THANK YOU SO MUCH JUST FOR LIFE. ALL THE BEAUTIFUL METHODS ARE
NO GOOD ANY MORE. 'I' WILL LET THE MIND DROP AND THE METHODS
TOO. I FEAR THAT YOU WILL SEND ME BACK TO HELL.
Sarvesh, methods are never of any use. Methods have never been any good, but they still
serve a purpose. The purpose is negative. If you have a thorn in your foot, you need
another thorn to pull it out. Once the first thorn is pulled out by the second, don't put the
second back in the wound just out of gratefulness. Throw away both! The second thorn is
as much a thorn as the first; their qualities are not different.
Because your mind is so full of rubbish, you need something to pull it out. But
whatsoever is going to pull it out is rubbish in its own way; it is the same. Poison is
needed to kill poison. Don't cling to the second poison, thinking it is medicine; don't
become addicted to the second poison.
It is good that you say: "All the beautiful methods are no good any more."
They never were. But they still serve a purpose, because man lives in such stupidity that
he has to be pulled out of it. And remember, your lies, your beliefs, your ignorance, have
to be dropped somehow; some ways and means have to be invented. Once your mind is
dropped, you will see the whole ridiculousness of all the methods. Then you will
understand that they were never needed at all.
But don't start talking about it to others, because there are many people who may drop
them from the very beginning, seeing that if they are not needed then why bother? They
are needed, although there comes a time when they have to be dropped. Use them, and
drop them. All methods are like ladders: when you have climbed up the ladder and you
have reached the upper floor, you need not bother about it, it can be thrown away.
In fact it should be thrown away. Keeping it may show some unconscious desire in you to
go back; you want to keep the ladder there in case you decide to go back to your old
rubbish. The ladder can help in that way too. A ladder is neutral -- it can take you to the
upper floor, it can bring you back down to the old situation. But the ladder cannot direct
you.
In fact the moment you have climbed up the ladder, you have used it and reached a
different plane of life, a different plane of understanding, throw the ladder away
immediately, before you start clinging to it.
So it is good that you think methods are no good any more.
"...'I' will let the mind drop and the methods too."
If methods are no good any more, Sarvesh, where is the mind? And if the mind is still
there to be dropped, then please don't be in a hurry: the methods still have a little function
to fulfill.
You will not be able to let the mind drop. Who are you except the mind? Who will drop
the mind, who will let the mind drop? You are not yet; you will know yourself only when
the mind is dropped. When the mind disappears, you will know who you are. Before that,
you don't know. It is just the mind thinking about dropping the mind. Mind is very subtle,
very cunning; it can go on playing new games. It can say, "Yes it is so beautiful to drop
the mind." And it is still the mind! And the mind can say, "There is no need for any
method, Sarvesh. You can drop me easily -- it is up to you."
The mind is playing a very subtle trick. It is helping you to drop the methods first, and
then the mind thinks, "We will see -- we will see if you can drop me!"
If it has really been understood -- that methods are no longer useful -- it is synonymous to
that understanding that the mind is dropped. They mean the same thing: to know that
methods are no longer needed, no longer useful, is to see that the mind is no more there.
Mind is method, mind is technique. Mind cannot exist without methods, methods cannot
exist without mind; they go together. They are two aspects of the same energy.
And you say: "I fear that you will send me back to hell."
If methods are really dropped, there is no way to go back to hell. Even if I want to send
you, I cannot. Methods are needed to go to hell. Methods are needed to come out of hell,
methods are needed to go into hell, but no method is needed to go to heaven. When you
are out of hell, you are in heaven.
So the whole question is how to be out of hell? Out of hell is heaven. Heaven is not some
place where you have to go, otherwise methods would be needed, paths and ways would
be needed. No paths and no ways are needed. All paths, all ways, lead into hell. But if
you are in hell, then you will have to use the same paths and the same ways to come
back.
Let me tell you one of the most beautiful parables that has ever been invented by man, the
parable of Adam and Eve eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. The moment they
have eaten the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge they fall -- the original fall. They are no
more in paradise, they are no more deathless, they are no more in eternity; they have lost
contact. What has happened? Mind has been created.
That is the meaning of the parable. Eating from the Tree of Knowledge creates the mind;
the moment they ate the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, mind was created. Adam and
Eve are still in the same place, in the same space, they have not gone anywhere. But the
mind is created -- and once the mind is there, paradise is lost, forgotten. One falls asleep
and starts dreaming of hells, death, etcetera, etcetera. Now you will have to vomit the
fruit of knowledge.
You will have to vomit the mind out of your system. Once you have vomited knowledge
out of your system, suddenly you will be awakened to the fact that you are in paradise.
And you will start laughing at the whole ridiculousness of it, because you will know, you
will become perfectly aware, that you had never been anywhere else. You have always
been here, always and always: you had just fallen asleep and had a nightmare. Now that
the poison is out of your system, the nightmare is finished.
We are in the garden of Eden, right now, this very moment. Nobody can send you to hell,
Sarvesh, except knowledge, except methods, except the mind.
Try to understand. Rather than being in a hurry to drop anything, try to understand.
Become more aware, become more alert, more watchful, more observant, and methods
will disappear and mind will disappear in the same instant. And then there is no hell -- in
fact there never has been, you had only imagined it. It is all paradise and always paradise.
We are in God, we are gods.
Enough for today.
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