ILLUSION OF INDIVIDUALITY

Right now, though you have a carpet and a little bit of concrete between you and the earth, Mother Earth sees you as just an outcrop of herself. When she decides, she will suck you back; don’t have any illusions about it. Whatever you may think of yourself, she will suck you back because she experiences you as a part of herself.

Even now, if you lose connection with everything that she is, she is just water, air, earth, fire, and space. This is what she is, and this is what you are; but you think you are different. You need to understand this – thought is not unique to you either. If you could build a body, it is because the earth has a body. If you can have blood circulation, the earth has its own circulations. If you have thoughts, so do the planet, the universe, and the creation. It is just that when you are too full of your own stuff, you don’t get to perceive the larger thought of the creation and the Creator. If there was no thought in the creation, how would you get it?

You are just a small manifestation in this creation. It is this thought which, when used compulsively or recklessly, separates you from the existence. It is this thought, when employed irresponsibly, that makes you think you are a separate creation by yourself.

Today morning, the sun came up wonderfully. The planet is spinning on time. And not just this planet – every planet and satellite in this solar system is actually spinning on time. Everything happens on time and wonderfully well; not just in this solar system – everywhere in the universe. In the whole cosmos of these billions of galaxies, everything has been in order – it is a successful day. [Laughter] But just one lousy little thought is worming through your mind right now and you say, “This is a bad day.” Nothing bad has happened except your lousy thought, [laughs] and this lousy thought has become bigger than the whole cosmic exuberance of creation. This means you are too full of yourself, isn’t it so?

When some disastrous event happens in this cosmos, I will let you know, so that you will have enough reason to be miserable; till then, you have no reason, you know? If there is any great disaster happening in the cosmic space, I will let you know; then you can call it a lousy day. Right now, it is just one lousy thought worming through your brain because you are so horribly identified with your own nonsense that you can miss a limitless cosmic space and be entangled in this one lousy thought.

All thoughts are lousy. If you perceived something fantastic 1 , there wouldn’t be a thought in your head in that moment. So there is some good news for you and some bad news for you. Let me tell you a little joke. A patient went to a surgeon, for a surgery. The doctor said “I have some good news for you and some bad news for you.” So the patient asked, “What’s the bad news?” He said, “See, this is a very complex surgery. Even the medical text says only one out of hundred survive this surgery.” The patient just wilted away in fear. “So what is the good news?” The doctor said, “Well, the last 99 surgeries that I did, all of them died.” [Laughter]
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