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you burn miserly there is much smoke and no flame. When the flame is bigger, smoke is less, when the flame is total there is no smoke. And that life is beautiful which has no smoke, which is just pure flame.
That's what enlightenment is: to be enkindled from all sides, a torch burning from both the ends. That is the meaning of avibha.... Vibha means light, avibha means from all sides, from everywhere, from every nook and corner of your being. It is not that a candle is burning you but that you are the candle....
Just remember one thing, that the energy is more right than your mind, so wherever the energy leads, simply follow it.
The mind is very destructive; the mind is against energy. It always wants to control your energy. It is obsessed with control; it is the ancient-most manager. Because of its control it does not allow many things which are natural, which are needed. And if a person is to grow rightly all kinds of energy phenomena are needed, there should be no distinction; but the mind is a great condemner.
If your body starts shaking, the mind will say, 'What are you doing? Are you going mad? Stop it! This is not like you.' The mind will say, 'You have never done such a thing, and what will people think of you? Are you a fool?' These ideas are enough: immediately the freshly arisen energy disappears. It is very shy: if it is condemned it goes into the unconscious, it hides there. Energy is a woman; the mind is a man. And energy is far wiser than the mind because the mind is a very late-comer; energy has always been here.
My whole approach is to drop all inhibitions, all taboos, to drop all repressions and become again Adam and Eve. And the garden has not disappeared it is all around here. We are living in the garden the Bible talks about, the Garden of Eden. Man has never left it. It is only that Adam has fallen asleep and is dreaming, that's all. He has eaten the fruit of knowledge and has fallen asleep. Knowledgeable people always fall asleep; they lose wisdom.
The garden is there, it has always been there. It cannot go anywhere else and man cannot go anywhere else because the whole existence is the Garden of Eden.
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