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CHAPTER 4. APOLOGIES
unburdened. There is no plan, no goal, no purpose. It is not a business, it is a play, a LEELA. Every
moment is the goal.
PERFECT WISDOM IS UNPLANNED.
PERFECT LOVE IS WITHOUT DEMONSTRATIONS.
Demonstration is needed because love is not there. And the less love there is, the more you
demonstrate – when it is there, you don’t demonstrate. Whenever a husband comes home with
a present for his wife she will know that something is wrong. He must have stepped out of line, he
must have met another woman. Now this is the explanation, this is a substitute; otherwise love is
such a present that no other present is needed. Not that love will not give presents, but love itself is
such a present. What else can you give? What else is possible?
But whenever the husband feels that something is wrong, he has to put it right. Everything has to be
rearranged, balanced. And this is the problem – women are so intuitive that they know immediately,
your present cannot deceive them. It is impossible, because women still live with their intuition,
with their illogical mind. They immediately jump. And they will understand that something has gone
wrong, otherwise why this present?
Whenever you demonstrate, you demonstrate your inner poverty. If your sannyas becomes a
demonstration you are not a sannyasin. If your meditation becomes a demonstration you are not
meditative, because whenever the real exists, it is such a light that there is no need to demonstrate
it. When your house is lighted, when there is a flame, you need not go to the neighbors and tell
them, ”Look, our house has got a lamp.” It is there. But when your house is in darkness you try to
convince your neighbors that light is there. Convincing them, you try to convince yourself. This is
the reason why you want to demonstrate. If the other is convinced, his conviction, her conviction,
will help you to be convinced.
I have heard that once Mulla Nasruddin had a beautiful house, but he got bored, as everybody gets
bored. Whether it was beautiful or not made no difference; living in the same house every day, he got
bored. The house was beautiful, with a big garden, acres of green land, swimming pool, everything.
But he got bored, so he called a real estate agent and told him, ”I want to sell it. I am fed up, this
house has become a hell.”
The next day an advertisement appeared in the morning papers; the real estate agent had inserted
a beautiful advertisement. Mulla Nasruddin read it again and again and he was so convinced that
he phoned the agent: ”Wait, I don’t want to sell it. Your advertisement has convinced me so deeply
that now I know that for my whole life I have been wanting this house, looking for this very house.”
When you can convince others of your love, you yourself become convinced. But if you have love,
there is no need, you know!
When you have wisdom, there is no need to demonstrate it. But when you have only knowledge, you
demonstrate, you convince others, and when they are convinced, you are convinced that you are a
man of knowledge. When you have wisdom, there is no need. Even if not one person is convinced,
you are still certain that you alone are enough proof.
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