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CHAPTER 4. TO BE DEAD DO NOTHING
stars and the moon and the open skies. Someone from outside who has seen the moon and the
stars will have to come and knock at your door and tell you to come out from behind your closed
doors.
But before you move an inch you will ask the question: Does the outside exist? That’s what people
ask: Does god exist? Is there a soul? And you want that sitting inside the house someone should
prove the existence of the sky. How can it be proved when you are sitting inside the four walls How
can you be convinced of the vast space outside unless you are willing to step out of your house?
You will have to step out. You will have to walk a few steps outside with him who says that the sky
exists, because the sky can only be shown, it cannot be proved. If somebody wants to prove the
existence of the sitting under the roof you can defeat him. You will say, ”what nonsense! there is
only the roof and the walls. What is the proof that there is some vastness outside? Bring some sky
inside and show me The sky is not a thing which can be brought inside. The sky cannot be broken
into fragments, nor can God be broken into pieces and shown to you. you will have to step outside
to see for yourself.
Therefore, THE GURU IS THE WAY. Guru only means the one who has had the experience, the
one who has known, the one who has escaped from prison. Only he can make you aware of your
imprisonment, he alone can tell you that you can escape from here, and only he can suggest the
means to escape. And only he can guide you out of the prison, because he knows the door from
which you can escape. There are doors in this prison where the guards are asleep and there are
doors in this prison where the guards are awake and alert, and if you try to escape through these
doors you will find yourself in great trouble. Now, at least, you are free within your prison, but if you
try to escape through the main entrance, where the guards are alert, you will be caught and thrown
into a dark dungeon. Then the prison will become even more constricted. And remember if you try
to get out by the method of negation you will fall into this dungeon.
If you fight with evil you will be thrown into greater evil – that is the main door. No one can ever
escape that way. No one has ever escape through that because there is a strong guarong at the
main gate, and all steps are taken to maintain complete security. But there are other openings in
this prison which are hidden, where there is no guard; because these exists are unknown to the
prisoners. They have their eyes fixed on the main door.
During the French Revolution the inmates of a prison rebelled. There were two thousand prisoners
and only twenty guards on hand to put them down. In fact, the prisoners could have gained their
freedom at any time. What can the twenty guards do? The prisoners never rebelled, but of course,
prisoners are never friends with each other. They don’t unite. They don’t have the simplicity which
can bring there together. They are inimical to each other. So twenty guards were enough. On this
occasion however they united and rebelled.
The head jailer was very perturbed what to do? He told the guards not to worry about the main gate
but defend the smaller doors and windows. The guards says, ”This is not the right decision” The
jailor said,”Don’t worry Leave the main door unguarded.” but they did as they were told, and not a
single prisoner escaped. The main gate was unguarded. They could have broken it down and all
of them marched out, but they ignored the main gate. they imagined it was heavily guarded since it
had always been heavily guarded.
When the guards asked him how he hit upon the idea, the head keeper explained it like this: ”They
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