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core is no more dark. See! There is great light in me. My soul is awakened. I am no more the same Rahul you used to know -- I am Saraha: my arrow has reached the target.
THOUGH THE HOUSE-LAMPS HAVE BEEN LIT,
THE BLIND LIVE ON IN THE DARK.
But what can I do? Saraha says. If somebody is blind, even when the house-lamps are lit he goes on living in darkness. Not that the lamps are missing, but his eyes are closed. So don't listen to blind people! Just open your eyes and look at me, see me -- who is standing in front of you, whom you are confronting.
THE BLIND LIVE ON IN THE DARK,
THOUGH THE HOUSE-LAMPS HAVE BEEN LIT.
THOUGH SPONTANEITY IS ALL-ENCOMPASSING AND CLOSE...
And I am so close to you... the spontaneity is so close to you, you can already touch it and eat it and drink it. You can DANCE with me and you can move into ecstasy with me. I am SO close -- you may not find spontaneity so close again!
TO THE DELUDED IT REMAINS ALWAYS FAR AWAY.
They talk about Samadhi, and they read the Patanjali Sutras, they talk about great things, but whenever that great thing happens they are against it.
This is something very strange about man. Man is a very strange animal. You can appreciate Buddha, but if Buddha comes and just confronts you, you will not be able to appreciate him at all -- you may go against him, you may become the enemy. Why? When you read a book about Buddha, everything is okay, the book is in your hand. When an alive Buddha has to be confronted, he is NOT in your hand you are falling into his hand. Hence the fear, resistance. One wants to escape.
And the best way to escape is to convince yourself that he has gone wrong, something is wrong with him. That is the only way -- if you prove to yourself that he is wrong. And you can find a thousand and one things in a Buddha which can look wrong, because you are squinting and you are blind and your mind is in a turmoil. You can project anything.
Now, this man has attained to Buddhahood, and they are talking about the low-caste woman. They have not looked into that woman's reality. They have only been thinking that she is
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