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be avoided with you. You have come exactly at the right time. This is the season for you to bloom; it is a spring for you. And once you start opening up, all the reservoirs of creative energy will start functioning.
I teach art... religion is another name for it. My religion is more aesthetic than religious. It is much more akin to art, poetry, painting, dance, music -- than it is to ritual. To me, religion is the greatest art. And god cannot be contacted through a scientific attitude -- that becomes a barrier -- because god is not an object. God can be contacted only in a subjective way, through subjectivity, because god is our innermost subject. And that's the way of art.
The artist has to be non-objective. The moment the artist is objective, art is lost. Then he may be just a photographer It is simply depicting the object outside; then the work is mechanical When you create the object it comes from your subjectivity, from your very inner source -- it is your creation. A painting does not represent nature -- not at all. If it does it is not painting, it is photography. It represents the artist. It represents his vision, it represents his dream of reality. It represents how he feels the reality should be. It represents a value, not a fact.
And that's what religion is in the ultimate sense: it does not represent any facticity. God is not a fact but the ultimate value -- the value of all values, the value behind all values, the beauty behind all beauties, the song behind all songs.
So just become more and more available, open, and don't resist in any way. Just go with the wind here, and instantly things will start happening.
[A young sannyasin says: I've been feeling quite a lot lately... that things have been happening very fast... ]
They are happening and they are happening quite fast. And the difficulty will be there -- you cannot keep pace with them, mm? They are running and you are as yet unable to run with them, you are lagging behind. Things are going faster than you, but it happens sometimes; then you have to speed up. You have to keep pace with things, otherwise they will stop. You have to run with them, you have
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