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he was as much a sectarian, a believer in color segregation, as anybody else. So his deeper core was not ready to allow the man to come in -- the church would be polluted, poisoned.
So he found a strategy, a technique, to avoid the situation. He said, "Yes, you can come in but first you have to become pure. I will give you a prayer: do this prayer, it takes years before one becomes pure. When you have become pure, come back, and if I see that you have become pure, I will allow you to come in."
The poor man believed him. This was just a strategy to avoid the situation, so that the priest need not say yes or no. And this was a tricky thing. If he ever comes, you can always say, "You have not become pure yet: go and do the prayer some more."
The man was simple; he went away and prayed. For three weeks, day and night, he was praying. Even when he was working he was praying and praying.
And by the third week, the priest saw him coming towards the church and he became very much afraid, because the man had such a beautiful aura. He was so full of light that the priest was dazzled. He said, "Now it is difficult -- what am I going to say? He has done it. He is coming as the purest person I have ever seen. I am not that pure myself; this aura has not appeared around me either. And this man is coming full of light, radiating light."
And when the man came closer, the priest was trembling. "Now if he asks, I cannot say no. But I HAVE to say no!"
But the man never came. He just came close to the church, laughed, and went away.
The priest was even more puzzled. He rushed after the man, caught hold of him, and said, "What is the matter? You were coming to the church, were you not?"
He said, "No!"
"Then why did you laugh?"
He said, "I laughed because last night God appeared to me, and he said, `Man, why are you trying to get into that church? I don't live there anymore! And believe me,' he said, `that they will never allow you to come in -- because they don't even allow me!'"
Churches are empty, temples are empty, mosques are empty. God lives there no more.
GOD IS WITHOUT CAUSE:
WHY ARE YOU
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