Pedazo de Sol
Nunca en mi vida esperaba enamorarme de ti
La niña de mis ojos, la que me hace soñar
Antes de ella no sabía que alguien podía amarme así
La que me hace sufrir, pero no paro de amar
La Pared
Sabes que sin ti ya no seré A dónde vayas voy, soy tu fiel compañero Siéntate, cierra los ojos yo saldré de la pared Contigo al planeta he vuelto
A man of understanding will respect his freedom as much as he will respect others’ freedom, because if nobody respects your freedom, your freedom will be destroyed. It is a mutual understanding: “I respect your freedom, you respect my freedom, then we both can be free.” But it is a compromise. I have to not interfere with your being, I am not free to trespass on you. You want to sing loudly in the middle of the night. Of course you are a free person, and if you cannot sing loudly in your own house, what kind of freedom is this? But the neighbors have to sleep too; then there has to be a compromise. On the outside we are interdependent. Nobody can be absolutely independent. Life is an interdependence. Not only with people are you interdependent, you are interdependent with everything. If you cut all the trees you will die because they are constantly supplying you with oxygen. You are dependent on them – and they are dependent on you because you are constantly giving them carbon dioxide. We take oxygen in and exhale carbon dioxide; the trees do just the opposite, they exhale oxygen and inhale carbon dioxide. So when people like Mahendra are smoking, trees must be feeling tremendously happy because more carbon dioxide is being created for them! Listening to me these trees will be feeling very sad that I am telling you to go to the root cause of it and then smoking will disappear. That means trees won’t get as much carbon dioxide as they were getting before. We are interdependent, not only with the trees – with the sun, with the moon, with the stars. Everything is an interdependence. Tomorrow there is going to be a solar eclipse, a total eclipse. It will have tremendous effects on the life on earth. If you look at the sun directly you can go blind forever. Avoid looking at the sun – in fact, don’t come out. There will be every temptation to come out because in the middle of the day, nearabout four-thirty in the afternoon, you can see stars in the sky; just as in the night you have always seen them, in the middle of the day you can see stars. There will be great temptation to come out and see, but avoid it, don’t come out. It is dangerous to the eyes, it is dangerous to your nervous system, it is dangerous to your mind mechanism. Many people will go berserk, many people will go blind. Women who are pregnant should absolutely avoid coming out because the child in the womb is very, very vulnerable. He has no safeguards yet; he is soft, so soft he can be affected by anything. And in the solar eclipse, when it is total, dangerous rays enter the atmosphere. So when the eclipse happens I would like all my sannyasins to go inside their rooms, close the doors, sit in deep meditation. It will last only a few minutes. Avoid the temptation of coming out, and don’t try to find devices through which you can see it without being harmed. No device is absolutely foolproof; it is better to avoid it.
ResponderEliminarNow, life is so interdependent… The sun is so far away that it takes ten minutes for the rays of the sun to reach to the earth, and rays move with tremendous speed – one hundred eighty-six thousand miles per second. But we are related to other suns and other solar systems too. Everything in existence is interdependent, so you cannot be absolutely free on the outside – and there is no need either. Enjoy this interdependence. Don’t call it bondage. It is not dependence, it is dependence. You are dependent on others, others are dependent on you. It is a brotherhood, it is relatedness. Even the smallest grass leaf is related to the greatest star. "Onlib_Text">But in the inner world, in the inner kingdom, you can be absolutely free. So the whole question is of the inner. And then you will not feel sad and rebellious; there is no need. Understand that the outer interdependence is a must, it is inevitable; nothing can be done about it. It is part of how things are. Accept it. When nothing can be done about it, acceptance is the only way. And accept it, not as a resignation. Accept it! This is our universe; we are part of it. We are not islands, we are part of the whole continent. We are not egos.Your idea of freedom is rooted somewhere in the idea of the ego. We are not egos. The ego is a false entity; we are not separate, how can we have egos? It is good as far as language is concerned; it is utilitarian to use the word, but it has no substance in it. It is pure shadow, utterly empty. A useful word, utilitarian, but not real
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