Proprietary Striving
The seventh layer is proprietary striving.
The artist, the mystic, the utopian, the dreamer — they are hooked there. They are always trying to create an utopia in the word. The word utopia is very beautiful: it means that Which never comes. It is always coming but it never comes; it is always there but never here. But there are moon-gazers who go on looking for the faraway, the distant, and they are always Moving in imagination. Great poets, imaginative people — their whole ego is involved in becoming. There is somebody who wants to become God; he is a mystics. Remember, ‘becoming’ is the key word on the seventh, and the seventh is the last of the ego. The most mature ego comes there. That’s why you will feel, you will see a post – he may not have mystic may have renounced the whole and may be sitting in a Himalayan cage, in a Himalayan cave. You go there and look at him: he may be sitting there naked – but such a subtle ego, such a refined ego. He may even touch your feet, but he is showing, “Look how humble I am!”
There are seven doors. When the ego is perfect, all these seven doors have been crossed; then that mature ego drops on its own accord. The child is before these seven egos, and the Buddha is after these sever egos. It is a complete circle.
