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words, certain cliches to god almighty. Mm? -- there is no god as a person. There is godliness -- the whole existence is full of the stuff called godliness -- but there is nobody to hear what you are saying. If you stop saying everything, if not only words on your lips but words in your mind disappear, you fall out of language absolutely, out of thought. You remain alert and aware, watchful, witnessing. In that witnessing the individual melts into the universal. That melting is prayer, that reunion is prayer.
Satys means in truth and Christiane means a Christian... but in truth, not just an ordinary Christian who is Christian by an accident, the accident of birth. One can be born in a Hindu family and will be a Hindu, one can be born in a Mohammedan family and will be a Mohammedan, or one can be born in a Christian family and will be a Christian. But these are accidental things.
Christ was born a Jew but he never belonged to that tradition. A real Christian can never belong to any tradition, not even the tradition called Christian.
A real Christian has to be a rebel, just like Jesus. A real Christian cannot be a blind follower, a believer. He is a seeker and he is ready to risk all. Jesus risked all, he risked his very life. He died on the cross when he was only thirty-three. He was too young -- but his intensity for truth, his love for truth, his passion was tremendous. He was ready to die but he was not ready to compromise.
Hence Friedrich Nietzsche is right when he says that the first and the last Christian died on the cross. And that happened two thousand years ago. Since then there have been only believers, followers. These people are not Christians. If they are in a Communist country they will be Communists. The whole of Russia is Christian before the revolution, and after the revolution, within ten years, the whole country -- and it is a vast country -- turned atheistic. What kind of Christians were these people? And they were really the most orthodox Christians in the whole world, Their church was called the Orthodox church, it was the most orthodox church amongst all the churches. But it simply disappeared, withered away, because
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