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CHAPTER 6. THE MAD PROJECTIONIST
Whatever force has come to the forefront in you becomes the whole world that surrounds you. You
color the world with your own brush. We have a previous word in our language, raga. No other
language has a word like it. It means both fascination and color. All your fascination is the result
of the color which are projected by your own eyes. You color everything, and the fascination of
whatever you have colored is what catches hold of you.
Raga means: you have colored. A woman is not beautiful. The color off your sexual desire paints
her beautiful. A child is not bothered with a woman’s looks, for the color of his sexual desire has not
yet developed. The old man has long passed this stage. He laughs at your foolishness, even though
he did the same thing himself when he was young. You will also laugh when your turn comes, but he
who becomes alert realizes at the time it is happening that this is foolishness; and awakens. There
is not much sense in laughing later on; anyone can do that; But when the foolishness has caught
hold of you and the color is in full force, then you should become aware that this is all a play from
within, and the outside is a mere screen.
THE INNER SOUL IS THE STAGE. It is the projector by means of which the outer world becomes
an extension of the inner drama.
THROUGH CONTROL OF THE MIND, REALITY IS ATTAINED.
This play is going on, and you shall keep wandering in it as long as the mind is not within your
control. Through control of the mind reality is attained. As soon as you realize that the entire drama
is projected from within, you forget all about conquering the world, it is only a screen.
Bring your mind within your control and the whole world is yours to control. When you come to know
that you are the producer, the actor, the writer, and also the stage of the play – everything will stop
taking any interest in any external changes. Then you will busy yourself with the integral possession
– that is, to take possession of your mind, to be its master.
You are not master of your mind. Your thoughts are not your slaves; rather, you are slave of your
mind. You meekly follow whatever your thoughts take you; they never go where you want them to.
Try to give a slight turn to even a very insignificant thought and it resists you. Tell a small thought to
be quiet, and it immediately rebels.
You never consider this situation, for it is too painful. The very thought ’I am not my master’ is killing,
because you have set out to be master of the whole world! How can you be the master of anything
when you are not even the master of your own self?
Take a good look at your mind. Examine it closely. The first thing you will come to know is that the
mind has become the master – not you and not your soul! The mind says: Do this”! And you do
it! If you don’t the mind creates problems. It become sad, and the sadness of the mind becomes
your sadness. If you do as it says you get nowhere, for the mind is blind. Where can you reach by
obeying the mind! The is unconsciousness. If you listen to it you reach nowhere.
You must have heart that if one bind man follows another bind man they are both bound to end up
in a ditch, but that is what each of us is doing. Your mind is absolutely bind; it knows nothing, and
yet you follow it as blindly as your shadow follows you. You have forgotten that you are the master.
The Great Path 113 Osho