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Since I have left foolish things -- I don't go to take a bath in the holy ganges and don't go to the temple and I don't do any ritual-people Think I have gone mad. Whenever you will come in close contact with a Master, the world will think you have gone mad. They are all sane, wise people. Their wisdom never leads them anywhere, their sanity never gives them a single glimpse of bliss; their sanity is nothing but their misery, and their wisdom is nothing but all stupidity-but still they think they are sane and they are wise, they should be blissful. If they are really sane, they would show intelligence, creativity. But they don't show anything.
But people who come in close contact with a Master and are illuminated by his being will look mad. Always it has been so, and always it will be so. So of people think you are mad, don't be worried-they were thinking that even about Kabir.
THEN I LEARNED THAT IT WAS I ALONE WHO WAS MAD,
AND THE WHOLE WORLD BESIDE ME WAS SANE;
AND I HAD DISTURBED THESE WISE PEOPLE.
FROM THAT TIME FORTH I KNEW NO MORE HOW TO ROLL IN THE DUST IN OBEISANCE:
I DO NOT RING THE TEMPLE BELL;
I DO NOT SET THE IDOL ON ITS THRONE:
I DO NOT WORSHIP THE IMAGE WITH FLOWERS.
IT IS NOT THE AUSTERITIES THAT MORTIFY THE FLESH WHICH ARE PLEASING TO THE LORD.
And Kabir declares: If you mortify yourself you are a perverted being, and God is not happy with you. If you torture yourself you are a masochist, and God is not happy with you. God is happy when you are happy, God is happy in you happiness... because he is hiding in you deepest core. When you torture yourself you torture God-how can he be happy? When you become a masochist and people start worshipping you like a MAHATMA, you are a masochist, a perverted being, insane-and torturing the God within yourself.
Helpless is he, helpless like a small child. You an torture him easily.
IT IS NOT THE AUSTERITIES THAT MORTIFY THE FLESH
WHICH ARE PLEASING TO THE LORD.
WHEN YOU LEAVE OFF YOUR CLOTHES AND KILL YOUR SENSES YOU DO NOT PLEASE THE LORD...
Listen to these rebellious maxims. It is not that when you destroy
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