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Tears Are the Most Valuable Treasure
Why do I always have to cry when I am touched by love?
Anand Mumuksha,
you are fortunate
If love
cannot bring tears to your eyes,
then that love is dead.
It is a great
misfortune
that tears have become associated with sadness, with sorrow
That is only one dimension of their being.
But their
more significant manifestation is in love,
in gratitude,
in prayerfulness,
in silence,
in peace
When you are feeling
so full,
tears are just the overflow
of your contentment,
of your joy.
Tears have to be given a new meaning,
a new poetry
and a totally new dimension
which they have lost
because humanity has lived in misery,
and tears have become
part of that misery.
Secondly, because humanity has been dominated by man,
he has made it a point of his ego and pride
that he will not cry:
“It is feminine to cry,
it is womanish ”
to have tears.”
This is not true.
It is an ugly, male chauvinist idea
Not only ugly, but unnatural and untrue
because man’s eyes have as
many tear glands as women’s eyes have.
Nature has not made any difference in tear glands.
It is obvious
that the intention of nature is not to discriminate
between man and woman,
but for centuries man has been very egoistic
and he feels that tears are a kind of weakness.
He has stopped his tears,
but he is not aware what the consequence of this has been:
he has also stopped his love.
And he has also created situations for himself that are dangerous.
More men go mad than women
for the simple reason
that man goes on controlling.
A moment comes that the repression becomes too much
and there is a breakdown.
The woman does not control.
When she feels like crying, she cries.
She is more natural than man.
That has given her a few more
experiences which man has missed.
The woman is healthier,
she lives longer – five years more than man
She is more calm and quiet.
Fewer women go crazy,
fewer women commit suicide
although they talk about it!
Sometimes they even try it,
but very half-heartedly.
But man goes on collecting,
and a point comes
where he is no longer in control.
Either he commits suicide or he commits murder or he goes mad.
A better world,
a better humanity,
and more people
will enjoy tears
They are such a blessing.
You are asking, “Why do I always have to cry when I am touched by love?”
What do you want?
What more do you want?
Certainly you are thinking that those tears are something wrong.
Crying when touched by love is something wrong?
You are carrying a wrong conditioning.
It is absolutely right.
When touched by love, what can you do?
Words won’t help;
only tears can convey
what is happening deep down in your heart.
Tears are the most valuable treasure that you have.
But man has been distorted in every way.
Man’s nature has been pruned
according
to the ideas of the vested interests.
Nations need armies
and they do not want man to be
at all touched by love.
Their tears have to be dried up
and their love has to be blocked,
otherwise they will not be able to kill and murder and massacre people
people who are just like you
and people who have not done anything wrong to you,
and people whose wives,
whose children, whose old parents may be waiting for them
just as your parents, your wife, your children are waiting for you.
But to create the soldier,
man has to be destroyed completely.
He has to be made into a robot – and robots don’t cry,
robots are not touched by love
Because armies were needed,
man was distorted.
Because women were not needed in the armies, they were left to the side.
It was good for women because they have remained more natural.
Never be ashamed of your tears.
Be proud that you are still natural.
Be proud
that you can express
the inexpressible through your tears.
Those tears are your songs,
unuttered.
Those tears
are your heart,
which cannot use words.
Never feel ashamed of your tears
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