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to meditate. And he is indulging in strange, ugly, shameful practices."
Tantra looks shameful to people who are very much sexually repressed. They cannot understand -- because of their repressions they cannot understand what is happening. So all these things are like a great wind in the mind of the king. One part of him loves and respects; one part of him is in deep doubt.
Saraha looked directly and he said: SO THE KING THINKS OF SARAHA IN MANY WAYS, ALTHOUGH ONE MAN. Although Saraha is one man: I am just like the full moon, but the lake is in turmoil. So please, if you want to understand me, there is no way to understand me directly -- the only way to understand me is to stop this wind which is blowing on the surface of your mind. Let your consciousness be at ease... then see! Let all these waves and the rollers stop, let your consciousness be a placid pool, and then you see. I cannot convince you of what is happening unless you are able to see it. It is happening, it is here. I am here standing before you. I am one man, but I can see in you -- you are looking at me as if I am a thousand men.
TO A FOOL WHO SQUINTS
ONE LAMP IS AS TWO;
WHERE SEEN AND SEER ARE NOT TWO, AH! THE MIND
WORKS ON THE THINGNESS OF THEM BOTH.
And then he takes similes, metaphors. First he says'like a lake you are in turmoil'. Then he says: TO A FOOL WHO SQUINTS ONE LAMP IS AS TWO -- he cannot see one, he sees two.
I have heard:
Mulla Nasrudin was teaching his son the ways of being a drunkard. After a few drinks, Mulla said, "Now, let us go. Always remember, this is the rule to stop: when you start seeing that one person is looking like two, then go home -- it is enough."
One person looking like two, but the son said, "Where? Where is that one person?"
He said, "Look there on that table two persons are sitting."
And the son said, "There is nobody!" He had already drunk too much.
Remember, when you are unconscious, things don't look as they are; when you are unconscious, you project. Tonight looking at the moon you can press your eye with your finger, and you can see two moons. And when you
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