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smiles and full of endearments such as'dear' and'darling'.
It was only when one day they heard their two sons fighting viciously that they then realized what the effect of their charades had been. When asked who had started the fight, one of the little boys exclaimed, "He called me'darling' first, mommy, honest, he did!"
Did you hear about the Polack priest? Everybody calls him Father, except his sons -- they call him Uncle!
The hypocrite's mind becomes very upside-down; he cannot see things as they are. He wants to see one thing, but he tries to show that he is seeing something else. He says one thing, he means another. He wants to do one thing, but he goes on doing something else. His life becomes unnecessarily complicated, unnecessarily he creates conflict within himself. He becomes divided and there is a constant civil war.
Three criminals are standing in front of a cross-eyed judge in the courtroom. The judge says to the first, "Where were you yesterday at eleven o'clock?"
The second criminal answers, "At home sleeping, sir."
"I didn't ask you," says the judge to the second.
"I didn't say anything," replies the third criminal.
The hypocrite becomes cross-eyed -- avoid being a hypocrite! But our society all over the world, the so-called civilization and culture only create hypocrites. The earth is full of hypocrites, pretenders, deceivers. That is not the way to hear the primordial sound; one has to be simple and innocent.
And why this hypocrisy? Why in the first place does it start? It starts because of our condemnation. If you condemn something, of course that has to be denied, ignored, overlooked. You have to forget all about it as if it does not exist.
If some being from some other planet comes to earth he will be very much puzzled and surprised as to how children are produced, because he will never see what is happening, he will never see the truth. And all kinds of nonsense will be told to him which will be as far away from reality as possible.
The Upanishads are life-affirmative -- life in its totality. The Upanishadic seers lived as ordinarily as you live. They were not mahatmas,
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