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CHAPTER 7. MEDITATION IS THE SEED
The Mulla’s neighbor had been out of town. He returned two days before he had been expected.
When he opened the door and let himself in he found his wife in the arms of a stranger. The husband
picked up his gun and shot both of them. ”Now Mulla, what have you to say about that?” chuckled
the Mulla’s friends, fully confident that they had him beaten for once.
”It could have been worse,” the Mulla said calmly.
”What could have been worse than this?” they all shouted together.
”Quiet, my friends,” said the Mulla. ”Had he returned a day earlier it would have been me!”
But I tell you, it cannot be worse. Give up this phrase. The state you are now in is the worst state
you can possibly be in. What could be worse?
Trust always thinks: ”What do I have? What does the seed have? It is only a covering, a shell. It
has nothing. It can become something, but only when its shell breaks.” You are a shell, a covering.
Let the shell break... and then everything becomes possible.
Therefore Shiva says: MEDITATION IS THE SEED, and when the seed is destroyed you attain the
state of ’twice-born’.
ETERNAL KNOWLEDGE LEADS TO CESSATION OF BIRTH AND DEATH.
The day the twice-born state flowers within you, your knowledge can never be destroyed. It will
flow constantly. You will become a current of knowledge. Everything will become knowledge,
consciousness. When the seed of meditation breaks there is nothing but consciousness, and only
consciousness within you. You are transformed into a state of awareness and of witnessing, where
knowledge is indestructible, where it cannot be destroyed. Right now your consciousness is next to
non-existent. You live as if you are asleep. Whatever you do, it is not done in full awareness.
A man sitting opposite Buddha was wriggling his big toe. Buddha said, ”Brother, why does your big
toe wriggle so?”
The man stopped immediately. He was surprised. ”I myself do not know,” he replied. ”Now that you
have asked I too am troubled over it, for it was not moving consciously.”
”Such is your whole life.” said the Buddha.
What have you ever done consciously in the course of your whole life? Have you ever been
consciously angry? Have you loved consciously? Have you ever consciously been greedy or
obsessed? What have you done consciously? Your life is such – merely twiddling your thumbs
unconsciously. You set up house, raised a family; you gave birth to your children. Did you do
anything consciously? Everything has happened to you; you were merely involved in it mechanically.
What did you do consciously in your life? Was there any action you did consciously? No! You can’t
find even one act that you did consciously. You fell in love? Love happened, you did not fall in love.
If you quarrelled, quarrels just happened mechanically; you did not quarrel. You see a person and
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