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they start HOO! HOO! HOO! That disturbs the people who are lying in their graves. So many of them have come out -- and we are afraid of ghosts. If this man is allowed... the whole city will be full of ghosts. Nobody can rest -- HOO!...'" So he said, "You tell your people to do some silent meditation; they are disturbing ghosts."
I said, "It is strange, for the first time I have come to know that ghosts are afraid of HOO!"
The caretaker said, "Personally, my opinion is that anybody will be afraid if so many people come just shouting Hoo! Hoo! It hurts deep..."
So, my people are not fear-oriented.
Now you think that the ashram is less fear-oriented? The ashram is the same. It is the same river: water flows; people come and go. It is the same caravan: somebody joins, somebody departs; somebody takes his own route, somebody comes from some other route.
It is your mind.
Mind is always fear-oriented.
All the societies have tried to make your mind fear-oriented because that is a simple strategy to rule over you -- and man is so fear-oriented. He does not show it; he hides it inside. But on a dark night, alone, he starts running. There is nobody, and when he starts running, his own steps make sound and he looks back to see if somebody is following.
You can create fear in any person for any absurd reason...
In my village there was a grocer. I always loved to find people's actions and reactions. So whenever I passed -- and I had to pass at least four times as it was exactly between my house and the school -- I would just keep one of my eyes closed.
At first the grocer said, "Strange, why should he do it?" But when I did it again, he called to me, "What is the matter?"
I said, "I don't know. The moment I see you, my whole being... I feel to do it. And it is not only me, many others are feeling..."
He said, "My God!"
And it spread -- one thousand students passing through the grocer's with one eye closed. Now, it was nothing to do... absolutely irrelevant, but he became so afraid that he would hide whenever it was the time for going to school and coming from the school. He would hide inside;
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