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CHAPTER 5. FOLLOW NO ONE BUT YOURSELF
Krishna does not have a separate sitting room; he has turned his whole house into a sitting room and
lives all over. He receives his guests in every corner of his house and takes them all over. Krishna’s
whole life is an open book; there is nothing he needs to cover and hide. Whatever is, is. He does
not deny anything; he does not suppress anything: he does not fight with his life. He accepts his life
totally.
So it is natural that we are afraid of Krishna, we who are so suppressive and secretive. We have
rejected and repressed ninety-nine percent of our life and buried it deep in the darkness of the
unconscious. We barely live one percent of what we call life. But the rejected and repressed part is
always clamoring and knocking at the door and pushing to come out and live in the open. All that
we have repressed is constantly struggling to express and assert itself, every day it expresses itself
in our dreams and daydreams and in many other ways. We do everything to push it back, but the
more we thwart it the more it asserts itself. All our life is spent in fighting with our own repressed
emotions and desires and cravings. Man is against himself. He is wasting his life in fighting against
himself, because he courts defeat after defeat and ultimately ends up in smoke.
For this very reason we are afraid of Krishna, who has no facades, who has no masks whatsoever,
who is open-ended, who does not suppress anything, who has nothing to hide, who accepts life
totally, who accepts its sunshine and its darkness together. We fear that, coming in contact with
such a man, our repressed souls will rise in revolt against us and overwhelm us. We fear that,
coming close to him, we will cease to be what we are – pseudo entities, false homo sapiens.
But even this fear deserves to be considered and understood rightly. This fear is there not because of
Krishna, but because of us, because of the way we have lived up to now. A man who is open, simple
and clean and who has lived a natural life will not be afraid of Krishna. If he has not suppressed
anything in his life, he will never fear Krishna. Then there is no reason to fear him. So we have to
understand our own fear and why we fear. If we have fears it simply means we are ill at ease with
ourselves, it means we are diseased, we are neurotic. And we have to make efforts to change this
condition, to be totally free of fear.
It is therefore essential that we come in contact with Krishna and know him intimately. We need
him more than anyone else. But we say we are already in contact with lofty thoughts. We read the
teachings of Buddha, who says, ”Shun anger.” We read the sayings of Christ, who says, ”Love thine
enemy.” But remember, these lofty ideas and thoughts that we repeat every day do nothing but help
us suppress our selves, alienate ourselves from ourselves. But we are afraid of Krishna. Why?
If you are afraid of Krishna, so far so good. It means that Krishna is going to be of great help to you.
He will help you to uncover, to expose yourselves, to understand yourselves and to make you once
again natural and simple. Don’t resist him; don’t run away from him. Let him come into your life. Let
him encounter you. In this encounter you have not to imitate him, you have only to understand him.
And understanding him you will understand yourself. In the course of your encounter with Krishna
you will come to encounter yourself, you will come to know who you are, what you are. Maybe you
will come to know you are what Krishna is, what God is.
A friend came to me the other day and said, ”Do you believe that Krishna had sixteen thousand
wives?”
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