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CHAPTER 1. THE DARKNESS INSIDE
escapes him. It is like one attacks a woman passing by. One may become successful in raping
her, one may even have her body in one’s control, but one can never have her soul; one will never
be able to win her love.
So those who approach God aggressively are the rapists. They may bring the physical body of God
under their control; they may dissect and analyze nature manifesting all around, they may discover
some of its secrets, but the discovery will be as trivial as someone attacking and raping a woman.
The man may succeed in securing the woman’s body, but such an achievement is not worth a straw
because he won’t be able to even touch her soul. And if the soul has remained untouched, the
possibility of love that is hidden within her, the hidden seed of her love can never sprout. Her love
can never shower upon him.
Science is an act of rape. It is an assault on nature – as if nature were some kind of an enemy, as if
it has to be conquered, defeated. That’s why science believes in cutting things into pieces. Analysis,
destruction; it believes in dissection.
If you were to tell a scientist, ”The flower is beautiful,” he will immediately sit down and start pulling
apart the flower, dissecting it, analyzing it. He has no idea that in the very tearing of it into pieces,
the beauty of the flower disappears. The flower looked beautiful in its wholeness, but when divided
into parts, it lost its beauty. Of course, in doing the analysis the scientist can find out the chemical
elements contained in the flower; he may show the substance, the minerals the flower is made of.
He may place them in different bottles and label them accordingly. But he won’t be able to say,
”Here is a bottle which contains the beauty once present in the flower,” because the beauty will have
disappeared already. By making an assault on the flower, you will only come upon its body, not the
soul.
This is the reason why science doesn’t believe in the soul – how can it? Even after making so much
effort, not even a glimpse of the soul becomes available to science – it never can... not because
there is no soul, but because the scientist has chosen a wrong method. The method he uses is not
the way to discover the soul. The very means applied to its discovery is the means good for finding
the trivial. That which is of great value cannot be attained through aggression.
You will be able to find the mystery of life only if you enter through the door of surrender. If you bow
down, if you pray, you will be able to reach the center of love. Courting God is almost as good as
courting a woman. One needs to approach Him with a heart full of love, gratitude and humility. And
there is no hurry! Any haste on your part, and you miss. A great deal of patience is required. Your
haste... and His heart will be closed. Even rushing things is an act of aggression.
Hence those who set out in search of God, their life-style is contained in two words: prayer and
patience. So the scriptures begin with prayer and they end with awaiting. The search therefore,
begins with the prayer.
The first line of this scripture says:
OM! I BOW DOWN TO LORD SHIVA – THE ONE WHO IS SELF-LUMINOUS, DELIGHTING IN HIS
OWN BEING.
And now, the beginning of the Shiva Sutra.
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