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self arises out of identification, self with a lower-case s arises out of identification. Self with a capital S arises out of disidentification. And this is the whole art of religion.
YOU ARE WHAT YOU ARE:
HENCE YOUR LOVE AND HATES;
YOU ARE WHAT YOU ARE:
HENCE FAITH AND UNBELIEF.
Right now you are a duality: your consciousness and its content. You are divided into these two. Hence in your whole life there is a dualism. You love the same person and you hate the same person, you believe and you disbelieve. And they go together -- belief and disbelief, love and hate, anger and compassion, happiness and unhappiness, there are two sides of the same coin. Because YOU are double, each act of yours is going to be double, dual. And in that duality is misery, because in duality there is tension.
You are always torn apart. You love a woman, and you hate the same woman. Hence couples go on quarreling continuously. It is something to be understood. why do couples go on quarreling continuously? They love, certainly they love, but why do they hate? It remains a mystery if you don't understand the duality of man. He is dual in everything. Unless you become disidentified from the mind, you will never become non-dual.
That's why I say that only one who has arrived can love, and he can love without hate. His love will not have hate at all in it, his flame will be smokeless. Your flame cannot be smokeless, your love will have smoke -- your love will remain poisoned with hate. Your belief is nothing but hidden disbelief; behind your belief there is always doubt. You say, "I believe in God" -- but just search a little bit more and you will see that there is doubt.
When one is pure consciousness, there is neither belief nor disbelief. That state is called trust: there is no doubt and there is no belief.
A man, a professor of philosophy, came to Sri Aurobindo and asked him, "Do you believe in God?" And Aurobindo said, "No, not at all."
The philosopher was very much puzzled and confused. He had come a long long way from a faraway place to see this man, thinking that he had KNOWN God. And here is this man, and he says,
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