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325 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1999
Society teaches man to become a 'strong man' which is synonymous with suppressing his feminine qualities of softness and receptivity, love and compassion. But every man has an 'inner woman' inside.
Why are lovers continuously fighting, nagging, harassing each other? The simple reason is that they are not getting what they were thinking they would get. Both are beggars, both are empty.
There are only two possibilities: either my soul will go on living in other forms as the Eastern mystics say—that is a great excitement, to go on that journey of the soul free from the burden of the body. The body is a cage, it has limitations. Or perhaps the materialists are right, that when your body dies, everything dies. Nobody remains afterwards. That too, is a great excitement—not to be! I know what it means to be, and the moment has come to find out what it means not to be, and the moment has come to find out what it means not to be. And when I am no more, what is the problem? Why should I be worried about it? I will not be there to worry, so why waste time now?
All the religions have been teaching that you renounce everything. He whose love is dead cannot compose poetry, because without love, his poetry will be simply juiceless. It won't have life in it. A man who cannot love cannot be creative in any sense.
If a girl starts behaving like a man, is ambitious, aggressive, people start thinking that something is wrong: something hormonal is wrong. They call her a tomboy; she is not a girl. This is nonsense! This division is not natural; this division is political, social.
Don't create more madness in the world—it is already full of madness.
When you start possessing woman, she will start possessing you. Then you both are no longer in love. You are just crushing and killing each other, paralysing each other.
A rebel is one who lives totally according to his own light, and risks everything else for his ultimate value of freedom. The rebel is the contemporary person. Hindus are not. The dead are dominating the living. The rebel rebels against the dead, takes his life in his hands. He is not afraid of being alone; on the contrary, he enjoys his aloneness as one of the most precious treasures.
We can allow man to have both worlds together. He need not renounce this world to get the other world, not has he to deny the other world to enjoy this world. In fact, to have only one world while you are capable of having both is to be unnecessarily poor.