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CHAPTER 5. ECSTASY IS NOW – WHY WAIT?
denied the existence of anything after death. They will keep their eyes closed to remain convinced
that there is nothing; otherwise their whole life’s philosophy is proved wrong. It is better to keep your
eyes closed. That’s what people do: if anything goes against you, any fact, you try to avoid that fact
– it is disturbing. Communists will go blind because they cannot accept the idea that Karl Marx is
wrong and DAS KAPITAL is wrong.
And the religious people will be the most troubled people in paradise; everywhere they will find
difficulty. Perhaps there are divisions in paradise, as it seems.... Mohammedans’ paradise seems
to be different from the Hindus, from the Christians, from the Jainas – perhaps different zones are
allotted to different kinds of people.
In the Mohammedan paradise there are rivers of wine. You drink as much as you want; swim, jump,
drown yourself, whatsoever you want to do. But here, don’t touch wine. Now, this seems to be
very illogical. Here these people should be trained for such a great experience or they will simply
die! Sitting on the bank of a river where champagne is flowing, they cannot drink because of their
past habits, their whole life’s training and discipline. And there is no description of any river which
has water; in Mohammedan paradise all the rivers are wine. Why? When you can drink wine, why
bother about water? So either they will die of thirst, or they will start drinking in spite of themselves.
They will be really in a mess. Many of them will go mad: that what kind of reward is this? This is
punishment!
Only my people will be able to swim in any zone. In the Mohammedan zone they will not be worried,
they will enjoy it. They will fit anywhere because they haven’t any fixed routine of living, a fixed style
of living.
All that I am teaching them is to remain flexible, free, open, available to new experiences, to new
explorations.
So my people are not going to remain in one zone. They are going to use all the zones and enjoy
all the sights of paradise; nobody can prevent them.
You can have both worlds – so why cripple people?
Make this life an experience, a school, a learning, a discipline, because something unknown is going
to open up after death and you have to be ready in every possible way.
So don’t miss any opportunity of living. Who knows what kind of life you are going to have after
death?
I do not give you a fixed idea, because if I give you a fixed idea, I am your enemy; I make you a fixed
person, inflexible, rigid, dead.
Be flexible, so you can move in any dimension that becomes available.
In my religion there is no place for renunciation.
The Sanskrit word for renunciation is now sannyas, because renunciation became so important that
the very word sannyas was used for it. But I have given it a new meaning. The people who have
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