This whole search is of the mind, by the mind and for the mind. It is not
for God. The search for Him would stop the mind or transcend the mind. The
mind cannot search the Divine or know the Divine. You search within your
mind to know your mind in order to transcend your mind. With the mind you do
not get Enlightened. Between the belief and the conclusion—Enlightenment or
Superconsciousness—is only the play of the mind. Everything is within the
mind’s play: any justification, non-justification, sorrow, suffering,
pleasant things, optimism, pessimism, regrets, hope, blaming, ambitions,
fulfillments, digression, stagnation—the whole dictionary from cover to
cover. Since you get busy and tied up with the details of that book, certain
things appeal to you. It is all within your mind.
WE SEE DREAMS WITHIN
DREAMS and we think we are awake. The mind’s projection is like the
ocean; it is not limitless but because we do not see the other shore it
seems that way. It encompasses everything from A to Z. And for the time
being I am including meditation in this play as well, although that is the
last door you will go through in order to come out of the mind. Otherwise
any analysis, projection, path, belief or “ism” is within the mind.
Therefore we do not harp much upon differences of paths and beliefs because
we are talking mind within the mind, blindly groping in the dark. We are
touching the same elephant. I may be touching his tail and you may be
touching his ear or stomach, but if we start fighting or analyzing or
discussing or comparing one part with another, we will never realize that it
is one animal. We are touching the same mind, distinguishing and
deliberating. There are a few souls on this earth who stand apart and watch
this hypnotism. We call them wise men.
All our conferences and seminars are within the
same dreams. In the dreamland we meet each other and go on discussing our
present happenings. And by morning everyone is back in the bottle. Very few
are awakened. The Awakened Ones travel into your dreamland and tell you,
“You are joined by a silver cord with your bottle and you are talking in
your dreams but you are not aware.” Since you are not aware, since you are
one with your self-hypnotism, naturally you think this guy is crazy. There
is a line: “In this mad world only the mad are sane.” Sleeping souls think
Awakened Ones are crazy or if not crazy, at least beyond our limits. To them
the Enlightened One looks impractical so we do not do what he does, as if it
does not apply to us. But you cannot say that you believe in an Enlightened
Being and then do whatever you want. You are canceling the whole thing.
There are certain qualities of the Perfected Ones that are universal.
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