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CHAPTER 6. THE MAD PROJECTIONIST
and renunciation is wrong. True religion is always a dance. It is always bliss. True religion is always
a playing flute.
THE SOUL IS A DANCER.
THE INNER SOUL IS THE STAGE.
And this dance, which is happening, is not happening anywhere outside; it is going on within you.
This world is not a stage; it is the soul within that is the stage. However much you may think that
you have gone outside, you cannot; how will you go outside? You will always remain within yourself.
Everything is happening in there only. The play goes on in there, then the results become visible
outside. It is just like when you go to a cinema hall and you see the drama on the screen, but actually
it is all happening in the projector behind your back, what we see on the screen is only the reflection.
The screen is not the genuine stage, but your eyes are so glued to it that you forget that the actual
picture is behind you in the projector. The real picture is behind your back, what you see on the
screen is only a reflection.
The inner soul is the stage; the projector is within. All the seeds of the drama come from within;
outside you only get news; you just hear the echoes. And if there is sorrow outside, know that
you have the wrong film within. And if whatever you do outside seems to go wrong, it means that
whatever you bring out of you is wrong.
A change of screen will make no difference. Whatever you do to improve the screen will not make
any difference. If your film is coming wrong from within you, the screen will go on repeating the
same story. And then you are not only a film but a broken record too which goes on repeating the
same line.
Have you ever tried to find out what there is inside your skull? You will find that things are being
repeated again and again-like a broken record. You go on repeating the same thing again and again.
Nothing new ever happens there, and whatever you repeat there, its echoes are heard all around
you, it is reflected on the screens of the world.
Mulla Nasruddin went to see a movie with his wife and child – and you can imagine Nasruddin’s
child, he cannot be an orderly child because when everything is disorderly inside then whatever
comes out is also disorderly. The child was crying, howling and making a lot of noise. The manager
had to come and ask Mulla at least seven times that either you take your money back and leave, or
keep the child quiet. But why would he keep the child quiet. The manager had to come again and
again. Mulla would nod his head and go on silently watching the movie. And then, when the picture
was almost over, Mulla asked his wife, ”What do you think? Did you like the movie?” She said, ”It is
absolutely hopeless. So he said, ”Then don’t waste any more time. ”Give the kid a hard pinch; so
that we get our money back and go home.”
You have been watching for a long time. You have been watching for many lives that it is all wrong.
When will you pinch? You will have to do it yourself; there is nobody else here. When will you
wake up and come back? What is the purpose of watching this wrong show which is filling you with
such pain and distress; which does not give birth to anything except sorrow and nightmares-you can
leave this house. You are in this house only because of yourself. Why are you delaying it? Haven’t
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