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CHAPTER 10. WHOLENESS
And whenever one is rooted in the deepest core of his being, which is one, then there is no flaw.
You cannot penetrate such a man. Swords cannot go into him, fire cannot burn him. How can you
destroy the ultimate? You can destroy the momentary, how can you destroy the ultimate? You can
destroy the wave, how can you destroy the ocean? You can destroy the individual, but you cannot
destroy the soul. The form can be killed, but the formless...? How will you kill the formless? Where
will you find the sword that can kill the formless?
Krishna said in the Gita, ”NAINAM CHHEDANTI SASHTRANI – no sword can kill it, no fire can burn
it.” Not that if you go and kill Chuang Tzu you will not be able to kill him. You will be able to kill the
form, but the form is not Chuang Tzu – and he will laugh.
It happened that Alexander was returning from India when suddenly he remembered Aristotle, his
teacher, one of the greatest logicians.
Aristotle is the original source of all Western stupidity, he is the father. He created the logical mind.
He created analysis, he created the method of dissection, he created the ego and the individual,
and he was the teacher of Alexander.
He had told Alexander to bring a Hindu mystic, a sannyasin, when he came back, because polar
opposites are always interesting. He must have been deeply interested to know what this Hindu
mystic is. What type of man can he be who lives beyond logic, who says there is only one not two,
who joins all the contradictions and paradoxes, whose whole attitude is of synthesis, not of analysis?
A man who never believes in the part, who always believes in the whole, what type of man can he
be?
So he told Alexander, ”When you come back, bring with you a Hindu mystic, a sannyasin. I would
like to see one. A man who lives beyond mind and says that there is something beyond mind, is a
rare phenomenon.” And Aristotle never believed that there could be anything beyond mind; for him
mind was all.
When Alexander was returning, he suddenly remembered. So he asked his soldiers to go and find
a great Hindu mystic, a great sannyasin, a saint, a sage. They inquired in the town and were told,
”Yes. On the bank of the river a naked man stands. For years he has been standing there, and
we think he is a mystic. We cannot be certain be-cause he never speaks much, and we cannot be
certain because we don’t understand him much. What he says seems to be very illogical. Maybe it
is true, maybe it is not true.”
Alexander said, ”This is the right man. My master, who has created logic, would like to see this
illogical man. Go and tell him that Alex-ander invites him.”
The soldiers went and they told this naked man that Alexander the Great invites him; he would be a
royal guest, every comfort and convenience would be given to him, so he shouldn’t worry.
The man started laughing and said, ”The man who calls himself The Great, is a fool. Go and tell
him I don’t keep company with fools. That is why I have been standing here alone for many years.
If I want to keep company with fools, do you think that India has less than his country? The town is
full of them.”
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