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always for the old; the old is always better for them.
I am against all drugs, old and new. I am even against yoga -- because that too is a way to change the chemistry. Then what to do? -- because unless you attend to your own growth, this story will remain true. I will read it.
TO WALK WITH ONE'S OWN LIGHT
A YOUNG RABBI COMPLAINED TO THE RABBI OF RIZHYN: 'DURING THE HOURS WHEN I DEVOTE MYSELF TO MY STUDIES, I FEEL LIFE AND LIGHT, BUT THE MOMENT I STOP STUDYING, IT IS ALL GONE. WHAT SHALL I DO?'
It is possible. If you listen to me, it may happen. Listening to me you may sometimes feel light and life, because even listening changes the chemistry of the body. Listening to my voice, the rhythm, continuously, attentively alert, your body chemistry is being changed. You go on looking at me; a subtle hypnosis happens. You go on listening to me; your own thinking stops. You feel life. You feel light. But don't depend on it. And don't take it as something that you have achieved.
I ask people: 'Which meditation is suiting you more?' Many of them say: 'The morning lecture. When we listen to you, that meditation goes deepest.' But that is a sort of hypnosis. Beware! This may have happened to the young rabbi.
'DURING THE HOURS WHEN I DEVOTE MYSELF TO MY STUDIES, I FEEL LIFE AND LIGHT, BUT THE MOMENT I STOP STUDYING, IT IS ALL GONE.'
When you leave this hall and you move on your own, how long will be the deep meditation that you felt with me? It will be gone. Before you have reached to the gate it is no more with you -- and it is good that it is gone. Otherwise you will remain always illusioned.
It is good that you cannot carry it home. It is good that you cannot depend on it. Otherwise, you are SUCH that you will make a treasure of it, and you will forget that this is not your own.
Unless religion is your own, it has not happened. And this is one of the greatest things to be continuously remembered, because there is every tendency in the mind to forget it -- because it is so cheap and easy.
Listening to me, reading the Gita, or the Talmud, or the Bible, you are taken out of your mind. A foreign element has
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