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needs the woman. Every day food is needed otherwise one will die. Water is needed, air is needed. One can live without food for three months but one cannot live without air for more than eight minutes. We are incomplete at the level of the body. The mind is a little more independent but not very much, because the mind is still divided into man and woman. And the mind also depends on the body and through the body depends on everything else that the body depends on.
Beyond the mind and body is your soul -- that is far more independent But that too depends on god. So there comes a moment in the innermost core when you are no more, only god is; then only independence is. Only god is independent,
Sufis say, 'Only god has the right to say, "I".' Everybody else is just pretending to be an 'I' but is not, because everybody is just a fragment. Only the whole can say 'I', because the whole has the centre.
I can understand your problem, but accept that all these levels are your levels. Your body is yours, your mind is yours. Accept them, and by and by understanding will arise through more experience.
You will become independent one day but that independence will happen at the very core of your being. And right now there is no hurry... because these things are also needed: experience of love is needed -- it helps. The misery that comes through love is needed -- it helps. Good and bad, all that happens, is needed; sadness, happiness, is needed. They are all climates. In these climates one becomes more and more seasoned, and one day one becomes really independent; then nothing is needed. But don't be in a hurry, because nothing happens in a hurry. One has to go very slow-ly, very patiently.
So even if you want to hurry, hurry very slowly! (laughter) It will change -- nothing is to be worried about. But accept every level of your being, don't reject anything.
What Is, Is, What Ain't, Ain't
Chapter #3
Chapter title: None
3 February 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7702035
ShortTitle: WHATIS03
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[A sannyasin reports on doing the nadabrahma meditation
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