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What is my contribution for
human wellbeing? My contribution is to make you understand that no power on
earth or beyond can do anything for you unless you are in a certain way.
Unless you become receptive, grow, and create sense within yourself, no holy
men, no gods, no enlightened beings are going to do anything for you.
When Krishna, Rama, Gautama, Jesus and many
others sages and saints have come into this world --- truly wonderful and
powerful beings --- most people around them still lived ordinary, suffering
lives. Just a few rose above their limitations; all others continued to
exist in their suffering. So it really makes no difference to you if your
yagas and yagnas bring even God down; you will continue to be stupid. Unless
you do some thing about yourself, the situation is not going to change.
I want to provoke the people
in such a way that they become a little more alive, because without
aliveness, people will not stand up for their lives. They will lie down and
wait for God to do them. I am here to make them a little more alive, to make
them open to the possibility of going beyond. The first thing is to stand up
and be sensible. To handle this body, handle this mind, to handle these
emotions, things that are within you right now, to handle them sensibly.
If you don't know how to
handle these things sensibly, forget about going beyond. Such a thing will
not happen. It is just an illusion. It doesn't matter which God appears in
front of you, if you don't know how to be, if you don't know how to receive
this, you will continue to be the same. No Gods need to come, because
whatever you refer to as God is always here, within you, but dead. To make
him alive, first you have to become fully alive. If you want the Divine to
become alive within you, first of all you, as a human being, have to become
absolutely alive.
Earthquakes will not matter
for you; you will know how to handle them. It is not that these things will
not happen. They will happen; they should happen. It is just that you should
learn to handle your personal lives, and your social lives, and the national
situation, and the world situation more sensibly. This is possible only if
you know how to manage your mind and body sensibly. |
