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sometimes when I feel that this is going to be a hindrance right now, I tell you to drop it. But sometimes if I feel that now you are ready, you can take it back. But you are not the same person now. I took those things from a person who is no more, and I give them to a person who was never before.
Life is such a tremendous change. You are not even for two consecutive moments the same. And with me, if you are really here, the change is so fast that sometimes you cannot even feel it. But later on when you think about it, you will see how much you have changed. That's why sometimes I insist for you to go away, because there you will realise how much you have changed.
You are a totally different person. You are going to be surprised back home -- nobody is going to recognise you!
Be Realistic: Plan for a Miracle
Chapter #16
Chapter title: None
31 March 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7603315
ShortTitle: PLAN16
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[To a sannyasin who had said he was studying history in the West, but didn't like it.]
History is not good...(laughter) it is just useless. Read something else, study something else which can be of creative use for your future.
Ninety-nine percent of history concerns foolish politicians. It is better not to know it, because it gives you a wrong notion about human beings. It is not the real past; it is the political past.
Millions of other things have been happening, but they are not being recorded. In fact all that is beautiful remains unrecorded, because the beautiful does not create any mischief, and unless you create mischief, you cannot become part of history. So only mischievious people -- Ghengis Khan, Tamurlane, Adolf Hitler, and that sort; people who have created too much mischief in their lives, only they attract notice. In fact they are abnormal, ill people, and it would be good if we completely drop that sort of history from the world.
It is good to read something about Jesus or Buddha or Michelangelo or Wagner. Music, art, religion -- study that... that's beautiful, that will open some hidden doors into
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