Stopped In Our Tracks
Stories of U.G. In India from the Notebooks of K. ChandrasekharTranslated and Edited by J.S.R.L. Narayana Moorty 2d/3d Series
You Are Very Safe, You Can't Blast Me
U.G.: What I am saying will create and intensify the neurotic situation there. Don't listen to me. Fortunately, you have a very thick skin. Nothing is going to penetrate that. You are safe. Gowdapada provides the gloves, the Bhagavad Gita provides a coat jacket. Brahmasutras provide a leather bullet-proof trousers so you are safe.
Q: You are condemning whatever has been said before. Don't you think you may also be condemned and blasted...?
U.G.: If you have the guts, I will be the first person to salute you. You can't do that because you are relying upon the Gita and the Upanishads—not upon yourself. If you have the guts, you will be the only person who can make what I am saying false. You don't have to say that. I myself am saying that what I am saying is false, as far as you are concerned. A Gowdapada could do it, but he is not here. You are reading and repeating what Gowdapada had said. It is a worthless statement, as far as you are concerned.
Q: It is a hopeless situation.
U.G.: The situation is not hopeless. You want to be in that hopeless situation because you don't want to be free from selfishness, from fear, jealousy, envy, etc. The hope is in selfishness, the hope is in greed, in anger, in jealousy, and not in the practice of opposites.
Q: You are condemning whatever has been said before. Don't you think you may also be condemned and blasted...?
U.G.: If you have the guts, I will be the first person to salute you. You can't do that because you are relying upon the Gita and the Upanishads—not upon yourself. If you have the guts, you will be the only person who can make what I am saying false. You don't have to say that. I myself am saying that what I am saying is false, as far as you are concerned. A Gowdapada could do it, but he is not here. You are reading and repeating what Gowdapada had said. It is a worthless statement, as far as you are concerned.
Q: It is a hopeless situation.
U.G.: The situation is not hopeless. You want to be in that hopeless situation because you don't want to be free from selfishness, from fear, jealousy, envy, etc. The hope is in selfishness, the hope is in greed, in anger, in jealousy, and not in the practice of opposites.
