mystery of the body.

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Buddha calls the commune the body. The real devotees start feeling such

attunement, such at-onement with other brothers, that they become one body.

Buddha used to call it the sangha -- the commune, the one body, the family. If

something happens it immediately affects all the people, a wave surrounds all

instantly.

 

When Buddha died he had thousands of disciples. They were spread all over the

country. The moment he died, all the disciples who were real disciples

immediately were affected wherever they were. Thousands of miles away from

Buddha, immediately they felt, "The master is no more."

 

This is a mysterious phenomenon, but now even science is going deep into this

phenomenon -- from a different route, of course. They have been experimenting on

animals, particularly the relationship between the mother and the child. And

they are surprised, utterly surprised, by a mysterious phenomenon. You take the

child of any animal deep into the sea, a mile deep or two miles deep into the

sea, and you kill the child there. The mother is on the shore; there are two

miles of water in between, but the mother immediately knows the child has been

killed. She becomes sad, depressed; tears start flowing.

 

In Soviet Russia particularly, they have worked hard on this phenomenon. They

have tried the distance of a thousand miles; and if the child is killed, the

mother is immediately affected. There seems to be a spiritual umbilical cord

between the child and the mother. It has become very confused in human beings,

that's why they have to experiment with animals. Animals are still simple,

innocent; they have not yet become educated, cultured, civilized. These

misfortunes have not yet happened to them; hence they are working with animals,

but it happens in human beings also.

 

If there is a deep love relationship between the child and the mother, the death

of the child anywhere in the world will affect the mood of the mother

immediately. Some mysterious connection exists between the mother and the child.

 

But this is nothing compared to the mystery that happens between the master and

the disciple, because the mother/ child relationship is only physical and the

master/disciple relationship is spiritual. It is far more profound, far deeper.

 

Buddha says: they understand the mystery of the body.