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you destroy your senses God is pleased; rather, he is pleased when your sensitivity goes to a peak. When you can see more beauty in the world, When you can hear more music in the world, when you can love more deeply, when you can be more alive, he is happy.
WHEN YOU LEAVE OFF YOUR CLOTHES AND KILL
YOUR SENSES, YOU DO NOT PLEASE THE LORD:
THE MAN WHO IS KIND AND WHO PRACTISES
RIGHTEOUSNESS,WHO REMAINS PASSIVE AMIDST
THE AFFAIRS OF THE WORLD, WHO CONSIDERS
ALL CREATURES ON EARTH AS HIS OWN SELF.
HE ATTAINS THE IMMORTAL BEING, THE
TRUE GOD IS EVER WITH HIM. KABIR SAYS:
`HE ATTAINS THE TRUE NAME WHOSE WORDS ARE
PURE, AND WHO IS FREE FROM PRIDE AND CONCEIT.'
One who is kind to himself and others, only one who loves himself and others.... You have been taught: `Never love yourself.' You have been taught: `Never be kind to yourself.' You have been taught to never forgive yourself. You have been taught much self-torture: you are praised in the same proportion as you torture yourself. If you want to become a MAHATMA you have to be a masochist-there is no other way. I f you are happy, joyous, delighted in your being, nobody is going to worship you.Who worships a happy man? Have you seen any happy man being worshiped? People worship sad longface, dead, dull, stupid people who can torture themselves. Their only art is that they can torture themselves; they are cruel to themselves, they are violent.
Kabir says: Be kind, and let kindness flow through you. Love yourself, and only then can you love others too. In deep love, in deep sensitivity, God is pleased.
The whole point is that you have to become a spiritual hedonist. That's my whole teaching too: become a spiritual hedonist. There are spiritual people but they are hedonists, and there are hedonist who are not spiritual. The West is hedonist but not spiritual; materialist. The East is spiritual but not hedonist-and both have missed. A higher synthesis is needed: hedonim and spiritualism. When they meet, the total man is born. And that total man is the enlightened man, that total man is the holy man.
The Divine Melody
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