These are the sutras achieved by ultimate wisdom. They are deep and sometimes very complex, even contradictory, but they are the ultimate flowering of wisdom.
When a Buddha becomes a Buddha or a Christ becomes a Christ, these sutras are then revealed. If you can understand them, even understanding will transform you. If you can feel the reality hidden in them, you will be an altogether different man. So try to understand them very deeply.
The first sutra:
Stand aside in the coming battle, and though thou fightest be not thou the warrior.

He is thyself, yet thou art but finite and liable to error. He is eternal and is sure. He is eternal truth. When once he has entered thee and become thy warrior, he will never utterly desert thee, and at the day of the great peace he will become one with thee.
Stand aside in the coming battle, and though thou fightest be not thou the warrior. We are in a constant fight with ourselves. A struggle continues night and day. The whole of life is a battlefield, but you reach nowhere. You are neither totally defeated nor are you victorious. The struggle continues, and life energy is unnecessarily dissipated. You just waste yourself and your existence. What is the cause? Why are you never victorious? Why does the struggle never end?
You fight with sex, you fight with anger, you fight with greed. You fight with everything, but still you remain in the grip of those things you are fighting. The more you fight sex, the more you are in its grip and the more you feel you have to fight more. It is a vicious circle. You fight more and then sex becomes more attractive, sex becomes more magnetic. You take many decisions not to be angry, but every decision is a failure. And the total result is that in the end you feel you are guilty, inferior. In the end you feel that you are not capable of doing anything, you feel an inner defeat.
This has happened to the whole of humanity. Humanity is so sad now – not because of anything else that has happened in this age but only because so many ages of religious fight, so many centuries of continuous religious struggle have proved to the human mind that nothing can be achieved. The human mind feels a deep failure. That failure creates sadness and depression.
Hope has become hopeless. There seems to be no way out of it. You can struggle, but everything is futile, a waste: no one achieves anything. It has not happened because the human mind is incapable of victory. It has happened because the base of the struggle is wrong, the whole effort of the struggle is wrong. Why? – because you are fighting with yourself. How can you win?
If I create a conflict between my two hands, left and right, I can go on fighting but there will be no victory and no defeat, because both hands belong to me. The urge for sex belongs to me and the urge to go beyond sex also belongs to me: they are both my hands. I can go on fighting, I can go on changing parties, sometimes being with the right hand, sometimes with the left – but nothing is going to happen because I am within both. How can there be defeat or victory? For defeat and victory at least two are needed, and I am alone, fighting with myself. This whole fight is a shadow fight, nonsense.
What to do? This sutra gives you the key: Stand aside in the…battle, and though thou fightest be not thou the warrior. Stand aside. Be a witness.
Remember this word witness. This is one of the key words in the search for spirituality. If you can understand this word and practice it, you don’t need anything else. Even this one key will open all the doors of paradise. This is a master key, any lock can be opened by it. What does it mean to stand aside?
When sex arises in you, you get identified with it. Then, when you have moved through the sex act, depression sets in because you hoped for so much and nothing has happened. You longed for too much, you expected too much, and nothing has happened. The whole thing has just been a fraud. You feel betrayed, deceived. Then, repentance sets in and you start thinking in anti-sex terms. You start thinking about how to be a brahmacharya, how to be a celibate. You think in terms of being a monk: you go against sex. Then you get identified with that “anti” attitude.
Witnessing means: when sex arises, stand aside and look at it. Don’t get identified. Don’t say, “I have become sex,” say, “Sexual desire has arisen in me. Now I must observe it.” Don’t be for it and don’t be against it. Remain quiet and calm – just an observer.
That doesn’t mean suppress it, because suppression will not allow you to know what it is. Don’t suppress it. Suppression means that you are identified with the “anti” attitude. Remember this: if you suppress, you are identified with the “anti” attitude. Don’t suppress and don’t get identified. Allow it to happen. Don’t be afraid, just wait and watch.
Move in the sex act but with a watchful eye, knowing well what is happening and allowing it to happen. Not disturbing it, not suppressing it – allowing it to become manifest in its totality, but standing aside as if you are watching someone else.
The act will move to its peak. Go with it, but always standing at the side. Know whatsoever is happening in detail. Be alert, don’t lose awareness. Then, from the peak, you will start falling down and the “anti” attitude will set in. Be alert again. Don’t get identified with the “anti” attitude. Look at what is happening: the wave has gone up to a peak, now the wave is falling down. Sex is the wave arising. Brahmacharya, the “anti” attitude toward sex, is the wave falling down.
Be aware, be alert. Don’t be for or against, don’t condemn, don’t make any judgment. Don’t be a judge, just be a witness. Don’t say, “This is good, that is bad.” Don’t say anything. Just be alert and watch what is happening. Be true to the facts; don’t give any interpretation. That’s what witnessing means.
If you can be a witness with sex and the anti-sex attitude, you will come to a great understanding. That understanding will tell you that sex and anti-sex are two poles of one wave. They are not really “anti,” they are just the rising and falling of the same wave. They are one, so there is nothing to choose. If you choose one you have already chosen the other, because it is part of it – the hidden part. If you choose one you have already chosen the other because the other cannot be separated from it. They are one, so there is no choice. Then, choicelessness happens to you.
That choicelessness is the path of victory. Now you don’t choose; there is nothing to choose. And a miracle happens: when you don’t choose, both fall away. Sex and brahmacharya both disappear and for the first time you are not in their clutches. For the first time you are not in the hold of the opposites. You have fallen out.
Witnessing is the beginning, and witnessing is the end. The first step and the last step are one. Witnessing is the means and witnessing is the goal. Then the fight goes on, but you are not the warrior. Now the fighting is on a different level. What is that different level of fighting?
Now, sex and anti-sex are simultaneously present to you. This simultaneous presence of the opposites is the fight. They fight with each other, and you remain a witness. Because they are opposites, anti-poles, they destroy each other completely and both disappear. They are of the same strength and the same energy. They cut each other out, they negate each other.
This is the fight. But you are not the warrior, you are just a witness. You are just looking from above: a watcher on the hills. Down in the valley the fight will go on, but now you are just a watcher on the tower. You just look down and you know they are fighting, the opposites are fighting. They negate each other because they are of the same strength.
Remember this: only a very deeply sexual person can become a brahmacharya. Strong sexual desire can be converted into brahmacharya. If you are just ordinarily sexual you cannot become a brahmacharya because to become a brahmacharya much energy is needed. And the opposite energies are always equivalent, so only very deeply sexual persons become brahmacharyas. Ordinary persons, with ordinary, natural sex, never move to it, they cannot. The energy to move comes from sex. Opposite energies are equivalent.
You need not fight, you need not take part from this side or that side. That is the way of defeat. Just remain aside, get out of the circle – be a witness.
It is difficult because the mind wants to choose; the mind always chooses. The mind is the chooser because, without choosing, there will be no mind. You will fall out of the mind if you fall out of choice. That’s why it is so difficult not to choose.
Even what I am saying… Many of you may choose to follow what I am saying, but you will choose to do so for a reason. People come to me and when I say, “Be a witness,” they immediately ask, “If I become a witness, will sexuality disappear?” They cannot become a witness because they have already chosen. They ask, “Will sexuality disappear if I become a witness?” They are even ready to become a witness if sexuality will disappear!
But they have chosen, they have chosen to think that sexuality is bad and brahmacharya is good. They ask me, “If I become a witness will I become brahmacharya, will I become celibate?” They are missing the whole point. I am saying, “Don’t choose,” and they have already chosen. They want to use witnessing as an instrument for their choice. You cannot use witnessing that way.

A man came to me… He was a seeker, a serious seeker, but stupid. There are many stupid seekers – serious. And when I say stupid, I mean they can’t understand what they are doing. That man came to me and I told him…
The man was suffering from sex – everyone is suffering because of sex. The suffering has gone so deep that you don’t only suffer because of your own sexuality, you also suffer because of others’ sexuality. This seems to be madness. You suffer because of your own sexuality and you also suffer because of others’ sexuality, because of what others are doing.
Enough misery can be created by your own sexuality. Why be concerned with others? But that misery doesn’t seem to be enough for you, so you go on collecting what others are doing: who is doing wrong and who is being good. Who are you to decide? From where have you got the right? Who are you to become a policeman?
The man who came to see me was a policeman. He was suffering because of what everyone else was doing. But I told him, “Don’t be worried about others; the real problem must be within you. You have not yet come to terms with your sexuality – that is the problem. Why suffer because of others? Why create other problems? Just to escape from your own? Just to be occupied? Who has appointed you to be a policeman? Why waste your life? Somewhere you must be deeply sex-obsessed, that’s why you are concerned with others.”
So he said, “You have touched the right wound. I am now sixty-five, and I am still suffering. As I become older, I suffer more. It seems that sexuality is growing with my age. The energy is less, but the sexuality is more. As death is coming near, I feel to be more and more sexual. My whole mind, twenty-four hours a day is obsessed with sex.”
I told him, “You have been continuously fighting sex.” He was a great seeker; he had remained with so many saints, so many gurus. I told him, “They have destroyed you. You have reached nowhere. Whatsoever you have been doing is wrong. Now, don’t fight sex anymore.”
The man became afraid. He said, “I have been fighting sex. And this is the result: even with fighting I am so sexual. Now you say, ‘Don’t fight it!’ Then I will become completely mad.”
So I told him, “You have tried fighting – now try the other. You have reached nowhere. Now, don’t fight!”
“Then what,” he asked, “am I supposed to do?”
I told him, “Be a witness.”
He asked, “Will the sexuality disappear then?”
I told him, “If you become a witness with a partisan view – for brahmacharya, against sex – you cannot become a witness. And if you cannot become a witness, sexuality cannot disappear. Become a witness: sexuality will disappear, but remember, brahmacharya will also disappear with it. There is no need of brahmacharya when sexuality disappears. It is part of the same game. What is the need of brahmacharya? When sexuality has disappeared, when the disease has disappeared, what is the use of the medicine? It is part of the game! You will throw out the medicine with the disease. Or will you carry the medicine? – because ‘The illness has disappeared but I will carry the medicine’” So I told him, “Brahmacharya will also disappear. But remember not to choose.”
He said, “I will try.”
After three months – I told him to come back after three months – he came and he said, “But sex has not yet disappeared.” This is what I call stupidity. “Sex has not yet disappeared, and I have been practicing witnessing for three months.”

The unconscious choice remains: sex must disappear. Then you cannot be a witness. Witnessing means no choice, choiceless awareness.
This is one of the most fundamental keys for all the diseases of the human mind. If you can become a witness, the opposites fight against each other, kill each other, and both are dead, both disappear. But if you choose one of them, you cannot be a witness.
The second sutra:
Look for the warrior and let him fight in thee.

Look for him, else in the fever and hurry of the fight thou mayest pass him; and he will not know thee unless thou knowest him. If thy cry reach his listening ear, then will he fight in thee and fill the dull void within.
Look for the warrior and let him fight in thee. Don’t be the warrior, there is no need. The warrior is the phenomenon of simultaneously presenting to your consciousness both of the opposites.
Ordinarily, only one is present. When sex is present you are not thinking of brahmacharya. When brahmacharya is present, you are not thinking of sex. One is present and the other is hidden. This is the misery.
Bring out the other simultaneously, and this will become the warrior for you. Bring them out simultaneously. When you are filled with anger, immediately bring in repentance. You always repent, but later on. When you are angry, you are angry. When the anger has done its devastation, then repentance comes in and you start taking oaths: “I am not going to be angry again.” But the anger and the repentance never meet. Allow the opposites to meet. They will negate each other.
If you go on moving from one opposite to another, you will never be victorious. You have wasted many lives, and you can waste infinite lives. But this is the secret: bring the opposites out simultaneously, allow them to be simultaneously present before you. Don’t follow one. If you follow one, the other is waiting for you. When you are bored, when you get fed up with one, the other will catch hold of you.
If they cannot meet, they cannot negate each other. You need not do anything. This is the miracle, this is the inner chemistry. Bring the opposites together and just watch them. They will fight. Allow them to fight. You need not get involved in it, just remain at the side. They will disappear together. Once present together, they will not persist: they will disappear together.
So a Mahavira is not a brahmachari. Sex and brahmacharya have both disappeared. He is just innocent, he is just like a child. A Buddha has not become non-angry: both anger and non-anger have disappeared. He is innocent: neither are there. A Krishna is neither a sansari nor a sannyasin: he neither belongs to the world nor belongs to the other, anti-world of renunciation. Both have disappeared, he is innocent.
The perfection, the wholeness of consciousness is in innocence. And when I use the word innocence I mean absence of the opposites. Absence of opposites is purity. If you have chosen one, you are not pure. The other is hidden in the unconscious: both are there.
If one is there, both will be there. The other cannot be separated, it can only be hidden. If one is there, both will be there, and if the one is not there, the other cannot be there. Both will disappear, and when both disappear the whole field of opposites disappears. Then you are innocent. That innocence is liberation, that innocence is divine, that innocence is nirvana.
The third sutra:
Take his orders for battle and obey them.

Obey him not as though he were a general, but as though he were thyself, and his spoken words were the utterance of thy secret desires; for he is thyself, yet infinitely wiser and stronger than thyself.
Find the witness, and then obey him. First find the witness and then obey him, because to find the witness means to find one’s own innermost core.
We live on two layers, two levels. One is the periphery, the world of action. The other is the innermost being, the world of no-action: the world of existence, not of doing.
All that we do is on the periphery and all that we are is at the center. We have to continuously move from the center to the periphery to do something. Whenever you are doing, you are on the periphery. Whatsoever you are doing, you are on the periphery. When you are non-doing, not doing anything, then you are at the center.
Witnessing is a non-act. Meditation is a non-act.
We are doing meditation here… For thirty minutes you are on the periphery. You are doing something: breathing, catharsis, the hoo mantra. You are doing something: you are on the periphery. When I suddenly say “Stop!” I mean, now be in the non-act, non-doing. When you suddenly stop you are thrown from the periphery to the being, to the innermost center, because when you are not doing anything you are not needed on the periphery. You need to be on the periphery only while you are doing something. When you are thrown back to your center… That center is your witness.
Once you know this center, once you recognize this center, once you have felt this center – follow the orders. You will be directed, you have found your master. Now follow whatsoever is said to you from the center and don’t listen to the periphery, because the periphery is cultivated by others and your center is untouched, virgin: it is from the divine.
The periphery is from the society. That’s why we say that a sannyasin goes beyond society. Not against society, beyond society, because now he follows his own, innermost center. He is not following anyone else. Now all orders from others are meaningless.
You have found your own being, and now that being can direct you. That being is …infinitely wiser and stronger than thyself. The you on the periphery is a weakling; the you at the center is infinitely potent. The you on the periphery is just a worldly thing; the you at the center is godliness itself.
So, first find…
Jesus has said, “First seek ye the kingdom of God. Then all else will follow.” “First seek ye the kingdom of God, and then all else will follow.” Don’t bother about other things. First find the innermost core of the kingdom of God. Then you need not worry about anything; all else will follow.
Just follow the inner voice. But how? You don’t know what the inner voice is, you don’t know what the inner is. Society has deeply confused you. It goes on saying that its own voice is your inner voice. It has placed many voices in you, just to control you from within.
It is a social need; society controls you in two ways. One: by outer arrangements – the policeman on the street, the court, the judge, the law, the government. This is the outer arrangement, but it is not enough because you can deceive the law, you can manipulate the court. And the policeman is, of course, a human being… So that arrangement is not enough. You can do whatsoever you like and you can play tricks with the law; you can find loopholes because human-made laws can be violated by other humans very easily. All that is needed is more intelligence, more intelligence than the law-makers. Then you can deceive it. So society cannot rely on the outer law because are there intelligent people, more intelligent than law-makers. They will find loopholes, and they will be illegal in a legal way, and you cannot do anything. And the more laws you create, the more loopholes.
Then society tries another way – and that is a more effective thing. It creates a conscience in you: the inner policeman, the inner court. It gives you a feeling “This is wrong” – and from the very childhood it goes on reinforcing it: “This is wrong. Don’t do this. Don’t be a thief. Don’t deceive your wife. Don’t love another’s wife,” it goes on saying.
This becomes an inner conditioning, so whenever you feel an attraction toward another’s wife, the inner voice… This is not the inner voice. This is society’s voice playing within you. The voice comes: “This is wrong, this is a sin!” and you start trembling. This is the social trick: the policeman outside and the policeman within.
I am not saying go and love someone’s wife – I am not saying that. I am simply saying that this is a social mechanism, a social device to make you a slave through yourself. And it is more successful, remember. It is more successful.
Today’s world has become less moral because this “inner voice” is not so strong; society has become incapable of reinforcing it. The outer law is greater, more complex, but the inner law has weakened, for many reasons: when people, societies lived aloof and alone it was easy to create the inner conscience. Now, the whole earth has become a village, with many societies, many inner voices conflicting. Now no one can rely on… Every child knows that whatsoever you say is “good” in India is “bad” in Pakistan.
Whatsoever you say is good for a Hindu is not good for a Jaina. Whatsoever you say, the contradictory is also true somewhere: it is not absolute. Now that we have become aware of the whole complexity of the human conscience, we know that conscience is just a social product. So many societies exist together that the hold has become weak. That’s why human societies are less moralistic now, because the inner policeman is dead, almost dead. You know that what it says means nothing: “Don’t bother about it, just observe the outer law. And try to find a way around it!” This inner policeman and its voice is not your inner voice – that’s what I am saying. Find the witness. Only then will you find out the inner voice.
The inner voice will direct you. Those directions will be absolutely different from what society says – absolutely different. But for the first time you will become religious, not simply moral. You will be moral in a much deeper sense.
Morality will not be a duty, morality will not be something imposed upon you. Morality will not be a burden; it will be spontaneous. You will be good, naturally good. You will not become a thief – not because society says, “Don’t be a thief,” – you will not be a thief because you cannot be. You will not kill because it becomes impossible. You love life so much that now violence becomes impossible. It is not a moral code, it is an inner direction.
You affirm life, you revere life. A deep reverence comes to you, and through that reverence everything follows. That is what Jesus says: “Find the kingdom of God first, and then everything will follow.”
Find the inner voice, and then everything will follow.

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