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8 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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been copy-typed.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.]

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(To Meesha)

-- What is the meaning of Meesha?

-- It is an old Jewish name. The meaning is 'carrier of the light'.

-- Carrier of the light? Good! Close your eyes...

It is a beautiful name -- I will keep it as it is: Swami Meesha.

Light always represents god. Light also represents consciousness. Unconsciousness is dark, it is like night. consciousness is like the sunrise, the dawn.

The ancientmost religions were all sun worshippers for the simple reason that the sun is the source of light. And we are part of it, we are carriers of light. In fact we are just rays of light an nothing else. If the sun ceased to exist, within ten minutes the whole of life on earth would disappear. I would take ten minutes, because ten minutes are taken by the rays to reach the earth, so you would be living on old rays for ten minutes. We can exist only for ten minutes without the sun. In fact we are part of it.

And our sun itself is part of some greater sun which has not yet been discovered by science but which is suspected exists because there must be some source around which it moves. It moves, that much is certain, but we have not yet been able to find out where the center is around which it moves. The earth moves around the sun and the sun moves around some greater sun. And maybe as science goes deeper and deeper into the mystery of light, it will stumble upon god.

(To Sibylle)

Your name: Ma Sibylle Sibylle means will of god.

We can exist as separate from god in imagination only, not in reality. In reality we are part of god, part of his will. We are like waves in the ocean, an intrinsic part of the ocean. The idea of separation is only a mind game, but it creates great misery.

The moment we become attached to the false, misery happens. And the most illusory thing is the idea of the ego; that we are separate, that we have our own will. That is the most absurd idea that can happen to a mind. But the mind revolves around it.

Sannyas means dropping that absurd idea and recognizing oneself as part of the whole. That is holiness.

A saint is one who no longer more has his own will, who is just like a dry leaf in the wind, in the wind of god. And wherever the wind takes him, he is available -- joyously dancing, ecstatically. he is not reluctant, not resistant... because once you drop the idea of ego there is no possibility of resistance, reluctance. You are simply available, you are availability.

In that space of availability god starts flowing through you. You become part of

his will. Then there is only joy, bliss and benediction. (To Peter)

This is your name: Swami Anand Peter. Anand means bliss. Peter means strength, inner strength, just as a rock has an integrity, a solidity

To be blissful one needs a centering, a grounding. To be blissful one needs to become one. Ordinarily we are many many fragments spread all over the place, we are divided -- and if we remain divided we can never be individuals.

The process of individuation simply means one thing: that all the parts that are falling apart have to be integrated into one whole. They have to be crystallized, they have to be melted into one unity so that a rocklike center arises in you. That becomes spiritual strength and only then is there bliss.

An man who is a crowd inside cannot be blissful, he is just insane. A man has become one is naturally blissful, all insanity disappears. He has really become an individual -- literally indivisible.

This is your name: Swami Anand John. Anand means bliss. John means a gift of god. Bliss is always a gift, never an achievement. You cannot do anything to be blissful. Whatever you do will bring more misery, because the very idea of your being is the source of all misery. The ego is the root of misery; hence the ego cannot attain bliss.

Bliss is a failure of the ego, not an achievement. You will be surprised to know that enlightenment is really a failure, not a success. It is a failure of all that you can do. It is utter failure, absolute failure. But in that very failure, when you come to realize that nothing can be done, nothing at all, the ego evaporates and 1/08/07

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there is great light, great bliss.

The experience of that failure of the ego is the experience of god. Hence the real seeker of truth is really seeking suicide. but the resurrection is possible only after the death of the ego.

This is your name: Ma Lucia. Lucia means light, the shining one, the luminous, the resplendent. That is our real being. That's what we are made of. That is our very core. But we never look withinwards, hence we live in darkness. Outside there is darkness and darkness, outside is hell. Inside is light, inside is paradise.

Look within. Become more and more attuned with your own inner being. That's what sannyas is all about.

This is your name: Swami Claus. Claus means the victorious heart. The heart is always victorious. It knows no defeat, it cannot know defeat, because it is part of god. God beats through it, god has a connection with you through your heart. The heart is the link.

The mind is yours, the heart is god's -- it is god's penetration into you. Mind knows no victory, it knows only frustration, failure. And the heart knows no failure, it knows only victory; because god cannot fail, that is impossible. And man cannot succeed, that too is impossible. Man succeeds only when he is in tune with god. That is god's success. Man inevitably fails whenever he is not in tune with god -- that is man's failure.

All failure is ours and all success is god's -- remember it.

That very remembrance will help you to attain to clarity. Function through the heart and victory is yours. Function through the head and you are bound for frustration.

This is your name: Ma Deva Sue. Deva means divine. Sue means grace.

Beauty is human, grace is divine. Beauty is of the form, grace is of the spirit. Beauty belongs to the circumference, grace belongs to the center, hence only deep meditation releases it. A person can be beautiful without meditation, but cannot be graceful. And grace is the real beauty. The body is momentary.

Today it is there, tomorrow it is gone, today it is young, tomorrow it will be old. But grace is eternal, it is forever.

Anything that belongs to the center of your being is eternal: it does not change, it remains the same. And because it remains the same it can become your home, it can become your resting place.

Be more and more meditative, release grace. Everybody is carrying it inside himself as a seed. But is has to grow. It has to become a big tree with great foliage, fruits, flowers, fragrance.

This is your new name: Swami Kamaleshwar. Kamaleshwar means the god of the lotus. The lotus is very symbolic. It really represents the essential meaning of sannyas. The lotus grows out of mud -- the most beautiful flower grows out of dirty mud.

Prayer grows out of sexuality and the soul grows out of the body, which is just mud, and god grows out of the world. On the surface it looks impossible. If you look at mud you cannot believe that it can produce lotuses. If you look at the lotus you cannot believe that it can come out of dirty mud. But that's how it is, the lowest is connected with the highest. The highest is in the lowest and the lowest is in the highest, everything is bridged. And life is a ladder.

That's my basic teaching: nothing has to be denied, not even the dirty mud. Everything has to be transformed into a lotus.

This is your new name: Swami Vimaleshwar. Vimaleshwar means the god of purity. Purity does not mean anything more... because morality is a calculative step, it is cunning. It is out of desire: one is hankering for the other world, for heavenly joys and pleasures. The same stupid mind that hankers for money is now hankering for meditation. It is the same desire, only the object has changed. But by changing the object of desire nothing is changed unless desire itself drops, disappears.

So by purity I do not mean moral purity, virtuousness and all that. I mean innocence, a state of not-knowing, a state of childlike wonder, of tremendous awe, readiness to be surprised by existence and life.

And that's how one comes to know god, not by being moral but by being innocent.

Of course innocence brings a morality of its own, but that is quite another matter. It is not a calculated thing, it is a by-product. The innocent person cannot do

harm. Whatsoever he does is a blessing.

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achieving something, we have only forgotten who we are. We have only to remember it, we have to be reminded of it.

The truth is never lost. That which can be lost is not truth. The truth by its very nature is that which cannot be lost. And our godhood is the ultimate truth.

The whole existence is made of the stuff called god, we just have to remember it; we have to relearn the language. It comes as a recognition, not as an achievement. Meditation is just an effort to recall.

This is your name: Swami Virendra. Virendra means god of courage. Courage is the most important quality for a seeker because everything else follows it. One cannot be honest without courage. One cannot be truthful without courage. One cannot be living without courage. One in fact cannot have any beauty in one's life without courage. Courage is the gate, the gate of the temple. Unless you pass through it you cannot enter into anything that is of any worth.

Sannyas means a jump into the unknown. Great courage is needed. We all have it, we just never use it.

And any faculty that is not used for long becomes dead. It has to be revived again. Once it starts functioning you will be surprised, nobody is born a coward, everybody is born courageous, rebellious. But the society represses it. It is against all courage. It needs cowards of all kinds. But anything repressed always remains there somewhere deep inside you. We have to dig and search for it. That search starts today.

Find more and more courage to move into the unknown, into the insecure. Life should be an adventure, always an exploration into unknown territory. Than only

can one come across god. There is no shortcut.

This is your new name: Ma Darshano. Darshano means the capacity to see.

One cannot think about god, one cannot think about truth, one cannot think about anything that really matters. It has to be seen, it has to be experienced. It is not a question of speculation, philosophizing. The mind is incapable of entering into the unknown for a certain reason. It can only move within the world of the known, it can only think of that which it has already known. The unknown is absolutely unavailable to the mind. It cannot even conceive of it. Even to imagine something, you have to know something about it, you have to have had experience of it before you can imagine it.

Mind has no way to penetrate the mystery of the unknown -- and existence is tremendously mysterious.

It is not only unknown, it is unknowable. So the only way is to create a new faculty in you which can see and experience. It is there. In the East we have called it the third eye for the simple reason that it gives you the capacity to see the truth. It is only symbolically the third eye. There is no third eye somewhere, it is only a metaphor.

Man has five senses which are available , and the sixth sense, which is the most important, is dormant All techniques of meditation are efforts to make that dormant center function. Once it starts functioning you are transported into another world, you start seeing things as they are. Then everything is divine and every moment is of such exquisite beauty that one could die. Just for a single moment one could pay the price with one's whole life. It seems to be even more valuable than that.

Sannyas is creating a space within you so that the hidden capacity, the dormant capacity for seeing, experiencing the unknown and the unknowable becomes active. It is our real life. Without it we are just dreaming; with it, reality opens up its doors.

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