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a doubt in me... I will go home and think again, whether to go or not. It is an unnecessary wastage if this is going to happen. And you have made me afraid also -- others' sins, which I have not committed at all!"
The priests are giving you shortcuts because you are lazy. You really don't want to do anything for your inner search.
The heaven is not somewhere far above in the clouds. It is within you, and for that you don't need to go to the Ganges or to go to Kaaba. You need to go to yourself. But that is something that no priest of any religion wants you to do, because the moment you do it you get out of all the bondage of religions -- Hinduism, Mohammedanism, Christianity -- all that seems to be stupid and nonsense. You have found your truth.
So my work begins with negativity -- I have to destroy every program that has been given to you. By whom, it does not matter -- whether it is Catholic or Protestant does not matter; I have to deprogram you so you are clean and unburdened. Your doors and your windows are opened.
And then the second part, the essential part, is to teach you how to enter within. Because you know very well how to go out; for many lives you have been going out and out and out. You are accustomed to it. You don't think when you go to your office, "Now turn left, now turn right, now turn...." When you come home you don't think in this way. Simply, mechanically, like a robot you go on every day coming home, every day going to the office.
The outer journey is your habit.
But the inner world is a new world where you have not even looked, where you have never taken a single step. So I have to teach you how, slowly, you can step inwards.
Even when I say to people to go inwards, immediately they ask questions which show how focused on the outside things they are.
I say to them, "Sit silently."
And they will ask me, "Can I do GAYATRI MANTRA?"
Whether you do gayatri mantra or you read the newspaper does not matter, both are outside. I am telling you, "Sit silently."
They say, "That is right, but at least I can repeat omkar..." It is pitiable. I feel sad for them, that I am telling
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