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assertion of the ultimate. It is not for you! It is simply the assertion of the ultimate truth -- that there is nothing. But if there is something -- if the ego is there, if you are there -- then you will need remedies:
The medicine exists only for the ill person. For the healthy person, the medicine is not. But if an ill person starts thinking that the medicine is not and throws the medicine and keeps the illness deep in the heart, he is fooling with himself.
It's perfectly true. What you say is perfectly true, but you have not understood it at all. If you have understood, there is no problem. I have nothing to say -- it is perfectly okay. But as I can see, you have read it, you have become knowledgeable -- but it is not your knowing .
Just today I was reading.... You must have heard about a great indian philosopher and saint, Vivekananda. When he came back from America, in Bengal there was a great famine. So he dropped all his religious work, went to the area to help people. A few scholars of that place came to see him, and they said to him, 'Swamiji, we are surprised that you are getting involved in maya, in illusion.' The world does not exist, so who is poor and who is hungry? This is all dream! And we have heard you teach many times that it is all a dream... nothing exists. So where is the famine and who is dying ?'
Listening to this, Vivekananda started crying... tears started. Those people could not believe it. they started laughing. They said, 'This is ridiculous! We were thinking that you were enlightened -- and you are crying!'
Vivekananda took his staff -- he was a very strong man -- and went to the leader of the group and said, 'If you really know that nobody is hungry then I am going to hit you with this staff.'
That man escaped! He started running, because Vivekananda was a really strong man; if he hit, he could even kill this man. The whole group of those great scholars all disappeared; there was nobody left.
It is true that only nothing exists, but it is true only when the ego is not. Before that it is a very dangerous trick. It is not your truth -- it is borrowed. And a borrowed truth can become poisonous.
Sannyas
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