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NOTHINGNESS
HAS GIVEN ARTIFICIAL RISE TO PLEASURES IN SO MANY WAYS.
SUCH YOGIS FROM AFFLICTION FAINT FOR THEY HAVE FALLEN
FROM CELESTIAL SPACE, INVEIGLED INTO VICE.
If you imagine too much, you will lose your celestial space. Imagination is SAMSARA, imagination is your dream. If you dream too much, you will lose the celestial space, you will lose your divinity; you will not be a conscious being. Imagination will outweigh you, it will overburden you; you will be lost in a fantasy. You can faint in your fantasy and you can think that this is SAMADHI. There are people who faint. and then they think they are in SAMADHI -- Buddha has called such SAMADHIS 'wrong SAMADHIS'. So says Saraha: It is a wrong SAMADHI. Imagining about God, going on into your imagination, feeding your imagination, nurturing it more and more, fantasizing more and more -- you will faint, you will lose all consciousness; you will have beautiful dreams of your own creation.
But this is falling from the celestial space. And Saraha says that this is the only vice: to fall from your purity of awareness. What does he mean by the 'celestial space'? Space without any dreams. Dreaming is the world; without dreaming you are in NIRVANA
AS A BRAHMIN, WHO WITH RICE AND BUTTER
MAKES A BURNT OFFERING IN BLAZING FIRE
CREATING A VESSEL FOR NECTAR FROM CELESTIAL SPACE,
TAKES THIS THROUGH WISHFUL THINKING AS THE ULTIMATE.
In India, the Brahmins have been doing YAGNAS. They have been offering rice and butter into the fire, the blazing fire, and imagining that this offering is going to God. Sitting around a fire, fasting for many days, doing certain rituals, certain mantras, repeating certain scriptures, you can create a state of autohypnosis. You can be fooled by yourself and you can think that you are reaching to God.
Saraha says: Those who really want to enter into God, they will have to burn their inner fire -- the outer fire won't do. And those who really want to attain, they will have to burn their own seeds of desire -- rice won't do. And those who really want to attain, they will have to burn their ego -- butter won't do. Butter is
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