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196 THE DHAMMAPADA: THE WAY OF THE BUDDHA, VOL. 9-12 want to be awakened at a particular hour, you don’t say to somebody else who is asleep, ”Please wake me up at five o’clock in the morning. I have to go for that goddamned Dynamic Meditation!” You have to ask somebody who is awake. Only somebody awake can wake you up. In fact, the person who is asleep may help you to fall into a deeper sleep. You may have watched it happen. If a few people are sitting just by your side yawning, you start feeling sleepy. They create a certain vibe; they create a certain atmosphere in which anybody vulnerable will start feeling it is better to go to sleep. The same happens with awakened people: a buddha creates a totally different vibe. He shakes you up, he wakes you up. He goes on shocking you in many ways; he finds devices to shock you. Kavita has asked, ”Beloved Master, sometimes you use such words that I feel shocked and I used to think that no word can ever shock me. Don’t you have any couth?” Kavita, I will go on using these words unless you wake up. You would like to listen to lullabies but lullabies are not going to help. What appeals to you, what you like is not going to help. Something that shocks you.... I am going to use rough words till you stop yawning. Whenever I see somebody yawning somewhere, immediately I have to say something which shocks you and I can see his yawning disappears. The moment I say ”bullshit” immediately I say it he stops yawning! His spine is erect, his kundalini is rising upwards! Unless you all become awakened I am not going to leave you at ease; I will go on hitting you in every possible way. Help is possible, Patrick, only from the awakened ones. You don’t need psychotherapists, you need buddhas. Secondly: you go to the psychotherapist, but you don’t really want to be helped. You have great investment in your pathology. A few scenes again. First: ”Doctor, my wife thinks she is a refrigerator.” ”Why don’t you divorce her?” ”I would but I need the ice.” Second scene: ”Doctor, my girlfriend thinks she is a rabbit.” ”Bring her in. I will see what can I do.” ”Okay, but whatever happens, I hope you don’t cure her.” Nobody wants really to be helped. People are only playing games. They go to the psychiatrist in the hope that he can’t do anything, that he is not going really to change them. Nobody wants to be changed; everybody wants to remain the same as he is. You have become so accustomed to your misery, to your pathology... it is your life, it is your way of life. If you want to be changed you will seek a master, not a psychotherapist. The third question: Question 3 BELOVED MASTER, IS THERE ANY TRUTH IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF PHYSICAL IMMORTALITY WHICH SAYS THAT IT IS ONLY OUR BELIEF IN THE INEVITABILITY OF DEATH WHICH PRODUCES OLD AGE, DISEASE AND DEATH? TO WHAT EXTENT DO OUR THOUGHTS MANIFEST RESULTS? John Fisant, man is afraid of death; hence he goes on creating all kinds of stupid ideas. Physical immortality is sheer nonsense because anything that begins is bound to end. Physical immortality is possible only if you are not born through parents but manufactured in a factory. If you are made out of plastic, if you are not a real man, then there is a possibility. Plastic seems to be the only immortal thing. So if you don’t have skin but plastic instead, if you don’t have real blood but synthetic blood which you can change any time you can go to the petrol pump and all that you have in your body your bones, your joints, everything is replaceable so whenever there is some problem, things can be replaced; you just have to change a few parts and parts will be available.... You may have to go to the garage for a time; a few things may have to be unscrewed and screwed again. Then you can be physically immortal but then you will not be a man, you will be a machine. If you are born you are bound to die. Yes, it is possible your life can be prolonged life has been prolonged. As medicine has evolved, as scientific technology has come to help human beings, as we have become more and more aware of the secrets of life, life has been prolonged. It may be prolonged from seventy years to seven hundred years, but then too you will not be physically immortal.
THE DHAMMAPADA: THE WAY OF THE BUDDHA, VOL. 9-12 197 And I don’t think many people would like to live seven hundred years; even seventy years is too much! People start thinking after a time, ”Now it will be better to die.” Death is a relief, a relaxation. Everything wants rest; death is going into rest. Your body also gets tired, matter also gets tired. It wants to go back to its original source: water into water and air into air and earth into earth and fire into fire. Everything wants to go back to its source to rest, to rejuvenate itself, and come back again. But man has always cherished these ideas physical immortality. And not ordinary people, even people who are thought to be extraordinary, they also go on having such stupid ideas. Sri Aurobindo and the mother of Sri Aurobindo both believed in physical immortality and both died! When Sri Aurobindo died nobody believed it, because all the disciples who had gathered there had gathered for the simple reason that he knows the secret of physical immortality and by being his disciples they are going to become physically immortal. How can they believe that he had died? For three days it was kept a secret that he had died. They waited: he may be in deep samadhi, he may come back. But after three days when they saw no sign of his coming back and his body started stinking, then they had to bury it. Then they hoped that the mother would be immortal. She lived a long life, but a long life does not mean physical immortality. When she died, again they were shocked. Their whole philosophy was confused by these two persons’ deaths. But one thing is good about death: now you cannot ask Sri Aurobindo, ”Why have you been telling your whole life that physical immortality is possible, that you know the secret, that you have been able to bring God into the physical world?” But fools gathered. Fools become attracted always to strange things. Just deep down the fear is there nobody wants to die. Why? Why in the first place are you afraid of death? Death is not the enemy. To a man who has really lived, death is the friend. It is like sleep. Nobody wants to remain wakeful twenty-four hours a day. There are a few people who think that sleep is also just an old habit and they try to reduce it. For centuries they have tried. Yes, it can be reduced, it can be reduced to two hours because two hours is the essential sleep; you also sleep only two hours in a deep way. Somewhere between two and four or three and five you sleep for two hours very deeply; those are the refreshing moments. All dreaming disappears, you are almost dead. Hence the ancients used to say sleep is a small death. But people have been trying to avoid sleep also. The logic is: if you can avoid sleep then you can one day avoid death too. If sleep is a small death and you have conquered sleep, you will be able to conquer the big sleep, death, too. But why? What is wrong in dying? The people who are afraid of death are the people who have not really lived their lives. They are not afraid of death, they are simply afraid that they have not lived yet and death has come. Rather than thinking of physical immortality, think of living your life totally. While you are here, live your life in a multidimensional richness. And then when death comes you will feel it as a crescendo, as a peak, as an ultimate life reaching to the highest and you will enjoy death as much as you have enjoyed life. You will be utterly satisfied with death because it will give you rest, relaxation; it will renew you. It will take away the old garments and it will give you new garments. But people go on philosophizing. They have created things like Christian Science, mind over matter. They think that if you believe that you are not going to die then you will not die. I heard about a man who was a Christian Scientist. One day he met a young man. He asked the young man, ”Any news about your father?” The young man said, ”He is very ill.” The Christian Scientist said, ”All nonsense! Tell him, ’Mind over matter.’ He believes he is ill, that’s all; it is his belief that is creating illness. Don’t believe in illness and you will be healthy.” After a few days again the young man came across this Christian Scientist, and the Christian Scientist asked, ”How are things now with your old man? How is he?” And the young man said, ”Now he believes that he is dead.” It is not a question of belief: illness has a reality, and death too has a reality. Yes, by believing also you can create a few illnesses which are false, bogus and by disbelieving in them you can destroy them. But you cannot destroy a real illness; the illness has to be false in the first place. If you believe in it and create it, then by disbelieving in it, it can be dropped. But death is not your belief; otherwise why do animals die? They don’t believe, they don’t believe that they are going to die. Why do trees die? They don’t believe that they are going to die, they don’t have any belief system. Why do stars and suns and moons die? Why do earths die? They don’t believe; death is a universal phenomenon, it happens everywhere. It is part of life; it is the other side of the coin. I am not in any support of Christian Science. It is neither science nor Christian it is simply nonsense.
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