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Polluted by samsara's or nirvana's impurities.
And Saraha says: You think I have become impure so you have come to help me and bring me to
the world of the pure people? I am now in an immaculate state of mind. I am no longer solid ice.
Nothing can pollute me anymore, because no thought can create a ripple in me: I have no desire.
That's why - a tremendous saying - he says...polluted by samsara's or nirvana's impurities. No, it
is not possible, not even nirvana can pollute me! What to say about samsara! This arrowsmith
woman cannot pollute me, neither can this cremation ground pollute me, nor can my mad activities
pollute me; nothing can pollute me. I am beyond pollution. I am no longer in a state where pollution
is
possible. Even nirvana cannot pollute me!
What does he mean when he says even nirvana, even nirvana's impurities? Saraha is saying: I don't
desire the world, I don't desire even nirvana.
To desire is to be impure. Desire is impure, what you desire is irrelevant. You can desire money; it
is
impure. You can desire power; it is impure. You can desire God; it is impure. You can desire
nirvana; it is impure. Desire is impure; the object does not matter, what you desire is meaningless.
Desire...the moment desire comes, thoughts come. Once the climate of cold winter is there, the
desire, then winds start blowing. If you start thinking how to attain to nirvana, how to become
enlightened, you will be inviting thoughts; your lake will be stirred. Again you will start becoming
frozen in pieces; you will become solid, rocklike, dead. You will lose the flow - and flow is life, and
flow is God, and flow is nirvana.
So Saraha says: Nothing can pollute me, don't be worried about me. I have come to a point, I have
attained to a point, where impurity is not possible.
A precious jewel deep in mud
Will not shine, though it has luster.
You can throw me into mud, into dirty mud, but now dirty mud cannot make me dirty. I have
attained to that precious jewelness, I have become a precious jewel now -1 have understood who I
am! Now you can throw this jewel into any mud, any dirt; maybe it will not shine, but it cannot lose
its preciousness, it will still have luster. It will still be the same precious jewel.
A moment comes when you look into yourself and you see your transcendental consciousness: then
nothing can pollute you.
Truth is not an experience, truth is experiencing. Truth is not an object of awareness, truth is
awareness. Truth is not outside, truth is your interiority.
Says Seren Kierkegaard: Truth'is subjectivity. If truth is like an object, you can get it and lose it; but
if truth is you, how can you lose it? Once you have known, you have known; then there is no going
back. If truth is some experience, it can become polluted; but truth is experiencing, it is your
innermost consciousness. It is you. It is your being.
Knowledge shines not in the dark, but when the darkness
Is illumined, suffering disappears at once.
Says Saraha: Knowledge shines not in the dark...the darkness of the mind, the darkness of a
structured being, the darkness of ego, the darkness of thoughts, a thousand and one thoughts; the
darkness that you go on creating around yourself like an octopus. Because of that darkness that you
go on creating, your innermost jewel shines not; otherwise it is a lamp of light. Once you stop
creating this ink around you, this black cloud around you, then there is illumination.
And...suffering disappears at once. This is the Tantra message, a great, liberating message. Other
religions say you will have to wait. Christianity says, Islam says, Judaism says, you will have to
wait
for the last judgment day, when everything will be reckoned with -what good you have done, what
bad you have done - and then you will be rewarded or punished accordingly. You have to wait for
the future, for the judgment day.
Hindus, Jainas and others say you have to balance your bad acts with good acts; bad karma has to
be dropped and good karma has to be evolved. You will have to wait for that too. It will take time.
For millions of lives you have been doing millions of things, good and bad: to sort it out, to balance
it,
it is going to be almost impossible.
The Christian and the Judaic and the Mohammedan Judgment day is easier: at least you will not
have
to reckon with everything you have done. God will take care, he will judge - that is his business.
But
Jainism and Hinduism say you have to look into your bad karmas, drop the bad, replace it with
good; that too it seems will take millions of lives.
Tantra is liberating. Tantra says: ...suffering disappears at once. The moment you look into
yourself...that single moment of inner vision, and suffering disappears, because suffering had never
really existed. It was a nightmare. It is not because you have done bad karmas, that's why you are
suffering; Tantra says you are suffering because you are dreaming. You have not done anything,
neither good nor bad.
This is tremendously beautiful! Tantra says you have not done anything, God is the doer. The whole
is the doer, how can you do anything? If you have been a saint, it was his will; if you have been a
sinner, it was his will. You have not done anything. How can you do? You are not separate from
him, how can you do? You don't have any separate will; it is his will, it is the universal will.
So Tantra says you have not done anything good or bad. This has to be looked into, that's all; you
have to see your innermost consciousness. It is pure, eternally pure, unpolluted by samsara or
nirvana.
Once you have seen that vision of your pure consciousness, all suffering stops - immediately, at
once! It does not take even a split second.
Shoots grow from the seed
And leaves from the shoots.
And then things start changing. Then the seed is broken. The seed, Tantra says, is ego; once the
seed
of the ego is broken.... The closed seed is ego, the broken seed is egolessness. You put the seed in
the earth...it cannot grow unless it disappears, unless it breaks, dies. Ego is like an egg: hidden
behind it is the possibility of growth.
The seed, once broken, becomes egolessness. Then shoots come: shoots are no-thoughts, no-
desires, no-mind. Then leaves come: leaves are knowing, experiencing, illumination, satori,
samadhi.
Then flowers come: flowers are satchidanand - being, consciousness, truth. And then the fruit: the
fruit is nirvana, utter disappearance into existence. Once the seed is broken, everything follows. The
only thing to be done is to put the seed into the earth, to allow it to disappear.
The master is the earth and the disciple is the seed.
The last sutra:
He who thinks of the mind in terms of one or many
Casts away the light and enters the world.
Into a raging fire he walks with open eyes -
Who could be more deserving of compassion?
He who thinks of the mind in terms of one or many.... Thinking is always divisive, it divides.
Thinking is like a prism; yes, mind is like a prism. A pure white ray enters into the prism and is
divided into seven colors, a rainbow is born. The world is a rainbow. Through the mind, through the
prism or the mind, one single ray of light, one single ray of truth enters and becomes a rainbow, a
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