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CHAPTER 4. TO BE DEAD DO NOTHING
A hundred year old man, and it is only three days since he stopped thinking of women! Thoughts
of women will grip your mind because you want to get rid of them. This has become your negative
mantra. You will find that whatever you try to break away from, grips you even more because it
becomes the object of your concentration. If you keep looking at the wrong you are meditating on
them more.
Mahavir said that there are four types of meditation; two are right and two are wrong. No person
except Mahavir has suggested that the ’wrong’ be used as an object of meditation. Psychologists
will agree with him. Mahavir says that wrong meditation is also meditation. For instance, an angry
person becomes meditative, because when he is filled with anger, nothing exists for him at that
moment except his anger. In anger the mind is focussed entirely on one point. That is why there is
so much power in anger.
Have you noticed? An angry person is able to lift someone twice his size. If he had been in his right
senses, if he had not been consumed with anger, he would have thought many times before touching
that person. Why invite trouble? A man can move a huge rock when he is enraged, something he
couldn’t even imagine in his wildest dreams. If a man is sufficiently angry all his reserves of energy
are awakened. How does this come about? The energy which is dissipated all over the body
becomes concentrated in one place. When the sunrays are concentrated on one point a flame is
produced. In the same manner, when in the heat of anger all the mind’s attention is focussed on
one point, an explosion occurs. Mahavir refers to this as ’meditation’.
Mahavir says that there are two types of wrong meditations: one is full of sorrow, another is full of
anger. In great sorrow a person also enters into meditation. If someone dies you weep and wail,
and all your attention is concentrated on one point. Beware of the wrong kind of meditation. And
you are totally engrossed in the wrong kind of meditation. This is the root cause of your troubles; the
basic problem and disease is only one: you have fixed your attention on what is wrong. You have
to drop it. You think you are doing it with the intention of avoiding them; but, because of this very
concentrated effort, you are stuck with them.
I say to you: Don’t be concerned with the world. Fix your attention on God! You are an angry man.
Don’t worry! Everybody is! Don’t focus your eyes on the anger, but concentrate on compassion.
Concentrate on what is right. As the right gets more and more energy, the strength of the wrong
gets weaker and weaker. Ultimately it will disappear. This happens because energy is one; you
cannot use it in two ways. If you have utilized your energy in becoming peaceful, you would have no
energy for restlessness. All your energy has moved towards peace, and if you have had a taste of
peace and serenity, why bother to become restless? You can maintain your restlessness only if you
have never known the flavor of serenity. You can dive into the pleasures of the world only if you have
not tasted the divine.
Understand this well. Avoid the negative; beware of saying ’no’. Do not be anxious to drop the evil,
for then the evil will hypnotize you and you will never be able to get rid of it. Whatever you try to
break away from, you find you are hooked to it all the more.
I have heard: Once a man was refused accommodation in a hotel even though there was a vacant
room. The manager was apologetic but refused to give him the room. ”The thing is”, he explained,
”the guest in the room below is a trouble maker. If there is the least sound he creates a fuss, so we
decided never to rent this room when he is here.”
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