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Things Have Changed
There are many things
which have changed
as the centuries have passed.
First, the search for truth
was the only search
that any man of genius
will undertake.
There was no competitive search.
For the man of genius there was only one thing,
and that was truth.
Naturally
the highest quality of intelligence
came to the masters...
Today the situation
on this point
is totally different.
The genius mind
most probably is attracted
towards some scientific research,
to become a great scientist,
an Albert Einstein...
The genius
is rarely
interested in the search for truth.
He comes to realize it only
when his search -- whatever he was doing --
has come to an
end
and he feels
unfulfilled
and... it gives no satisfaction -- not even to Albert Einstein.
At the moment of death he said,
"If there is another life -- the way
the Hindus believe --
I would like to be a plumber
rather than to be a physicist."
So down the ages, slowly, slowly, they have crucified masters,
poisoned masters, killed masters.
Slowly, slowly
the very phenomenon of a master
has become very rare.
Even if one comes to the state
of realization
he remains silent
because very few people like crucifixion,
and very few people like to be condemned by the whole world...
In the first place, very few people reach to that state,
because the people who could have reached
are working
in the world of chemistry,
physics, mathematics,
astronomy.
There are three hundred and sixty-four department
in Oxford University
and each department
needs geniuses
to go deeper into its subject.
And there is not a single department in those three hundred and sixty-five departments
for mysticism...
And the place of the master has been taken by the teacher,
and the teacher is
thousands of miles away
from truth.
He repeats only the borrowed knowledge
what he has got from the scriptures,
from the elders,
from the universities, from the libraries --
he collects it,
he's a good collector.
And he preaches it
as if it is his experience.
These teachers cannot help anybody to realize.
On the contrary,
These teachers
put off thousands of people from the very search
because as you come closer to them
you find that
it is an ordinary man,
just a little more knowledgeable.
But knowledge can be accumulated
sitting in a library.
There is no need to surrender,
no need to trust,
no need to be devoted and committed.
Books don't ask you anything...
An intellectual
is just a memory system,
his memory is full,
he's a computer.
Well-fed.
Intelligence is a totally different thing.
It may not know anything in particular,
but its capacity to know
is very sharp.
Its receptivity
towards truth
is very clear.
So these teachers
of different religions,
different cults
-- first, don't help anybody;
secondly, they disappoint many
to such an extent
that people are simply put off --
they simply forget all about
truth,
mysticism,
the mystic path,
the masters.
The teacher
has
created a barrier for them
because he proved
wrong,
the whole search seems to be
hocus-pocus,
and people are exploiting.
Many other things have changed.
One is
in the days,
ancient
people were simple,
innocent,
childlike.
The work of the master was very easy.
They were open
and they could be read like a book,
and the master could see
where few touches are needed
and the man will be awakened...
Things have changed so dramatically
that today,
first, it is difficult to find a master;
then it is difficult
to have the intelligence,
love,
devotion,
totality,
of giving yourself completely without any conditions.
But
it is not impossible
because it has been happening with me
more than it has happened with any old master.
I have thousands of sannyasins
whose devotion, whose love,
is in no way
inferior
to of any devotees who have ever existed on the earth;
it is far superior.
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