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some medicine can be given to you. But when you are healthy, have you ever asked, "Why am I healthy?" Have you become worried that "I am healthy"? Have you gone to the doctor to say, "Please tell me the cause of my health?" No, when you are healthy and feeling a great well-being, you don't ask such questions. Health is natural; disease is a disturbance.
To be in tune with existence is the most healthy experience. There is nothing more than that, but it is so much you cannot exhaust it.
My existentialism simply means meditativeness. And Jean-Paul Sartre, Jaspers, Marcel, Kierkegaard, Heidegger -- their existentialism is simply mumbo jumbo. They don't know what it is to be meditative.
The existentialism in Europe is an outcome of Christianity, Judaism. If you search for its roots, from where it has come with so much despair, you will find Christian and Judaic traditions behind it; it is a by-product. Because for centuries the Jewish religion... and the Christian religion is just a by-product of Judaism, because Jesus was born as a Jew, lived as a Jew, died as a Jew. He never heard that he was a Christian.
Christianity is only an offshoot of Judaism. Their basic theology is not different. They differ only on one point, that Jews will not accept Jesus as their prophet, as their messiah. Just that single point; otherwise there is no problem. You can see it: the Christian Bible consists of both -- the Old Testament which is Jewish, and the New Testament, which contains the gospels of Jesus. But the Christian has not denied the Old Testament, it is still his holy book.
Look at the bible of the Jews; it has only the Old Testament, the New Testament is not there -- cannot be there. They crucified the man as a criminal. They crucified Jesus as one who was against the whole tradition, convention; he was a heretic.
These two religions are not really two, and both these religions are the roots; existentialism is their ultimate fruit. For centuries they have been giving hope -- there is bound to come a time when some intelligent person is going to ask, "How long do we have to wait for Godot?"
I used to think that Godot must be
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