Not that anything is to be done. In fact the yogi never does anything. He simply remains in his being and things go on happening. In fact he avoids, but still, sometimes, things happen. Miracles follow. There are no miracles, but miracles follow one who has attained to Samadhi; they go on happening. Like a shadow they follow the man who has attained to inner space.
This is the science of religion. Patanjali has laid the foundation. Much has to be done. He has just given the bare structure -- much has to be filled in the gaps. It is just a concrete structure. The walls have to be raised, rooms have to be made. You cannot live in a bare, concrete structure. It has yet to be made into a house, but he has given the basic structure.
Five thousand years and the basic structure has remained basic: it has not yet become the abode of man. Man is not ready yet.
Man goes on playing with toys and the real goes on waiting -- waiting that whenever you become mature enough you will use it. Nobody else is responsible for it; we are responsible. Each human being is responsible for this vast sleepiness that surrounds earth. It is like a fog surrounding the whole earth, and man is fast asleep.
One day it happened:
One very diligent reformist inquired of a man who was staggering blindly drunk along the road, "You poor man, what drives you to drink this way?"
The happy drunk slurred, "No one drives me, lady. I am a volunteer."
Voluntarily, man is in the darkness. Voluntarily, you are in the darkness. Nobody has forced you to be there. This is your responsibility to come out of it. Don't go on blaming Satan and the devil that they have been corrupting you. There is nobody who is corrupting you. It is you. And once you are sleepy everything that you see is distorted -- everything that you touch is distorted everything that comes in your hands becomes dirty.
Two drunks were walking home along a railway line, stepping unsteadily from sleeper to sleeper. Suddenly the one in front said. "Ah, Trevor, damn it if these aren't the longest flight of stairs I ever did crawl up."
His friend called back. "I don't mind the stairs, George, but the low banisters are hell."
We go on drunk, drunk with the ego, drunk with possessions, drunk with things, ignorant of the reality; and whatsoever we see is distorted. This distortion creates the world of illusion. The world is not illusory. It is because of our drunken minds the world is illusory. Once our drunkenness disappears, the world shines forth as a tremendously beautiful phenomenon, as Tao.

You are sitting, and when you sit for meditation many thoughts will come -- uninvited guests. They never come ordinarily. When you meditate, only then do they become interested in you. They will come, they will crowd, and they will encircle you. Do not fight with them. Just say, "I have decided not to be disturbed by you," and remain still. A thought comes to you; just say to the thought, "Go away." Do not fight! By fighting you acknowledge; by fighting you accept; by fighting you will prove weaker. Just say, "Go away!" and remain still. You will be surprised. Just by saying to a thought, "Go away!" it goes away.
But say it with a will. Your mind must not be divided. It must not be something like a feminine no. It must not be like that, because with a feminine no, the more forcefully it is said the more forcefully it means yes. It must not be a feminine no. If you say, "Go away," then do not mean inside, "Come nearer." Then let it be "Go away!" Mean it, and the thought will disappear. If you are angry and you have decided not to be angry, do not suppress it. Just say to the anger, "I am not going to be angry," and the anger will disappear.
There is a mechanism. Your will is needed because anger needs energy. If you say no with full energy, there is no energy left for the anger. A thought moves because deep down a hidden yes is there. That is why a thought moves in your mind. If you say no, that yes is cut from the very root. The thought becomes uprooted. It cannot be in you. But then with the no or yes you must mean what you say. Then the no must mean no and the yes must mean yes. But we go on saying yes, meaning no; telling no, meaning yes. Then the whole life becomes confused. And your mind, your body, they do not know what you mean, what you are saying.
This conscious effort to decide, to act, to be, is now going to be the evolution for man. A Buddha is different from you because of this effort and nothing else. Potentially there is no difference. Only this conscious effort makes the difference. Between man and man, the real difference is only of conscious effort. All else is just superficial. Only your clothes are different, so to speak. But when you have something conscious in you, a growth, an inward growth which is not natural, but which goes beyond, and then you have a distinct individuality.
Buddha was passing a village where many people had come to insult him. He said, "You have come late. You should have come ten years before because now I have become conscious. Now I cannot react. If you abuse me, if you insult me, it is okay with me. I am not going to react. You cannot force me to react."

People have to be freed from fear. People have to be given absolute freedom to be the way they want to be.
What Hassidism and Kabala say about the purpose of the creation is absolutely nonsense! Who says it doesn't matter. There is no purpose. God is not purposeful at all; he is playful. There cannot be any purpose in the ultimate sense, because if in the ultimate sense there is a purpose, that means god is lacking something. If there is a purpose that means he is trying to achieve something. If there is a purpose then the question will arise, 'What is the purpose of that purpose? For what?'
For example, you eat. There is a purpose because you want to live. You want to live, and if somebody asks, 'What is the purpose of that?' maybe you can say you want to love, but then what is the purpose of love? Ultimately you have to come to a point where you say 'Now there is no purpose.' What is the purpose of love? Then it becomes purposeless; it is playful. Love is a play. And that's what Jesus means when he says 'god is love'. Love is purposeless. It is an end unto itself.
So whosoever says it -- Hassidism or Cabala or anybody -- it doesn't matter. Man projects purpose in life because man cannot live without purpose. He goes on projecting ideas into god's mind also. They are all anthropomorphic. It shows the mind of the cabalist, of the Hassid, but it doesn't show the mind of god. The Bible says that god created man in his own image. The truth is just the reverse: man creates god in his own image.
For one month live purposelessly. You have lived with purpose up to now and what is the achievement? So why not give this crazy idea a chance?
Give it a try! And something is going to happen... but you have to give it a try. If you are determined that you won't allow yourself any happiness, that you cannot permit yourself any happiness, then only will it not happen. If you are ready to allow it, it is there just by the comer. It will overflood you! So for these days forget all your questions. Say yes to things that are here. Become a child again! Dance and sing, be loving. Just enjoy, otherwise that mind will hold you, which is burdened by knowledge.
When you see a rose flower, do you agree with it or disagree with it? When you see the moon in the night, you simply see it! Either you see it or you don't see it but there is no question of agreement or disagreement.