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tense, focussed, looking for something. Yes, concentration is good if you are looking for tiny things. If you are searching for an ant, concentration is perfectly good -- but not good for God. God is so vast, so tremendously vast. If you look with concentration you will find an ant, not God. For God you have to be utterly open, unconcentrated, open from every side, not searching, not looking. An unfocussed consciousness is what meditation is -- unfocussed consciousness.
You just burn a small lamp. The light is unfocussed, it falls in every direction. It is not going anywhere, it is simply there falling in every direction. All directions are filled with it. Then there is a torch. A torch is like concentration. It is focussed. When you want to look at God a torch won't help -- a lamp will. If you are searching for an ant, perfectly good; if you are searching for a rat, perfectly good -- the torch will do. For the small, a focussed consciousness is needed.
In science, concentration is perfectly right. Science cannot exist without concentration -- it is looking for the small and the smaller and the smaller. It goes on from the smaller to the smaller to the smallest -- it is looking for the molecule and then looking for the atom and then for the electron and then for the neutron. It goes on looking for the smaller, the whole search is for the smaller. So science becomes more and more concentrated and focussed.
Religion is just the opposite -- unfocussed, wide, open to all directions, to all breezes possible. All doors, all windows open, walls dropped; you are just an opening.
WHEN YOU SEEK TO KNOW IT, YOU CANNOT SEE IT.
So the very effort to see it, the very desire to see it becomes a barrier. Don't seek God. Don't seek truth. Rather, create the situation of unfocussedness and God comes to you, it comes to you. It is there.
There is a very famous anecdote about one of the rarest women in the world, Rabiya.
A Sufi mystic was staying with Rabiya. His name was Hussan. He must have heard Jesus Christ's statement, 'Knock and it shall be opened unto you. Ask and it shall be given to you. Seek and you will find it.' So every
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