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from the window and he says, "The sun has set! The man outside who is preparing the poison -- tell him that he is late and he should never be late when he is on duty."
The man came in. He said, "You are a strange person! Just out of love for you I am delaying the process so that you can live a little longer. I have given poison to many people -- this is my profession -- but my heart is trembling, my hands are trembling. What I am doing is not right. I want to delay it as long as I can."
Socrates says, "No, that is not right. You do your duty; your personal feelings should not come into it. And moreover, I am so curious to go into death because I have lived a long life, I have known all the secrets of it, but death is such a great adventure, such an unknown. So don't delay it, just bring the poison."
People who were not afraid of death, we have killed. And these were the people who had known life; that's why they were not afraid of death. Deep down they have known that there is something that is going to continue, but they didn't have any proof, any evidence. Hence Socrates will not say it; he will say it only when the evidence is there. Such devotion to the scientific spirit! That's why no religion has been created after him.
And my effort is that the future religion should be nothing but a science. Just as there are other sciences -- they are the sciences of the objective world -- there should be one more science, of the inner, subjective world. There is no space or scope for any religion at all. The scientific spirit is capable of revealing the truth of the object and it is capable of revealing the truth of the subject, of your interior.
I am immensely happy to be here because of Socrates, but immensely sad too because of the people of Greece who poisoned the man.
Question 3
FOR A LONG TIME I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR AND CLINGING TO METHODS TO BECOME TRANSFORMED. NOW, AFTER FOUR YEARS IN COLOGNE'S WIOSKA COMMUNE, I FEEL VERY RELIEVED NOT TO PUSH MYSELF.
CAN IT BE I AM ALREADY LIBERATED WITHOUT BEING AWARE OF IT?
I AM GERMAN, AND MY PROGRAM IS THAT WITHOUT IMMENSE EFFORT YOU GET NOWHERE.
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