After the thirty fifth year, one has to learn how to learn relaxing and dropping the ego and becoming more and more surrendered to the divine. The West the first part of life; the East the second part of life. Life should start Western and should end Eastern. One should first go into the world; in the world, will be the need. One should go and fight and struggle, because struggle gives you a sharp intelligence, but one should not continue fighting to the very end. Then what is the point?
Fight, fight sharpens your intelligence, know the ways of the world, wander all over the world, be a conqueror, and then… Then move inwards. Now you have to know the outside; now try to know the inner.
…Tantra is the oldest science to help you to come to an inner harmony, an inner wedding, an inner orgasm. Your woman and man meet inside and give birth to the child, the child Christ. Then you become a trinity: the father, the mother, the child. And when you are a trinity, you are blessed, you have come home. You know what life is, you have achieved the goal.
…every individual has a particular weakness, and the weakness persist because you remain unaware of it.
…reality cannot be denied for long. That’s why your so called great people, or so called great saints, don’t live in the marketplace, they go to the Himalayas. If they lived in the market place it would be impossible; sooner or later the reality would assert. Reality cannot be defeated forever. You can create fiction for a few days, a few moments, but you cannot live in fiction forever, that is not possible. The fiction is bound to collide with realty and will collapse.
…And always remember this: I am never totally against anything, and I am never totally in favor of anything. I always keep a balance.
The orange robe, the mala, the locket… innocent ritual, but it adds spice. It gives you a feeling of community. And a man needs a few fictions to live. The truth is too hard. Yes, one day you will become able to live with truth, but right now, no. You have to pass through many stages. Only in the ultimate jump can you drop all fictions. Then too you may not drop them, because they are beautiful in themselves.
…I have lived with money, I have lived without money, and I have one confession to make: it is always better to live with money than without. Money is useful. One should not be used buy it, that’s all. I’m not against money; it should be used – it is a good, utilitarian invention. It helps. It is tremendously useful; but use it, don’t be used by it.
…This is my whole teaching: not to carry the past and just remain true to the moment. Then there will be no contradictions. There is none—the contradictions appear only because you are trained too logically, an I am an illogical person. My whole logic is that of illogic. I am an irrationalist.
Excerpts from “The Path of Love”
On the Songs on the Indian Mystic Kabir.
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