In Connection With Rajneeshpuram...
Is it possible to deceive a Master?
Yes, if the Master wills so. Sometimes the Master wants to be
deceived. If it is for your growth, he is ready to do anything -
even to be deceived. If that is the only way to help your cheating
characteristic to surface, he will allow himself to be deceived by
you. Otherwise not.
How can you deceive a Master? He knows you - as you yourself don′t
know yourself. He knows the secret most desire of your heart. It may
not be conscious even to you. He knows the subtle ways of your ego.
And you cannot deceive. You can try, but from one point or another,
from one side or another, they will be revealed. You will say one
thing from your mouth: your eyes will say something else.
And the Master is not very much concerned with what you say - he
tries to read you through subtle manifestations. He looks in your
eyes, he looks at the way you walk, he looks at the way you sit...
from the superficial to the deepest. He is not very much concerned
about what you say. Your saying is almost meaningless; it is
babbling. You don′t exactly know what you are saying. And even if
you know, you don′t mean it. And even if you mean it, the next
moment you will change it. It is not worth paying attention to.
That′s why psychoanalysis has to go into your dreams. Rather than
watching your day it watches your night. Why? Because in the day you
are cunning, deceptive. You live through a masquerade, a camouflage.
You have many masks. And it is not that you are deceiving others:
you are deceived yourself by your masks. You. believe in your masks.
You think these are your faces. You have completely forgotten your
original face.
Psychoanalysis looks into your dreams, because in your dreams your
constant pretending relaxes. You come in your true colours.
The Master goes even deeper than psychoanalysis, because there are
people who can deceive even in dreams. One can train oneself to
dream certain dreams. And now, after one hundred years of
psychoanalysis, this fact has become very very apparent. Patients
start dreaming according to the expectation of the analyst. If a
patient goes to a Freudian, he dreams one kind of dream. If he goes
to the Jungian, he starts dreaming another kind of dream. Now this
is an accepted fact. How does it happen? Even unconsciously he is
trying to be clever, cunning.
When you go to a Freudian, he is waiting for some sexual dream. Even
if you don′t dream it, he will impose an interpretation of sexuality
on your dream. Your innocent dreams will be painted in such a way
that they will look utterly sexual. For example, if you are flying
in your dream, the Freudian will say, "This is nothing but sexuality
- flying is a phallic symbol. You want to go high and high and high;
you want to reach a climax of sex. It is pictorial. You want to
reach to a peak. It simply represents a peak."
It may be so, it may not be so, but the analyst has imposed a
certain pattern on your dream. Now, slowly slowly, you will start
dreaming according to him, because every human being has a deep need
to be approved. And when you really dream a Freudian dream, the
analyst is so happy that the patient also feels happy that he is
doing something really great. Because of this, by and by he will
dream more and more sexual dreams, remember more and more sexual
dreams. May start editing dreams - and very unconsciously. May drop
a few things, may add a few things. Will give it a colour - a
Freudian colour.
After six months of psychoanalysis with a Freudian, all your dreams
will be just sexuality and nothing else.
Go to a Jungian and things start changing. Now, flying is no more a
sexual symbol - it is occult. It is the desire of the human soul to
reach to the ultimate. It is esoteric. Another interpretation is
enforced, and soon you will have visions of Masters talking to you,
pure voices descending upon you, great light, kundalini, lotuses
opening within you... and things will start happening. And within
six months you will be a perfect Jungian dreamer.
Go to the Adlerian, and the same dream, that you are flying, and the
interpretation is different. The Adlerian says, "Flying high is
nothing but an effort to become superior - man suffers from
inferiority complexes. To be low is inferior; to fly high, above
everybody else, is to be superior." Another interpretation is
enforced on you.
People start dreaming the way they are expected to dream. So even
dreaming is not so innocent as you think. The Master cannot depend
on your dreaming either. He simply goes beyond all your layers; he
looks through all the layers. He looks through all the chaos that
you are. You are not in order, you are not a discipline. There are a
thousand and one contradictions in you, so no one particular idea
can be imposed on you.
The Master′s work is not to impose any particular interpretation on
you - he has none. He simply tries to see the whole chaos that you
are, the whole contradiction that you are, the crowd, the mob, that
you are, the so many small selves in you without any real centre,
the civil war that goes on within you. He goes on seeing it.
And if he feels that it will be helpful for you, then he can be
deceived by you - but that is willed by him. You cannot deceive him
on your own. There is no way. He has eyes! He is no more blind. He
looks through and through. And, in fact, to deceive a Master is
impossible, but even to deceive a man who has a little observation
is difficult. If you just start a little observation, it will be
impossible for anybody to deceive you. Just a little observation!
For example, a woman says to you, "I love you." Watch her eyes - if
she really loves you, you will see her eyes changing, her eyes
expanding, the black dot in the eye becoming bigger - immediately!
if she really loves you. She is opening up. And this is not DONE by
her: she is opening up in the eyes because she wants to drink more
of you.
Just as eyes change: when you go into the sun the eyes become
smaller, because too much sun is not needed to go in. When you come
back to the home in the darkness, the pupils dilate, they become
bigger; more light is needed to come in. When a woman says to a man,
"I love you," if she is falsifying, if she is just trying to deceive
the man, maybe is interested in his money or in something else, her
eyes will not cooperate with her statement. And there is no way to
will the cooperation of the eyes. Spontaneously, if she loves you,
pupils dilate, become bigger. She opens up. She wants you to be in.
Just watch people: they say one thing, and their face says another
thing. They may be saying one thing with their mouth, and another
thing with their hand gesture. Just a little observation and nobody
can deceive you.
A Broadway agent returned home...
...and found one of his biggest clients in the arms of his wife.
"Stop sounding like a TV melodrama,
Harry," the client told him, cutting short a tirade of
denunciations. "Let′s treat this situation like adults. We both love
your wife. All right, then, let′s play one game of gin rummy - and
the winner gets her."
The agent thought for a moment, then said, "Okay, but just to make
it interesting, let′s play for a dime a point on the side."
How long can you deceive? How can you deceive?
Danny was an inveterate bargain hunter...
He hadn′t a penny to his
name, but whenever he saw a bargain he couldn′t resist it.
One day a friend of his came to see him.
Jim said, "Danny, I′ve got
a terrific bargain for you. A boat-load has arrived for the Barnum
and Bailey Circus and they have an overstock. They′ve got an
elephant on board, a baby elephant, that′s worth at least $2,000,
and I can land it for you for only $300."
Danny looked at Jim as if he were half crazy.
"What! An elephant! An
elephant in my one-room apartment? You must be out of your mind! In
the first place, there′s no room for it. And in the second place,
how could I feed it? In the third place, what could I do with it?
Don′t be nuts!"
"But," persisted Jim, "I′m telling you this elephant is worth two
thousand bucks and I can get it for you for a mere three hundred,
maybe even two hundred and fifty."
Danny was adamant. "Get the hell out of here, will you? You′re off
your rocker. I don′t need an elephant. I don′t want an elephant.
Leave me alone with elephants."
But Jim knew his friend and he continued hammering away.
"Listen,
Danny," he said, "the fact is they have an overstock. You know, I
think if I put it to them I could get you two elephants for the same
two hundred bucks."
"Now you′re talkin′," said Danny.
Your reality, your mind, is always there below your skin. It is
just skin-deep - scratch it a little and the truth comes out.
You cannot deceive even a man who knows a little observation - how
can you deceive a Master? But if the Master feels it is good for
you, it may be helpful for your growth, it may bring something up,
it may take you through a breakthrough, then the Master is ready to
do anything. Yes, he is ready even to be deceived by you.