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were not saints. They were seers but not saints, they were sages but not saints. They lived a very ordinary life, of course with a very extraordinary intensity and passion.
It is afternoon tea in a country mansion. The lady of the house and the vicar have been discussing arrangements for the yearly fete to be held in the mansion's vast gardens.
The vicar, a country bumpkin, manages to be polite despite getting a bit hot under the collar at the way the nose-in-the-air wife of an aristocrat beats down his every suggestion of something new. At last, the arrangements are over and the lady of the house, having got her way as usual, lifts the teapot and says,'More tea, vicar?"
"No!"
"No what, vicar?" asks the lady as her eyebrows arch, shocked at his lack of manners and determined to hear him say thank you properly, as a gentleman of the frock should do. She prompts him again, "No what?"
To which the vicar replies, "No more fucking tea!"
People should be simple, people should be ordinary and live the ordinary life with extraordinary intensity.
The Upanishads are not knowledgeable; they don't give you much knowledge. They simply tell the experience of the seers:
AUM,
THE IMPERISHABLE SOUND,
IS THE SEED OF ALL THAT EXISTS.
THE PAST, THE PRESENT, THE FUTURE,
-- ALL ARE BUT THE UNFOLDING OF AUM.
The unfolding of the music. The existence is music, like
Heraclitus says: the hidden harmony. It is an orchestra.
AND WHATEVER TRANSCENDS THE THREE REALMS OF TIME,
THAT INDEED IS THE FLOWERING OF AUM.
And the ultimate flowering comes when you have gone beyond time, and the moment you go beyond mind you have gone beyond time. It is mind which lives in the past, it is mind which projects the future, and because of the past and the future the present is created. When the mind is no more there, there is no time at all.
Jesus was asked, "What will be the special thing in the kingdom of God, the MOST special?"
And he said, "There shall be time no longer."
Patanjali defines meditation as transcendence of time, because it is the same. Time and mind are
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