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the society, by the church, by the parents, by the teachers: "Become!" Nobody says to us: "Be!" And if you can find a person who says to you, "Be!" that is the person to listen to, that is the real Master, because he is giving you the most fundamental thing. Through that vision you will be able to relax, and in relaxation there is clarity.
Confusion arises out of the idea of becoming because you become a duality -- that which you are and that which you would like to be. You become a duality and a great tension, and you have to deny your reality and you have to impose the unreal upon yourself. You become phony, you become pseudo, you become split. And what I am saying is not theoretical; you can look all around -- the whole humanity is split because everybody is trying to become somebody else. Somebody is trying to become a Christ, somebody else is trying to become a Buddha, somebody else is trying to become the richest man in the world, somebody is trying to become the president of a country, but becoming... in the name of religion also, becoming.
Then what is the difference between religion and the ordinary worldly affairs? If the worldly man is trying to become the richest man or the most powerful man, and the religious man also is trying to become somebody -- a Buddha, a Krishna -- then where is the difference? Both are in the same boat; the name of the boat is becoming.
The truly religious person is one who drops out of the whole trip of becoming, who relaxes in his being, who rejoices in his being, who says, "I am that" -- AHAM BRAHMASMI -- "I am already that"; ANA'L HAQ -- "I am truth, I am God." These are just expressions of being. The basic message is: "I am already that, so I need not try to become."
I have heard one of the most beautiful stories about a Hassid Master, Sosya.
About seven hundred years ago a great Master and mystic named Sosya, ripe with years and honors, lay dying. His students and disciples asked if he was afraid to die.
"Yes," he said. "I am afraid to meet my maker."
"How can that be? You have lived such an exemplary life. You have led us out of the wilderness of ignorance like Moses. You
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