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feminine and your masculine inside -- what TANTRIKAS call Shiva and Shakti, and what Taoists call 'yin' and 'yang'. The polarity, the positive and negative in you, the day and night in you -- they have to meet there.
THE LIGHT OF HEAVEN CANNOT BE SEEN. IT IS CONTAINED IN THE TWO EYES.
But unless they become one you will not become aware of it. IT IS CONTAINED IN THE TWO EYES. But you cannot see it unless they become one, then it is released. Then there is a great explosion of light. Zarathustra calls it 'explosion of fire'. Lao Tzu calls it 'explosion of light'. It is the same.
You must have come across the statement of John the Baptist. He used to say to his disciples, 'I baptize you with water. After me shall come one who will baptize you with fire.' That's what he meant when he said, 'After me there will come one who will baptize you with fire.'
The baptism of water is an outer baptism. To John the Baptist water represents the outward flow. Remember this: that the outward and the downward are synonymous, and the upward and the inward are synonymous. Whatsoever goes downward also goes outward, and whatsoever goes upward also goes inward, and vice versa. Water always goes downward, hence it represents an outward flow. It goes away from itself. Its journey is an exterior journey. Fire goes upward, always upward. And upward is synonymous with the inward. Its journey is always interior.
John the Baptist is saying: I am baptizing you with water, I am giving you the outer body of the religion. After me will come Christ who will give you the inner baptism, the baptism Of fire.
Jesus himself again and again says, 'Repent. Repent ye.' And the word has fallen into a wrong interpretation with the Christians. They have made it 'repentance for misdeeds'. It has nothing to do with misdeeds. The word 'repent' actually means: return, go in, go back. It means: turn back... restore your-originality. The word 'repent' means metanoia, turning back -- a one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn. If you go on flowing outwards you remain water. If you turn in you become fire.
And when the two eyes, when these two flames, when these two hemispheres
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