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CHAPTER 3. MAXIMS OF YOGA: A SENSE OF WONDER<br />

you be<strong>com</strong>e eternal, and this state of being eternal is filled with joy. It is overflowing. Its juice never<br />

dries up. <strong>The</strong>refore saints call it ’eternal’, everlasting, always new.<br />

Kabir says: the juice of nectar flows incessantly unhindered, without any variation. It rains in this<br />

world, too, but the rains must be preceded by heat.<br />

When the summer heat reaches its peak – when there are cracks in the earth, when the trees start<br />

wailing, when the heat be<strong>com</strong>es unbearable all over – then the rains <strong>com</strong>e. We may ask: Why this<br />

absurd law? Why can there not be rains without all this suffering? But then we have to understand<br />

the whole system of nature, the mathematics of nature. <strong>The</strong> clouds are formed only when the heat<br />

be<strong>com</strong>es suffocating, for water then turns into vapor. <strong>The</strong>re will be no rains if there is no evaporation.<br />

<strong>The</strong> vapor rises and forms clouds, and when the clouds are over-saturated – so much that they can’t<br />

help showering, it starts raining. So unbearable heat is prerequisite for a good rainy season.<br />

In the world of the soul there are no opposites, no duality. <strong>The</strong>refore it is referred to as ’non-dual’ or<br />

indivisible. Here there is only one, not two. But then it be<strong>com</strong>es difficult for you to understand what<br />

kind of joy this is, for you know of no joy without its ensuing pain.<br />

Someone asked Sigmund Freud for a definition of madness. How do people be<strong>com</strong>e insane?<br />

Freud’s answer was wonderful and very strange. He said, ”Success and madness have a <strong>com</strong>mon<br />

definition. <strong>The</strong> path to success is the path to insanity.” When you want to succeed, you be<strong>com</strong>e<br />

tense; when you want to succeed, you fight. Your days and nights are filled with anxiety. When you<br />

want to succeed, your each and every moment is overshadowed with fear: will you succeed or won’t<br />

you? What if you don’t? You are not alone. <strong>The</strong>re are thousands of <strong>com</strong>petitors. Night and day you<br />

are in a state of acute tension, and this is exactly the prescription for losing your sanity! So carefully<br />

observe the people you call successful; you will notice that they live in the same state of constant<br />

restlessness, tension and anxiety that the madmen live in.<br />

When Krushchev was in power in Russia he went to inspect a mental hospital. While he was at<br />

the hospital he remembered an important message, so he rang up his office, but the girl at the<br />

switchboard paid no attention. <strong>The</strong>re was a reason why she ignored him, which became clear later.<br />

Finally he was fed up. He shouted, ”Young lady, do you know who I am?” This is <strong>com</strong>mon to all<br />

those who are successful, who are in power and have money – inwardly this thought is incessantly<br />

echoing in his mind: do you know, who I am? He may not speak loudly but inside, he is saying it<br />

over and over again. This is the reason why he has staked everything. At last he could not contain<br />

himself and said to the girl, ”Do you know who I am ? I am Krushchev, the prime minister.”<br />

<strong>The</strong> girl said, ”I do not know who you are, but I know where you are calling from – the mental<br />

hospital.”<br />

Now the fact is, all the prime ministers speak from the same place. <strong>The</strong>re is no other place for them<br />

to speak from.<br />

Once Krushchev went to London where he was given a very costly piece of cloth. <strong>The</strong> cloth was so<br />

expensive that he wanted the best tailor of the world to stitch it. He asked the best tailor of Moscow.<br />

He wanted to make a coat and pant, <strong>com</strong>plete with waistcoat. <strong>The</strong> Russian tailor said the cloth<br />

was not sufficient for a three-piece suit. He could only make a two-piece suit. <strong>The</strong> material was so<br />

<strong>The</strong> <strong>Great</strong> <strong>Path</strong> 60 Osho

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