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is the same. So you have changed from one cell to another.
A Christian can become a Hindu. He will not go to the church now, he will go to the Hindu temple. He can become a Hare Krishna follower. First he was being cheated and deceived by the priests and the bishops and the popes; now he has found new priests, new bishops, new popes. They are exotic and because they are exotic they have a certain appeal. They are so new that it seems they may have something tremendously valuable. They have nothing.
Soon one feels frustrated again, so people go on from one teacher to another, from one philosophy to another, and they are wasting their lives.
The real thing is to find a place where your mind can be unconditioned, not reconditioned, just unconditioned and left there so that you can remain innocent, in childlike innocence, so that you can remain open, so that you never enter another grave again. Then the vast sky is yours, then the whole infinity of existence is yours. Then you are no more a mortal because you are no more confined to the body and the mind. Free from the mind man becomes free from the body too -- remember it -- because mind is the source of our bondage.
The mind creates chains; once those chains are cut you are free from the body too. You can live in the body but you live as you live in a house, not as you live in a prison. You can come in freely, you can go out, you are not hindered. It is your house, you can use it; you are the master, it has to serve you.
The moment you know you are neither the mind nor the body, thousands of illusions disappear. The illusion of birth disappears immediately; you were never born, you were before birth. And simultaneously the illusion of death disappears; you will never die, you have died many times and yet you are. So birth and death happen to the body-mind mechanism, not to you. They are episodes in your eternal life, which is timeless.
This is what religion really wants to do. It does not want to create believers, slaves. It wants to create masters, people who are capable of living in freedom, people who are capable of living in God.
Meditation is like sunshine to the
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