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ULTIMATELY REAL --
Saraha says that the deluded -- the people who are not alert at all to what they are doing -- go on hankering for, missing, the other: man, the woman; the woman, the man. They are continuously hankering to meet the other. And the meeting never happens. The absurdity of it is this: that you hanker and hanker, and desire and desire, and nothing but frustration comes into your hands. Saraha says this is not the ultimately real meeting. The ultimately real meeting is that which happens in SAHASRAR. Once it has happened, it has happened forever. That is real. The meeting that happens outside is unreal, momentary, temporal, just a delusion.
It is...
LIKE A MAN WHO LEAVES HIS HOUSE AND STANDING AT THE DOOR
ASKS (A WOMAN) FOR REPORTS OF SENSUAL DELIGHTS.
A beautiful simile. Saraha says that holding the hand of a woman outside, while the woman inside is waiting to be yours and forever yours, is just...
LIKE A MAN WHO LEAVES HIS HOUSE AND STANDING AT THE DOOR
ASKS (A WOMAN) FOR REPORTS OF SENSUAL DELIGHTS.
First: LEAVES HIS HOUSE... You are leaving your house, your innermost core, in search of a woman outside... and the woman is within. You will miss her wherever you go -- you can go on running all over the earth and chasing all sorts of women and men. It is a mirage, it is a rainbow search -- nothing comes into your hands. The woman is inside... and you are leaving the house.
And then, STANDING AT THE DOOR... That too is symbolic. You are always standing at the door, by the senses -- those are doors. Eyes are doors, hands are doors, genital organs are doors, ears are doors -- these are doors. We are always standing at the doors. Looking through the eyes, hearing through the ears, trying to touch with the hands, a man continuously remains at the doors and forgets how to go inside the house. And then the absurdity of it -- you don't know what love is and you ask a woman about the delights, about her experience. You think that by listening to her experience you will become blissful. It is taking the menu for the food.
Saraha is saying that first you go out of yourself -- stand at the door
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