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CHAPTER 5. ECSTASY IS NOW – WHY WAIT?
You have to live intensely and totally, wherever you are, whatever you are.
And if you enjoy this time, this space, this opportunity that is available to you, to its totality, you will be
certainly moving to a higher consciousness. You will be gaining, learning, understanding, becoming
more aware. Life will continue. It will depend on your awareness what form it takes, higher or lower;
whether it moves towards more anguish or more ecstasy – but it depends on this moment. So I am
not saying to renounce this world.
So I am a strange man in a way because I am against the religions. Religious people in India
have been writing against me in books and articles – and communists have been writing books and
articles against me too.
Once I was traveling, and the president of India’s communist party, S.A. Dange, was also with me in
the compartment. His son-in-law had just written a book against me. He asked me, ”Have you seen
the book my son-in-law has written against you?”
I said, ”I am so much involved in living that I don’t care who is writing what about me. And anybody
who is writing about me must be a fool because he is wasting his time writing about me. He should
live! Or even if he wants to write, he should write something about himself And why should I read his
crap? He may be your son-in-law, so you can read it – i’m not interested.” He was ready to give me
the book. I said, ”Throw it out of the window, because so many books have been written against me,
I cannot waste my time.” I told him, ”Just for your information, it is strange but religious people write
against me and anti-religious people, communists, also write against me. This has never happened
before.”
But the reason is that I am trying to give you a totally new viewpoint which goes against all the old
logic. They are both partners in the same game, and I am trying to destroy their whole game – the
whole logic.
They both believe that one world has to be renounced; which one is another matter. But on one
point they agree: one world has to be renounced. The religions say this for that; the communists
say that for this – that is the only disagreement between them. But the basic logic is similar: you
can have only one world. And I say: Why can’t we have both? I don’t see any conflict; I am having
both! And my experience is that the more you have of this, the more you will have of that, because
you will become more experienced.
If there is a paradise, then one thing is certain: your monks will not be able to enjoy it there. What will
they enjoy? The whole of their life they were denouncing women, condemning women, and there
they will find beautiful callgirls. They will be so nervous that many of them will have heart attacks.
Here they are renouncing: you should not eat food with taste, taste is an attachment to food – and
there they will be served the most tasteful food. They will be vomiting! Their whole life experience
will be against it.
Only my people can enjoy paradise fully.
Neither the religious people can enjoy it – because they have destroyed and crippled themselves
and their capacity to enjoy – nor the communists, because they will not open their eyes. They have
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