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to rest; rest seems to be a waste of time. Again and again we are reminded from all nooks and corners, by the parents, by the priests, by the pedagogues, by the politicians, that it is better to do something than nothing. And rest means doing nothing...
They are even telling you that to do something stupid is good, but go on doing something so that you remain a doer, so you don't lose the quality of being a doer. They have condemned rest like anything. They say an empty mind is the devil's workshop.
Rest means emptiness. Rest means there is no thought, no desire, nowhere to go; one is simply relaxing within one's being. It is a tremendous contentment with the moment, in the moment, here, now. There is no future, no past, only this moment exists. There is no space to run anywhere, there is no space for a thought to even arise.
My whole teaching is just the opposite of all this nonsense that has been imposed on humanity. It has poisoned human consciousness. I way to you nothing is better than anything. Howsoever good that thing may be it can never be better than nothing. I say to you emptiness is not the devil's workshop; it is god's shrine.
Drop all those ideas that disturb your rest -- ambitions, desires, competitiveness, jealousies. Drop the whole idea that life is a struggle. Life is something to be rejoiced in, something to be celebrated. It is not a struggle, it is not what Charles Darwin says that it is -- a constant struggle, a tooth-and-nail struggle with everybody at everybody else's neck, that only those who are fittest survive.
That is a basic misunderstanding, but if a misunderstanding remains there and is taught continuously it becomes a fact. Fiction becomes fact if you go on hypnotising people about it.
People know so much about Charles Darwin because every school, every college, every university teaches his theory, but people don't know much about Prince Kropotkin. They have not even heard the name of a beautiful man who fought his whole life against the idea of struggle.
He said life is a co-operation, not a conflict. And he says the whole of life is a harmony, not a struggle. It is not the fittest
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