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asked, "But this is not the tradition. Hands have to be inside the casket. Hanging them out will look really odd."
But he said, "I want them to hang out, because I want people to know that empty-handed I had come into the world, empty-handed I lived in the world, and empty-handed I am going from the world."
These empty hands of Alexander the Great represent almost everybody's hands.
If you want to live authentically and sincerely, then just be ordinary. Then nobody can compete with you. You are out of the race of competition, which is destructive.
Suddenly you are free to live. You have time to live. You have time to do what you want to do. You can laugh, you can sing, you can dance. You are an ordinary man. Even if the whole world laughs at it, so what? I am an ordinary man. They are all extraordinary people. They have the right to laugh; I have the right to dance. Their laughter is phony; your dance is real.
Sheela could not tolerate it. I even sent her the message, "If it gives you pleasure that I should not speak, I can go into silence again. Of course, millions of sannyasins today and tomorrow and in the future will be at a loss, because there is much which I have yet to say. But to make you happy, I can do that.
"But remember, if my silence makes you happy, then my absence may make you happier. Perhaps, deep down, my death will be the right thing for you. Then you can become the head. Nobody will be there to prevent you."
If you try to look into things deeper, you will be surprised what revealing factors come up.
Now, Sheela was very much concerned about my death -- almost paranoid. She had arranged so many guards and security. But she will never understand why this paranoia.
Something deep inside herself was longing for my death. And to avoid seeing it, she was projecting that somebody is going to assassinate me.
Mind is very complex. It projects things which are inside onto others.
And she was promising me continuously, "I am yours forever."
I said, "Sheela, don't say such things, because forever is a long time. Just today is enough. Tomorrow, nobody knows."
But she
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