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You are not to correct it, you are not to make it right, you are not to put it in any form; it has to be unstructured, a chaos. Within three, four days it will start flowing. By the time you leave you wil] have something beautiful with you.
Deva means divine, punit means purity. The purity that resides in the heart is uncorruptible; what you do does not affect it at all. Even the greatest sinner remains pure at the deepest core of his being. So even the deepest sinner remains a saint; the sin can only touch the periphery, the circumference. It cannot go to your core because doing remains on the surface; only being is at the core.
And when you start looking at people's being, then nobody is a sinner, nobody has ever been a sinner. That is impossible, that doesn't happen because it can't happen. Purity is so absolute that all that we do is not more than dreams; that is the eastern approach. The western religions have been bothering too much about the periphery, hence the idea of sin and guilt. And it has been very destructive; people have been unnecessarily condemned for small things which don't matter and they have become guilt-ridden. They have become self-condemners. And they cannot be happy because how can you be happy if you are continuously condemning yourself? They cannot permit themselves to be happy; that looks outrageous. Happiness is not allowed on earth, only in heaven where pure souls gather together.
But the eastern approach is totally different; it doesn't bother much about your doing. It says whatsoever you have done, you can simply go in and have a contact with the being which is always crystal-clear and always pure, and that source remains unpolluted. It is only a question of going deep into your own being and the nectar is always available.
On the periphery are just faces -- saint and sinner, good and bad, the famous and the notorious. They are just acts, as if we are playing on a stage, a drama is enacted. Somebody has become a jesus and somebody has become a Judas. Both are needed: Jesus cannot be without Judas, and what will Judas be without Jesus? They are both necessary for the whole Christ story to happen. But behind
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