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seeing two moons, it is very difficult to believe that there is one -- you are seeing two. Just think. Somebody is born with a natural defect: his eye has that pressure which makes one thing look like two -- he will always see two things. Wherever you see one, he will see two.
Our inner vision is clouded with many things, so we go on seeing things which are not. And when we see, how can we believe that they are not? We have to trust our own eyes, and our own eyes may be distorting.
TO A FOOL WHO SQUINTS
ONE LAMP IS AS TWO;
WHERE SEEN AND SEER ARE NOT TWO...
Saraha says to the king: If you are thinking I and you are two, then you are unconscious, then you are a fool, then you are drunk, then you don't know how to see. If you see really, then I and you are one, then the seer and the seen are not two. Then you will not see Saraha dancing here -- you will see yourself dancing here. Then when I go into ecstasy, YOU will go into ecstasy and that will be the only way to know what has happened to Saraha, there is no other way. What has happened to me? If you want to know, the only way is to become a participant in my being. Don't be a watcher. Don't stand aside and just become a spectator. You will have to participate in my experience; you will have to lose yourself a little bit into me. You will have to overlap my boundaries.
That's what sannyas is all about. You start coming closer, you start losing your boundaries into me. Only then, one day, through participation, when you fall en rapport with me, something will be seen, something will be understood. And you will not be able to convince anybody else who has been just a spectator -- because your visions will be different. You have participated, and he has only been observing -- you are living in two different worlds.
THOUGH THE HOUSE-LAMPS HAVE BEEN LIT...
Listen to this beautiful saying of Saraha:
THOUGH THE HOUSE-LAMPS HAVE BEEN LIT,
THE BLIND LIVE ON IN THE DARK.
THOUGH SPONTANEITY IS ALL-ENCOMPASSING AND CLOSE,
TO THE DELUDED IT REMAINS ALWAYS FAR AWAY.
HE SAYS: Look! I have become Enlightened. THOUGH THE HOUSE-LAMPS
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