For those of you who don't understand
the language, what the song is saying is
This is Kabir's incredible poetry. He was a weaver by profession , an enlightened weaver
So similarly there were enlightened potters, there were
enlightened cobblers, vegetable sellers you know, all kinds
So this is a scene where a potter is kneading the clay and the clay is
singing to the potter what are you kneading me, a day will come
when I will knead you and it doesn't matter who you are, you're a king, you're
a commoner, you're a saint , it doesn't matter, anyway
I will knead you one day
The only difference is when I knead people, a few will be sitting upon the
throne of enlightenment and liberation, rest will be entangled in the shackles
of entanglement, that's all the difference. Otherwise anyway I will knead
Because what you think as me or myself is not you, it's me
that's what the clay is saying. So this is the only part which can be burned and
unburned but in the meantime what happens is the whole thing
So as a way of taking people from a shackled existence to sit on the throne
of liberation, not just in terms of realization but in terms of knowing
in terms of capability, in terms of what you can do in this existence
When you talk about competence mostly people are thinking about social
competence. When you talk talk about power, people are mostly thinking about
in the world. But when the clay begins to knead, your social competence and the
power that you hold over men and material means nothing because you are
the material. But at that time a few will sit upon the throne, rest will be
shackled in entanglements. To take a person from this shackled existence to
sit on the throne of existential power, not social power, not social competence
not psychological power, not psychological competence, not physical
power or physical competence, to take a human being into existential
competence, it should not be but generally is a long and arduous path
It should not be but it is so. it's very simple to move from bondage to
liberation but unfortunately usually it doesn't happen like that. If one has to
move, if a being has to move from an existence of bondage to an existence of
existential power and liberation, he needs booster doses at every point
This is what the initiation processes are. Every initiation is a boost for
somebody to break one barrier and go into another or to put it in an American
way, it's a kick in your butt to cross the line otherwise you won't cross it by
yourself. Left to yourself you will go within the lines that you have drawn and
never cross. Everything that's life, everything that's creation, every aspect
of creation, in a latent form is already there in human consciousness, there's
nothing to do. If you just bring clarity to this, everything is right here
You don't have to explore the cosmos to know all the different dimensions of life and
creation that exists. All aspects of creation are right here. It is just that
it has to be brought to light, right now it is in darkness. Right now it is in a
space, it is in a dimension that you cannot see. Right now there are radio
waves here, you cannot hear you need a transistor to hear but it's already
there. If it is not there, your transistor could do nothing. So it's
already here, it is just that you should have the ability to see, you should have
the ability to translate what is in another form to the form that you can
see and perceive. So the initiation processes are just this. This goddamn
initiations are a frustrating process for the Guru because it goes so slow
inch by inch
millimeter by millimeter, point by point. People go so slow
Somewhere when I look at people, I think they have a notion that they have
a billion year life span. They don't hear to the song of the soil that the
soil is waiting to knead you one day, very eagerly, really. Just throw a dead body
in the soil and see how eagerly it melts down, how eagerly it's eaten up by
the soil, just see so the soil is every day, every step that you take, its waiting
and it knows you will come. Doesn't matter you jump around, you hop around
you fly, you will come back. Nobody seems to hear the song of the soil that it is
waiting to knead you and it'll do so soon. Because people are unwilling to take the
necessary steps, they will create hallucinatory processes for themselves
The nature of the mind is such it can make projections of life in such a way
that it can keep you busy forever. It takes a certain level of
awareness and a certain force of initiation processes for people to cross
this need for hallucination and come to reality. Because reality is grander than
any hallucination that you can ever create. The wildest imagination that you
have will be colorless compared to the dimensions of reality that already
exist. Existence has more to offer then your imagination can ever produce
But you want to settle for your own stuff, this doesn't get you anywhere but
it makes you feel like you're really getting somewhere. This is not
exploration of the existence. This is not mysticism. This is just the
mischief of your mind. If you are happy with it, fine, nothing wrong. Nothing wrong
in being limited, isn't it? Just suffocating, that's all. So either
you must cross the barriers, the restrictions, the shackles of life
yourself or you must allow someone to kick you through the barriers. One of
these things you must do, otherwise you can only celebrate limitations. Otherwise
you can just gold paint the prison walls and think you're in a golden cave. Quite
wonderful, it is but it doesn't matter what imprisons you, imprisonment is
imprisonment. It's as simple as that. So the finer the material them that you
employ to restrict yourself, the more dangerous it is because to have an
intelligence which cuts through the gold and makes you see bondage is just
bondage. By then, the aspirations of the clay might have been fulfilled
The soil might have found its target. You you might not have but the soil would
have. So some will be upon the throne some will be still shackled