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wrong... and the negative is just a shadow of the positive.
If you pay too much attention to the negative, it becomes important and then you tend to forget the positive. It is a shadow phenomenon: you walk in the sun and a shadow is created. But somebody can go on looking at your shadow and forget about you. The shadow cannot exist alone, it exists with you. That's why it is negative: it cannot exist on its own.
The positive can exist on its own; the positive is not dependent on the shadow. You come into the house: the shadow disappears and you are still there. If the sun sets or clouds come over the sun you will be there and the shadow will disappear. The shadow was a by-product, it cannot exist on its own: it is not possible that you disappear and the shadow exists.
So the negative is never a problem; it is always with the positive. In fact it shows that the positive is there.
When a man doubts, it simply shows that he trusts! Without trust doubt cannot exist! Trust can exist without doubt, certainly, but doubt cannot exist without trust. So when somebody doubts, my whole effort is to bring to his notice that the doubt exists only because he trusts.
You need a shift in consciousness: don't look too much at the shadow -- it is meaningless -- look at the positive. Get in tune with the positive. Nothing is wrong.... And even this leaving the ashram has been of great help.
Sometimes things help in such a mysterious way, sometimes curses become blessings. One just has to use the situation... and you have used it very beautifully. There was no necessity to -- you could even have escaped, you could have taken it absolutely negatively but you didn't: you remained positive.
[The soma group is present. One member said it was an incredible trip, almost like an explosion: I never experienced so much love for my parents.]
We are carrying incredible worlds within our souls, and we are not aware of them. We have the seeds of incredible experiences of love, ecstasy, but we have never allowed them to explode over our being, we have never allowed them to pulsate us. The whole effort here is to make you able to pulsate, to
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