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CHAPTER 4. APOLOGIES
Flowering is always a luxury, it is not a necessity. No tree needs flowers as a necessity, roots are
enough. Flowering is always luxurious. Flowers come only when the tree has too much, it needs to
give, it needs to share.
Whenever you have too much, life becomes a dance, a celebration. But society doesn’t allow you to
dance, to celebrate, so society has to see that you never have more energy than necessary. You are
only allowed to live at starvation level. You are not allowed to be too much, because once you are
too much you cannot be controlled, and society wants to control you. It is a domination, very subtle.
Every child is born overflowing. Then we have to cut the energy source, we have to prune the child
from here and there so that he becomes controllable. And the basis of all control is to divide the
child in two. Then you need not bother, he himself will do the controlling. Then you need not bother,
he himself will be the enemy of his own self.
So they tell the child: This is wrong. Don’t do this. Suddenly the child is divided, now he knows what
is wrong, now he knows what part of his being is wrong, and his head becomes the controller.
Through division intellect has become the controller, the master. If you are undivided, you will not
have any head. Not that the head will disappear or the head will fall off, but you will not be headoriented
– your total being will be you.
Right now you are only the head, the rest of the body is just to sustain the head. The head has
become the exploiter, the dictator. And this has come through conflict, the creation of conflict in you.
You have been taught that this is good and that is bad. The intellect learns it and then the intellect
keeps on condemning you.
Remember, if you condemn yourself you will condemn everybody – you will condemn the whole.
And a person who condemns himself cannot love. A person who condemns himself cannot pray. A
person who condemns himself, for him there is no God, there cannot be. A condemning mind can
never enter the divine temple. Only when you dance, only when you are ecstatic, not condemning,
only when you are overflowing with nobody sitting in control, nobody managing, does life become a
let-go; it is not formal, it is natural. Then you enter, then everywhere is the door. Then you can reach
the temple from anywhere.
But right now, as you are, you are schizophrenic. You are not only schizophrenic when a
psychoanalyst says that you are. There is no need for any psychoanalyst to analyze you. Society
creates schizophrenics; division is schizophrenia. You are not one. You are born one but
immediately society starts working on you, major surgery is to be done, you are continuously
operated upon to be divided. Then society is at ease because you are fighting with yourself, your
energy is dissipated in the inner fight, it is never an overflowing. Then you are not dangerous.
Overflowing energy becomes rebellion. Overflowing energy is always rebellious, overflowing energy
is always in revolution. It is just like a river in flood – it doesn’t believe in the banks, in the rules, in
the laws, it simply goes on overflowing towards the sea. It knows only one goal – how to become
the sea, how to become the infinite.
Overflowing energy is always moving towards God. God is missing in our world, not because of
science, not because of atheists, but because of the so-called religious. They have divided you so
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