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will go they will create their hell. The hell is in their seriousness.
Once Buddha was asked, "What do you say happens when an enlightened person dies? Does he go to heaven?"
Buddha said, "Don't ask nonsense questions! Wherever the enlightened person is, there is heaven -- wherever he is, it does not matter where -- wherever he is... If he goes to the hell, the hell will be transformed. His presence carries its heaven around himself."
Heaven hangs around the Buddha, around the awakened person. You cannot send an enlightened person to hell -- impossible; and you cannot send your so-called saints to heaven -- impossible. The hell is so much engrained in their beings; wherever they are they will create boredom for themselves and for others.
Saints are not good company; even sinners are far better. I have lived with both, and, believe me, sinners are far better company than saints. Saints are utterly boring! Saints are very juicy just if they are saints in the sense of Upanishads, in the sense I call my sannyasins.
My sannyasins are saints, but not in the ordinary sense of being a Hindu saint or a Jain saint or a Christian saint. The Christian saint seems to be the worst -- so boring that I can believe Friedrich Nietzsche that God is dead; he must have committed suicide! Surrounded by all these saints, what he can do, what else he can do? He must have committed suicide, feeling utterly bored. And this company is going to be there for eternity now! You cannot escape.
Upanishads are full OF JOY, full of flowers and fragrance.
... ENJOYING THE INNER -- not enforcing it --
CEASE TO TAKE FOR YOURSELF
WHAT TO OTHERS ARE RICHES.
And the Isa Upanishad is not saying that, renounce the world. It says:
... CEASE TO TAKE FOR YOURSELF...
Don't possess, don't become owners of persons or things; just use them as a gift of the universe. And when they are available, use them; when they are not available. enjoy the freedom. When you have something, enjoy it; when you don't have it, enjoy not having it -- that too has its own beauty.
If you have a palace to live in, enjoy! If you don't have, then
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