no animal bothers asking question who am i
what is the meaning of my life
he knows it already there is no question
there is no doubt no inquiry
man is continuous inquiry
a continuous question
to the very last breath
he goes on growing
to the very last breath he can change his whole life pattern
he can take a quantum jump
there is no necessity for him to just go on following the path that he has followed
at the very last moment he simply can step aside there is nobody to prevent him it is his freedom
man is the only animal in existence who has freedom and out of this freedom is
agani again it means i don't know who am i i don't know where i am going and why i am going
i don't know
whatever i am doing
whether
i am supposed to do it or not
the question continuously remains
not even for a single moment the question leaves whatever you do
the question is there
that are you sure
is it the thing for you to do
is this the place for you to be
the question leaves not even for a single moment
and this is as deep
as
deep anything can be in you at the very core of your being
this is the agony that the meaning is not known that the purpose is not known
that the goal is not known
it seems as if we are accidental that by some accident
we are born no other animal no other tree no other bird is accidental
they are plants
existence has a whole program for them
man seems to be totally different
existence has left men utterly free
once you become aware of this situation then again arises
and it is fortunate to feel it that why i say it is not ordinary pain suffering misery
it is a very extraordinary and of tremendous value
to your whole life it's growth
that you should feel again that your each fiber of being should feel the questioning
that you should become simply a question
and naturally
it is frightening
you are left in a chaos
but out of this very chaos the stars are bound
if you don't start stuffing out of fear
if you don't start escaping from your agony
everybody is trying to escape finding ways falling in love doing this doing that
somehow somewhere engaged
one thing is not finished
and you start doing another thing because you are afraid between the two if there is a gap
and the question arises its heads and you start feeling again that's it is
better continue go on running don't stop people start running from their birth
till they die they don't stop they don't sit by the side of the road under a tree
to me the statues of buddha and mahavira in the east sitting in a lotus posture under a tree
does not mean anything historical they mean something far more significant
these are the people who have stopped running
these are the people who have stepped out of the road
on which the whole procession of humanity is going on
they are real drop outs
not the californian type
which within few years drop in again now these are real drop outs which never drop in
again