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His philosophy is not only of the mind but is rooted deep in the heart, and some roots even reach
to his very being. The only thing unfortunate about him is, that he was born in the West; hence,
he could never come across any mystery school. He contemplated deeply, but he was absolutely
unaware about meditation. His thoughts sometimes have the depth of a meditator, sometimes the
flight of a Gautam Buddha; but these things seem to have happened spontaneously to him.
He knew nothing about the ways of enlightenment, about the path that reaches to one’s own being.
This created a tremendous turmoil in his being. His dreams go as high as the stars but his life
remained very ordinary – it does not have the aura that meditation creates. His thoughts are not his
blood, his bones, his marrow. They are beautiful, immensely beautiful, but something is missing;
and what is missing is life itself. They are dead words; they don’t breathe – there is no heartbeat.
But I have chosen to speak on him for a special reason: he is the only philosopher, from East
or West, who has at least thought of the heights of human consciousness. He may not have
experienced them; he certainly has not experienced them. He also thought of becoming a man
again. That idea, of descending from your heights into the marketplace, descending from the stars
to the earth, has never happened to anybody else.
He has something of Gautam Buddha, perhaps unconsciously carried over from his past lives, and
he has something of the Zorba. Both are incomplete. But he is the only proof that Buddha and
Zorba can meet; that those who have reached to the highest peaks need not remain there.
In fact, they should not remain there. They owe something to humanity; they owe something to the
earth. They have been born amongst human beings; they have lived in the same darkness and in
the same misery. And now that they have seen the light, it becomes obligatory that they should
come back to wake up those who are fast asleep; to bring the good news – that darkness is not all,
that unconsciousness is our choice