Hassidism

THE TRUE SAGE

Chapter-4

The watchman

Sixth Question

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Question 6

YOU HAVE SAID THAT THE PROPER RELATIONSHIP OF MIND TO CONSCIOUSNESS IS THAT OF THE SERVANT. HOW IS THE SERVANT TO BE TREATED? IS IT NOT TO BE MISTREATED? HOW AM I TO KNOW WHEN THAT IS HAPPENING?

Remember -- if you are really a master you never mistreat the servant. That is one of the qualities of the master.

You mistreat the servant only when you are not certain that you are master. That mistreatment is a deep insecurity. You try to mistreat to know whether you are the master or not. If you are absolutely certain that you are the master, you love the servant. You treat him as a friend, you respect him even. So only those who are suspicious of their own mastery treat the servants in a wrong way.

A man who is absolutely certain, who knows he is the master -- then there is no problem.

It is said of a Hassidic Master, Magid.... He went to see another Master. He was a little late. The lecture hall was full and the other Master was speaking, so he sat just near the door where people had left their shoes.

Somebody looked at him. The quality of Magid attracted him. He told his neighbour that some rare being was there -- 'But why is he sitting there? That is not a place for a Master to sit. And he is so radiant.' And it is said that by and by the whole audience turned towards him.

The Master who was talking, and who was a faker, was surprised at the phenomenon.

Magid had not uttered a single word; he was just sitting with closed eyes. The pseudo-Master later when they were alone, asked Magid: 'Tell me the secret. What happened? I was there, the leader of the congregation, and I was to talk. What happened? Why did people turn towards you?'

Magid said: 'Since I became a Master it almost always happens. It is not something to be done. It simply happens.'

A Master has a quality. When you are really the master, you have become a watcher and become the master.

And it is such a simple thing that you just say something and it happens. You just say to the mind: 'Enough -- now you be the servant, because you are the servant.' And, I say, it is just that simple.

You are afraid: that is why it cannot happen. You know that it will not happen. Then you can say something and it will not happen. But it is not happening because you knew it would not happen. Otherwise it will happen.

You have not treated the mind REALLY as a servant. Otherwise, you simply say: 'Sit down,' or you simply say: 'Listen' -- and the mind listens.

Vivekanand was in America. He talked one morning and he told a story, and he emphasized the fact that faith can move mountains. One old woman who was worried by a mountain very much said: 'This is good! I never tried it.'

Just behind her house there was a big mountain. And because of the mountain the sun would not come to her house. Because of the mountain, air would not reach. Her house became very stuffy.

So she said: 'This is simple. Now I will go and I will have faith.'

She went immediately to her house. She opened the window and looked at the mountain for the last time -- because now it would disappear. There would be no chance again to see it. She closed the window, closed her eyes, and said: 'I have faith. Now move.' Thrice she said it, because she thought maybe once it may not work.

Then she opened the window. The mountain was still there. She started laughing and said: 'I already knew it was not going to happen.' If you know all the way, then it will not happen -- because you have not fulfilled the condition.

I also say that faith can move mountains -- but faith, remember!

And faith need not say it thrice. It is doubt which says it thrice. What is the point? Once you say it, you're finished -- and faith will not open the window and look. It is finished!

I have heard, in a town it happened: rains were not coming. It was already getting very late in the season so the priest of the town gathered all the people one morning, called them all to come to the temple so that they could pray for it to rain.

The whole town went -- and the whole town laughed at a certain child. A small child came with an umbrella. So everybody talked and laughed and said: 'You fool -- why are you carrying your umbrella? You may lose it somewhere. Rains are not coming.'

The child said: 'But I thought that when you would pray, the rains would come.'

Only one child was carrying an umbrella. How can rains come? If that child had prayed, there was a possibility of rains.

Faith can only be total -- otherwise not. And the people who were laughing about that child were simply stupid. If you don't have total faith, then why are you going to pray? And when prayer will not be fulfilled, you will say that you knew it was not going to happen all along.

Faith is a different quality of inner functioning. If you really say to the mind: 'Be the servant from now onwards' -- it is finished! Don't open the window again to see. And this is how it happens, and this is how it is going to happen to you, because there is no other way.

When you are a master you treat the servant like a friend. You feel grateful to the servant. He serves you. Why mistreat him?

Mistreatment comes only when you see that the servant is the master. Then you react, then you are angry, then you mistreat. Your mistreatment simply shows that the servant is not the servant and the master is not the master.

Next: Chapter 4, The Watchman, The seventh question

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Chapter 4

• Hassidism, The True Sage Chapter 4: The watchman, Question 1
  Hassidism, a sect of Orthodox Jews, Judaism, The True Sage Chapter 4: The watchman, Question 1, WHY DOES ALL THAT YOU SAY SEEM COMPLETELY FAMILIAR? I HAVE HEARD IT ALL BEFORE IN VARIOUS CONTEXTS, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, IT SOUNDS FULL OF WONDERFUL REVELATIONS. -- Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism at energyenhancement.org
  
  
• Hassidism, The True Sage Chapter 4: The watchman, Question 2
  Hassidism, a sect of Orthodox Jews, Judaism, The True Sage Chapter 4: The watchman, Question 2, THE WORDS 'INTROVERT' AND 'INTROSPECTION' HAVE MORBID CONNOTATIONS. HOW DO THEY DIFFER FROM HEALTHY SELF-AWARENESS AND TURNING WITHIN? -- Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism at energyenhancement.org
  
  
• Hassidism, The True Sage Chapter 4: The watchman, Question 3
  Hassidism, a sect of Orthodox Jews, Judaism, The True Sage Chapter 4: The watchman, Question 3, WHY AM I AFRAID OF OTHER PEOPLE? -- Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism at energyenhancement.org
  
  
• Hassidism, The True Sage Chapter 4: The watchman, Question 4
  Hassidism, a sect of Orthodox Jews, Judaism, The True Sage Chapter 4: The watchman, Question 4, I AM CONFUSED ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN INDIVIDUALITY AND PERSONALITY. WHAT, IF ANYTHING, IS LEFT OF THE INDIVIDUAL AFTER THE EXIT OF THE EGO? -- Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism at energyenhancement.org
  
  
• Hassidism, The True Sage Chapter 4: The watchman, Question 5
  Hassidism, a sect of Orthodox Jews, Judaism, The True Sage Chapter 4: The watchman, Question 5, I CAN THINK OF NOTHING THAT I WISH MORE CLEARLY THAN TO COME CLOSER TO YOUR INNER TEMPLE. IS THIS POSSIBLE WHILE I AM STILL DOING MY OWN THING? OR IS IT A PREREQUISITE TO DROP ALL ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS NOT CONNECTED WITH YOU AND YOUR WORK? -- Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism at energyenhancement.org
  
  
• Hassidism, The True Sage Chapter 4: The watchman, Question 6
  Hassidism, a sect of Orthodox Jews, Judaism, The True Sage Chapter 4: The watchman, Question 6, YOU HAVE SAID THAT THE PROPER RELATIONSHIP OF MIND TO CONSCIOUSNESS IS THAT OF THE SERVANT. HOW IS THE SERVANT TO BE TREATED? IS IT NOT TO BE MISTREATED? HOW AM I TO KNOW WHEN THAT IS HAPPENING? -- Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism at energyenhancement.org
  
  
• Hassidism, The True Sage Chapter 4: The watchman, Question 7
  Hassidism, a sect of Orthodox Jews, Judaism, The True Sage Chapter 4: The watchman, Question 7, LISTENING TO YOUR WORDS: 'THE SKY APPEARS TO, BUT NOWHERE DOES IT TOUCH THE EARTH,' A DEEP FEELING GATHERED AROUND ME THAT THE SKY IS TOUCHING THE EARTH RIGHT THROUGH ME, THAT I AM THE HORIZON WHEREVER I AM. THE FEELING, LIKE A HONEYCOMB, WITH NO SUBSTANCE IN IT, JUST THE WIDE OPEN SKY PENETRATING EVERY PORE OF IT, HAS REMAINED EVER SINCE AS A CONSTANT MEDITATION. IT FEELS LIGHT AND BLISSFUL TO BE IN IT. PLEASE COMMENT. -- Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism at energyenhancement.org
  
  
• Hassidism, The True Sage Chapter 4: The watchman, Question 8
  Hassidism, a sect of Orthodox Jews, Judaism, The True Sage Chapter 4: The watchman, Question 8, IS EVERYTHING IN ONE'S LIFE, PARTICULARLY THE DEGREE OF SPIRITUAL PROGRESS, PREDESTINED? OR IS ONE'S LIFE A SERIES OF CHALLENGES AND POSSIBILITIES WITHOUT ANYTHING BEING KNOWN ABOUT THE OUTCOME? -- Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism at energyenhancement.org
  
  
• Hassidism, The True Sage Chapter 4: The watchman, Question 9
  Hassidism, a sect of Orthodox Jews, Judaism, The True Sage Chapter 4: The watchman, Question 9, ANCIENT JEWISH MYTHOLOGY PLACES LILITH AS THE FIRST PERSON ON EARTH -- NOT ADAM. WHY WAS THIS VERSION LOST? WOULD YOU TELL US ABOUT IT? -- Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism at energyenhancement.org