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is troublesome.
In this world you cannot get anything unless you are ready to risk something to get it. And God you have got so cheap, without even asking. Now what value can this God have? Religion you have got so cheap.... This religion, this God, are ways of mystifying existence so that your question remains repressed.
My effort here consists in demystifying.
Perhaps that is why the question, What place mysticism has in my religion? has arisen -- because I am continuously demystifying. The questioner does not understand the difference between mysticism and mystifying. He thinks they are synonymous, they are not: they are against each other.
It is mystifying that prevents mysticism from growing. And there is no other way except to destroy mystifying completely, uproot it completely.
And then there is no need for me to give you any answer. Your question is there, and existence is there.
Who am I to come between you and existence?
Face existence.
Look at the sunrise, the sunset.
Then you don't have any answers -- you just see what is there: a tremendously beautiful sunset.
You will be overwhelmed. You would love to sing or dance or paint or just lie down there on the grass and not do anything, just to go on looking. And a certain communion between you and the beauty of the sunset starts happening.
Something transpires -- this is mysticism.
You know nothing -- and yet you know.
There is knowledge which does not know at all.
And there is an ignorance which knows everything, because ignorance is innocence.
I can say to you, blessed are the ignorant; but the second part of my sentence cannot be that they shall inherit the kingdom of God. No, because that will be mystifying. I will say: Blessed are the ignorant, for theirs is the kingdom of God already, now, here. It is not a question that they shall inherit sometime, somewhere in some life after death -- that is mystifying.
Mysticism is cash.
Mystifying is a promissory note.
Nobody knows whether you will be able to cash this promissory note. The government may fail, the bank may go bankrupt.
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