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it - please note that, but they arose by this flame and fire and the very breath of God.
People come to look upon the past as a nuisance. Ideas arise and die, or are mutilated or destroyed. We see philosophers murdering each other, sects fighting one another. Then there are the multitudes of people who say that Yoga is not for all of us! Who told you that? What can I do with such people, that is my problem. This is how we have scandalized ourselves.
Hindu thought had to be rethought. Take Kanada, or Kapila, or Badarayana, or Jaimini. What lives on in the most secret places of my heart is not their scholarship, abundant as that is, but the spirit of their teaching. It is so easy to laugh at their systems. But has anybody studied the six darshanas? How many of us have taken seriously a Patanjali, or a Kapila, and really considered their teachings? And it is these same people who have been abusing even the Buddha and Mahavira with this same intelligence-I mean their colossal ignorance! Therefore, these darshanas have become meaningless to us. But do you think that there was a time, or rather that there was not a time when these darshanas were not living to us?
But what has happened today? Where is Jaimini's Purva Mimamsa speaking of gods and of supramental powers? We do not know. We think only that a Naiyayika will be reborn as a jackal in his next life. We think of the mimamsakas as those eating mamsa. Of Badarayana, we think he is a wool- gatherer!
How many have seriously thought to what comical postures we have reduced these darshanakaras. This has made me miserable, this extraordinary ignorance we have produced.
I don't want to go into details, but to tell you the need for a new darshana.
Are you alive, or are you dead? Please answer this question. Are you satisfied that you are alive? How can I say 'I exist'? Some only exist if they have a car. They must have a car to exist! Others exist only if they have objects of their desires. Remove these objects, and they cease to exist. Some exist by jobs. If a man has no job, or has lost his job, what does he say? "Please give me a job, so that I can exist". If such people have no jobs, they