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CHAPTER 10. SPIRITUALISM, RELIGION AND POLITICS
It is always possible that I will appear to be contradictory in many ways. That is what I have
been telling you about Krishna – that he is a bundle of contradictions. There are any number of
contradictions in me, and you will encounter them often. I accept the whole of life, and that is my
humility. If sometimes I feel like being harsh, I don’t suppress it, I become harsh. I am not; there is
no one to suppress anything. Similarly when I am humble, I am just humble. I don’t come in the way
of anything. I allow whatever is there to be and to express itself as it is. There is no effort on my part
to become anything – humble or arrogant. Therefore you will continue to be in confusion regarding
me; it is not going to end.
Who, as you conceive it, is enlightened? Will you not accept Krishna as enlightened? But Krishna
confuses you as much as I do. At times he seems to be departing from his enlightenment. When he
takes up arms to fight in the battle of Kurkshetra, it seems he has lost his steadiness, his wisdom.
But what is our concept of enlightenment, of wisdom that is unshakeable? Does it mean that an
enlightened person acts the way we think to be the right way? Does it mean that his wisdom has
been steadied in the way we think it should be?
No, steadfast wisdom does not mean wisdom that is inert and dead. It only means that one who has
become enlightened, who has attained to the highest intelligence and wisdom allows this wisdom
to act as it chooses. He is just a vehicle; he does not do a thing on his own. Such a person owns
nothing, neither merit or demerit, neither virtue nor vice, neither respect nor disrespect. He does not
say that what he does is right or wrong; he neither brags nor repents; now he does not look back on
the past. He dies to every passing moment, and he lives in the moment at hand. He is not a doer;
he just allows that which is, to happen. There is no one about him to oversee his spontaneity, to
come in its way or decide for it. Now he is utterly choiceless.
So it is possible that sometimes I may appear to you to be harsh; I cannot help it. When I am harsh
I am harsh, and when I am soft I am so. I have altogether ceased to be anything on my own; I don’t
insist any more that I should be this, that I should not be that.
This is what I call steady wisdom.
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