Knowing Loneliness ( 03 dec 06 Sun)

Loneliness is entirely different from aloneness. That loneliness must be passed tobe alone. Loneliness is not comparable with aloneness. The man who knows lonelinesscan never know that which is alone. Are you in that state of aloneness? Our mindsare not integrated to be alone. The very process of the mind is separative. And thatwhich separates knows loneliness.

But aloneness is not separative. It is something that is not the many, which is notinfluenced by the many, which is not the result of the many, which is not puttogether as the mind is; the mind is of the many. Mind is not an entity that isalone, being put together, brought together, manufactured through centuries. Mindcan never be alone. Mind can never know aloneness. But being aware of the lonelinesswhen going through it, there comes into being that aloneness. Then only can there bethat which is immeasurable. Unfortunately most of us seek dependence. We wantcompanions, we want friends, we want to live in a state of separation, in a statethat brings about conflict. That which is alone can never be in a state of conflict.But mind can never perceive that, can never understand that, it can only knowloneliness.