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CHAPTER 6. THE MAD PROJECTIONIST
helpless so he wears the garb of contentment. No! being contented will not do. Contentment is a
part of sadness. When you bear it without raising a fuss, when you do not complain; these are signs
of a dead consciousness.
Ibrahim said, ”If he does not get anything, then he dances and thanks that you gave me an
opportunity to practice austerity; today there will be fasting. If you receive, then gratitude because
then you were able to share it, to spread it! If you do not receive, even then gratitude!”
You cannot destroy the bliss of a sadhu. On the other hand, if your sorrows are destroyed the result
will be nothing more than sadness. Even when you somehow manage to drop your sorrow, you
become sad. Sorrow keeps you occupied, busy. You may not have realized it, but if all your sorrows
are taken away from you, you will commit suicide; for what will you do then? There will be nothing
left for you to do.
The father is busy working because he has to educate his sons, to get them married. If all them
get married and settled right now, what will the father do? Life will seem useless. You are occupied
with such meaningless things. It makes you feel that you are doing something, you are important,
needed. The world cannot go on without you; what will happen to your son, to your wife! It gives
strength and support to your ego, that you are indispensable; everything is happening because of
you. Whereas the simple fact is that things can go along just as well without you. When you were
not there, things were still going on; and after you have gone things will continue. But just for a while
in between you dream, the dream of your indispensability.
So even if you drop sorrow, the best you can do is to become contented. But there is sorrow hidden
beneath contentment. Contentment is only on the surface; deep inside there is a wound of sorrow.
Contentment is just like a bandage, it is not a remedy.
No! A true sadhu is not contented; he is blissful! Whatever the circumstances, if he gets something,
he will share it and be blissful; even if he does not get anything then too he will dance and be happy.
The nature of the soul is to dance, and it can dance in two ways. It can dance in a way that there
is sorrow and suffering all around, that there is darkness and gloom all around; or it can dance in a
way that everything starts dancing with it and flowers bloom all around.
Sannyas is the dance of bliss; the worldly life is the dance of sorrow. There is no hell anywhere
else! Don’t sit there in the hope that there is hell somewhere else. Hell is your wrong way of dancing
which creates sorrow and suffering. Heaven is also nowhere else. It is your right way of dancing,
which creates heaven wherever you are. Heaven and hell both are qualities of your dance.
You don’t know how to dance but you go on thinking that the fault lies in the dance floor. There is
nothing wrong with the dance floor. For one who knows how to dance, the floor does not matter.
And for one who does not know how to dance, a floor made exactly at an angle of 90 degree does
not help. He will not come to know how to dance because of that.
I have heard that a man went for an eye operation. Before the operation he asked the doctor, ”I
cannot see at all. Will I be able to see after the operation?” The doctor examined him and said, ”Of
course you will.” The man said, ”And will I be able to read also?” The doctor said, ”Certainly.” The
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