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are moving with many parts cut -- they don't know. Many people are moving with certain electrodes fixed in their brain -- they don't know and they cannot feel... A stone can be put in your head, inside, and you will never feel that it is there, because in the brain there is no feeling. From where the feeling comes then?
The brain is the subtlest part of the body, the most delicate; even that has no feeling. The feeling comes from your being. It is borrowed by the body. The body has no feeling of its own. Once you watch hunger -- and if the watching is real, authentic, and you don't avoid -- hunger disappears.
The fasting of a Mahavira or a Buddha is a totally different fasting from the fasting of Jains and Buddhists. The brahmacharya of Mahavira is totally different than the brahmacharya of Jain monks. Mahavira is not avoiding it, he is simply watching it. Watching, it disappears. Witnessing, it is not found there. Avoiding, it follows you. In fact, not only follows you, it haunts you. No yoga teaches suppression -- cannot teach -- but there are yogis who teach. They are teachers; they have not realized their innermost being. So there exists not even a single person who can attain to buddhahood through suppression. It is not possible, it is simply not possible. Through awareness one achieves, not through suppression.
The third question:
Question 3
IN MEDITATION THE DISTRACTION IS OFTEN PHYSICAL PAIN. WOULD YOU TALK ABOUT MEDITATING ON PAIN WHILE PAIN IS HAPPENING?
This is what I was talking about. If you feel pain, be attentive to it, don't do anything. Attention is the great sword -- it cuts everything. You simply pay attention to the pain.
For example, you are sitting in the last part of the meditation silently, unmoving, and you feel many problems in the body. You feel the leg is going dead, there is some itching in the hand, you feel ants are creeping on the body and many times you have looked -- there are no ants. The creeping is inside, not outside. What you should do? You feel the leg is going dead -- be watchful just give your total attention to it. You feel itching -- don't itch. That will not help. You just
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