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finds the black cat which is not there; he finds it still. And he creates so much smoke and dust that you cannot
deny him. He creates great argument. And he himself is very much afraid of going towards the witness.
He has been in India, and there was a man a man the like of whom happens only once in a while. Maharshi
Raman was alive. And wherever Jung went in India, almost everywhere people suggested to him, ”Why are you
wasting your time here and there, going to Varanasi and Bombay? Why don’t you go to Maharshi Raman?”
People knew that he is a great psychoanalyst, world-famous. ”You should go to Maharshi Raman, who has gone
beyond the mind. Sitting by his side you may have a few glimpses. You may come away a totally changed person.”
But Jung avoided him, he did not go there. On the contrary, back home he started writing against Eastern
mysticism. He could not write against mysticism as such because he was himself creating great mysteries superficial
because he was not an initiate in any mystery school. He was gathering things from superficial sources. He had
never been in contact with a living master. He had come so close to a buddha Maharshi Raman yet he missed.
And in self-defense he started writing back home that Eastern mysticism is not meant for the Western mind as
if there are Eastern souls and Western souls too. Yes, there is a difference in the skin of the Eastern people and
the Western people; it is not much of a difference, just a little color pigment four annas’ worth. And remember,
the black person has it more than the white. He is more valuable four annas more valuable because he has a
certain pigment that makes him black which the white skin is missing.
And yes, there is a certain difference in the mind, because the Eastern mind is conditioned in a different way
and the Western mind is conditioned in a different way. Conditionings are different, but the witness is the same.
Jesus and Buddha, Mohammed and Mahavira, are not different. Saint Francis and Ramakrishna, Eckhart and
Krishnamurti, are not different. One who has known the witness is neither Eastern nor Western. He is no more
the body and no more the mind how can he be Eastern or Western?
And Jung started talking this nonsense in self-defense. He said, ”That’s why I avoided Maharshi Raman, because
Eastern methods are not suitable to us. The West needs its own yoga, the West needs its own meditations.” What
difference can there be in being aware? Whether you are in the East or in the West, awareness will be the same
and that is the essential core of meditation.
They are great interpreters of dreams... the whole world of the psychoanalyst is the world of dreams. And as
far as the enlightened person is concerned, for him the whole world is nothing but a dream. For the psychoanalyst,
dreams are his whole world, and for the enlightened person the whole world is nothing but a dream.
The analyst was annoyed with her patient who said she did not dream the night before.
”Look,” he warned her, ”if you don’t do your homework, I can’t help you.”
Dreaming is a necessity; that is your homework. Do it at home and then come to the psychoanalyst, and he is
there with his whole expertise to analyze it.
Gautami, enlightenment means going beyond desires and dreams. There is no need to waste your time in
analyzing. Just go beyond, put your whole energy in going beyond. And when you go beyond, all dreams
disappear on their own accord.
The third question:
Question 3
BELOVED MASTER, WHY DO I KEEP LOSING EVERYTHING BUT MY EGO?
Sughanda.... Odum, an elderly black called before the justice of the peace, was charged with keeping a vicious
dog.
”That dog bit my girl Bobbie Jo three times,” complained the mother.
”Did your dog bite little Bobbie Jo?” asked the judge.
”No, sir,” said Odum. ”My dog, he never bit any little girl.”
”Well,” said the judge to the mother, ”this man says that the dog did not bite your little girl.”
”I will go home and bring Bobbie Jo here and show you,” said the woman.
”Hold on,” said the black man. ”In the first place, the dog is so old he ain’t got no teeth and he can’t bite. In
the second place, the dog is blind and could not see Bobbie Jo anyhow. In the third place, the dog is deaf and
can’t hear a thing. And in the fourth place, he ain’t my dog in the first place.”
Sughanda, you cannot lose your ego because in the first place it does not exist at all. You can lose everything
else because those things really exist, but how can you lose something which does not exist? You cannot lose
your shadow; it does not exist. And the ego is far more false than your shadow; it is not even a shadow. It is not
substance, it is not even a shadow. It is just an idea planted by society within you. It has no reality, so how can
you lose it?
The only way to lose it is to look for it and you will not find it. And when you don’t find it you have lost it.
Go within and look for it, search for it.