我想要你成为绝对自私的人，爱你自己，成为你自己。不要被任何人分割——棕教的、zhengzhi的、shehui的、教育的。你的首要责任既不是棕教也不是guojia，你的首要责任是你自己。
只要想想：如果每个人都爱他自己，关心他自己，他的智力会达到顶峰，他的爱会洋溢。对我来说，自私的哲学会使他成为真正利他的，因为他拥有如此之多可以分享，如此之多可以给予，那个给予对他来说是一种喜悦，那个分享对他来说是一种庆祝。
利他只能是自爱的副产品。
因为你不爱你自己，你会感到虚弱——爱就是养分，它使你强壮。
这样，你怎么能感觉到有责任心？你继续将自己的责任丢到别人身上，神要负责，命运要负责，亚当和夏娃要负责。那条蛇引诱夏娃违逆神——那条蛇要负责。
你能看出把责任丢给别人的愚蠢吗？——一条蛇，也许已经是几百万年前了......我尽力尝试去与一条蛇进行一个小小的沟通——但它不说话。事实上，它甚至没听见。我发现蛇没有耳朵，耳朵不是它们身体的一部分。而如果它们无法听，怎么能说？它们是怎么说服夏娃的？但我们必须将自己的责任丢给别人。亚当把它丢给夏娃，夏娃把它丢给蛇。——那条蛇——如果它会说话——就会把责任丢给神。我们就是这样一直在推卸自己的责任，却不知道除非你为自己负起全责，否则你还不是一个真正意义上的个体。
逃避责任摧毁了你的个体性，但只有当你对自己有着无比的爱才能接受这个责任。
我接受我的责任，并乐在其中。我从不将自己的责任推到任何人身上，因为那样会失去自由，那会变成奴隶，任由他人摆布。无论我是什么，我都完整完全地对此负责。这给了我巨大的力量，它使我扎根，归于中心。这个责任感的根源就是，我爱我自己。
我也经历过同样的群体剥削，但从最开始我就很明确，如果是被人推着进天堂那我会拒绝。我宁愿下地狱，至少那是我独立的选择。
我的父母、老师、教授们和我博弈。但我说，“有一件事是确定的：我不会接受任何成为奴隶的好处，我宁愿承受永恒的地狱之火，但我会做我自己。至少那样让我更快乐——这是我的选择，没人强迫我。”
像个囚犯一样被送进天堂，你觉得你会快乐吗？跟在椰酥基嘟或摩西或佛佗或克里希那的屁股后面进了天堂——那将是什么样的天堂？他们只希望你盲目相信，不能问任何问题，不能去探索任何事。那样的天堂比地狱还难受。
但人们已经被迫与自己的源头割裂了。
我想要你回家。尊敬你自己，感到喜悦和骄傲，因为存在需要你，否则你不会在这里。为此高兴吧，因为存在不能没有你。首先，那就是你在这里的原因：存在给了你这个机会，给了你这个生命，有无量的宝藏隐藏在你的内在——美丽、狂喜、自由。
但你却不在！你是基嘟徒、佛教徒、印度徒，我想要你只相信一件事：存在。不需要去任何教堂或教会。为何不去体验天空、星辰、日落日出、花朵盛开、鸟儿歌唱......整个存在都是一个布道！不要被愚蠢的教士蒙蔽——它无处不在。
你只需信任自己：那是爱自己的另一种说法。当你信任和爱自己，毫无疑问，你会负起自己的全部责任，你论你是什么，你是谁，全都扛到自己肩上。这会让你无比丰富，没有人能再奴役你。
我的桑雅士不是我的追随者——那对你是非常不尊重的。而对那些爱你的人如此地不尊重，那是一个人能做出的最丑陋的事。
我只想当一个陪你旅行的伙伴，我不是你的领路人，也不是你的拯救者。我不会把你的责任扛到自己肩上，也不想要你把自己的责任推到任何人身上。
I want you to become absolutely selfish. Love yourself, be yourself. Don't be distracted by any type of people -- religious, political, social, educational. Your first responsibility is neither towards religion nor towards nation. Your first responsibility is towards yourself.
And just see: if everybody is loving himself, caring about himself, his intelligence will come to its peak, his love will be overflowing. To me, the philosophy of selfishness will make him really altruistic because he will have so much to share, so much to give, that giving will become a joy to him, that sharing will be a celebration to him.
Altruism can only be a by-product of self-love.
Because you don't love yourself, you feel weak -- because love is nourishment, it is your strength.
Naturally, how can you feel responsible? You go on throwing your responsibility on somebody else's shoulders. God is responsible, fate is responsible, Adam and Eve are responsible. The serpent who seduced Eve to disobey God -- that serpent is responsible.
Can you see the idiocy of all this dumping your responsibility on somebody? -- a serpent, perhaps millions of years ago.... I have tried hard to make some little conversation with a serpent, with a snake -- they don't speak. In fact, they don't even hear. I discovered that serpents don't have ears, ears are not part of their physiology. And if they cannot hear, how can they speak? And how could they persuade Eve?But we have to dump our responsibility on somebody else. Adam dumps it on Eve. Eve dumps it on the serpent. The serpent -- if he could speak -- would dump it on God. This way we go on throwing our responsibility, without understanding that unless your are responsible for yourself you are not truly an individual.
Shirking responsibility is destructive to your individuality. But you can accept responsibility only when you have tremendous love for yourself.
I accept my responsibility, and I rejoice in it. I have never dumped my responsibility on anybody else, because that is losing freedom, that is becoming enslaved, at the mercy of others. Whatsoever I am, I am wholly and solely responsible for it. This gives me a great strength. It gives me roots, centering. But the source of this responsibility is, I love myself.
I have also been through the same type of mass exploitation. But from the very beginning I made it clear that if I am going to be pushed into heaven I will refuse it. Of my own will I am ready to go to hell. At least I will have my independence, my choice.
My parents, my teachers, my professors struggled with me. But I said, "One thing is certain: I cannot accept any bribery to become a slave. I would rather suffer for the whole eternity in hellfire, but I will remain myself. At least that much joy I will have -- that this is my choice, nobody has forced me."
Taken as a prisoner into paradise, do you think you can enjoy it? Going into paradise following Jesus Christ, or Moses, or Buddha, or Krishna -- what kind of paradise will that be, where you are expected to be blind believers; you cannot ask a question, you cannot inquire about anything. That paradise will be worse than hell.
But people have been distracted from their very source.
I want you to come back home. Respect yourself. Feel the joy and the pride that existence needs you; otherwise you would not have been here. Rejoice that existence cannot be without you. In the first place that's why you are here: existence has given you an opportunity, a life with tremendous treasures hidden within you -- of beauty, of ecstasy, of freedom.
But you are not existential! You are Christian, you are Buddhist, you are Hindu. And I want you only to believe in one thing: existence. There is no need to go to any synagogue or any church. If you cannot experience the sky, the stars, the sunset, the sunrise, the flowers blossoming, the birds singing.... The whole of existence is a sermon! Not prepared by some stupid priest -- it is all over the place.
You just need to trust yourself: that is another name for loving yourself. And when you trust and love yourself, obviously you have taken all the responsibility of whatever you are, whoever you are, upon your own shoulders. That gives such a tremendous experience of being that nobody can enslave you again.
My sannyasins are not my followers -- that would be very disrespectful towards you. And to be disrespectful towards the people who love him is the ugliest act anybody can do.
I want to be just a fellow traveler with you. I am not your leader, I am not your savior. I don't take any responsibility on myself, and I don't want you to dump your responsibility on anybody.From Death to Deathlessness
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