BELOVED MASTER,
YOUR IDEAS SEEM TO BE CRAZY!
Thank you for the compliment. They don't SEEM to be crazy, they ARE. But that is the
only way God expresses himself. God's ways are crazy. If the word `crazy' does not look
proper, you can say, "God's ways are miraculous" -- but it means the same. Translated
rightly, miraculous means crazy. God is not a logician -- he may be a singer, a poet. His
ways are crazy. They are not like superhighways, they are more like footpaths in a forest
-- zigzag. On the footpaths you can go astray very easily: freedom is intact. On a
superhighway you cannot go astray: freedom is not allowed -- those milestones
everywhere, they will hinder you.
God is crazy, truth is crazy, because truth is so vast, it cannot be reduced into a syllogism.
You can sing about it, but you cannot argue about it -- the moment you argue about it,
you have falsified it. You can dance it, but you cannot make a dogma out of it. Yes, you
are right. My ideas ARE crazy, because they are not MY ideas. I simply allow myself to
be a hollow bamboo and whatsoever song God wants to sing on it, I allow him total
freedom. I don't stand in judgment. I don't say: Don't sing this sing, this will look crazy. I
say: Okay, if you want to sing it, sing it. If it is crazy, it s crazy.
I have heard a true story, as told by Freeman Dyron...
A few months ago, Werner Heisenberg and Wolfgang Pauli believed that they had made
an essential step forward in the direction of a theory of elementary particles.
Both the names are world-famous: Heisenberg and Pauli -- two of the greatest scientists
of any time, and they were thinking that they had come across the basic theory to explain
the structure of the elements.
Pauli happened to be passing through New York, and he was prevailed upon to give a
lecture explaining the new ideas to an audience which included Niels Bohr -- another
famous name, another great name in science. Pauli spoke for an hour, and then there was
a general discussion during which he was criticized rather sharply by the younger
generation of scientists. Finally, Niels Bohr was called on to make a speech summing up
the argument. "We are all agreed," he said, "that your theory is crazy, Pauli. The question
which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own
feeling is that it is not crazy enough."
And that's how things really are. A very sane theory cannot be right, because a sane
theory will be human. It will be very limited. Only a crazy theory has any possibility of
being right, because crazy means that which transcends human limitations. Crazy means
that which cannot be reduced to human logic, crazy means that which is beyond your
understanding. Yes, right is Niels Bohr. Let me repeat: "We are all agreed, Pauli," he
said, "that your theory is crazy." This much agreement is there. "The question which
divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own
feeling is that it is not crazy enough."
If you look into the modern world of physics, you will be surprised. Those old days of
clear-cut theories are all gone; the days of Darwin, Newton, Edison, are gone. Truth has
erupted, exploded -- in Einstein, Heisenberg, Pauli, Niels Bohr, Planck -- and physics
looks more and more like metaphysics; more and more like poetry and less and less like
prose. The deeper scientists have penetrated into the world of physics, the more they are
surprised to find that our logic is just irrelevant. Reality is more than our logic. It's FAR
more than our logic. Our logic is just a small piece of ground that we have cleared and
cleaned, and reality is this great jungle of infinity.
Yes, you are right: my ideas ARE crazy because they are not MY ideas. If they were
mine then there was a possibility I would have made them logical -- it is not very
difficult. I can deny those parts which look illogical, and insist on the logical. I can
remain consistent; I can make a very clean-cut philosophy. That is not difficult -- in fact,
that will be very easy. But I am not interested in consistency. I am not interested at all in
logic, I am interested in truth. And if truth is crazy, I am crazy. If truth is mad, I am mad.
And let that point be remembered by you all, because my whole effort here is to relax you
so you can also become a little crazy; to help you relax, to help you loose the grip of the
mind so the no-mind can penetrate in you; to put the human aside so the divine can have
a chance in your being.
Don't cling to the clear-cut. Truth is not so clear-cut, and cannot be. Truth is so vast, it
contains contradictions. It is crazy.
It is said that Aristotle used to say that God is a mathematician. I cannot conceive how
God can be a mathematician. On the door of his academy it was written: "Those who
don't know mathematics should not enter here, should not dare to enter here." I cannot
conceive what mathematics has to do with God, what mathematics has to do with reality.
If I have to put a sign on Rajneesh Ashram's door, then I will put: "Those who are not
crazy enough should not enter here."
God is mad. If you are ready to be a little mad, only then is there any possibility of any
contact between you and the infinite. It has to be so. When the whole ocean drops into a
drop, the drop is going to get crazy. When the infinite descends into the finite, how can
the finite remain sane? It has to go mad. The old mystics have always called it "the divine
madness."
All meditation is an approach towards divine madness. Stake all human sanity. It is better
to be mad in a divine way than to be sane in a human way.
I am crazy
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