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CHAPTER 5. FOLLOW NO ONE BUT YOURSELF
without end, which is eternal, which is inexpressible, is alone worthy of consideration. If you walk
with Krishna, you will have to walk endlessly. His journey has no destination, or should I say, for him
journeying itself is his destination. But on your part you would like to reach somewhere and rest.
But Krishna would say, ”We have to go farther and still farther.”
Thought, thinking, is not the ultimate, it is only the beginning. A moment should come in the life of
each one of you when you can transcend thought, when you can go beyond words and images. But
he alone can take you beyond thought who is capable of shaking and shocking your thought, your
way of thinking. He alone can lead you into the beyond who refuses to be contained in your thought,
who, in spite of your efforts, blows all of your thought systems, who transcends them.
Consider everybody, but follow no one – not even Krishna, Buddha and Christ. You have to follow
only one person, and that is you. Understand everybody and follow yourself, follow your intrinsic
nature. If you want to imitate, imitate yourself and no one else.
Why is it that such a question is raised only in the context of Krishna? It is obviously out of fear; we
are afraid of Krishna. But why? We are afraid, because we have all lived lives of utter suppression.
It is not much of a life, it is a bundle of suppressions and repressions. There is no openness in our
life; it is utterly inhibited and blocked. That is why we are afraid of Krishna. We are afraid that even
if we think of him all that we have suppressed will begin to pop up and surface. We are afraid lest
our suppressive logic, our philosophy of suppression is weakened and the wall that we have built
around us, all our defenses, will begin to crumble and fall apart. We fear that if we come in contact
with Krishna all our imprisoned feelings and emotions will cry for an outlet to express themselves.
The fear is inner; the anxiety is psychological. But Krishna cannot be held responsible for it; the
responsibility is ours. We have utterly misbehaved with ourselves; we have mistreated ourselves all
down the road of life. We have constantly suppressed ourselves, our lives. We have always lived
tepid and fragmented lives. We have never tried to know and accept ourselves. We have hardly
lived our lives.
Our life is like a sitting room, a drawing room in our house. We decorate our sitting room, furnish
it, keep it clean, very spick and span, and leave the rest of the house in a mess. This sitting room
is very different from the rest of the house. If you happen to visit someone’s sitting room, don’t
take it for his house. He does not eat here or sleep here; here he only receives his guests. This
room is made as a showpiece to create a good impression on others. His house is where he lives,
eats, grumbles, quarrels and fights, where he is himself. The sitting room is just a cover, a mask to
deceive others. It is not his house, his real life.
Every one of us is wearing a mask to hide what we really are and to show what we are not. That is
not our real face; our real life is hidden, suppressed deep down in our unconscious, so much so that
we are ourselves unaware of it. We have ceased to take care of it; we have forgotten it.
We are afraid of our suppressions and repressions hidden in the basement of our minds. We are
afraid even to look at them. It means we are like one who has forgotten the rest of his house and
is confined to his sitting room alone. The rest of the house is a heap of rubbish, and he is afraid to
enter it. It is no wonder our lives have become shallow and superficial, shadowy and shady.
This is the reason for our fear of Krishna.
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