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totally different kind of good which comes out of meditativeness, which comes out of silence, peacefulness. It is not your act. You don't follow ten commandments, you don't follow any holy scripture; you simply follow your own insight.
Then you cannot say, "I have fallen in love." You can only say, "I have risen in love." And until you can say that, with your total heart behind it, that "I have risen in love," your love will always have something to do with hate. It will be polluted and poisoned.
This is the dialectics of the materialist world: it functions through its real contrary. If love is the thesis, then hatred is the antithesis; if God is the thesis, then the devil is the antithesis; if good is the thesis, then evil is the antithesis. And the misery of the whole world is that the people who have been teaching God, love, good, have not been aware of the polar opposites which are coming in automatically.
And they have not been able to give a synthesis, because in the synthesis the good will disappear and the evil will disappear -- and something totally new will arise. God will disappear and the devil will disappear, and something totally new will arise. All the religions are afraid of the synthesis.
Jesus says, "Love your enemies, just as you love yourself." In fact you always love your enemies. Who is your wife? Who is your husband? Can you find better enemies? And you love your enemies more than you love yourself. You have never loved yourself.
But the religions have not been able, up to now, to create a synthesis -- and that's my whole work: to give you a synthesis. For example, if your love comes out of your meditativeness, not out of your lust, then it will be more like compassion. And in that compassion there is no possibility of hatred.
If your experience of godliness comes through meditation, it will not be the experience of a personal God; it will be just a fragrance of godliness. Then there will be no need for a devil.
If your actions come out of your meditative awareness, not following fixed rules of right and wrong, then your actions will have something which is far above the duality of good and
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