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  6. Devices to Transcend Dreaming « < 10 11 12 13 14 > »

You are not created for any purpose. And it is good that you are not created for any purpose; otherwise you would be a machine. A machine is created for
some purpose. Man is not created for some purpose, for something – no! Man is just the outflowing, overflowing creation. Everything simply is. Flowers are
there and stars are there and you are there. Everything is just an overflowing, a joy, a celebration of existence without any purpose.

But this theory of fate, of predetermination, is what creates problems, because we take it as a theory. We think that everything is determined, but nothing
is determined. However, this technique uses this as a device. When we say everything is determined, this is not said to you as a theory. The purpose is this: that if
you take life as a drama, predetermined, then it becomes a dream. For example, if I knew that this day, this night, I was going to talk to you, and it is
predetermined what words I should speak on this day, and if it is so fixed that nothing can be changed – that I cannot utter a single new word – then suddenly I
am not related at all with this whole process because then I am not the source of action.

If everything is determined and if every word is to be spoken by the universe itself or by the divine or by whatsoever name you choose, then I am no more
the source of it. Then I can become an observer – a simple observer.

If you take life as predetermined then you can observe it, then you are not involved. If you are a failure, it was predetermined; if you are a success, it was
predetermined. If both are predetermined, both become of equal value – synonymous. Then one is Ravana, one is Ram, and everything is predetermined.
Ravana need not feel guilty, Ram need not feel superior. Everything is predetermined, so you are just actors, you are just on a stage playing a role.

To give you the feeling that you are playing a role, to give you the feeling that this is only a predetermined pattern that you are fulfilling, to give you this
feeling so that you can transcend it, this is the device. It is very difficult because we are so much accustomed to thinking of fate as a theory – not only as a theory,
but as a law. We cannot understand this attitude of taking these laws and theories as devices.

I will explain this to you. One example will be helpful. I was in a city. One man came; he was a Mohammedan, but I didn’t know, I was not aware. And he was
dressed so that he looked like a Hindu. He not only looked like a Hindu, but he talked as if he was of the Hindu type. He was not a Mohammedan type.

He asked me one question. He said, “Mohammedans and Christians say that there is only one life. Hindus, Buddhists and Jainas say there are many lives – a
long sequence of lives, so that unless one is liberated one goes on and on being reborn again and again. So what do you say? If Jesus was an enlightened man, he
must have known. Or Mohammed, or Moses, they must have known too if they were enlightened men that there are many lives and not just one. And if you say
that they are right, then what about Mahavira, Krishna, Buddha and Shankara? One thing is certain, that they cannot all be enlightened.

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