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BELIEVE in God." The philosopher asked, "What are you saying? You don't believe in God?"
Aurobindo said, "Yes -- I cannot believe in God, because I know him."
When you know, you know; there is no question of belief. Belief is out of ignorance, belief is because of doubt. If you ask me, I cannot say I believe in God; I know.
You don't believe in the sun, you KNOW. Do you believe this is day? If somebody believes, that will only show that he is blind. A man who has eyes need not believe that this is day -- this is day! Only a blind man can believe this is day.
When consciousness is not contaminated by any contents moving around you, when your inner space is pure -- it is always pure, you just have to recognize the fact -- suddenly all duality disappears. And with duality, hell.
Hell is nothing but duality. Loving the same man and hating the same man is hell, believing in God and doubting God is hell. You are moving in diametrically opposite directions, you will fall apart. It is a miracle how you go on holding yourself together at all, why you don't fall from the wall like Humpty Dumpty.
HOPE AND FEAR DRIVE FORTUNE FROM YOUR DOOR:
LOSE YOURSELF, AND THEY WILL BE NO MORE.
Sanai says: Hope and fear are two aspects of the same coin. If you hope, there will always be fear. Hope is out of fear, it is not against fear. You are hoping that tomorrow something is going to happen, something great for which you have always been hoping. Now, can you be without fear? It may happen, it may not happen; you may be able to make it, you may not be able to make it. It is always a question of to be or not to be, it is always ambiguous, and there is fear.
Buddha says: Drop hope. And the first time he said to a disciple, "Drop hope," the disciple was puzzled. He said, "If I drop hope then all is lost! Because it is hope I live through and I live for."
Buddha said, "Don't be worried -- drop hope!" And you will be surprised, because the moment you drop hope, fear disappears. And when there is no fear and no hope, on is integrated; there is no division.
Division is hell. To become integrated is heaven -- to become
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