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housekeeper, looks after the children? Is your wife an end unto herself, or is she
just a utility, a commodity to be used? Sometimes you use her sexually, sometimes
you use her in other ways - but using the person means the person is a thing to you,
not a person.
A person cannot be used; only things can be used. A person cannot be purchased;
only things can be purchased. A person has such tremendous value, such divinity,
such dignity - how can you use a person? Yes, he can give out of her or his love,
but you cannot use. And you have to be thankful. Have you ever been thankful to
your wife? Have you ever been thankful to your father, to your mother? Have you
ever been thankful to your friends? Sometimes you are thankful to a stranger but
never to your own people, because you take them for granted.
To live with things is to live in samsara.
To live with persons is to live in nirvana.
And once you start living with persons, things start disappearing. Ordinarily even
persons are reduced to things, and when a person starts becoming meditative even
things start becoming persons; even a tree becomes a person, a rock becomes a
person. Everything by and by starts having a personality, because God is spread all
over existence.
Saraha says: Sir, you have lived in samsara and you cannot understand the way of
nirvana. If you really want to understand it you will have to live it, there is no other
way. To know, you will have to taste something of it. And I am here, standing
before you, and you are asking for explanations! Nirvana is standing in front of you,
and you are asking for theories? Not only that - you must be utterly blind - you
have come to persuade me to come back to your samsara! A fly is persuading me
to leave the forest of sandal-wood and its fragrance for the putrid smell of meat.
"Have you gone mad?" said Saraha to the king. "Let me persuade you to come to
my world rather than you persuading me to come to your world. I have known
your world and I have known this new reality too; I can compare. You have known
only your world; you don't know my reality, you can't compare."
When a buddha says this world is illusory, meditate over it, because he has known
this world too. When some atheist, materialist, some communist says that the world
of nirvana is just illusory, there is no need to bother about it at all, because he has
not known it. He knows only this world; you cannot trust his assertions about the
other world. He has never meditated, he has never entered into it.
Look at it: of all those who have meditated, not a single one has denied the inner
reality. Not a single one! Without exception, all the meditators have become
mystics. Those who have not meditated, they know only the world of the fly and
the world of the foul and fetid odor of putrid meat. They live in the rotten world of
things, but they know only that, and certainly their statements cannot be trusted. A
Buddha can be trusted, a Christ can be trusted, a Mahavira can be trusted; they
have known both. They have known the lower and the higher, and by knowing the
higher they say something about the lower which has to be meditated upon. Don't
reject it outright.
For example: Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, ???, they have never meditated, and
they say there is no God. Now it is almost as if a man has never gone to the lab of
the scientist and says something about science. A man who has never gone into the
lab and says that the theory of relativity is just mumbo-jumbo, it cannot be relied
upon. You have to go to the lab, you have to go into higher mathematics, you have
to prove it! Just because you cannot understand it you cannot be allowed to deny it.
There are very few people who understand the theory of relativity. It was said
when Einstein was alive that there were only twelve persons alive who understood
his theory, all over the world. And there are a few people who think that is an
exaggeration, that number is not right: even twelve persons were not there who
understood his theory correctly. But because of that you cannot say it is not right;
you cannot take a vote about it, you cannot defeat it in an election. You will have to
go through the same processes.
Now Marx saying there is no God is simply making a stupid statement.... Never
meditated, never contemplated, never prayed -his statement is irrelevant. Those
who have meditated, those who have dug a little deeper into their being, they have
come to the same truths.
Beings who discard nirvana
Covet coarse samsara's realm.
Saraha is saying: You discard nirvana and you go on rushing after illusions. You
have come to persuade me, sir? Look at me, how ecstatic I am! Look at me; I am
not the same person who had left your court, I am totally a different person.
He is trying to bring the king's awareness to the present moment, and he succeeded.
He must have been a man of great presence. He pulled the king out of the world of
the flies, out ot the world of putrid meat. He pulled him to the world of sandal-
wood and its fragrance.
The second sutra:
An ox's footprints filled with water
Will soon dry up; so with a mind that's firm
But full of qualities that are not perfect,
These imperfections will in time dry up.
He says: Look! An ox has walked, and there is a footprint on the land, and the
footprint is filled with water, rainwater. How long will it be there? Sooner or later it
will evaporate, and the ox's footprint filled with water will not be there anymore.
But the ocean is always. Although the water in the ox's footprint is also from the
ocean, still something is different.
The ocean always remains, never increasing, never decreasing. Great clouds arise
out of it, it never decreases. Great rivers pour their waters into it, it never increases.
It remains always the same. But this small footprint of an ox is full of water right
now; within hours or days it will be gone, it will dry up. So is the skull of the human
mind: it is just an ox's footprint, such a small thing. Just a little water is there - don't
trust it too much, it is already drying up, it will disappear. The skull is a very small
thing...don't think that you can contain the universe in the skull. And it can only be
temporary, it can never be the eternal.
An ox's footprints filled with water
Will soon dry up; so with a mind that's firm
But full of qualities that are not perfect,
These imperfections will in time dry up.
What are you keeping in your small skull? What are the contents? Desires, dreams,
ambitions, thoughts, imagination, will, emotions - these are the things that you are
keeping as content. They all will dry up, all contents will dry up. So change the
emphasis from the contents to the container; that is the whole secret of Tantra.
Look at the container and don't look at the content. The sky is full of clouds; don't
look at the clouds, look at the sky. Don't look at what is there in your head, what is
there in your mind; just look at your consciousness. Emotion is there, anger is
there, love is there, greed is there, fear is there, jealousy is there -these are contents.
Just behind them is the infinite sky of consciousness.
A man who lives through the contents lives the life of a machine. And the man who
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