saints are dead people
the more they are dead the more they are thought to be saintly
to live with them
is simply sickening
it is nauseating
they are so inhuman about everything
they live themselves mechanically robot like and they won't allow anybody else to live differently
they will make you feel guilty for everything
in mahatma gandhi's asrama and he was a great saint mahatma means great saint
you could not have smoked i know smoking is silly
but what is wrong in being silly
and if it if one enjoys it once in a while to be silly is perfectly human
it should be acceptable
you can tell to the person that it will harm your health that
your life will be reduced by five years
but if you don't want to live that long
it is perfectly good because what you are going to do five years more
you will smoke more
and it is not a healthy habit but people who don't smoke they fall sick
and i have seen people who have been
smoking continuously chinese smokers and never falling sick
so all these are just guess work
all that the smoker is doing is enjoying taking the smoke in and throwing it out
the smoke is warm just like the mother's milk
and the cigarette is exactly the mother's nipple
he is again enjoying being a child
cigarette is just
a way of enjoying one's childhood again that's why cigarette is so
relaxing when you are worried tense you start looking for the cigarettes it helps it is human
it will look really hard to go to your mother now
and say that i am so tense and worried
i think cigarette is a good substitute don't disturb these people otherwise they
will disturb women your mother may be dead then you have to go to your wife and she may be just
mad the idea that you have come with she will think you are going nuts
cigarette is such a simple
substitute
don't disturb people
when i see you smoking i feel sorry for you not that you are smoking but because you had to smoke
i think about your worries not about your smoking that is nothing to be bothered i
think about your anguish your tension i think that there must be something eating your heart
otherwise why you should burn yourself with smoking
i never judge you by your smoking that you are doing some wrong act
i see deeper i see why you are smoking but no saint bothers about why you are smoking
is smoking is a sin in mahatma gandhi's
asrama if somebody was found to be smoking he was immediately turned out
in disgrace
he has fallen
and the poor fellow was simply
trying to relax
in fact his smoking was an indication that the asram is not relaxing that it is not the
place where people relax here is the place where people become more tense in fact all
the asramas make you more tense it is a strange dilemma they make you more tense more worried
this world is not enough for them they bring hell and heaven
and all kinds of consequences that you will have to suffer
rather than
helping you to get out of your
tense minds they make your mind more tense and then you cannot smoke
then you cannot drink even tea or coffee
these are all prohibited
they are all relaxing
a relaxed person may not need smoking
unless just
playfully once in a while
sitting with friends when everybody is smoking
and he does not want to play the saints
i used to go to parties when i was in the university
it was a problem
because
the host was worried that
everybody will be drinking
and i may feel left alone
knowing it
from many other previous experiences
i had to go to the host and said don't be worried about me you just give me coca-cola as if
i am also drinking with everybody
but he will say they will think you are also drinking
alcohol i said let them think that is no problem
what is the problem
it simply says i am also human
i want to participate with them i don't want to be holier than thou
to me that attitude is ugly
that attitude is simply
egoistic
i cannot drink alcohol
because i don't know
what i will do after drinking there is no problem
as far as i am concerned there is no problem i can drink
because i don't think that even though alcohol is called spirit that it can be spiritual
or it can enter into my spirit it will just
go through my kidneys
and sooner or later
and that may create trouble for you
so just give me coca-cola that's
drinking coca-cola with people they are
almost
glared up they all said you are also drinking we were worried that you will be here not drinking
and he will look like sinners i said no i am a drunkard
you go on you cannot compete with me because i can go on drinking coca-cola as much as possible
but i felt happy that
they were not feeling guilty
i felt that
i have done something appropriate
i have been human
your saints are not human
gandhi was very particular about cleanliness
he followed the same idea cleanliness is next to god
no for me it is a trouble there is no god so only cleanliness remains
not even next to god just the first there is no next
but i don't come
to look into your room and into your bathroom
that seems to me
evil
but gandhi used to do that
he will go into your room he will see everything whether it is
as it should be he will have a look into your bathroom whether it is clean or not
but this is interfering into your privacy i can talk about cleanliness i can praise cleanliness
i can say to you the beauty of it but then at least i should trust you
your intelligence
your privacy
and ultimately your responsibility to yourself i am not responsible for you
but this is not the way of the saints up to now they have been almost
after their disciples like detectives
making the disciple feel as much guilty as possible
there is some arithmetic in it greater they make people feel guilty
bigger they are thought to be saints
their height goes on becoming higher and higher as you go on sinking lower and lower
their whole sintliness depends on your guiltiness
and to make you feel guilty it is very simple start condemning everything that is human
that is natural
on my path
the master is only a light
you can see in that light
and go wherever you want to go
the master is not somebody who is continuously following you
forcing you
he is simply a presence
in his presence you become aware of your ultimate potential
you become aware
what you can be and what you are not
you become aware of your hypocrisy
you