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CHAPTER 4. TO BE DEAD DO NOTHING
rebelled because someone from the outside got in among the prisoners and stirred them up to
escape-a free person who knows. This someone, since he comes from the outside, knows that we
have a heavy guarding around the main door, so he would advise them to use the smaller doors. So
till yesterday we were guarding the main door because those who were inside were ignorant but it
seems that some master, has got in among them.”
In life, fighting against evil appears to be the main gate. Your mind tells you: Destroy evil and you
will attain to saintliness. Leave the wrong path, then the right path will appear. Renounce the world
to allow space for god to be enthroned within you.
These is the main gate. The master will never tell you to try it, because no one has ever been able
to pass through it. This door is heavily guarded and he who tries to escape is thrown into deeper
dungeons.
According to me, all your saints and monks are locked in worse prisons than you are. You do not
have the eyes to see, so you cannot see this. The worldly man is in great distress, but the so-called
saints are in a worse plight. You at least have a little courtyard in front of you where you can feel a
little free, but they are deprived of such courtyards. They are inside the prison but they do not get
the limited freedom that an average prisoner gets. They are locked in dark, dismal cells twenty-four
hours a day.
Sadhus and sannyasins come to me. I find their minds diseased and mad. one Jain sadhu told me,
”I am sixty years old. I have been a saint for forty years, but one single thought haunts me always:
could it be that I have made a mistake? Could it be that the common man enjoys the world while I
undergo these tortures unnecessarily?”
Such doubts are only natural for an intelligent person. This man is not a fool, he is wise and his
doubts are natural. He sees that fighting desire for forty years has not led him anywhere. He has
attained nothing, and his anger, lust and greed have not been destroyed. They have only been
further submerged and hidden.
You can fool people in the outside world and hide your passions from them, but how can you hide
them from your own self? You know you have them all inside you, repressed. You look like a good
person, you do not commit a crime, but the criminal is hiding inside and can appear any minute.
Given the opportunity, he will commit a crime.
The prison walls have come closer for this man. He has lost even the little freedom to walk about
than an ordinary person has. It is a dungeon.
He who tries to leave through the main door will be bound by even heavier chains; but there are
secret doors that only the master can show to you. There are keys to open the secret doors, but
only he who has already escaped can lead you out.
Scriptures can help you to some extent. You may remain in the prison and read them, but you
cannot find your way out through them; because who is to find the meaning behind the words?
None other than you. Who is it who will read the scripture to extract the meaning? It’s you! Who
will understand? You will! And you will understand them according to your own understanding. And
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