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again. This Buddhahood, this peak of realization, is so unique that it cannot be repeated.
So when I said to be just like a valley and when I said that every valley will echo differently, I meant that every valley has its own individuality. Buddha has his own, Jesus his, Krishna his. So, really, this will be good to understand.
Why do Krishna, Christ and Buddha differ so much? They differ! They differ as much as there is any possibility to differ, but still they are, in a very deep way, one. As far as individuation is concerned they are one; as far as individualities are concerned they are different. They have come to the Undivided. They have realized the Undivided, the basic unity of Existence. But because of this basic unity and its realization, it does not mean that now they are not unique. now they are really unique. That's why I say this is one of the paradoxes.
Two ordinary persons can differ, but their difference can never be total, absolute -- never! Even in their difference they have similarities. Really, their difference is always of degrees. Even if they are totally contrary to one another, their difference is of degrees. A person who is a communist and a person who is anticommunist, even they are different only in degrees. The person who is anti-communist is still communist to a lesser degree; and the person who is a communist is still a capitalist to a lesser degree. The difference is always of degrees. And they can change, they can change camps very easily; there is no problem. Ordinarily, they change. The difference is just like that of cold and heat -- only of degrees. But a Buddha and Krishna, a Christ and Mohammed, and a Lao Tzu and Mahavir -- their difference is not of degrees. They can never meet. And this is the paradox: they have come to Oneness, and yet they can never meet. The difference is not of degrees. The difference is of their uniqueness.
What do I mean by this uniqueness?
We can conceive of oneness very easily. A drop of water drops into the ocean and becomes one with it, but that oneness is just dead -- a dead oneness. The drop lost itself completely; it is nowhere now. A Buddha is not dropping in
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