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CHAPTER 21. CHOOSE THE FLUTE OR PERISH
One last thing, and then we will sit for meditation.
Question 3
QUESTIONER: A PART OF THE QUESTION YET REMAINS TO BE ANSWERED. PLEASE GIVE
US AN OUTLINE OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION AND CULTURE PATTERNED ON KRISHNA’S LIFE
AND TEACHING.
It will need a lengthy answer. All these days, however, I have been doing the same thing – drawing
an outline of human civilization reflecting Krishna’s vision. Yet I would like to say a few things in this
regard.
Human civilization, according to Krishna’s vision, will be life-affirmative and natural in the first
place. This is my vision too, that affirmation of life and nature should be the cornerstone of human
civilization if it wants to be healthy and holistic. Such a civilization will be dedicated to the moment,
to bliss and to celebration.
This civilization will refuse to be life negative, renunciatory, masochistic and time-oriented. It will
reject all fragmentation of life. Life will be accepted as a blessing, and there will be no division
whatsoever, between life and God.
This civilization will declare that life is God, and there is no other God in opposition to life or separate
from life. That life itself is God will be the overall truth of man. This man will declare there is no
creator other than creation; creativity itself is God.
This summing up will be clear to you if you take it in the context of the whole discussion we have
had here for these ten days. During these days I said many things, some of which might have
pleased you and some others which might have displeased you. But remember, both pleasant and
unpleasant feelings come in the way of right understanding. Without trying to understand, we gullibly
accept that which is pleasant and reject off-hand all that is unpleasant. I don’t want you either to
accept or to reject; all I want is that you should understand simply, effortlessly, and naturally.
I don’t want that you should collect my words and take them home. That will not be worthwhile. What
is worthwhile then? If in the course of listening to my words, some understanding, some wisdom
has dawned on you – and it that understanding, that wisdom is really worthwhile, then it will go with
you naturally, effortlessly.
It is like you visit a garden full of flowers and fragrance, and when you leave it, the garden is left
behind but some of its fragrance goes with you – clinging in your nostrils, in your hair, in your clothes.
So leave the flowers of words behind and take their essence, if you have gathered it, with you.
My words are as useless as all words are, but if in your encounter with them something has clicked
in your being it is certainly of great significance.
My words, or any words for that matter, can have significance if you listen to them with an open mind,
an unprejudiced and empty mind, without judging them, without identifying with them or condemning
them. They can give rise to some understanding of wisdom in you if you listen without saying, ”This
is right and that is wrong. That is what I believe too, and that is what is against my belief.”
Krishna: The Man and His Philosophy 415 Osho