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Spiritual Path:
Interests:
Every failure is bringing us closer to the discovery.
Creating:
I want human beings to understand that they have the capacity to fall in their consciousness to
the lowest level or they can rise to the highest pinnacle of consciousness. They can have friends.
Gautam Buddha, Hazrat Mohammed, Jesus Christ should be understood as great friends. Their
advice may be of immense value, but the moment they become leaders, the moment Jesus becomes
the shepherd and his followers become sheep, it is ugly; it is absolutely inhuman.
When Mohammed becomes a prophet of God, he raises himself above humanity. That is just an
egoistic trip.
When Buddha allows himself to be worshipped, that his word has to be taken in deep faith, he is
harming humanity. I don’t belong to their category at all.
I am a simple, ordinary human being just like you. But I am aware and you are not. This is not much
of a difference – you can become aware.
Awakening:
Just because it is so simple and so natural, that's why it is so difficult.
You are not simple and you are not natural.
And it is simple and natural. My message of love is absolutely simple; nothing can be more simple than that.
But your mind is very complex, very tricky. It makes simple things complicated. -- that's its work. And for centuries it has been trained for only one thing: to make things so complicated that your life becomes impossible.
Your mind has become expert in destroying you, because your life consists of simple things. The whole existence is simple, but man's mind has been cultivated, conditioned, educated, programmed in such a way that the simplest thing becomes crooked. The moment it reaches to your mind it is no longer simple. The mind starts interpreting it, finding things in it which are not there, ignoring things which are there.
And you think that you have heard whatever I have been telling you? It is not so. I have been telling you one thing, and you have been hearing something else because your hearing is not direct. There is a mediator -- your mind. It functions in many ways as a censor, it does not allow many things to enter inside you.
You will be surprised to know how much it prevents -- ninety-eight percent. It allows in only two percent of what is being said to you, and that too not in its purity. First it pollutes it by its own interpretations, by its own past experiences, conditionings, and by the time the mind comes to have the sense that it has understood, what was said and what was heard are poles apart.
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