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behind a tree, the enemy shot an arrow; the arrow hit the man's leg, he fell down,
but his headache disappeared. The people who were looking after him, the doctor
of the town, were very much puzzled as to how it happened. They started studying.
By chance, by coincidence, the man had hit one acupuncture point just on the leg;
some point was touched on the leg by the arrow, was hit by the arrow, and the
inner electric flow of the man's body energy changed. And because the inner flow
of the electricity changed, his headache disappeared.
That's why when you go to the acupuncturist and you say, "I have a headache," he
may not touch your head at all. He may start pressing your feet or your hand, or he
may needle your hand or your back. And you will be surprised: "What are you
doing? because my head is wrong, not my back!" But he knows better. The whole
body is an interconnected electric phenomenon; there are seven hundred points, and
he knows from where to push the energy to change the flow. Everything is
interconnected... but this is how acupuncture was born.
Now the man who shot the arrow at his enemy, was he a great saint or was he a
sinner? Difficult to say, very difficult to say. If you watch the actions, then it is up
to you. You can choose the good ones, you can choose the bad ones. And in the
total reality, each act brings something good and something bad. In fact, this is my
understanding, meditate on it: whatsoever you do, the goodness of it and the
badness of it are always in the same proportion. Let me repeat: it is always in the
same proportion - because good and bad are two aspects of the same coin. You
may do good, but something bad is bound to happen because where will the other
aspect go? You may do bad, but good is bound to happen because where will the
other aspect go? The coin exists with both aspects together, and a single aspect
cannot exist alone.
So sinners are sometimes beneficial and saints are sometimes very harmful. Saints
and sinners are both in the same boat! Once you understand this then a change is
possible; then you don't look at the actions. If the proportion is the same whether
you do good or bad, then what is the point of judging a man by his actions? Then
change the whole emphasis, then move to another gestalt -the sky.
That's what Saraha is saying to the king. He is saying: Right you are! People have
told you and they are not wrong. I run like a mad dog. Yes, if you just watch the
action you will be misguided, you will not be able to understand me. Watch my
inner sky. Watch my inner priority, watch my inner core; that's the only way to see
the truth. Yes, I live with this woman - and ordinarily living with a woman means
what it means. Now Saraha says: Watch! This is no ordinary living! There is no
man-woman relationship at all. It has nothing to do with sexuality. We live together
as two spaces, we live together as two freedoms; we live together as two empty
boats. But you have to look into the sky, not into the clouds.
As a cloud that rises from the sea
Absorbing rain, the earth embraces,
So, like the sky, the sea remains
Without increasing or decreasing.
And another thing he reminds him of: Watch the sea. Millions of clouds rise out of
the sea, so much water evaporates, but the sea does not decrease because of that.
And then the clouds will rain on the earth, and rivulets will become great rivers, and
many rivers will be flooded, and the water will rush back towards the ocean,
towards the sea...all the rivers of the earth will pour down their water into the sea,
but that does not make the sea increase - the sea remains the same. Whether
something is taken out of it or something is poured into it makes no difference; its
perfection is such that you cannot take anything out of it and you cannot add
anything to it.
He is saying: Look! the inner being is so perfect that your actions may be those of a
sinner, but nothing is taken away. And your actions may be those of a saint, but
nothing is added unto you. You remain the same.
It is a tremendously revolutionary saying, it is a great statement. He says: Nothing
can be added to man and nothing can be deleted from man, his inner perfection is
such. You cannot make man more beautiful and you cannot make man ugly. You
cannot make him more rich, you cannot make him poor. He is like the sea.
In one of the Buddhist sutras, Vaipulya Sutra, there is a statement that there are
two very costly jewels in the ocean: the one prevents it from becoming less when
water is drawn from it, and the other from becoming too large when water flows in
it. Two great jewels are there in the ocean, and those two great jewels prevent it; it
never becomes less and it never becomes more, it just remains the same. It is so
vast, it does not matter how many clouds arise out of it and how much water
evaporates. It is so vast, it does not matter how many rivers fall into it and bring
great amounts of water. It just remains the same.
So is the inner core of man. So is the inner core of existence. Increase and decrease
is on the periphery, not at the center. You can become a man of great knowledge or
you can remain ignorant; that is only on the periphery. No knowledge can make
you more knowing than you already are. Nothing can be added to you. Your purity
is infinite, there is no way to improve upon it.
This is the Tantra vision. This is the very core of the Tantra attitude - that man is
as he is, there is no hankering for improvement. Not that man has to become good,
not that man has to change this and that; man has to accept all - and remember his
sky! and remember his sea! And by and by an understanding arises, when you
know what is a cloud and what is the sky, what is a river and what is the sea. Once
you are in tune with your sea, all anxiety disappears, all guilt disappears. You
become innocent like a child.
The king had known Saraha: he was a great man of knowledge and now he is
behaving like an ignorant man. He has stopped reciting his Vedas, he no longer does
his rituals that his religion prescribes - he no longer even meditates. He does nothing
that is ordinarily thought to be religious. What is he doing here living on a cremation
ground, dancing like a madman, singing like a madman, and doing many
untraditional things? Where has his knowledge gone?
And Saraha says: You can take all my knowledge away, it does not make any
difference because I am not lessened by it. Or you can bring all the scriptures of the
world and pour them into me; that doesn't make any difference because I don't
become more because of that. He was a very respectable man, the whole kingdom
had respected him; now suddenly he has become one of the most unrespectable
men.
And Saraha is saying: You can give me all the honors that are possible, and nothing
is added unto me. And you can take all the honors, and you can insult me, and you
can do whatsoever you want to destroy my respect - nothing is happening. All the
same, I remain the same. I am that which never increases and never decreases.
Now I know that I am not the cloud, I am the sky.
So I am not much worried whether people think the cloud is black or white,
because I am not the cloud. And I am not the small river, the tiny river, or a tiny [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]