India has been the source of all religions. India has been the basic source of even those religions which are against Hinduism. Why has it happened that India has been the basic source of all religions? India is the oldest civilization, and the whole mind of India has been working and working in the dimension of religion. It has come upon all the secrets of religion – no secret is unknown. Infect, for thousands of years you have not been able to teach any secret to India about religion, because they know all. They have discovered all; they have completed the whole journey in the way. So all that is beautiful in religion, wherever it is, you can be certain that some how it comes from India. And only two types of mind exist in the world: one is Greek, the other is Indian.
If you are basically a Greek mind, it is impossible to understand India at all because it looks absurd.
Whatsoever they say looks meaningless. Aristotle will be an absolute foreigner in India because eh believes in definitions, clear-cut demarcations, distinctions. And he bereaves in the law of contradiction that two contradictory things cannot be together: A cannot be A and not A simultaneous that is impossible; man cannot be alive and dead simultaneously, that is impossible. Apparently he is right.
Hindu believes in contradiction. They say man is alive and dead, both simultaneously, because life and death are not two things, you cannot demarcate them. The Greek mid is mathematical, the Hindu mind is mystical. All mysticism comes from India; just as the sun arises In the East, all the mysticism raises in the East—and India is the heart. For this sutra to be understood you have to go to the Upanishads, the roots are there…
swamyshiva
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Once in a while on this Earth there arises a soul who, by living his tradition rightly and wholly, perfects his path and becomes a light to the world. Swamyshiva was such a being, a living example of awakening and wisdom.
