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her you will get twenty-five years in jail!' I am feeling sad because today I would have been free. That idiot attorney has died; otherwise I would have killed him! He made me afraid."
A man has to live with a woman he does not love, which is simply misery. A woman has to live with a man... which is simply misery, hell. A man has to work in a certain profession he hates. Everybody becomes something that he does not like. This is your personality. Society distracts everybody from his natural individuality and makes him something other than he was destined to be.
So the first thing to be understood is that you are not a person, you are not a personality. The word `person' comes from Greek drama. In Greek drama the actors used masks, and the mask... you could not see the person's real face; you could only hear his sound. Sona means sound. Persona means you don't know who is speaking; you just hear the sound, the face is missing. The word `personality' comes from that Greek drama.
Everybody is wearing a mask. You can hear the sound but you can't see the face; you can't see the individual. So the first thing: you are not a `person'. If you are a person, you are already dead. If you are only a personality, you have dragged yourself from the cradle to the grave but you never lived. You live only when you are an individuality -- when you assert yourself against every tradition, every religion, every past that wants you to be someone other than existence wants you to be. Then you live.
Again I am reminded: a great surgeon I used to know -- perhaps he was the most famous surgeon in India -- was retiring, and all his friends, his colleagues, had given him a party, a farewell party, but he was very sad. I asked him, "Why are you sad? You should be happy: you are the topmost surgeon in the whole country."
He said, "You don't understand. I never wanted to become a surgeon in the first place, so who cares that I am the topmost surgeon? I hate to hear that! I wanted to become a musician, but my parents forced me to become a surgeon -- against my will I became a surgeon. By chance I became the topmost surgeon; perhaps I would not have been able
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