION,
BAHAUDIN ADDRESSED HIM IN THIS MANNER...
Now he has created the perfect situation. Now even the most mediocre mind
will be able to see the point.
"WHEN YOU CAME TO SEE ME, YOU WERE AS FULL OF UNDIGESTED TEACHINGS AS YOU
NOW ARE WITH MEAT, RICE, AND FRUIT. YOU FELT DISCOMFORT, AND, BECAUSE YOU
ARE UNACCUSTOMED TO SPIRITUAL DISCOMFORT OF THE REAL KIND, YOU INTERPRETED
THIS AS A HUNGER FOR MORE KNOWLEDGE. INDIGESTION WAS YOUR REAL CONDITION.
"...
Now he has created a condition to hit the point deep into the heart. He has
hammered this situation. He has exactly created the situation in which the
man was, but only now can he understand. It could have been said, but then
he would not have understood.
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