Surdas !

One of the great poets of India was Surdas.

His name literally means ”in the
service of music,” but it has become synonymous with a blind man.

He renounced the world, just the way the Hindus have been doing for centuries.

One day he went to beg, and a very beautiful woman opened the door. Seeing the woman, the repressed sexuality, the repressed sensuality uncoiled like a lion inside him.

He became very much afraid. He went back to his cottage and took out both of his eyes, then went back to the woman.

She could not believe what had happened – there was blood all over his face, and he was holding on a plate, two eyes.

He offered those two eyes to the woman, and he said, ”They belong to you.

They are no longer parts of my body; they were destroying my whole reincarnation.

Now they can be happy being with you, because they saw your beauty.”

I will call it sheer madness, because it is not the eyes – eyes are simply doors; they allowed the woman’s figure to enter into him.

The sexuality was inside him, not in the eyes.

Eyes are just mirrors.

There is no sex center in the eyes. They don’t have any judgment; they simply reflect whatever comes in front of them.

Sexuality was in him, and it was there because he had repressed it.

But he took revenge with the eyes.

And he became a very great saint because of this act; he was worshiped.

His name became so famous that it has taken a new meaning.

Whenever you want to address a blind man, you call him ”Surdasji” – because to call him a blind man is crude, but to call him ”Surdas” is to give him as much respect as possible.

But the original Surdas... that was simply an insane act.

There is no need to prove that it was insane; it is so obvious.
But it is not only one person.

If you go in search, you will be surprised how many insanities have become spiritual attainments.

OshO ❤
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