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a miracle he would have been accepted by the Jews.
But a man like Jesus never follows people's ideas; he lives according to his own light. He cannot be forced to adjust to a category.
If the Greeks could have put their mind aside they would have loved Socrates -- such a beautiful man and they had to poison him and kill him. The same thing has always been happening: they murdered Al Hillaj Mansoor just for a small simple thing; he declared "I am god," and that is very much against the Mohammedan idea. Mohammedans say a man can never be god. God is the creator. How can a creature be the creator? Now these are just your guesses.
Al Hillaj Mansoor was saying it not according to any logical thinking, he had experienced. He became silent, meditative and he came to know "I am one with the whole. There is no creation and no creator. There is no division; it is all one creative energy, one organic unity.
Because of this he declared "I am god" -- "Ana'l Haq" -- I am the truth. But Mohammedans could not tolerate it. This was against their ancient idea. They were far more interested in a stupid idea rather than in this beautiful man. They have not created another man of his calibre. It is easy to kill a Al Hillaj Mansoor; it takes centuries to create another Al Hillaj Mansoor. In fact with the death of Socrates Athens died, Athens disappeared from the world map; it lost its splendour, its glory. That whole glory was dependent on the presence of Socrates.
When Socrates was alive Athens had become the capital, the intellectual capital of the whole world. People were travelling towards Athens from all over the world to sit at the feet of Socrates. Twenty-five centuries have passed since then but the Greeks have not been able to produce another man who can be compared with Socrates. He still remains such a high peak that it seems almost impossible that the Greeks will ever be able to reach to that height.
Jesus was the very pinnacle of Jewish genius. But they killed their own flowering, they destroyed their own flower for which they had waited for centuries. And the simple reason is that we go on looking through the mind.
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