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CHAPTER 1. THE DARKNESS INSIDE
concerned, make one thing clear to you: it is not up to you to decide of their rightness or wrongness.
How can you? One who is living in darkness, what judgement can he pass about light? And the one
who has never known what it is like being healthy, one who has always been confined to a sickbed,
how can he understand what it means to be healthy.
One who has never been stirred by the feeling of love – who has lived all along a life of hate, jealously,
enmity – he can, of course, read love-poems, because he will follow the words easily: nevertheless,
that which is hidden in the words, which is interwoven in the words, access to that will always remain
closed to him. So don’t be in a hurry to judge what is right and what is wrong.
You simply imbibe these sutras – I am not saying understand them – simply drink them, soak
yourself, absorb the whole taste of it. And if this taste could help unfold the secrets hidden within you,
and if in the savouring of these sutras a new flower may blossom within you releasing its fragrance
and making you realize even for a moment your stinking life has disappeared forever, and if with the
kindling of a lamp inside, you could come to recognize you are not the darkness and if the sutras
could create an impact of a lightning inside you offering just a glimpse – then this alone will cause
the understanding to emerge, it will not come through your intellect or reasoning. Even a flash of
experience will be enough to cause the understanding to arise in you. Hence, I say, treat these
sutras with humbleness.
Secondly, a sutra means: the most concise, quintessential, telegraphic. Each and every word of
a sutra is highly condensed. A sutra is never long and elaborate, it is crystallized, encapsulated,
very small like a seed. Even if you wished to see, you can’t find the tree inside the seed. You need
penetrating eyes – the kind of eyes which can see the tree within the seed, which can see in the
present what future will be like, which can see today what tomorrow will be, which can discover the
invisible in the visible – you require very sharp eyes indeed.
You don’t have such sharp eyes yet. Right now you will see nothing but the seed. The only way you
can see the tree is by sowing the seed. Only when the tree will break open and sprout will you be
able to see the growing tree. These sutras are the seeds. You will have to sow them in your heart.
So hold your judgement, because, if you reached a premature conclusion about these seeds, you
may throw them away as trash.
Actually, there is not much difference between a seed and a rock. In fact, sometimes, rocks are
more colorful, shining, beautiful, precious than seeds. And yet there is a difference between the
costliest diamond kohinoor and a seed. Nothing will sprout if you sowed the kohinoor. Regardless
of how costly the kohinoor is, the diamond is dead. No matter what price the fools may assign to it,
the stone is lifeless – just a corpse.
Irrespective of how ugly a seed may look, it may not cost even a penny, but it contains life. If you
sow it, it can produce a huge tree and then one seed can create millions of seeds. One small seed
can give birth to this whole universe, because a single seed causes millions of seeds to appear,
and again one of these millions of seeds can create yet other millions of seeds. A small seed can
contain the entire universe within.
So the sutra is the seed – you can’t be impatient with it. Only when you have sown the seed in
your heart and it has sprouted and flowered, will you be able to know. Only then can you come to a
conclusion.
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