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is a very beautiful story of a Sufi mystic, Mansoor. His master was worried about Mansoor, because whenever he was in ecstasy he would start shouting 'Ana'l Haq' -- I am god. In a Mohammedan country it is dangerous to say 'I am god.' The master was worried. He was a famous mystic himself -- Junaid was his name. He told Mansoor 'This won't do. You will create trouble for yourself, for me and for other disciples too. Keep it secret. There is no need to shout it.' Each time Mansoor would promise but again, whenever he would be in that state, he would forget all promises.
Finally he said 'I can promise, but when I move into that space, I am no more, so I cannot fulfil these promises. How can you expect me to fulfil promises when I am no more there? It is god himself who shouts through me! What can I do?'
Rumours were reaching the king, and people were getting angry, so the master said 'Do one thing: go on a pilgrimage to Kaaba.' In those days it would have taken at least one year, two years, for him to go on foot, and for at least those two years trouble would be avoided. 'Then we will see' the master thought.
Mansoor said 'Perfectly good. If you say to, I will go to Kaaba. Right now I will proceed.' Junaid was very happy; he blessed him, but what Mansoor did was this: he went around the master seven times and said 'The pilgrimage is complete; vou are my Kaaba, because you are my love! You are my temple. It is in you that I have found god, so where else can I go?'
This is a tremendously beautiful story: wherever love is there is Kaaba; whenever love happens Kaaba happens.
Remember, love is the only temple of god. And the temple of love does not belong to any sect, to any religion. Love is simply love; it is neither Hindu nor Mohammedan nor Christian. And it is only through love that one is bridged with the ultimate. Love teaches you how to be intimate, and it is through becoming intimate that one day you come to the ultimate. Intimacy is the way to ultimacy.
Deva means divine, gitam means a song -- a divine song. Religion need not be serious, should not be serious. Seriousness is pathology, it is ill. Religion has to be a play,
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