WHAT IS YOUR BUSINESS? WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?
My God!
My business?
I am busy without business.
I have heard...
One Sunday morning
a hippie-type young man with long hair
entered
into the biggest church of New York.
It was very early;
the people of congregation have not started to come,
but the bishop was there.
Looking at this man, he asked: "Who are you?
And what is your business to be here?"
The hippie-type person laughed, and he said,
"Can't you recognize me? I am Jesus Christ."
And of course, Jesus Christ must have looked like a hippie --
there is a similarity.
Perhaps he was the first hippie.
It is no coincidence
that hippies go on turning into Jesus freaks;
they have found the way.
The bishop got a little puzzled
because he had never imagined in his life
that Jesus Christ is going to appear in his church one morning.
Now, how is he supposed to behave?
He immediately had a long phone call with the pope.
He said, "I am puzzled, confused, I don't know what to do.
A man here says he is Jesus Christ.
And he says that he had promised to come back, and he has come back.
What am I supposed to do?"
The pope was puzzled.
For a moment there was silence, and then the pope said,
"The most I can think of is, look busy.
Who knows, he may be the Lord.
Just look busy.
And by the way, inform the police too."
I don't even look busy.
I am just doing nothing,
and spreading
this infectious
at-ease
to everybody.
My whole message is:
Sitting silently,
doing nothing,
and the grass grows by itself.
You can not call it a business.
But
in the world
you have to give it some name -
then I can call it
a great show business.
In fact, from my very childhood I wanted to create a big circus.
And it has happened;
I am running the biggest circus around the world!
I take life nonseriously.
It is a circus, it is a carnival.
Rejoice!
When Jesus says rejoice,
those words do not sound right on his lips.
Just look at his face -
so British,
so long,
as if he has always been on the cross, crucified.
He is so serious that there exists not a single description
or any picture
or any statue
in which he is smiling or laughing.
He was a serious businessman.
I am utterly nonserious.
I don't care whether this circus continues or stops;
it does not matter.
To me, what matters is this moment.
This pause
between me and you
is the bridge.
I am not saying don't work,
I am saying
transform your work into worship.
Transform whatsoever you are doing
into art,
into music.
Let it be a dance,
not a burden and a duty.
Let it be love,
not marriage.
Marriage is a serious affair;
business people do it,
with all the business considerations -
financial, educational, social status.
These are the considerations for marriage.
Love
can even fall in love with a wildflower.
Love is not serious,
it is sincere;
it is truer than anything in life.
But all other religions have been doing business...