Language Of Silence

Personality Disappears

The moment you take the jump into the vertical, personality disappears; you are no more A, B, C.

Then the taste is the same just as from wherever you taste the ocean it is the same salty taste. The taste of truth is one. It is the same truth that Jesus tasted, it is the same truth that Buddha and Mahavira tasted. It is the same truth that I am tasting and you can taste. And that taste knows no time, no distances.

Each Master contains all the Masters of the past and all the Masters of the future. Buddha contains all the Masters that have been and all the Masters that will ever be – because the taste is the same. When you disappear, when the ego is no more there and there is only an inner empty sky, when the forms of the clouds have disappeared into the formless sky, then how can there be any difference?

Yes, clouds are different from each other: if you watch the sky, each cloud has a personality, a different form. You can even search – one cloud looks like an elephant, another cloud looks like a camel, and so on, so forth. But when all the clouds have disappeared, have you ever seen any personality in the sky? The sky is impersonal; it has no form, no color, no name. You cannot find your elephants and camels in the sky, it is utterly empty of all forms. That is the state of a Master.

So whether it happens in this body or it happened twenty-five Centuries before, in Mahavira’s body, or it happened five thousand years before, in Krishna’s body, it makes no difference. The sky was as formless in Krishna’s time as it is in Buddha’s time, as it will always be. Only clouds are different; but to be cloudy is to be unenlightened.

Unenlightened people cannot be compared. You will be surprised to know this: unenlightened people cannot be compared. They are all different, because they are clouds: one is the elephant, another is the camel, and so on, so forth. Unenlightened people cannot be compared because they are Wearing masks, and each is wearing a different mask; that is the personality. The non-essential is so important, and the non-essential is different. The essential is not different.

In fact, one has to drop all that one knows to go in. Mahavira dropped whatsoever he knew. Buddha dropped whatsoever he knew. When Mahavira became completely devoid of his knowledge, he attained. That’s how it happened to Buddha: whatsoever Buddha knew, Buddha dropped it. So Buddha may have dropped a bigger burden than Mahavira, that is true, but that makes no problem. Buddha may have had to clean and wash more dust from his mirror than Mahavira ever had to, but once the dust is cleaned and the mirror is reflecting perfectly, it is the same quality, the same mirroring It has nothing to do with dust.

Will you say that this mirror is great because we had to remove more dust from this mirror than the other mirror, because less dust was to be removed from the other mirror? Less and more dust makes no difference.

Once a person has arrived, all that we know is irrelevant. He simply disappears from the world of time into the world of eternity – and that is the world of truth.