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CHAPTER 6. NUDITY AND CLOTHING SHOULD GO TOGETHER
so, it will be necessary to put aside all our concepts and categories and all our prejudices. I don’t say
that more than one Krishna is not possible; I am not concerned about it. Maybe, historians will prove
there is a distance of two thousand years between the Krishnas of the GEETA and the Bhagwad.
That is not going to deter me; I will say that for me there is no distance whatsoever between the two.
For me Krishna has significance only if he is one; he is utterly meaningless if he is not one.
I am not concerned with Krishna’s historicity; it does not matter whether he really happened or did
not. In my view, whenever someone is fulfilled, after he attains to the full flowering of life and being,
he will necessarily become multidimensional, he will be many persons rolled into one. Whenever
someone attains to the totality of life, there will be a consistency in his inconsistencies, there will be
a harmony in his contradictions. Whenever someone achieves the peak of life, the extremes of life
will meet in him with perfect cohesion and unity. We may not see that unity because of our poor
vision, but it is there.
It is as if I am climbing a staircase and while I see its lower and upper flights, I do not see the middle
one. In that case, can I think the bottom flight and the top flight are joined together? Only when I
see the middle flight too, will I agree they are together. The bottom and top flights are parts of the
same staircase; you begin the journey at the bottom and end it at the top. They are extensions of
the same thing.
The middle flight of Krishna’s life is not visible to you, because your own middle flight is not visible
to you. The link between the extremes is invisible to you. You have seen your peacefulness and you
have seen your disquiet, but have you seen the moment of gap between peace and disquiet, which
is very thin and subtle? You have not seen it. You know love and you know hate, but have you also
known how love turns into hate and how hate turns into love? You have made enemies of friends
and friends of enemies, but have you ever observed the subtle process, the alchemy which turns
friendship into enmity and vice versa?
There have been alchemists who are said to have been trying to turn baser metals into gold – but
they have been misunderstood. People thought they were really interested in turning iron into gold.
All they wanted to ascertain was that there should be some link between the baser metals and the
highest metal – the gold, which is not visible to us. It is impossible that there is no connection
between iron and gold, that iron and gold are not joined together. It is impossible that the whole
cosmos iB not one, unified and together.
If there is a flower blooming in the garden over there, and I am sitting here, there must be some
link between me and the flower. If I am happy here, the flower over there must have contributed
to my happiness. Maybe we don’t see the link, but it is there. Similarly, if the flower withers away
and I am saddened, there is a connection between the two events which we don’t see. Life is
together; everything in life is together. Togetherness is life. Alchemists say that there must be some
connection between the baser metals and gold, and they were striving to discover that link.
Alchemy is not just confined to metals, it says that in all of life the baser instinct must be connected
with the higher, with the highest; it cannot be otherwise. Sex should be connected with God. The
earth should be connected with the heavens. Similarly, life is connected with death and matter is
connected with consciousness. Even a rock is associated with God in some intimate way. It cannot
be otherwise.
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