12/03/2024
Why Yoga is Better than Drugs
Krishnamurti is right. Very difficult to understand, but he is right. All experiences are through chemical change тАУ all, without any exception. Whether you take L*D or you fast, in both the ways body goes through chemical change. Whether you take ma*****na or you do a certain pranayam, a breathing exercise, in both ways body goes through chemical change. Try to understand it.
When you fast, what happens? Your body loses a few chemicals because they have to be supplied every day by the food. If you donтАЩt supply those chemicals, the body loses those chemicals. Then the ordinary balance of the chemicals is lost; and because fasting creates an imbalance you can start feeling a few things. If you fast long enough you will have hallucinations. If you fast for twenty-one days or more you will become incapable of judging whether what you are seeing is real or unreal, because for it a particular chemical is needed and that is lost.
All experiences are chemical, without any exception. When you breathe very much you create much oxygen inside the body; the quantity of nitrogen falls. More oxygen changes inner chemicals. You start feeling things which you never felt. If you whirl around as in dervish dances, spin fast, the body changes; the chemicals change through spinning. You feel dizzy; a new world opens. All experiences are chemical.
When you are hungry the world looks different. When you are satisfied, satiated, the world looks different. A poor man has one world and a rich man has a different world; their chemicals differ. An intelligent man has one world and a stupid man has a different world; their chemicals differ. A woman has one world a man has a different world; their chemicals differ.
When one becomes s*xually mature, at the age of fourteen or fifteen, a different world arises because new chemicals are flowing in the bloodstream. For a child of seven, if you talk about s*x and s*xual or**sm, he will think you are foolish тАУ тАЬWhat nonsense are you talking?тАЭ тАУ because those chemicals are not flowing, those hormones are not in the bloodstream. But at the moment of the age of fourteen, fifteen, the eyes are full of new chemicals; an ordinary woman is suddenly transformed.
All experiences are chemical тАУ but one distinction has to be made. There are two ways. One is to put the chemicals in тАУ inject them, smoke them, or throw them in the body. They come from the outside; they are intruders. ThatтАЩs what all drug people are doing around the world. The other way is to change the body by fasting, breathing.... ThatтАЩs what all the yogis have been doing in the East. They belong to the same path; the difference is very little. The difference is that drug people take drugs from the outside, they intrude on the biochemistry of the body, and the yogis try to change the balance of their own body, not to intrude from the outside. But as far as I am concerned, they are the same.
But if you have any urge to experience, I will tell you to choose the path of the yogis, because that way you will not be dependent, you will be more independent. That way you will never become an addict, and that way your body will retain its purity, its organic unity. That way, at least, you will not be an offense to the law тАУ no police raid possible. That way you can go beyond easily. That is the most important thing.
If you take chemicals from the outside into the body, you will remain with them. It will be difficult, more and more difficult every day, to go beyond. In fact you will become more and more dependent, so dependent that you will lose all life, all the charm of life, and the drug experience alone will become your whole life, the whole center of it.
If you move through Yoga, through the inner changes in the chemistry of the body, you will never be dependent and you will be able to go beyond. The whole point of religion is to go beyond experiences. Whether you experience beautiful colors тАУ rainbows all around through L*D тАУ or you experience heaven through Yoga exercises, basically there is no difference. In fact until you go beyond all experiences, all objective experiences, until you come to the point where only the witness remains and no experience to be experienced, only the experiencer remains, you have not touched the boundary of religion.
The real religious experience is not an experience at all. Religious experience is not experience: it is to come to the experiencer where everything known/unknown, knowable/ unknowable, disappears. Only the witnessing self remains, only a pure consciousness, with no experience to contaminate it.
The reality is your consciousness. Everything else has to be transcended. If you can remember that, then one has to pass through all experiences, but one does have to pass through.
If you are after experiences too much, as everyone is тАУ that is part of the growth тАУ it is better to choose Yoga exercises than drugs. They are more subtle, Yoga exercises, more refined.
Krishnamurti is not saying something new. It is the experience of all the Buddhas. But, remember, an experience can become an experience to you only when you attain to it. Nobody can give it to you; it cannot be borrowed. If you are still childish and you feel that you need some experiences, it is better to have them through Yoga exercises. Finally, that too has to be dropped.
But if you choose between L*D and pranayam, it is better to choose pranayam. You will be less dependent and you will be more capable of transcending, because the awareness will not be lost in it. In L*D the awareness will be lost completely.
Always choose a higher thing. Whenever there is a possibility, and you want to choose, choose a higher thing. A moment will come when you will not like to choose anything...then choicelessness.------OSHO.
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