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CHAPTER 2. THE STARS MIRRORED
arrangements, complete with sweets and refreshments. Each colleague spoke a few words of praise
for the Mulla. After all, he was leaving. The Mulla was so overcome with emotion that tears came to
his eyes. When it was his turn to speak he got up and said, ”Friends, I am indeed touched by your
love and affection. I did not know how much you cared for me. I cannot leave you now. I withdraw
my resignation.”
We are being manipulated. Often, all around, the whole world is manipulating each and every
person. And the climate goes on changing. There are thousands of kinds of people. As a result
there is a deep confusion inside you. This is bound to be, because you are not motivated by one
person. Only he who is awakened within is motivated by one. There is a clarity in the life of such a
man, a transparency. His life is clear and purposeful; it has a direction.
There is no direction in your life. There cannot be. You behave as if you are in a crowd that pushes
you any way it pleases. Such a person has to keep moving. He cannot stand still for a moment.
Someone pushes him to the right, he goes right; someone pushes him to the left, he goes left. Your
whole life passes in this way, driven by the crowd. Ponder over this and you will come to understand.
Somebody says something; you do accordingly. Then somebody else says something else and you
do it. And then you are filled with a number of contradictions.
One of my acquaintances fell from a rickshaw and hurt himself. Then he was released from the
hospital. Six months passed. When he was completely well, he still used the crutches. When I
asked him whether he still was experiencing difficulty in walking, he said, ”No.”
”Then why don’t you discard the crutches?” I inquired.
”You see,” he said, ”the doctor says I no longer need them, but my lawyers says I do, at least until
the case has been decided in court. So you see my dilemma!”
Your lawyer says one thing and your doctor says something else; the wife says one thing and the
husband says something else; the son says one thing, the father another – all around there are
millions of masters who drive you on. There are infinite masters, but you stand alone! You listen
to one and all. You listen to anybody who suppresses you. And your personality fractures into
thousands of pieces. Until you begin to listen to the inner voice, you cannot be an integrated whole.
I call him a sannyasin who has begun to heed the inner voice and is ready to stake everything on it.
But you cannot hear the inner voice as long as you are unconscious. Until then whatever you might
take to be the inner voice will not be the inner voice; it will be a voice from outside. The unconscious
man doesn’t know anything of this voice. Otherwise all politicians sitting in Delhi would have talked
of this inner voice – Indira, Giri: The voice of the soul! How can a sleeping person know it? How can
you know which is the inner voice? The voice that satisfies you is the voice of your desires, but you
call it your inner voice.
Only the awakened person has an inner voice. Once this voice comes within range of your hearing,
all that is sinful, all that is impure and dirty, all the chaos and confusion within you, will cease at
once. You will then realize what a collection of personalities you have been. You were not one but
many, like a crowd in a marketplace or a stock exchange. You are the stock exchange of Delhi – all
kind of nonsense is going on! One cannot understand anything. A stranger won’t be able to figure
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