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without. It is only through the trick of the imagination, the magical trick of imagination, that we don't see it. Or even if we see it, we project something beautiful onto it.
For example, a man, a beggar, is dying on the road and he is hungry, but hindus are not affected by it. They have a theory, an imaginative theory of karma.
When a hindu passes by he is not aware of the misery that is happening just by the side of the road -- a man is dying, hungry. He has a theory, a buffer. He says. 'It is because of his past karmas that he has to suffer.' He has an explanation -- a very imaginative explanation -- but because of that explanation india could survive. Three thousand years of poverty, slavery, of great sorrow, sadness and all sorts of diseases -- but india has survived. It is through that imagination, it has created a buffer.
Each society creates its own buffers... and each person also. It is needed in a way, because otherwise the unawakened man will not be able to live at all. If you suddenly become aware of what is happening all around -- of all the wars going on, the violence, the murders, the suicides, the neurosis, the psychosis, the madness -- you, you will not be able to even breathe. You will die immediately, instantly. Your imagination creates a screen, it does not allow it to enter your being.
Now scientists say that only two percent of information goes in -- ninety-eight percent is debarred. Only two percent of reality enters in you -- ninety-eight is debarred. Imagination is needed in the unawakened state of the mind.
It is a friend in a way, but the friend becomes the enemy if you start growing. Then the very buffer becomes the barrier. For a man who wants to grow spiritually, for a man who wants to know what truth is, imagination is the only barrier. He has to break that barrier by and by, slowly, slowly. So a moment comes where you don't have any hope, you don't desire, you don't have any dream to project... you simply see whatsoever is the case.
To become capable of that, to see reality as it is, without dodging in any way, to encounter it as it is, is the meaning of your name, 'veet kalpu'. And once
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