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are upside down. God is not important.
If God is against life, God is just a concept, just an abstraction -- an empty word. It has no flesh in it: it has no blood in it; it has no warmth in it. It is just a cold, abstract concept.
Pascal, one of the greatest thinkers of the West, had a dream once. In the dream he received a message. He woke up -- the dream was so deeply stirring. He got up immediately and wrote in his notebook the message he had received. He read the message in the morning. It was of tremendous import. He sewed it in his coat; for his whole life it was sewed in his coat. Many times, when he was walking on the road or talking to somebody, he would just look, then close his coat again. It was a very simple sentence: "I don't want the God of philosophers; I want the God of David, Abraham, Jacob" -- the God of life, not of philosophy; the God of the ordinary man, not of the extraordinary egoists.
The God of Jacob, Abraham, David -- the God of those who love life and live life -- is the real God. A God who is against life is a counterfeit, any temple that is against life is a counterfeit. Beware of it. The temple that enshrines life itself as God is the only true temple.
Jesus replied rightly, and if you can see life as God, then you are always in the bridechamber. Then the bridegroom is always and always and always there. If you can see life as God, then the bridegroom will never leave you.
That God expressed himself through Jesus; that God expressed himself through Krishna. He danced through Krishna, he played on the flute through Krishna. That God sometimes penetrates and comes to the marketplace, but you don't recognize him because you have a counterfeit God.
I have heard, once it happened that a man took his grandmother to a great art exhibition. There, for the first time, she saw a real painting, an authentic painting, of Vincent Van Gogh. She looked at the painting and laughed.
The man asked, "Why are you laughing? Do you like the painting? "
She said, "This is a copy. For almost twenty years I have had a calendar hanging on my wall, and this is just a copy of it."
The calendar was
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