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has been given to them by existence remains unfulfilled. They are truly angry.
One of the most significant novelists, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, in his great novel BROTHERS KARAMAZOV, has one character who says, "I have only one relationship with God, and that is that of disgust. I am angry, and if I can meet Him, the only thing I am going to do is to give Him the ticket back, and ask Him to find the way out of life. It is a cruel joke. He gives us so many desires, so many longings... and there is no opportunity to fulfill them. There is not even any hope in the future." Everybody is born with great enthusiasm, and everybody dies just frustrated.
The old saint says, "Now I don't see any disgust, any agony; instead I see ecstasy: he goes along like a dancer..." You had come to the mountains dragging yourself somehow, carrying your own corpse on your shoulders, and now: DOES HE NOT GO ALONG LIKE A DANCER?
The transformation has happened. The man has realized himself. The man has drunk from the sources of the divine. `HOW CHANGED ZARATHUSTRA IS. ZARATHUSTRA HAS BECOME -- A CHILD...' That is the greatest change in life -- to be a child again: `... AN AWAKENED-ONE: WHAT DO YOU WANT NOW WITH THE SLEEPERS?'
The question of the saint is the question of all the saints of the world, all the buddhas, all the mystics, all the awakened ones. You have become a child, you are awakened: What do you want now with the sleepers? You are an absolute stranger to them. They will punish you, they may kill you. Your very presence will become a danger to their sleep, a danger to their misery, a danger to their blindness.
`YOU LIVED IN SOLITUDE AS IN THE SEA, AND THE SEA BORE YOU. ALAS, DO YOU WANT TO GO ASHORE? ALAS, DO YOU WANT AGAIN TO DRAG YOUR BODY YOURSELF?' Have you forgotten the day you had come to the mountains? Do you want to be the same old self again? Why are you going downwards, leaving your sunlit peaks? You know in the valleys there is darkness alone? What is the purpose of your going?
ZARATHUSTRA ANSWERED, `I LOVE MANKIND.' In those three words is contained Zarathustra's whole philosophy: "I love mankind. I love life. I had not renounced
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