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anybody, not that he hurt anybody. How could he hurt? -- but his very presence, that Everest-like height, that plenitude, that height -- and everybody looked low and small.
Now Everest cannot do anything about it. It is not arrogant, it is not egoistic, but it is high -- that is certainly so. And every other peak is hurt, feels pained, wants to take revenge. Hence Jesus was crucified. So was Buddha rejected -- thrown out of this country completely. He has become a foreigner in his own land.
And this has been so down the ages, this is so still. And it seems this is going to remain so forever because man is, after all, man. In his sleep, in his egoistic attitudes, this is how he functions.
Jesus' Beatitudes are God's songs through him. Remember, he is just a medium. He is not the author of these Gospels, he is just a messenger. He is simply giving you that which he is receiving.
Now, let us go into these Beatitudes.
AND SEEING THE MULTITUDES,
HE WENT UP INTO A MOUNTAIN:
AND WHEN HE WAS SET, HIS DISCIPLES CAME UNTO HIM...
I would like you to go into each word very silently, very sympathetically.
AND SEEING THE MULTITUDES...
the crowd, the mass
HE WENT UP INTO A MOUNTAIN...
These are ways of saying certain psychological things. The multitude is the lowest state of consciousness -- the mass, the crowd. It is dense darkness. It is very dark there, and very deep sleep. When you move in the multitude, if you want to connect and relate with the multitude, you have to come to their level. That is why whenever you go into a crowd, you feel a little bit lost. You start feeling a little bit suffocated. That feeling of suffocation is not only physical -- it is not just that people are around you, no. The suffocation is more psychological, because when you are with people who are very low in their consciousness, you cannot remain an Everest; they pull you down. Whenever you go to the masses you lose something. Hence the need arises for aloneness, for meditation. And in Jesus' life you will find that many times he moves in the multitude -- his work was there, that was his field -- but again and
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