"It is good as far as it goes, but to ask enlightenment from it is too much. Never expect that.

"The negative has to be dropped to attain to the positive.

"The positive has also to be dropped to attain to the beyond.

"First drop the negative, then drop the positive. Then nothing is left. That nothingness is enlightenment; then there is no more mind.

"Mind is either negative or positive: happy, unhappy; loving, hateful; anger, compassion; day and night; birth and death – all belong to mind. But you don't belong to mind. You are beyond it, encased in the mind but beyond it.

"Enlightenment is not of the mind, it is of you. The realization that 'I am not the mind' is enlightenment. If you remain negative, you remain in the valley part of the mind. If you are positive, you attain to the peak part of the mind. But neither transcends the mental plane of your being. Drop both.

"It is difficult to drop the positive; it is easy to drop the negative because the negative gives you misery. It is a hell, you can drop it. But look at misfortune: you have not even dropped that! You cling to the negative also. You cling to misery as if it is a treasure. You cling to your unhappiness just because it has become an old habit and you need something to cling to. Not finding anything, you cling to your hell. But, remember, to drop the negative is easy howsoever difficult it seems. Compared to the positive it is very easy, because it is misery.

"To drop the positive means to drop the happiness; to drop the positive means to drop all that looks like flowers, all that is beautiful. The negative is the ugly, positive is the beautiful. The negative is death, positive is life. But you can drop the negative, so take the first step. First feel the misery, how much misery is given to you by the negative. Just watch how misery arises out of it, just watch and feel. The very feeling that the negative is creating misery will become the dropping.

"But mind has a very deep trick."