My beloved ones,
Man is a disease. Diseases come to man, but man himself is also a disease. This is
his problem, and too, this is his uniqueness. This is his good fortune, and also his misfortune. No other animal on earth is such a problem, an anxiety, a tension, a disease,
an illness, in the way man is. And this condition itself has given man all growth, all
evolution, because 'disease' means that one cannot he happy with where one is; one
cannot accept what one is. This disease itself has become man's dynamism, his restlessness, but at the same time it is his misfortune also, because he is agitated, unhappy,
and he is suffering.
No other animal except man has the capacity to become mad. Unless man drives
some animal insane, it does not go mad on its own — does not become neurotic.
Animals are not mad in the jungle, they become crazy in a circus. In the jungle, the
life of an animal is not warped; it becomes perverted in a zoo. No animal commits
suicide; only man can commit suicide.
Two methods have been tried to understand and cure the disease called man. One
is medicine, the other is meditation. Both these are treatments for the same disease.
It will be good to understand here that medicine considers each disease in man
separately — an approach of analysis of the part. Meditation considers man himself
as a disease; meditation considers the very personality of man as the disease. Medicine
considers that diseases come to man and then they go — that they are something alien
to man. But slowly this difference has diminished and medical science too has started
saying, "Do not treat the disease,
treat the patient."
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