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CHAPTER 20. BASE YOUR RULE ON THE RULE
Don’t allow even a small fragment of your being to stand aloof like a judge condemning smoking or
justifying it.”
And then I said, ”If you can become integrated and whole in smoking, then a day will come when the
whole man in you can quit smoking, and quit it effortlessly and completely. The one who smokes
totally can quit smoking as totally. He will never live perpetually in conflict whether to smoke or not
to smoke; to be or not to be. And he will enjoy both smoking and non-smoking.”
A fragmented person is neither here nor there. He is neither fish, flesh nor good red herring he is
perpetually in conflict, in misery, in hell. He is miserable when he smokes, because his other part
condemns him as a sinner. And when he quits smoking, the smoker in him asserts, saying he is
missing a great pleasure and luxury. There is no need for this man’s misery; he is disturbed, restless
and miserable in every condition. Whatever he does he cannot escape conflict, restlessness and
misery. He can never be unperturbed and steady.
He alone can be unperturbed and steady who is integrated and total. Because then there is no part
of him left to be disturbed and unsteady. One who is complete, who is total, who becomes one with
any and every situation that comes his way, such a person ceases to be a witness; he transcends
witnessing. Witnessing is a means, not an end. Krishna is not a witness, although he exhorts Arjuna
to be a witness. Krishna is total, he has arrived. Now there is no alienation between the subject
and the object, between the observer and the observed. Now there is only observing, a process of
observation. And this observation is total
The witness, the observer, divides the world into subject and object, into the witness and the
witnessed. Therefore as long as there is a witness, duality will continue. Witnessing is the last
frontier of the dual world, after which the non-dual begins. But one cannot reach the non dual
without being a witness. To be a witness means that I now give up dividing the world into many.
Instead I will divide it into two – the witness and the witnessed. And when I have reduced the many
fragments of the world to two, it will not be difficult to come to the complete unity of existence when
duality will disappear, when the observer and the observed will become one and the same. If one
succeeds in becoming a witness he will soon have glimpses of the one without the other, when there
is neither the witness not the witnessed, but only witnessing.
For example, if I love someone there is one who loves and another who is loved. But if love is real,
then moments will come when both the lover and the loved one will disappear, and only the energy
of love will abide between the two, connecting them. There will be moments when lovers disappear
and only love remains. These are the moments of adwait, the non-dual, moments of unity – the one
without the other.
In the same way there are moments of unity in witnessing too, when subject and object disappear
and only the witnessing consciousness remains, like an ocean of energy bridging two formless
entities – the witness and the witnessed – like two distant sea-shores. The near shore is called the
”I” and the distant shore the ”thou”, one is the observer and the other the observed. Such moments
will come and go.
And when this state achieves its fullness it will abide forever, and then even witnessing will disappear.
Then one is settled in intelligence, steadied in wisdom; one is whole. He is the awakened one,
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