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But the chances will increase even more if they are in contact with a few people
who are outside the prison, who are already free. That is the whole meaning of
finding a master: finding somebody who is already outside the prison. He can be of
tremendous help, for many reasons. He can supply necessary things, things which
will be needed for you to come out of the prison; he can send instruments, files, so
that you can break out of the prison. He can watch from the outside and he can
inform you when the guards change; in that interval there is a possibility to get out.
He can inform you when the guards fall asleep in the night. He can make
arrangements so that the guards are drunk on one particular night, he can invite the
jailer to his house for a party; he can do a thousand and one things which you
cannot do from the inside. He can find support for you from the outside. He can
create an atmosphere so that when you are released from the jail you will be
accepted by the people, you will be sheltered, taken into houses. If the society is
not ready to accept you from the outside, you may come out of the jail but the
society will deliver you back to the prison authorities.
To be in contact with someone who is already awake is a must. And to be together
with those people who are all thinking to become awake is also a must. This is the
meaning of a school method, a group method. Tantra is a group method. It says: Be
together, find out all the possibilities. So many people can be together and they can
pool their energies. Somebody is very intelligent and somebody is very loving - both
are half, but together they become more of a unity, more wholeness.
Man is half, woman is half. Except for Tantra, all the seekers have tried to do
without the other. Man has tried alone, women have tried alone. Tantra says: Why
not be together, join hands together? The woman is half, the man is half - together
they are a greater energy, a more whole energy, a healthier energy. Join together!
Let yin and yang function together. There will be more possibility of getting out of
it.
Other methods use fight and conflict. Man starts fighting with women, starts
escaping from women; rather than using the possibility of the help he starts thinking
of the woman as the enemy. Tantra says this is sheer foolishness, you are wasting
your energy unnecessarily fighting with the woman, because there are greater things
to be fought about! It is better to keep company with the woman; let her help you,
and you help her. Go together as one unit and you have more chances to stand
against the unconscious nature.
Use all possibilities; then only there is some chance that you can evolve into a
conscious being, you can become a buddha.
Now the sutras...these are very significant sutras. First sutra:
To a fly that likes the smell of putrid meat
The fragrance ofsandalwood is foul.
Beings who discard nirvana
Covet coarse samsara's realm.
First thing: just as I said, man is a machine. Man lives out of habit, out of the past,
out of memories; man lives out of knowledge that he has known, acquired before.
So he goes on missing the new, and the truth is always the new. He is like a fly that
likes the smell of putrid meat, the foul and fetid odor; the fragrance of sandalwood
is foul to that fly. She has a certain cast of memory, a certain past; she has always
thought that the putrid smell of meat is fragrance. That is her knowledge, that is her
habit, that is her routine - that is her dead past. Now suddenly she comes across
sandalwood: the fragrance of sandalwood will look to the fly as if it is a very foul
and fetid odor.
Don't be surprised...that's what is happening to you. If you have lived too much in
the body then even coming closer to a man who lives in his soul and you will feel
something is wrong. Coming to a buddha, you will not feel the fragrance; you may
even start feeling a bad smell. Your interpretation...otherwise why did people
murder Jesus? Jesus was sandalwood! and people simply killed him. Why did
people poison Socrates? Socrates was sandalwood! But the flies - they understand
their own past, they interpret according to their past.
One day I was reading....
A prostitute, the most famous prostitute of Athens, once came to Socrates. And a
few people were sitting there, just a few people, just as here a few people are
sitting, and Socrates was talking to them. The prostitute looked around and said to
Socrates, "Why? -such a great man like you, and only so few people listening to
you? I had thought the whole of Athens would be here! And I don't see the most
respectable, the most honored - the politicians, the priests, the intellectuals - I don't
see them here. What is the matter? Come, Socrates, some day to my house; you
will find them standing in a queue!"
Socrates said, "You are right - because you cater to a universal demand. I don't. I
attract only a few, a chosen few. Others cannot feel my fragrance, they avoid!
Even if they come across me, they escape, they are afraid. It is a totally different
fragrance," said Socrates.
The prostitute must have been of tremendous intelligence. She looked into the eyes
of Socrates, bowed down, and said, "Socrates, accept me as one of your friends,"
and never left, became part of that small school.
Must have been a woman of great awareness...so sudden a change, she understood
it so immediately! But Athens killed Socrates, they did not like the man. The man
looked very dangerous. Against him there were many charges. One was that he
destroys people's beliefs, he destroys young people's minds, that he is anarchic, that
if he is allowed to live any longer the society will be uprooted. He is a dangerous
enemy.
What was he doing? He was doing something totally different: he was trying to
create a state of no-mind. But the people thought, "He destroys people's minds."
They are also right, the flies. Yes, young people were tremendously attracted to
Socrates - because only young people can be attracted to such things. Only youth
has that courage. Even if old people come to me or to Socrates, they are young
people only; that's why they come, otherwise they cannot come. An old, rotten
mind cannot come to me. Maybe the body is old, but if an old man comes to me or
an old woman, she comes only because she still has the youth of her soul, she is
still young somewhere; she is still able to understand the new, to learn the new.
They say you cannot teach an old dog new tricks...it is very difficult; the old dog
knows old tricks and he goes on repeating them. It is very difficult to teach anything
to an old mind.
And these things are so radically different, so diametrically opposite to all that has
been taught to you, that unless a man is really young he cannot even listen. So
young people were attracted. That was a sign that something of the eternal,
something of the eternal youngness of the universe was pouring through Socrates.
When Jesus is alive you will find young people following him. You will not find
young people going to see the pope; old people, dead people, long, long ago
dead...they go to see the pope. When the original Shankaracharya was alive you
would find young people all around him. But to the shankaracharya of Puri only
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