silence shared in words
presents
My Only School Was That River
Where do you live and what do you do?
I don't do anything.
I am not a doer.
How do you spend your time? How does the day pass for you?
It passes so fast,
but I enjoy it
immensely.
I must sleep
about ten hours every day
eight hours in the night,
two or three hours in the day
because to me, sleep is meditation.
For three hours I enjoy my bathroom
one and a half hours in the morning, one and a half in the evening.
I have loved water
from my very childhood,
because it is my understanding that life has arisen out of water.
And now scientists are
thinking on the same lines,
that life must have arisen in water.
Every child in the mother's womb repeats the whole cycle of evolution.
First he looks like a fish;
only later on does he start looking like
a monkey.
And between these two he passes through almost all the phases
that man has passed through.
In his last stage he even has a tail
that falls off before his birth,
and everybody still has the place where the tail was attached.
Those bones show that there was something attached to them,
which is missing.
But the beginning is as a fish,
and for nine months
the child lives continuously in sea water.
In the mother's womb,
the water in which the child floats
has exactly the same components as the water in the sea.
That's why when a woman is pregnant
she starts eating
more salt,
starts enjoying more salty things because that water needs more salt,
that baby needs more salt.
She is unaware of why
she is doing it,
but
the child needs it exactly like sea water.
So, I have enjoyed water from my very
childhood.
My birthplace had a beautiful river.
I don't
think of anybody
in that place,
but
once in a while,
lying in my tub or
in my swimming pool,
I remember
that beautiful river.
That's the only thing that I remember of my birthplace
no teacher, no family, no friends. My only friend, my only teacher,
my only school was that river.
And it has taught me
immensely.
Just to create the illusion,
I have a swimming pool here of Olympic size.
I have beautiful
bathrooms.
Nothing else matters to me much,
but my sannyasins have made me two beautiful bathrooms two,
because any moment if something goes wrong with one bathroom,
then
I am not going to miss my bath.
And they have made my bathrooms with such love
that they look like temples,
with
beautiful Jacuzzis
with hot water, normal cold water, ice-cold water.
And I enjoy. That to me
is meditation.
In every act, my meditation continues.
And then
I talk for five hours every day -- two and a half hours in the morning,
two and a half hours in the evening.
One and a half hours goes to my food,
one hour I go driving. That I have always enjoyed.
I have
my own road;
my people
love me so immensely, I don't think anybody has ever been so loved,
and has been so blessed.
I don't know I wonder why they love me,
because I don't have anything to offer them.
But it is a miracle, and miracles happen.
They have created a special road just for me.
It is used only for one hour every day; twenty-three hours it has
to rest
no traffic.
My people are so concerned about my life
that they don't want me to drive in traffic,
because I am a terrific driver
and I don't believe in any rules I may drive on the right, I may drive on the left, I may drive in the middle.
So my poor people had to create a road
just for me,
so I can drive anywhere, any way, any speed I want.
And this is how my
day
passes. It passes so fast,
but I live every moment of it very intensely.
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