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creations. The mind always gathers things from everywhere and goes on trying new combinations. Certainly the new combination looks as if it is something original: it never is, it is only a new combination.
But there is another creativity that comes from the silence of meditation, that comes from the music of your inner space. It is not done by you, you are not the doer. The mind is a doer; meditation is a state of non-doing, it is effortlessness, but out of that non-doing great things have come into the world. All that is truly beautiful -- if may be painting, it may be poetry, music or architecture, sculpture -- has come not from the mind but from meditation. Meditation is just the opposite of mind, it is the absence of the mind. And when something comes spontaneously out of you, without any effort on your part, it has a beauty of its own, a grace. It has the touch of the beyond, a ray of the divine is present in it.
My sannyasins have to be creators, not through the mind but through meditation. And it comes of its own accord, one need not even think about it. So I don't teach creativity, I only teach silence. And then out of that silence much creativity comes. One is surprised oneself at how much one was carrying in one's being, unexpressed, at how great was one's potential. When one comes across it one cannot believes it!
My observation is that everybody is a born genius, but very few people have been able to discover it. And the people who have discovered it are the people who have known moments of silence in some way, either accidentally, as with scientists, poets, musicians, painters; or deliberately, as with the mystics. For a poet it is just accidental to feel silence. He does not know how it comes, when it comes, why it comes and why it disappears. He has no understanding about it. It is something mysterious that visits him, overwhelms him, and in those moments of silence, poetry starts flowing, songs arise and he can see that they are not coming from him, they are coming from some other source. That's why Mohammed says that the Koran is not his creation, it has come from god. The Vedic seers say that god has created the Vedas, and
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