So they had to poison him, they could not just ignore him.īut Pythagoras is completely ignored, and he has the same key as Gautam Buddha, Jesus, or any other enlightened one. They had wanted to ignore Socrates too, but he was too much. They have ignored their best: Heraclitus, Socrates, Pythagoras, Plotinus.
And the Greeks have completely ignored him. They wrote it mechanically…because not a single disciple of Pythagoras rose to his heights, not a single one became enlightened. Pythagoras was not understood even by his own disciples, not even by those who wrote down the Golden Verses. To understand is so dangerous, because then you will be misunderstood. If you know, you are bound to be misunderstood, that is certain. He was one of the most misunderstood men, obviously. This is the first on my list this evening: Heraclitus. The river is constantly flowing going, going, going to the ocean, to the infinite, going to disappear into the unknown. Heraclitus says in the Fragments, “You cannot step in the same river twice.” And then he says: “No, you cannot step in the same river even once….” This is tremendously beautiful, and true too.Įverything is changing, and changing so fast that there is no way to step in the same river twice you can’t even step in the same river once. There must be something, some reason why these people do not write, but of that a little later. He says in these Fragments – again the notes of a Devageet, a disciple…. He is just far out – dangerously awakened, unafraid of the consequences of what he was saying. There is no one, I repeat, who can be put in the same category as Heraclitus. Now I am saying what I really wanted to say always. In fact, even to say that is not true there is no one. There are very few whom I can put in the same category as Heraclitus. I love Jaydeva as much as I love Heraclitus, but Heraclitus I like too. I like a few and I don’t like a few, but I love all. Let me mention it, just by the way, as a note in the margin, that I love all but I don’t like all. So, ten more.įirst: The Fragments of Heraclitus. I was not thinking so many others would start bugging me. It was just by the way that I mentioned ten beautiful books.
I had not thought of it before, because I am not a thinker and I never think before I jump. But there is a queue standing at the door. I feel a great relief because I am finished with Jaydeva forever.
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