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LIVE NEITHER IN THE ENTANGLEMENTS OF OUTER THINGS, NOR IN INNER FEELINGS OF
EMPTINESS.
BE SERENE, WITHOUT STRIVING ACTIVITY, IN THE ONENESS OF THINGS AND SUCH ERRONEOUS
VIEWS WILL DISAPPEAR BY THEMSELVES.
People come to me -- and mind is so cunning -- they come to me and they say, "We would like to take
sannyas but we want inner sannyas, not outer. We will not change clothes." And they say "Why outer? Let it
be just inner!" They don't know what they are saying. Where does the inner start?
When you eat food you never say, "Let it be inner.n When you are thirsty and you drink water, you
never say, "Let it be inner." Thirst is inner, so why take outer water? But where does the water end and
where does the thirst start? Because if you take water the thirst disappears, so it means there is a meeting --
somewhere the outer water meets the inner thirst. Otherwise how can it disappear?
You feel hungry and you take food. Food is outer, hunger is inner; for inner hunger why take outer
food? Why be foolish? Take something inner. But there is no inner food. Hunger is inner, food is outer, but
somewhere the food goes in, it changes territory. It becomes your blood, it becomes your bones. It becomes
the very stuff your mind is made of, it becomes your thinking.
Food becomes your thought. And if food becomes your thought, remember, food will also become your
no-thought. Food becomes your mind, food becomes your meditation. Without mind can you meditate?
Without mind how will you become no-mind? Without thinking how will you drop thinking? Mind is very
subtle food, no-mind is the subtlest food -- but there is no division.
So when you want to take sannyas, even the color transcends territory. It starts from the outer and by
and by penetrates into the deeper. It colors your very being; even the clothing touches your soul. It has to be
so, because outer and inner are not two, they are one. A simple gesture -- it looks outside, goes to the very
being, it comes from there. Remember, don't play games and don't divide existence. It is undivided.
When you love a person you would like to hug the body. You will not say, "I love you, but I love you in
the inner." There was a fat girl here, very very fat. She told me, "I have got only one boyfriend and he also
says, 'I love only your spirit, not your body."'
She felt very much hurt, because when you say to a person, "I only love your soul, not your body," what
does it mean? When you love a person you love totally, you cannot make divisions. This is a cunning trick.
That boy really does not love the girl, he is playing a game. He wants to say, "I don't love," but he cannot
say that.
If you don't want to take sannyas, don't take it! But don't play games, don't be cunning, don't try to be
clever. Don't say, "This is outer and I would like something inner."
In existence, the outer meets the inner, the inner meets the outer; they are two wings of one being. And
no bird can fly with one wing, and no being can grow with one wing -- you need both. This world needs
God as much as God needs this world. This world cannot exist without God; God also cannot exist without
this world.
I love one rabbi, his name is Baal Shem, a Jewish mystic, one of the few enlightened Jews. He used to
say in every prayer, "Remember, as much as I need you, you also need me. Without Baal Shem, where will
you be?" He used to say to God, "I need you, you also need me. Without Baal Shem, where will you be?
Who will pray?"
Remember that. He knows something, he is right. The inner needs the outer, because the outer is nothing
but the inner extended. The outer needs the inner, because the inner is nothing but the center of the
periphery.
Can there be a center without a periphery? Can there be a periphery without a center? It is impossible.
How can you have a center without a circumference? If you have a center, if you call it a center, that very
moment a circumference comes in. How can you have a circumference if there is no center? It may not be
visible but it is there, otherwise the circumference cannot be there. Then, if you look rightly and deeply, the
circumference is nothing but the center extended, and the center is nothing but the circumference in seed --
condensed, concentrated, in essence.
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