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dropped, then you know that the medicine is useless. In fact it never existed. It had to be created because there was another illusion deep down inside you, and an illusion can only be cut by another illusion -- there is no other way. The poison can be destroyed only by poison.
So sannyas is nothing but a no-ego trip. When the ego is false, this too is false, but that moment will come one day when the ego has dropped. But if you say that sannyas is nothing and you go on keeping your ego.... And as I see it, it is the ego that is talking and taking the support of the Prajnaparmitasutra, that says, 'What is sannyas? There is no sannyas or anything else.' It is the illness that is saying that there is no medicine.
So think over it... meditate over it. If you feel that your understanding is enough and you can drop the ego, then there is no need for any sannyas. But if you feel that it is difficult for you to drop, then the medicine has to be used. Think about it.
[The visitor replies: A few points.... It seems to be beginning with the duality in my mind -- either sannyas or non-sannyas, but for myself, I agree -- this is not a deep experience... ]
No, it is not an experience at all, remember, because there are not deep and non-deep experiences. Either it is or it is not.
[The visitor answers: Let's say it is not a final experience.]
No, no, there is nothing like final and non-final. There is only experience. Either it is there or it is not there.
These are all the tricks of the mind to divide. Either you know or you don't know -- and there is no in between, no state in between. When we don't know, we don't know, but we can collect much knowledge and we can start feeling that we know. And that's why we say it is superficial. not very deep, not final, but still it is an experience. It is not.
Experience is always final. Experience as such has a finality in it. It is utterly final. Experience is total and ultimate. There are no grades in experience -- that you know one inch, then two inches. then three inches, then one yard, and then by and by you know. There is no gradation because the truth cannot be divided; it
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