Tantra the path of Mystics Volume – 7

Tantra  the  path  of Mystics  Volume – 7

Soham bhavo namaskarah.
The feeling of I am That – So-aham – is the salutation.

Existence is one, or, rather, existence is oneness. Al-Hillaj Mansoor was crucified because he said, “I am the beloved, I am the divine, I am That which created the world.” Islam was totally unacquainted with this type of language. This language is basically Hindu. Wherever man has contemplated, man has come to duality: God, the creator, and the world, the created. Hinduism has taken the boldest jump by saying that the created is the creator and there is no basic difference.

To Islam, or to other dualistic thinkings, this looks like sacrilege. If there is no difference between God and the world, between man and God, then for dualistic thinkers it appears there is no possibility of religion, no possibility of worship, no possibility of salutation. If you are divine, then whom are you going to worship? If you are the creator, then who is superior to you? Worship becomes impossible.

But this sutra says this is the only worship, this is the only salutation:

The feeling of I am That – So-aham – is the salutation.

Ordinarily, this sutra is absurd, contradictory – because if there is no higher power than you, if you are the highest, then whom are you going to salute? To whom are you going to pay your respects? This is the reason Mansoor was murdered, killed and crucified. This is heresy! He was thought to be a heretic, a nastik, an atheist. If you say you are God, you deny godhood. Then you are the supreme.

For a dualistic way of thinking, this is egoistic. The division must be maintained. You must come nearer and nearer, but you must not become the flame itself. You must become intimate with the divine source, but you must not become one with it. Then respect is possible, worship is possible.

So you can reach to the divine feet, but you cannot become one with the divine flame. How can the creature become the creator? And if the creature becomes the creator, that means the creature was not a creature at all. And if the created becomes the creator, that means there is no creator.

This is one type of religious thinking, the dualistic type. It has its own reasoning and it appeals to our ordinary minds. So, really, even those who are born Hindus are not Hindus unless they can come to conceive the attitude of being one with the creator. One may be born a Hindu, but there is no basic difference between the Hindu, the Mohammedan and the Christian attitude: the actual attitude – the attitude we live and the attitude we behave by

Awareness
Mind can never be intelligent - only no-mind is intelligent. Only no-mind is original and radical. Only no-mind is revolutionary - revolution in action.

This mind gives you a sort of stupor. Burdened by the memories of the past, burdened by the projections of the future, you go on living - at the minimum. You don't live at the maximum. Your flame remains very dim.

Once you start dropping thoughts, the dust that you have collected in the past, the flame arises - clean, clear, alive, young. Your whole life becomes a flame, and a flame without any smoke. That is what awareness is.

Maturity

The distinction between the grasses and the blossoms is the same as
between you not knowing that you are a buddha, and the moment you know
that you are a buddha. In fact, there is no way to be otherwise.
Buddha is completely blossomed, fully opened. His lotuses, his petals,
have come to a completion.... Certainly, to be full of spring yourself
is far more beautiful than the autumn dew falling on the lotus leaves.
That is one of the most beautiful things to watch: when autumn dew
falls on the lotus leaves and shine in the morning sun like real
pearls. But of course it is a momentary experience. As the sun rises,
the autumn dew starts evaporating.... This temporary beauty cannot be
compared, certainly, with an eternal spring in your being. You look
back as far as you can and it has always been there. You look forward
as much as you can, and you will be surprised: it is your very being.
Wherever you are it will be there, and the flowers will continue to
shower on you. This is spiritual spring.

Fighting

One moment it was there, another moment it is gone. One moment we are
here, and another moment we have gone. And for this simple moment, how
much fuss we make! How much violence, ambition, struggle, conflict,
anger, hatred, just for this small moment! Just waiting for the train
in a waiting room on a station, and creating so much fuss: fighting,
hurting each other, trying to possess, trying to boss, trying to
dominate - all that politics. And then the train comes and you are
gone forever.

Creativity

Creativity is the quality that you bring to the activity that you are
doing. It is an attitude, an inner approach - how you look at
things....
Not everybody can be a painter - and there is no need also. If
everybody is a painter the world will be very ugly; it will be
difficult to live! And not everybody can be a dancer, and there is no
need. But everybody can be creative.
Whatsoever you do, if you do it joyfully, if you do it lovingly, if
your act of doing is not purely economical, then it is creative. If
you have something growing out of it within you, if it gives you
growth, it is spiritual, it is creative, it is divine. You become more
divine as you become more creative.
All the religions of the world have said God is the creator. I don't
know whether he is the creator or not, but one thing I know: the more
creative you become, the more godly you become. When your creativity
comes to a climax, when your whole life becomes creative, you live in
God. So he must be the creator because people who have been creative
have been closest to him. Love what you do. Be meditative while you

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