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CHAPTER 7. MAKE WORK A CELEBRATION
and so we refuse to see the actual state of our affairs. Because if we see what really is, we will be
compelled to change the old for the new; the old is so rotten. But our fear of the new fetters our feet
and we go on dragging with the old.
I have had occasion to come into contact with hundreds of thousands of people and I observed them
very closely, I really peeked into their hearts and minds. And I say I did not find a single person, man
or woman, who is satisfied with his or her marriage and who is not steeped in misery on account of
it. But if you point out their reality to them, they will immediately enumerate the various problems that
will arise if they try to do something about it. The irony is that they are already ridden with problems,
but they are not aware of them because they have become so used to them.
It is as if we ask a bird in a cage to fly into the open sky and it says that it is so secure in its cage,
whereas the freedom of the sky will create so many problems for it. If you make a change, problems
are bound to arise. And so far as the caged bird is concerned, its difficulties will be enormous,
because it has no experience of flying in the vast sky. Yet a choice has to be made.
Granted that there is security in the cage, but what worth is this security in comparison with the
freedom and ecstasy of flying in the open sky? If you think only of security then the grave is the
most secure place on the earth.
Question 4
QUESTIONER. SWAMI SAHAJANAND ACCUSES KRISHNA OF CORRUPTING PEOPLE
RATHER THAN LIBERATING THEM THROUGH HIS PATH OF SENSUOUS ENJOYMENT. AND
HE OFFERS TWO REASONS IN SUPPORT OF HIS ACCUSATION. FIRSTLY, IF ONE WORSHIPS
KRISHNA AS A GOPI-LIKE DEVOTEE THIS WORSHIP IS LIKELY TO DEGENERATE INTO
SOMETHING LIKE THE MAHARAJ LIBEL CASE OF GUJARAT. AND SECONDLY, IF ONE TURNS
LIFE INTO A CELEBRATION IN KRISHNA’S WAY IT WILL GIVE IMPETUS TO MAN’S DESIRE
FOR INDULGENCE.
There is yet another question arising from the same source.
Question 5
IS NOT THE WAY OF RAMA’S DEVOTEE SUPERIOR TO THAT OF KRISHNA’S? VIRTUES LIKE
CELIBACY, DETACHMENT, DYNAMISM AND WISDOM ASSOCIATED WITH HANUMANA – A
CHIEF DEVOTEE OF RAMA – ARE LACKING IN THE DEVOTEES OF KRISHNA LIKE MEERA,
NARSI AND SURDAS, WHO ARE ALL INTROVERTS DISINTERESTED IN THE SERVICE OF
SOCIETY.
AND LASTLY I WANT TO KNOW WHY PAINTERS OF THEIR TIMES DID NOT SHOW RAMA,
KRISHNA, MAHAVIRA AND BUDDHA WITH BEARDS AS THEY DID IN THE CASE OF JESUS
CHRIST.
Firstly, let us find out whether life is a schedule of duties and works to be performed, or it is a
celebration. If life is work, a duty, then it is bound to turn into a burden, a drag, and we will have to
go through it, as we do, with a heavy heart. Krishna does not take life as work, as duty; he takes it
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