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you are there; that is impossible. If the ego is there, truth cannot happen. If the truth happens, the ego cannot be there. And if the ego cannot be there, there is no way to fall back. It is a point of no return. It is ultimate.
Truth is ultimate. Satori is again a trick of the mind. Again, the mind always wants to create grades, because with grades the mind can always work it out easily. With the ultimate, the mind is completely at a loss. What to do with the ultimate? The ego finds no way to have a grip on the ultimate. Divided, then there is possibility.
It is difficult to declare that you have the ultimate truth. It will look absurd -- to you. Not only to others, to yourself it will look absurd that you have the ultimate truth. But when you say that this is just a fragment of truth, a little glimpse -- not very deep, just skin-deep -- then it doesn't look absurd to you, it does not look absurd to others. But it is absurd because the implication is that the truth can be divided, that you can have a part of it, or you can have it in installments.
That is the whole debate between the sudden enlightenment people and the people who say that enlightenment can be gradual.
[The visitor says: Well, I have thought about this and I rejected the gradual path completely, but... ]
Your rejection is intellectual -- that's what I am saying. Your rejection is intellectual -- and intellectual rejection is no rejection at all.
[The visitor: What you said seems to reject all revelations -- all people who have had a revelation and then relapsed.]
There is no possibility of relapse. If they relapse the only possibility is that the revelation was an illusion, was of the mind.
There is no way to fall back from truth. It is impossible. Once you know, you know. There is no way to unknow it. Meditate over it. You will need sannyas -- otherwise drop the ego completely. Now the choice is not between sannyas and no-sannyas. The choice is between sannyas and the ego. Think about it that way.
[The visitor: Cannot sannyas be part of the ego?]
You can make it part of the ego. You can make it part of the ego.
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