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more and more conscious, and you will become more and more moral -- and you will not become a moralist. You will become moral, and you will not become a moralist. The moralist is an ugly phenomenon.
Now the sutras:
JESUS WENT UNTO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES.
He always used to go to the mountains whenever he would feel that his consciousness was becoming dusty, his mirror was covered with dust. He would go to the mountains in aloneness to cleanse his being, to cleanse his consciousness. It is like you take a bath, and after the bath you feel the body is fresh, young.
Meditation is like an inner bath. To be alone for a few moments every day is a must; otherwise you will gather too much dust, and because of that dust your mirror will not reflect any more, or will not reflect rightly. It may start distorting things.
Have you not watched? A single dust particle goes in your eye, and your vision becomes distorted. The same is true about the inner vision -- the inner eye -- so much dust goes on collecting, and dust comes from relationship. Just as when you travel on a dusty road, you collect dust; when you move with people who are dusty, you collect dust. They are all throwing their dust all around, they are all throwing wrong vibes -- and they cannot do anything, they are helpless. I am not saying that you condemn them. What can they do?
If you go to a hospital and everybody is ill in the hospital, and if they are throwing their infections all around -- they can't help it. They breathe and the infection goes out. Have you not seen it when you go to the hospital to see somebody? Just one hour in the hospital and you start feeling a kind of sickness, and you had come perfectly healthy? Just the smell of the hospital, just the faces of the nurses and the doctors, and the medical instruments, and that particular hospital smell, and people who are all ill, and the whole vibe of illness and death always there... somebody is always dying.
Just one hour there and you feel very low; a kind of nausea arises in you.
Coming out of the hospital you feel a great relief. The same is the situation in the world. You don't know because you
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