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And you are introducing something so new, so outrageous, so insulting to them, that rather than helping you to help them they would like to kill you, destroy you, so that any comparison, any contrast, which reminds them that perhaps they are blind, which creates a doubt in them: "Who knows, perhaps that man is right...."
They don't want to get into such doubt. They don't want to have any inconvenient ideas. Removing this man -- crucifying him, poisoning him, murdering him -- is far easier than for millions of people to accept a very inconvenient, uncomfortable, humiliating phenomenon: they are all blind.
The most difficult thing in the world is to accept that you are ignorant. Even the most ignorant person will not be ready to accept it. Only the greatest geniuses like Socrates have been able to accept that they know nothing.
The normal, the mediocre, the common people love to believe that they know, they know everything. And anybody who creates a question, creates a doubt, creates an air of skepticism, is dangerous because he is disturbing so many people's comfortable lives of ignorance. He cannot be tolerated.
This is the greatest crime known to man.
So it is not my leela, not my game; nor is it nature trying to have a perfect balance -- because the perfect balance will be absolute silence. There will be no opposition to it.
The situation is created because the society has lived in ignorance, believing it is knowledge. It has lived in all kinds of immoralities, believing they are moral. It has believed in all kinds of things, thinking that they are true; in reality, they are only fictions.
And anybody who tries to expose all these fictions and lies... he will be silent, because only a silent person can do that, only a person whose silence cannot be disturbed even by death. Then suddenly, all around him there is trouble of all kinds -- lies, allegations -- and every effort is made to prove that the majority of the world cannot be wrong.
It is a strange thing that truth is not democratic. What is true is not to be decided by votes; otherwise, we could never come to any truth ever. People would vote
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