through negation
Through negation, you come to the most positive, which is non-ideology. I deny for myself that I am a Hindu. I have denied it long ago; it is too stupid – to say, ‘I am an Indian, I am a Brahmin,’ is too infantile and immature. So I say, ‘I don’t belong to India, I am not an Indian citizen, except for a passport.’ Unfortunately, I must have that to travel, but I am not an Indian, with all the superstitions, gods, traditions and background. I see where that leads to, the Indian philosophy: I see it separates man. But when I deny that, intellectually, emotionally, in every way, I won’t have it. It doesn’t mean that I create a new ideology for myself. When I deny, that is negate, push aside, the very act of pushing it aside becomes the positive, and is never an ideology. The ideology is always negative and therefore impractical. If you had no ideology and I, as a Muslim, had no ideology, you and I would live together very peacefully. You would have no countries as India and Pakistan, East and West and all that: we would live as human beings, living in a world that is ours.