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Chapter-10

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Second Question

 

 

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Question 2

IS IT LONELY UP THERE?

It is not lonely, but it is alone.

Whenever you say 'lonely', you show a desire for the other; you are missing the other. The word 'lonely' is indicative that you are not happy with yourself, that this loneliness hurts, that this loneliness is getting a little boring, that you would like to move away from his state of loneliness. When you say 'lonely,' you have already condemned it.

Loneliness means absence of the other -- not YOUR presence. You are missing the other and your eyes are focused on that missing, on that absence.

Up there, it is absolutely alone. That's why Mahavir has called it 'kaivalya'. 'Kaivalya' means absolute aloneness. But the quality of aloneness is totally different from loneliness. In the dictionaries they may both mean the same; I'm not talking about the dictionary. But in life's experience they are absolutely different.

Aloneness means presence of your being -- so full of yourself, so totally in yourself that the other is not needed. Aloneness is sufficient unto itself. Loneliness is missing something, loneliness is a gap -- where the other was or where you would like the other to be. Loneliness is a wound. Aloneness is a flowering. You are so happy to be yourself; you are not missing anything. You are totally yourself -- settled, content.

Yes, up there it is very very alone. And that is the beauty of it.

You alone exist -- but you exist as a god, you exist as the universe, you exist as existence itself. Stars and suns and moons move within you. Trees and clouds exist within you. Rivers and oceans flow within you. You become the whole -- that's why you are alone. Your own ego has disappeared, so you cannot be lonely.

The ego always feels lonely. That's why the ego always seeks the society, the club, the movie-house, this and that.

The ego is always seeking the other, because without the other, it cannot exist. The other is a must -- remember this.

'I' and 'thou' exist together. If the 'thou' disappears, the 'I' will disappear_ it cannot be. If you are there, I can be. But if you are not there, how can I exist? 'I' and 'thou' are just two poles of the same phenomenon, two poles of one thing. If 'I' disappears, the 'thou' disappears. If the 'thou' disappears, the 'I' disappears.

In aloneness neither the 'thou' is there nor is the 'I' there. It is absolute.

It has no center in it, in fact. The whole is involved. You cannot say where you are in that state -- you are not. The whole is and you are not. The ocean is, the drop has disappeared. Or, you can say the drop has become the ocean -- which is the same.

Up there, the first thing to be understood: loneliness is impossible; aloneness exists. Aloneness has nothing of the quality of loneliness. Loneliness is sad. Aloneness is blissful. Loneliness is always dependent. It is a slavery, a wound, a thorn in the heart. Aloneness is a flowering, a fulfillment, coming to the goal, reaching home. Loneliness is a sort of illness. Aloneness is health. Aloneness -- is wholeness. Loneliness is something of the world of disease, tensions, anguish, misery. Aloneness has nothing to do with that world -- it is a transcendence, it is absolute blissfulness, SATCHITANANDA.

And the second thing: don't call it 'up there' -- because it is not up. It is neither down nor up.

Down and up are meaningless for the whole. The whole simply is. There is no up to it, no down to it. Those words become meaningless. But in the childish mind of humanity God has always existed 'up there' and the devil always 'down there' and man always in between.

The earth, in between; hell, down; heaven, up. This is a classification of the mind. God is all: neither up, nor down, nor in the middle.

Only God is. In fact, to say 'God is' is to repeat, because God means ISNESS. ISNESS means God. To say 'God is' is to repeat the same thing. Just GOD will do, or ISNESS will do. This boggles the mind, because then the mind feels uneasy. It cannot categorize. It cannot categorize that which is impossible to categorize.

God cannot be defined in any way. All definitions are false. So whatsoever is said about God is bound to be wrong, God can only be showed in deep silence; it cannot be said through words.

So please don't use 'up' and don't use 'there' because He is always here. 'There' is just a fantasy. 'There' does not exist. Everything is here. This moment, here-now, the whole culminates, joins together. And it never moves from here, remember. And it never moves from now. That's why I use 'here-now' as one word. I don't use them as two words. Here-now -- one word.

And that's what Einstein came to realize through his whole life's research work. He stopped using time and space as two words. He created a new word, 'spacio-time'. Time is now. Space is here. If 'spacio-time' is true, then 'here-now' should be one word. And I use it as one word. God is here-now.

I have heard a beautiful story -- Swami Ram used to tell it again and again. He used to say that he had a friend, a very famous lawyer, a supreme court advocate. But he was an atheist. He had written on his wall where he used to sit and work in his office: God is nowhere.

Then a child was born to him. And the child started growing and learning language. One day the child was trying to read the sentence: God is nowhere. But 'nowhere' was too big a word for him, so the child divided it in two. He said: 'God is now here.' Suddenly, the father heard it. He looked at the sentence: 'Yes, it can be that too.' 'God is nowhere' can be read as 'God is now here.'

And it is said that that disturbed the father too much. He pondered over it again and again, it became a constant meditation. And after that day he could not read the sentence in the old way: God is nowhere. It got stuck. The child opened a new door. And whenever the father looked, he read it just like the child: God is now here. And it became a mantra.

It is said that the father was transformed, because repeating that: God is now here, again and again, he started feeling a certain tranquility arising in his heart.

So he used that as a mantra, not saying it to anybody. He would just look again and again. And whenever he had time, he would repeat inside: God is now here.

He became a theist. The vision of a child transformed him, the innocence of a child transformed him.

So don't say 'there'. 'There' is non-existential. The 'there' does not exist, cannot exist. All that exists is here-now. That's all there is to life: now here.

Once you move from the now and the here, you are in misery. Once you move in your desire you move from now and here, and you create a thousand and one miseries for yourself.

Be here-now. And forget about God. If you are here-now, you are in God, and God will reveal Himself to you. There is no need to search Him, because the very search is basically unsound. You cannot search Him because He is all. He cannot be sought in any direction because all directions are His.

You will not find Him anywhere, because He is everywhere. So from the very beginning, all search is bound to fail.

Don't seek and search. Just be here-now and He will search you, He will seek you. That's what Hassids say.

One of the greatest contributions of Hassidism is that you cannot seek Him; He seeks you.

How can YOU seek Him? You don't know the address. You don't know the face. You will not be able to recognize him. If He suddenly meets you on the street, you will not even say: 'Hello.' You will not recognize Him. He will be so strange that you may get scared. Or, you may not be able to see Him at all, because we tend to see only that which we know. That which we don't know, we tend not to see.

Scientists say that only two percent of impressions are delivered to the mind through the eyes. Ninety-eight percent are not delivered. If all hundred percent of the impressions are delivered, you will be in a mess, you will go mad. That will be too much. You will not be able to cope with it. So only a few selected informations are given to the mind. Ninety-eight percent are dropped out.

And I know well: if God meets you -- and I know that He meets you every day, millions of times....

But the mind drops because it is known, strange; you cannot fit Him anywhere with your mind. He will be a disturbance. So you simply don't see Him. How can you seek Him? Where you will seek Him?

Hassidism says: 'You cannot seek Him. He seeks you. You just be available and ready.'

I was reading an anecdote yesterday: A medical student failed in his final examination. He was very much afraid of his father, so he sent a telegram to his sister at home: 'I have failed. Prepare father. It may be too shocking to him.' The sister tried, but the father became very angry. Then she telegrammed to the brother: 'Father is ready. You prepare yourself.'

And that is the case: father is always ready; you prepare.

God is always ready to meet you; you prepare, you be ready wherever you are. He will seek you. He will rush from everywhere, from all directions. He will penetrate you in a thousand and one ways and reach to your heart.

 

Next: Chapter 10, True wisdom, The third question

 

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Chapter 10

 

  • Hassidism, The True Sage Chapter 10: True wisdom, Question 1
    Hassidism, a sect of Orthodox Jews, Judaism, The True Sage Chapter 10: True wisdom, Question 1, WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING PASSIVE AND FLOWING WITH THE RIVER? -- Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism at energyenhancement.org

  • Hassidism, The True Sage Chapter 10: True wisdom, Question 2
    Hassidism, a sect of Orthodox Jews, Judaism, The True Sage Chapter 10: True wisdom, Question 2, IS IT LONELY UP THERE? -- Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism at energyenhancement.org

  • Hassidism, The True Sage Chapter 10: True wisdom, Question 3
    Hassidism, a sect of Orthodox Jews, Judaism, The True Sage Chapter 10: True wisdom, Question 3, DO YOU EVER DESPAIR OF US AND YOUR WORK? -- Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism at energyenhancement.org

  • Hassidism, The True Sage Chapter 10: True wisdom, Question 4
    Hassidism, a sect of Orthodox Jews, Judaism, The True Sage Chapter 10: True wisdom, Question 4, BEFORE I KNOW IT MY WATCHER TURNS INTO MY JUDGER. WHAT TO DO? -- Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism at energyenhancement.org

  • Hassidism, The True Sage Chapter 10: True wisdom, Question 5
    Hassidism, a sect of Orthodox Jews, Judaism, The True Sage Chapter 10: True wisdom, Question 5, HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT YOU ALWAYS AND ALWAYS, WITHOUT EXCEPTION, TALK ABOUT THOSE THINGS I HAVE JUST THOUGHT ABOUT OR THAT CAME INTO MY MIND A DAY OR A MINUTE BEFORE? -- Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism at energyenhancement.org

  • Hassidism, The True Sage Chapter 10: True wisdom, Question 6
    Hassidism, a sect of Orthodox Jews, Judaism, The True Sage Chapter 10: True wisdom, Question 6, BY THE TIME I SEE MY MOODS, I AM KNEE-DEEP IN THEM. THEN IT IS NOT SO MUCH A QUESTION OF WATCHING, BUT OF RIDING ON THE WAVE UNTIL IT SUBSIDES. -- Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism at energyenhancement.org

  • Hassidism, The True Sage Chapter 10: True wisdom, Question 7
    Hassidism, a sect of Orthodox Jews, Judaism, The True Sage Chapter 10: True wisdom, Question 7, OSHO, I WONDER... WHAT IS HASSID ISM? -- Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism at energyenhancement.org

 

 

 
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