he did not publish his book
Posted at 10:51, 15.12.2006
One great mathematician was working on a thesis to prove that mathematics is a complete science -- the only complete science. And Bertrand Russell sent him a small puzzle, that "Before you publish your book, please answer this puzzle." The puzzle was that every library of the nation is told to make a list, a catalogue of all the books in the library. Make two catalogues, one will remain in the library, and the other has to be sent to the central library of the country. Now the question arose in one of the librarian's, "What we have to do about this one catalogue that remains in the library, whether to include it in the catalogue or not? Because it is book in the library, and all the books have to be included in the catalogue." He was very much puzzled. He inquired the central library what to do. The central library was itself in a great puzzle, because they were making two catalogues -- one that was going to be in the central library and one that was going to the king. The same question was again there: what to do with the catalogue in the library. You cannot put it in the other catalogue, because it is only a catalogue. But you have to put it because it is a book also, and it is in the library. The mathematician who was working on the thesis was Gödel, one of the greatest mathematicians of this century. Because he could not solve his problem, he did not publish his book.
Nobody can predict the future of anybody. The future is unpredictable, and future is open. Somebody may be very loving to you today, and may turn out tomorrow just the opposite. You could have never thought that this man can be so full of hate towards you, but love turns into hate very easily. But a real friendship is unconditional.
To go inwards is the most difficult journey in the world. It needs a certain atmosphere, a certain milieu: Meditation which means witnessing on three levels: action of the body, thoughts of the mind, and feelings of the heart. Once a person becomes aware of these three things, the fourth step happens on its own accord. A quantum leap, suddenly he is at his very centre, which is his life, deathless life. You can call it his soul, his being, and it is the greatest bliss in existence. There is nothing above it. Zorbas represents the foundation, and Buddha represents the temple. Both can exist only together, and up to now there has been a dichotomy. The materialist, who is a Zorbas, has denied the very possibility of any buddhahood, any awakening, any consciousness -- anything more than eat, drink and be merry. And the people, who have been spiritualists, have been condemning the Zorbas and all that is natural to man, his body. They have been creating a repressive human being, sick, schizophrenic. In fact, both are complementary, not contradictory.
