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CHAPTER 4. TO BE DEAD DO NOTHING
He replied ”You see, Mahavir is in fact Bhagwan, but we can accept Buddha at most as a Mahatma,
not as God, because God does not wear cloth. He is naked.”
So this is the difficulty! It is not that only Jainas have this difficulty. everyone has it. This is why
a Jain cannot accept Ram as God, because Sita stands by his side. A Jain cannot understand a
woman present with God. When he has renounced everything how can a woman be there? So a
priceless jewel like Sita is lost to the Jainas. They cannot grasp her significance.
And Krishna? They put him down in hell, for he has not one but sixteen thousand women around
him. No one is more eligible for hell than Krishna. Since the Jainas are traders and merchants by
caste, they are afraid of starting any row with the Hindus. Perhaps this is the reason why they have
advocated nonviolence.
It is always a coward who advocates non-violence. Violence requires some guts, so cowards believe
in not killing and not being killed As a principle it’s fine: Do not kill others-Live and let live! But it
implies that they want to survive and they don’t care about the others at all so they use the idea of
non-violence; there is no other meaning behind it. After having thrown Krishna into hell, they were
afraid of the anger of the Hindus, so out of fear they have played another trick: They declared that
Krishna will be a Tirthankara in the coming age. He does not fit anywhere in their doctrine however,
if they have to live among the Hindus, they have to accept him. They compromised – just like any
business man will calculating mind! Now the Hindus won’t be angry it’s fine. And their own concept
remains intact. They have avoided the conflict.
If you seek the master through scriptures, you will never find him, for by the time the scripture is
compiled the person around whom it is written has already gone. And each master is in a class of
his own kind. He is different and unique. You can’t find another like him. You can’t find Mahavir
again, nor Buddha or Krishna. But in all your seeking you simply look for these very people and
you wander around and around. When they were alive you were looking for someone else – again,
someone who had long since gone. You go on missing every time.
If you want to find a master put all scriptures aside. Try to come close to someone. If you want to find
a master, bathe yourself in his presence. Don’t take your concepts along and don’t try to judge him
by your measurement. Let your heart beat with his heartbeats; don’t allow the intellect to interfere.
If you allow the mind to interfere the hearts will not meet, and you will not be able to recognize the
master.
The master is recognized through the heart and not through the head. Whenever you set the intellect
aside and see with the heart something happens immediately. If it is possible for you to connect with
this master, it will happen immediately, without a moment’s delay. You will find yourself melting into
him and him melting into you. From that day onwards you are an integral part of him. From that day
onwards you become his shadow; you can flow him The master can be sought with the heart, and
without the master there is no way.
THE BODY IS THE OFFERING.
Remember, that which you call the body and which you take to be your entire being – is no more
than an offering. As you make offerings into the sacrificial fire as part of a ceremony, so also you
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