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world, it is one truth, it is one divinity.
But one has first to search within oneself.
I have heard about a man who became mad. That was not bad -- but in his madness he started thinking that he was dead.
Everybody tried to convince him, "You are alive. You eat, you drink, you sleep, you go for a morning walk -- and you say you are dead?"
He said, "I know perfectly well I am dead! Who told you that dead people don't go for a morning walk?" It was very strange of the fellow. He argued, "Who told you that dead people don't eat? Perhaps you are also dead, you simply have forgotten to remember when you died! I remember."
He was taken to the psychiatrist. There is no other place, although psychiatry has not been of any help to anybody. But what to do? -- except psychiatry and psychoanalysis, there is nowhere to go, although they have not been of any help.
Now even the greatest psychoanalysts are saying that psychoanalysis is on its way to dying, because people have not been helped by it at all. Fifteen years of psychoanalysis, twenty years of psychoanalysis ... your whole bank account is shifted to the psychoanalyst, and you are the same -- perhaps more insane.
The psychoanalyst said, "Don't be worried. I have treated many people like this. Sit down."
The dead man sat down. He said, "Do you think you are alive?"
The psychoanalyst said, "Have you come here for treatment or to give me treatment?"
The madman said, "Just by the way, I have inquired whether you are still alive. These people think they are alive, and I am saying the truth, from the very bottom of my heart, that I am a dead man."
The psychoanalyst was a very clever, very experienced man. He took out a knife and cut the man's hand, just slightly so that blood came out. Before cutting the hand he asked the man, "Have you ever heard -- when you used to be alive -- that dead men don't bleed?"
The madman said, "That's true. I have heard -- while I was alive -- a proverb that dead men don't bleed."
Then the analyst cut the dead man's hand and the blood came. He said, "Aha! And now ...?"
The dead man said even more loudly,
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