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3 January 1980 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium

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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been copy-typed. It is for reference purposes only.]

(To Gunnar, Jill and Alven) -- This is your name: Swami Antar Gunnar. Antar means inner. Gunnar means warrior.

Man has been in three kinds of war. One is with nature; out of that war science was born. Another is with other human beings; our of that politics was born. And the third and the most important war is within oneself, with oneself; out of that religion was born.

The real fight is against the unconscious. It has to be transformed into consciousness. Unless it is transformed into consciousness our lives remain unfulfilled, the opportunity is lost, the seed never grows.

But the unconscious can be transformed into light. All that is needed is a total determination, a total commitment. When it becomes a one-pointed phenomenon in which everything becomes non-essential, only one thing becomes essential -- that you have to transform your inner world into light from darkness, into life from death, into eternity from time, into consciousness from mind.… This is what sannyas is all about: a total commitment, a total determination.

(To Jill) -- This is your name: Ma Antar Jill. Antar means inner. Jill means

youthful. The inner is always young, it never grows old. It never ages. It is as young as it was when you were a child and it will be the same when you will become very old.

The body changes; the body belongs to the world of time and change. The mind changes because the mind is nothing but the subtle part of the body. But beyond both of these there is a witness. That witness never changes. That is the only phenomenon in existence which is eternally the same. To find it is to find eternal life, abundant life, immortal life.

The way to that inner point is meditation. Meditation simply means becoming more and more watchful, alert about your acts, your thoughts, desires, imagination, everything, so that slowly slowly a disidentification happens. You become the observer and everything becomes the observed.

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Once everything becomes the observed and only consciousness remains as an observer, a sudden shift in your being happens, a radical change, a transformation. Immediately you are no more the body, no more the mind. That experience is the experience of god.

(To Alven) -- This is your new name: Swami Anand Alven. Anand means bliss; alven means friend of all -- a blissful friend of all.

(To Usha): -- This is your name: Ma Prem Usha. Prem means love. Usha means of distinguished quality.

Love can be the lowest thing in life, it can be lust; and it can also be the highest thing in life, it can be prayer. Love is a ladder between heaven and hell. It can create hell, it can create heaven. It all depends on how conscious you are. If you are unconscious then love will remain simply lust. It will simply remain a biological, sexual phenomenon. But if you become conscious it starts rising higher; consciousness becomes its wings. At the ultimate peak of consciousness

love transforms into golden prayer. It is the whole spectrum of life.

The lowest has not to be denied, rejected, repressed; that is not a solution. That is creating more problems, more complexities. The lowest has to be transformed into the highest by bringing consciousness to it. Love plus consciousness -- that's the whole work of sannyas.

When love is total and consciousness is also total, the result is god.

(To Stuart) -- This is your name: Swami Anand Stuart. Anand means bliss. Stuart means of helpful spirit.

Only a blissful person can be of help to others. Only bliss can make you compassionate, only bliss can create a beautiful energy in your life which can be of help to others, of service to others. Without bliss you cannot serve anybody. You may think you are serving, you will be simply harming. You may think you are helping, you may be doing something else.

A miserable person can only give misery to others. We can give only that which we have. It is not a question of god wishes. You may wish to help, but you may be doing something else.

A miserable person can only give misery to others. We can only give that which we have. It is not a question of god wishes. You may wish to help, but unless there is a blissful energy inside you, overflowing, you are bound to harm.

This is a basic distinction that I want to make, because up to now in the name of religion many people have been serving humanity; they are themselves miserable and they become great servants of humanity.

They serve the poor and they serve the crippled and they serve the ill, they open hospitals and schools and they do all kinds of things. They only create mischief. They don't help anybody at all. Their whole trip is an ego number.

Parents think that they are helping their children, and they simply destroy. I am not saying that they don't want to help; they want to help but they are incapable of it. Their parents destroyed them and now they are destroying their children, and their children will do the same to their children, so misery continues, accumulates, becomes bigger and bigger.

Hence I don't say to my sannyasins to be servants of humanity; I say to be meditators, be dancers, rejoice, and then service will come. No need to talk about it: it comes of its own accord as a shadow, it follows you, and then it is a benediction.

This is your name: Swami Anand Ra. Anand means bliss. Ra is the Egyptian name for sun, for the sun god.

There are two types of people. Just as physically there are men and there are women, psychologically the same distinction also, the same division exists. But a man may be physically a man and may not be psychologically a man; he may have a feminine psyche. Hence things become complicated. A woman may have a masculine psyche. There is no necessity that the body should decide the psyche.

The woman, the feminine quality I call the moon type, and the masculine quality I call the sun type.

Their paths are bound to be different. Of course the goal is the same; they reach the same peak but they follow different paths.

The feminine psyche follows the path of love. Sufism is basically a feminine approach towards existence. The masculine spirit will not find any appeal in Sufism, in the path of love; it will be more attracted to Zen, the path of meditation. The path of love is more of feelings, emotion; it is greener. The path 1/08/07

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of meditation has the beauty of a desert, the silence, the infinity of a desert.

And if you have been in the desert at night, there is nothing more beautiful than that: the total silence --

no birds, no animals, no trees, no people, and the stars seem so close that you can touch them, and the air is so pure, so unpolluted, so transparent. The path of

meditation is the path of the desert. It is not an accident that many meditators have moved to the deserts, for the simple reason that it corresponds to their inner work.….

For you, the path of meditation will be the right path. Try to understand the spirit of Zen more and more, the spirit of being silent, the spirit of being alone. Love means being together, it is a dialogue. Meditation means just being alone and rejoicing in that aloneness. It is not a dialogue, it is utter silence.

One more thing to be remembered so that you don't become frightened: following the path of meditation does not mean that you cannot love, but love remains secondary. It can help your meditation but it can't become the focus of your life. Following the path of love does not mean that you cannot meditate, but it will remain secondary, it will enhance your love.

So whether one follows the path of love or the path of meditation, the other is always there running side by side, parallel to it -- very close, but secondary. It is only a question of a different emphasis.

(To Polyxeni): This is your new name: Ma Amrito.

Amrito means that which never dies. The body is born and the body dies, the mind is born and the mind dies, but you are neither the body nor the mind. You are something transcendental to both, something which never dies and which is never born. You have always been here and will always be here.

The moment one starts feeling it the whole perspective on life starts changing. Whatsoever has been important up to that moment becomes unimportant: money, power, prestige and all that. And whatsoever has never been important before suddenly gains great importance: love, compassion, meditation, prayer, god.

Remember that within you there is something which is eternal. My function here is only to remind you, to help you recognize that which you already are and have always been and will always be.

(To Annemarie) This is your name: Ma Masto. Masto means one who is utterly drunk, the drunkard...

drink with the divine, of course! (more laughter) And that's what you have to do: drink as much as you can.

Allow yourself to be immersed in the energy that is being made available her. Don't remain a spectator: take a jump, a plunge. Get involved -- that's the beginning of sannyas. Become an insider and don't hold back.

Open yourself up totally for the first time, be utterly nude, with nothing to hide, nowhere to hide.

The moment one gathers courage to be utterly exposed to existence, one becomes truth in that very exposure. But we go on hiding, covering up, lying to others and lying to ourselves. Then there are layers and layers of lies which surround us and we become more and more unauthentic. A sannyasin has to be basically an authentic person. And the miracle is that the more authentic you are, the less and less do you have an ego. The moment you become absolutely authentic the ego disappears. Then you are no more a person but only a presence. And that presence is immensely beautiful, blissful, ecstatic.

(To Cornelia) This is your name: Ma Mitro. Mitro means friend. Befriend existence.

We have ben taught to be enemies of existence, we have been taught life- negative ideologies, and it has been done for so long that it has become part of our blood, bones, marrow. We don't love life, we hate it, and the so-called religions have been teaching people that life is a punishment, that you are punished for the original sin.

Life is not a punishment, it is a reward, it is a gift. Befriend it totally. The moment you start befriending life you will be surprised by how beautiful it is, how poetic it is, how musical it is. Once your idea of negating disappears and something positive settles inside, a secret door opens, life starts revealing its mysteries to you. Those mysteries can be revealed only to friends; they cannot be revealed to anybody, they cannot be made public. Only when you are in deep intimate relationship with life does life open its heart to you. In that very opening one comes to know what truth is, what love is, what bliss is, what god is.

Sannyas is life-affirmative. Categorically, absolutely with no exceptions. Life is good to me, life is all to me, there is nothing more. One has not to seek another kind of life, one has to go deep into this life and the other kind is found hidden in it. The other shore is hidden on this shore, the other world is hidden in this

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