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politics. And power corrupts -- all kinds of power -- it corrupts unconditionally and absolutely; it always corrupts. Hence I say the only essential thing, the real core of all religion, of all yoga, of all methods of search, is meditation.
One should put aside everything non-essential. You can use things as stepping stones, but not more than that -- just like jumping boards. You need not bother too much about them. Your whole concern should be one-pointed; you should move like an arrow towards meditation, only then in this small life, with so little time, power and energy available and with so many problems surrounding you, can you hope that the arrow will reach the target.
And the moment you know something of meditation -- not about it, but the very taste of it -- a great release comes. a great relief comes. Suddenly all tensions disappear: anxieties, anguishes, are found no more. Even if you want them just for a change, you cannot find them. I have tried and failed! (laughter) Sometimes I try very hard to find some anxiety but I cannot, it simply does not work. I have tried all possible ways, from this side and that side, but I come to the same end: it does not work.
Once you have tasted meditation it is impossible for you to be in any misery. Bliss becomes inevitable, a natural showering, and it goes on showering like flowers showering from the sky.
Swami Dhyan Manish. Dhyan means meditation. Manish means the wise one.
Mind can never impart wisdom to you. It can give you immense knowledge, it can make you very knowledgeable, it can make you a great thinker, a philosopher, a scientist, but it cannot make you wise -- that is beyond its capacity. And unless you are wise you remain a fool.
The philosopher is only a philosopher on the surface; deep down you will find a foolosopher. Just scratch him a little bit and you will find all kinds of foolishnesses in him.
Aristotle is one of the greatest philosophers of the world, but he says so many foolish things. For example, he writes that women have fewer teeth than men -- and he had two wifes, not only one but two so he could have counted them. And it is so easy to count
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