There is no need to balance, they are balanced.
Just the religions have created the split. They have told you that your body is
separate, your soul is separate, that the world is matter, God is spirit.... All these
ideas have created a schizophrenic state. Otherwise you are already functioning
together.
Your body, your mind, your soul -- all are functioning together, there is no
problem in it. Just those ideas you have to get rid of, they are rubbish.
Existence is one, the body is as much spiritual as the soul is material. The body is
the visible soul and the soul is the invisible matter. But it is the same energy.
Condensed it becomes matter, and now modern physics has proved it beyond
doubt that atoms can become energy, vast energy. In a small atom so much
energy. So energy and matter are no more separate in physics.
Now they are not talking of separation. Matter is simply very condensed energy,
that's why it looks solid. And energy is... it is just like you see ice, a solid block of
ice. It can melt and can become water, it is no more solid, it is the same thing, it
can be heated up and it can become vapors. For a moment you will see them and
then they become invisible.
All these three states of ice, water and vapor are not three different things; it is
one thing, one energy manifesting in different ways.
So it is not a question of how to try because if you are trying that means you have
accepted the division already and now you who are the soul and the body who is
the CHARVAK, the Zorba, has to be forced. No, just drop the divisions. Live
simply -- then eating is spiritual, then having a bath is spiritual, then making
love is spiritual, then whatever you do your everything is involved in it: your
body, your mind, your soul.
The society will be creating disturbance because they cannot conceive that eating
can be spiritual, but that's what charvaka said: `Eat, drink and be merry!'
But nobody has understood the poor man. He is one of the most misunderstood
men in India. He is saying "make an ordinary thing like eating a spiritual
rejoicing."
And the same is true about every action that you are doing. Don't reject anything
with condemnation; try to find out something good out of it.
I was in jail in America... the first jail there were six inmates in my cell. They
were very happy because they were seeing me on the television every day and
they were just waiting... and the nurses told me, that "They have went to the
department to get good clothes and they had taken bath; and somehow they
have heard that you have allergy so they have not used any soap that smells, and
they have never been so clean and they have made everything as beautiful as
possible in a jail and they are just waiting for you."
And they were really happy people. After one hour when we were introduced to
each other and I said, that "I have not slept the whole night so let me sleep."
They said, "You can sleep. We will not create any disturbance." And for one hour
they did not even talk to each other. And after I woke up they asked me, that
"There is only one problem: we feel very bad to ask you, that in this jail there is
nothing to do, either you see television or you sleep, eat, see the television, sleep,
this is all that you have to do. No work... so we go on playing cards. And we
were worried that would you like and allow us to play cards."
I said, "There is no harm. In fact, I will join. I don't know the rules. You will have
to teach me. And I don't know how many days I have to lay here so this is good
teaching, you can teach me."
They said, "Really? You mean it? A spiritual person can play cards?"
I said, "Cards have nothing unspiritual in them and you can play so attentively,
so meditatively, that playing cards can become a meditation."
They said, "We never thought about it."
I joined them. They were very much troubled that I am joining.
They said, "Just don't do it for our sake."
I said, "Not I, your sake... I am also here. I don't know how many days these
people are going to keep me and playing cards will be beautiful and you teach
me because they will change me from one jail to another jail, so I will know
something."
So they said, "We will teach you all the tricks, the great tricks -- that will be
good."
They reported to the sheriff that, "We had thought that spirituality is something
in the clouds, that is not true. This man can play cards, can learn tricks and we
are so happy that you have chosen us to be with him."
And when I left they were all crying and weeping. And I said, "There is no need
to cry and weep. If you want I may come again. Just a slight crime I can commit
and they will put me back here, there is no problem in it, don't be worried."
"No," they said, "no, we don't want you to be back here. Your people must be
waiting there. We are thinking that just in three days you became so much part
of us that we are crying for you, what will be happening to your people who
have been living with you for years?"
And this is from criminals. And I came to know that those criminals are far more
human than your politicians and your bureaucrats and more truthful and more
sincere -- to be with them was a joy.
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