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A Note at the Beginning | 2. | 3. | 4. | 5. | 6. PUBLISHERS NOTE “Why bother publishing my conversations? It has not helped you, and it is not going to help anybody else”, said U.G. when I approached him with the idea of publishing excerpts from his conversations with the constant stream of people who go to visit him. Despite his view on the matter, I went ahead and published the first book some years ago. U.G. called it the “Mistake of Enlightenment”. Mistake or no mistake, the book, “The Mystique of Enlightenment" was a sell-out. It was subsequently translated and published in almost all European languages. The Chinese and Russian translations are awaiting publication. A demand for reprints of the book gave me impetus to publish instead this companion volume “Mind is a Myth”, Disquieting Conversations with the Man called U.G. This book is a little similar to, and a lot different from “The Mystique of Enlightenment”. PUBLISHER DINESH VAGHELA --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- T
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I. The Certainty that Blasts Everything

I can never sit on a platform and talk. It is too artificial. It is a waste of time to sit and discuss things in hypothetical or abstract terms. An angry man does not sit and talk and converse pleasantly about anger; he is too angry. So don't tell me that you are in crisis, that you are angry. Why talk of anger? You live and die in the hope that someday, somehow, you will no longer be angry. You are burdened with hope, and if this life seems hopeless, you invent the next life. There are no lives to come. Well, it certainly cannot be said that your talking gives hope to anyone. Why do you talk if not to console or instruct? What am I to do? You come, I talk. Do you want me to criticize you, to throw stones? It is useless, for you are affected by nothing, having erected an impenetrable armor around yourself. You feel nothing. Unable to understand your situation, you react through thought, which is your ideas and mentations. Reaction is thought. The pain you are going through there is
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