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CHAPTER 20. BASE YOUR RULE ON THE RULE
most difficult to understand. That is why we have done Krishna the greatest injustice, and we have
done it with impunity.
Most of our ideas, concepts, and thoughts come from Mahavira, Buddha, Jesus and Mohammed.
All our moral tenets and dogmas, all our values of good and evil, virtue and vice – all our ideals and
high-sounding principles – have been determined by men like Manu, Mohammed and Confucius.
So it is easy to understand them, because we are, in the world of thoughts, their creatures. Krishna
has no hand in creating us that way. The truth is that Krishna refuses to circumscribe life with ideas
and ideals, doctrines and dogmas, because life is larger than all ideas and ideals put together. Life
is illimitable, infinite. Ideas are for life; life is not for them. Life is the ultimate value. So Krishna says
that which is, is right.
Because of this, Krishna has been widely misunderstood. Even if we try to understand him, we
see him through the eyes of Manu and Moses, Christ and Confucius. And all these people are
conventional. They have their constraints and limitations, while Krishna is utterly unconventional,
without any constraints and limitations.
Krishna does not accept any limitations on himself. He says, ”If you want to understand me, remove
all kinds of glasses from your eyes, and see me with your bare eyes ” It is very arduous to see
something with bare eyes, with clarity, to see something as it is without judging it. But as long as
you see Krishna through the eyes of others you ate bound to find fault with him. But these faults
will come from your glasses, not from Krishna. Put aside your prejudices and Krishna is the most
simple and natural, innocent and authentic person ever. Then his life is an open book, he has really
nothing to hide. He is naturalness embodied; he is innocence personified.
It can be asked why there has been no woman yet as natural and innocent as Krishna. At least one
should be there who, like Krishna, could attract thousands of men toward her. There has been none
so fat. Why?
It is not enough to say that women have been suppressed down the ages, that they have been
denied liberty and freedom in a male-dominated world. In this context this argument is irrelevant
and absurd. Everyone can have as much freedom as he or she needs, otherwise he or she will
refuse to live. So the reason why there has not been a single woman as natural as Krishna –
and there is no likelihood of her coming into being for another thousand or more years – is quite
different. The reason is that the whole biological make-up of woman is intrinsically monogamous;
she is dependent on one man psychologically, emotionally.
Question 9
QUESTIONER: LIKE CLEOPATRA?
No, I will take it later. Woman is by nature monogamous; she can lean on a single person for her
whole life. Her mind is made that way. I don’t say that she will always be so, it is not necessary.
On the other hand man is polygamous by nature; he cannot remain tied to one woman. Living with
one woman, a man is invariably bored; living with one man a woman is not so bored. A woman longs
to live with a man she loves for life after life; she often prays for the same man to be her life-partner
in her life after death.
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