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it seemed to flush into life.
Tamino looked into the eyes of the face and said, "Lord Buddha, was your gospel true?"
And the image answered back, "True and false."
"What was true in it?" asked Tamino.
"Compassion and love."
"And what was false in it?"
"Flight from life, escape."
"Must I go back to life?"
But the light had faded from the face and it turned to stone again.
It is a beautiful story. Yes, Tamino had to come back to life. One has to come back to love from samadhi; hence, Patanjali's sutra immediately after the samadhi, in which death is experienced: "By performing samyama on friendliness, or any other attribute," compassion, love, "great strength in that quality is obtained."
Contemporary psychologists will also agree -- up to a certain limit. If you constantly think about something, it starts materializing. You must have heard the name of Emile Coue, or if you have not heard the name you must have heard his slogan: Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better. He treated thousands of patients -- in great trouble, people in great trouble -- and he helped them tremendously. And this was his only medicine. He will just say to them, "Repeat: every day, in every way, I am getting better and better. Just repeat it, just feel it, just surround yourself with this idea 'I am getting better, healthier, happier.'" And thousands of people were helped; they came out of their illnesses. They came out of their mental diseases. They came out of their troubles and anxieties. They thrived again, they became alive again, and there was nothing in it -- just a small mantra.
But what happens: you create the world you live in. You create the body also you live in; you create the mind also you live in. You create with your ideas. Whatsoever you think sooner or later becomes a reality. Every thought becomes a thing finally, eventually.
And this is so with such an ordinary mind, which goes on changing the object every moment, goes on jumping from here and there; what to think about samyama? When there is no mind and just the idea of friendliness arises, one becomes so en rapport with
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