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CHAPTER 10. SPIRITUALISM, RELIGION AND POLITICS
There is yet another statement of Jesus which is similar. He says, ”Blessed are the poor in spirit.” It
is a strange saying: ”poor in spirit”, but it includes both humility and purity. One is so poor, so empty
within that there is no space left for any impurity to exist. To be arrogant, to be egoistic, one needs
to have something – money, power, prestige. And to be impure one needs things like avarice, anger,
hate, and violence. It is significant that while anger is something, non-anger is just the absence
of anger. Violence is something; non-violence is just its absence. If a person is utterly empty of
everything – greed, hate, violence, money, and fame – he is really poor in spirit, and only such a
person is really rich and affluent. And he will, as Jesus says, ”inherit the kingdom of heaven. The
poorest is the richest, he has everything worth having.
In this context there is yet another very significant saying of Jesus. He says, ”Seek ye first the
kingdom of God, and all else shall be added unto you.” But when someone asks him how he can
find the kingdom of God Jesus says, ”Be humble and pure, poor and empty, and the kingdom of God
is yours. After realizing the kingdom of God all else shall be added unto you.” A strange condition:
if you lose everything, you will gain everything. And if you save anything, you will lose everything.
Those who are ready to lose themselves will gain everything, and those who will save themselves
will lose everything.
This, according to me, is the meaning of sannyas: one who is ready to lose everything becomes heir
to everything that is worth gaining.
Question 15
QUESTIONER: WHY SHOULD ONE THINK OF GAINING AFTER LOSING EVERYTHING?
It is not a question of your thinking; it is so. If you think of losing, you cannot lose. If you try to be
humble in order to gain the kingdom of God, you cannot be humble.
What Jesus says is not a guarantee to you, it is just a statement of what happens. If someone says
that he is ready to give up everything so that he gains everything, he cannot give up really. The last
part of the statement is not an assurance, it is a consequence that follows renunciation. It has been
found that those who give up everything become their own masters, and that is everything there is
to gain. And it is also true that those who desire to gain everything cannot give up a thing.
Question 16
QUESTIONER: WHAT YOU SAY IS POSSIBLE ONLY IN A STATE OF ENLIGHTENMENT, AND
WE FIND EVERYTHING OF THAT ENLIGHTENMENT IN YOU. YOU ARE UTTERLY HUMBLE,
BUT WHEN YOU COME OUT AS A RELENTLESS CRITIC, WE ARE ASSAILED BY DOUBT AND
CONFUSION.
I am not going to do anything to destroy your doubt and confusion. A person who imposes humility
on himself, who cultivates and practices humility, will always seem to be humble. But the humility
that comes naturally, that is not imposed, cultivated, can be bold enough to be impolite if need be.
Only a humble person can have the courage to be utterly impolite; only a man of love can afford to
be hard-hitting if need be.
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