Is Ignorance Bliss?

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Is Ignorance Bliss?

They say ignorance is bliss. Do you believe in it, and why?

Ignorance is bliss, until life bites your head off. Until then, it is bliss. Do one thing, you climb the tallest building in Bombay, just be ignorant of the gravitational forces. Just jump, you’ll see it’ll be so blissful until you hit the ground. Until then, it’s really blissful, actually. Have you ever done any skydiving? You must do. You go to 25, 20,000 feet up in the air and just jump off, it’s just fantastic, but it is just that the earth is rushing at you. If that one little ball is not there, it’s just fantastic, you know? So ignorance is bliss, until you get smashed. That small period, that’s wonderful. What’s there to believe or disbelieve in it? If you’re ignorant, and you try to do things, will life get you, or no? Hmm? Will life get you, or no?

Yes.

Then, why are you asking me such questions? Don’t you have enough experience to know if you’re ignorant about something and enter that sphere of life, it’s going to get you? Yes or no?

Yes.

First of all, stop trying to live by slogans. Why are you trying to live by slogans? You must live out of your awareness and intelligence, not out of a slogan, isn’t it? If you go by slogans, slogans are for cowards who have no intelligence, just to make them do something and do a specific act, but not for life. You cannot handle life with a slogan, isn’t it? It is just like you don’t want to apply yourself to your life, you want to just pass life without involvement. Why are you seeking a slogan, or a formula, or advisor of philosophy in your life? Simply because you are unwilling to apply yourself to every little thing in your life. Please tell me, here is this, “Shall I do this way, or that way?” There is no this way or that way. You have to look at every situation carefully, every moment of your life carefully, if you want to live well. Isn’t it? Isn’t it so?

Do you know electricity will kill you? Hmm? Hmm? If you’re ignorant of it, if you stick your finger into that one, will it make you blissful? Yes? Huh?

Then why do you ask such a question? Obviously not. You know, everybody knows, but they can’t give up their slogans. Somewhere there is hope that I can live here without applying myself. No, without involvement there is no life. Without involvement there cannot be life. It’s good people who do not know involvement will not know life, because if you think this life is not worth involving into, you should not be alive, actually. Isn’t it so? Yes? Such a phenomenal life, if you are seeing how to avoid involvement, actually, you should not be alive. It’s a disgrace to your creator that you’re unwilling to involve yourself.