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same woman two nights together. Now this is again foolish. It seems man is such an idiot that you
cannot help him. If you sleep two nights consecutively with one woman, the commune throws you
out.
Now the one extreme has proved wrong. This is another extreme...it will prove wrong! The first
extreme was repressive: you have to sleep with the same woman for years, for your whole life, with
the same man, not knowing why, why you continue. The society says so, the state says so, the priest
and the politician say so: that on the stability of your nuclear family the whole society depends, This
insane society depends on the insane family; the insane family is the unit, the brick, out of which
this
whole prison is made.
Insane politicians depend on the insane family, insane religions depend on the insane family. They
have been repressing you; they don't allow you to move away from the woman or the man or the
relationship. They say you have to be with it, otherwise you are a criminal, a sinner. They make you
very afraid of hell and hellfire.
Now, the opposite extreme, that you cannot stay with the same woman the next night again. This
too
is again repressive. If you want to be with her the next night also, then...? Then it will be repression.
With the first, love disappeared and boredom entered. With the second, intimacy will disappear and
you will feel very alienated, like an island. You will not feel your roots anywhere.
Tantra says: Just in the middle is the way. Be in that place, bi with that person, be in that job where
you are enjoying, otherwise change. If you can enjoy one woman for your whole life, it is beau tiful,
it
is tremendously beautiful. You are fortunate, because then intimacy will grow, your roots will go
into
each other, your beings will become intertwined. By and by you will become one person. one soul,
and that is a great experience, the highest peak of Tantra will be known through it! But this is not
family, this is love affair. You have gone into the very depth of love.
Now this type of people, this A. A. Commune, these types ot people are dangerous! They think
they are doing something very great; they are simply reacting. The society has done something
wrong, now they are reacting too much and going to the opposite extreme, which will be again
wrong. Man has to be balanced somewhere - first thing.
Second thing...Saraha says, "unstructured, unpatterned state ot being." If you live through habit you
cannot enjoy life because the habit is of the old. How can you enjoy the same thing again and again
and again? Your mind remains the same; then there will be boredom. You can even change the
woman and the man, but you are the same, so fifty percent is always the same. There will br
boredom.
So first Tantra says: Never get obsessed with any person, remain free of personalities. Second,
Tantra says: Remain free of your past - then you are a hundred percent free, like a bee. You can fly
anywhere; nothing holds you, your freedom is utter.
Don't persist in your past pattern. Try to be inventive, try to be innovative! Be an adventurer, a
discoverer, enjoy life through nev ways; find new ways to enjoy it. In fact go on finding new ways
ot
doing the same old thing, but find new ways.
There are infinite possibilities.... You can come to the sarm experience from many doors, and each
door will give you a different vision. Then life is rich; there is sweetness, there is joy, there is
celebration - that is what honey is. Don't be confined in the pattern of a frog! Yes, the frog can hop
a
little, jump here and there...he cannot fly and cannot know that each flower is carrying divine
fragrance. What Saraha means by honey is a poetic metaphor for God, that each being is carrying
divinity.
People come to me and they say, "We want to know God -where is God?" Now the question is just
absurd. Where is he not! You ask where he is; you must be dead blind. Can't you see him, that only
he is? In the tree and in the bird, in the animal, in the river, in the mountain, in man, in woman...he
is
everywhere. He has taken so many forms to surround you, to dance around you. From everywhere
he is saying "Hello!" and you don't listen. From everywhere he is calling you. From everywhere he
is
inviting you: "Come to me!" but you are somehow keeping your eyes closed; or you have got
blinkers on, you don't look anywhere.
You just look in a very narrow way, in a very focused way. If you are looking for money you only
look for money, then you don't look anywhere else. If you are looking for power you look only for
power and you don't look anywhere else. And remember, God is not in money, because money is
man-made and God cannot be man-made. When I say God is everywhere, remember those things
have not to be included which man has made. God cannot be man-made. God is not in money;
money is a very cunning invention of man. And God is not in power; that too is again a madness of
man. Just the very idea to dominate somebody is insane. Just the very idea that, "I should be in
power and others should be powerless" is the idea of a madman, a destructive idea.
God is not in politics and God is not in money and God is not in ambition, but God is everywhere
where man has not destroyed him, where man has not created something of his own. This is one of
the most difficult things in the modern world, because you are surrounded by too many man-made
things. Can't you just see the fact of it?
When you are sitting near a tree, it is easy to feel God. When you are sitting on an asphalt
road...you
can go on searching on the asphalt road, you will not find God. It is too hard. When you are in a
modern city, just cement and concrete buildings all around...in the jungle of cement and concrete
you
will not feel God, because man-made things don't grow. That is one of the problems: man-made
things don't grow. They are dead, they don't have any life. God-made things grow. Even mountains
grow! The Himalayas are still growing, still getting higher and higher. A tree grows, a child grows.
Man-made things don't grow, even the greatest. Even a painting of a Picasso will never grow, so
what to say about a cement, concrete building? Even the music of Beethoven will never grow, so
what to say about technology, about man-made machines?
Watch! Wherever you see growth, there is God, because only God grows, nothing else. In
everything only God grows. When a new leaf is coming in the tree, it is God coming out of the tree.
When the bird is on the wing, it is God on the wing. When you see a small girl laughing or a small
boy giggling, it is God giggling. When you see tears flowing from the eyes of a woman or a man, it
is
God crying.
Wherever you find aliveness, yes, there is God; listen carefully, come closer, feel carefully. Be
cautious! - you are on holy ground.
Tantra says: If you drop your blinkers...that's what Tantra means by 'unpatterned life-style'. If you
drop your blinkers, if you start opening your eyes as wide as they are destined to be, suddenly you
will see that you can see in all directions. You have been befooled by the society to look only in
certain directions; the society has converted you into a slave.
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