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CHAPTER 2. THE TOWER OF THE SPIRIT
down he has become inferior to you. So how can he forgive? He cannot. Someday the accounts will
have to be put right. When he bowed down and touched your feet, that very moment a deep wound
happened within him. He was lower than you. Now he will have to prove that he is not. Someday
he will prove that he is higher than you. Try to understand the inner mechanism: accounts have to
be settled, you cannot go on with an imbalance Whenever you appreciate somebody, at that very
moment, if you are alert, you can find inside that you would also like to insult him. Only a time gap is
needed. Sooner or later it will come up. A man who is wise never asks for your appreciation. When
you come with garlands for him, he says: Stop here and now, because later I will have to pay.
IF HIS ACTS ARE DONE IN PUBLIC, IN BROAD DAYLIGHT, HE WILL BE PUNISHED BY MEN. IF
THEY ARE DONE IN PRIVATE AND IN SECRET, WILL BE PUNISHED BY SPIRITS.
It may be that you are not doing your showmanship in public but in private. People have become so
false, that even in their bathroom, when they are alone, they are liars. Even there they are not real
and authentic. Lies have become so ingrained that you cannot easily put them aside – they follow
you. Even in your dreams you lie, even in your dreams. Lies have become so deep-rooted that even
there they follow you. If you want to kill your father, you will kill your uncle in your dream. This is
how lies follow. Your uncle has not done anything to you but he is the nearest, and he looks just like
your father. Even in your dream it is difficult to kill your father. That is why dreams become complex
and Freuds and Jungs are needed to interpret them. You bring up the uncle, and Freud will read the
father. The uncle is just the symbol – nearest to the father.
If you do in private then by nature itself you will be punished. Showmanship has to be punished.
That is what Chuang Tzu means by the spirit: he means by nature itself you will be punished.
If you don’t want to be punished then don’t be a showman. remain natural whatsoever others say.
Just because they say such and such, don’t change yourself. Even if they say you are rebellious,
criminal, bad, evil, let them think it. Even if they put you on the cross, let them do it, but you remain
true to yourself. When Jesus was crucified he could have escaped. Pontius Pilate was ready to
forgive him but Jesus had to ask for it. He would not ask because he was authentically true towards
his own nature.
When Socrates was punished by Athens there was a condition. They said: If you will promise the
court that you will not talk around the town, and you will not discuss things and philosophies, if you
will keep silent, then we can forgive you. Socrates laughed and said: That is impossible because I
cannot be untrue to my own true nature. That is how I am. I will continue my business of talking.
You can kill me, that is for you to decide. He accepted poison but he would not accept silence; he
would not accept to keep quiet.
Be true to yourself, and don’t look at what others are saying. This is the only way to reach to the
Divine, because it is the only way to be natural.
LET EACH ONE UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF SINCERITY AND GUARD AGAINST DISPLAY.
HE WILL BE AT PEACE WITH MEN AND SPIRITS AND WILL ACT RIGHTLY, UNSEEN, IN HIS
OWN SOLITUDE, IN THE TOWER OF HIS SPIRIT.
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