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CHAPTER 11. TRUTH: NOT A DOGMA BUT A DANCE
we exist with existence – we cannot separate ourselves from it. The moment we are separate, we
are dead. And without being separate, just a watcher, with no involvement, with no attachment,
you cannot know the ultimate mystery; hence it is impossible. There will remain something always
unknowable. Yes, it can be felt, but it cannot be known. Perhaps it can be experienced in different
ways – not like knowledge.
You fall in love – can you say you know love? It seems to be a totally different phenomenon. You
feel it. If you try to know it, perhaps it will evaporate in your hands. You cannot reduce it to knowing.
You cannot make it an object of knowledge because it is not a mind phenomenon. It is something to
do with your heart. Yes, your heartbeats know it, but that is a totally different kind of knowledge: the
intellect is incapable of approaching the heartbeats.
But there is something more than heart in you – your being, your life source. lust as you know
through the mind, which is the most superficial part of your individuality, you know something from
your heart – which is deeper than the mind. The mind cannot go into it, it is too deep for it. But
behind the heart, still deeper, is your being, your very life source. That life source also has a way of
knowing.
When mind knows, we call it knowledge.
When heart knows, we call it love.
And when being knows, we call it meditation.
But all three speak different languages, which are not translatable into each other. And the deeper
you go, the more difficult it becomes to translate, because at the very center of your being there is
nothing but silence. Now, how to translate silence into sound? The moment you translate silence
into sound you have destroyed it. Even music cannot translate it. Perhaps music comes closest, but
still it is sound.
Poetry does not come quite as close as music, because words, howsoever beautiful, are still words.
They don’t have life in them, they are dead. How can you translate life into something dead? Yes,
perhaps between the words you may have a glimpse here and there – but it is between the words,
between the lines, not in the words, not in the lines.
This is the most fundamental error of all religions: that they have deceived humanity by blatantly
posing as if they know all.
But every day they have been exposed and their knowledge has been exposed; hence, they have
been fighting with any progress of knowledge.
If Galileo finds that the earth moves around the sun, the pope is angry. The pope is infallible; he is
only a representative of Jesus, but he is infallible. What to say about Jesus – he is the only begotten
son of God, and what to say about God.... But in the Bible – which is a book descended from
heaven, written by God – the sun goes around the earth.
Now, Galileo creates a problem. If Galileo is right, then God is wrong; God’s only begotten son is
wrong, the only begotten son’s representatives for these two thousand years – all the popes who
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