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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been copy-typed on to the computer.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

The lotus represents

The ultimate unfolding of consciousness. The lotus is the biggest flower in the world And in the East the most respected flower For two reasons/

One: it grows in the mud, in the dirty mud.

One cannot conceive that out of such dirty mud Such a beautiful flower is possible.

Hence it represents something in man. Man ordinarily is nothing but dirt

Just dirty mud

But hidden in it is the possibility Of a lotus flower.

So just don't condemn the dirt

And don't condemn ordinary humanity. Secondly: the lotus grows in water.

Out of dirty mud it rises and floats on the water. It has a very miraculous quality:

It is so velvety that the water cannot touch it. It remains in the water

But remains untouched by the water. That is the quality of a sannyasin.

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There is no other world, this is the only world. One has to live here and yet

One can live like a lotus, untouched, unaffected. Pleasure comes, pain comes,

One simply watches and everything passes by.

Pleasure passes by, pain also passes by. Soon you realise that nothing remains Only you abide.

The consciousness abides, your witnessing abides. That is your true self,

That is your real being that abides.

Everything else is like a cloud coming and going You are the sun. Many clouds will come and go Don't be affected by them.

The day you don't cling to pleasure And you are not afraid of pain and You take both as if they are the same... In fact they are

They are two aspects of the same coin. When you are absolutely indifferent to both Whatsoever comes you accept

Whatsoever goes you say good-by to. When it comes you say hello

When it goes you say goodbye Then you are a real sannyasin.

Once Picasso was asked the meaning of one Of gis paintings that he was just finishing.

He remained silent for a few moments Then he took the hand of the man

Who had asked the question, a great critic, Took him outside the house in the garden Pointed to a rose, and said

'What meaning does the rose have?'

Of course the critic said

'There is no meaning in a rose.'

And Picasso said ;If the rose can exist Without any meaning why can't my paintings Exist without any meaning at all?

If god can create things with no meaning Why can't I create things in the same way?'

It is a beautiful anecdote, of tremendous import. A rose is beautiful, but it has no meaning

In the sense that a commodity has meaning. It is not a commodity, it has

No utilitarian purpose, it is non-utilitarian. You can enjoy it.

But it is not bread, it is not butter You cannot live on it.

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There is no end to it; it is an end unto itself. And that's how life is.

It is not a means to anything else It is an end unto itself.

It exists for no other purpose It simply exists.

God creates non-purposively

He creates because he cannot help it.

He is creativity, he is overflowing energy.

He is delight, he delights in playing with things. This whole existence is his leela, his play.

And that's how a sannyasin has to look at life And at himself too With the joy af a poet, a painter, a musician

Not with the eyes of a businessman. Once you can see life

An having no purpose at all, Just being for its own sake,

You enter into a world of tremendous celebration. Then it is all dance and all song and all joy.

That's how my sannyasins have to look at life.

Bela is another flower, one of the most fragrant. It is an eastern flower. It happens only in a hot climate. The hotter the climate, the more fragrant are the flowers. The colder the climate, the less fragrant are the flowers. In fact, many western flowers have no perfume. The cold does not allow their perfume to be released. A certain heat is needed. And the same is true about man. A certain effort that creates heat in you is needed to release your perfume, your fragrance.

It is not just accidental that many more Buddhas happen in the East than in the West. It is the same law. It is just as flowers are more fragrant in the East than in the West. The sun is hotter, it releases the energies of the flowers. In a cold country, in a cold climate, people are bound to become materialistic because they have to protect their bodies, otherwise the cold will kill them. They have to remain so concerned about the body that they become body-oriented. In a hotter climate people need not worry about the body too much; they can live naked. Now, one cannot conceive of a Mahavira happening in the West -- he lived naked. It is possible in India. In fact, to wear clothes in India is uncomfortable, to be naked is far more luxurious.

The East became more and more concerned about something more inner than the body, because the body was not a problem and life was very secure and safe. The climate was such and the soil was so fertile that just a little effort was needed. India is poor today for the simple reason, that the population has grown beyond its capacities. In Buddha's time there were only two crore people in India; now there are seventy-crore -- almost fifty times more, and the earth is the same. So people were very easily happy with their physical life, there was no problem about it. Even just fifty years ago it was the routine thing that only one man in the whole family would earn and the whole family would live without earning. It was enough. People were satisfied with small comforts, their needs were not many, hence their whole consciousness turned inwards. They started making efforts to reach their innermost core.

Bela is an eastern flower just as religion is an eastern flower. Science is a western flower. Science can happen only in a cold climate where people have to

struggle with nature, fight with nature. In the East nature was very very co- operative. There was no problem to fight; the idea has never existed.

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be absurd. It is not a question of conquering . Nature was already giving so much that people were thankful. But in a cold climate you have to fight, struggle. And the struggle is so long, that it makes your whole consciousness focussed on the poverty. But now it is possible that the East and West can meet. That's what is happening here. Now for the first time it is possible that the earth can become one. Now religion can even grow in the West and science can grow in the East. Remember Bela as representative of the eastern fragrance, the fragrance of Buddha, Mahavira, Krishna, Kabira. The message is to make a total effort to awaken yourself. That very effort creates the heat, the right heat, the right temperature in which the fragrance is released.

Just one Champak flower is enough

To make the whole house full of fragrance. Just one flower in the garden

And the whole garden will be perfumed. And it is a small flower.

Appearance-wise it is not beautiful at all Appearance-wise it is very ordinary.

But don't be deceived by appearances.

It is said that Jesus was not a beautiful man In fact he was an ugly man.

Many people simply laughed at his ugliness. They missed the point, they could not see deeper. If you come across the champak flower

You will see a very ordinary flower Not worth looking at twice.

But it is the most precious of flowers.

It contains the greatest perfume possible. So always remember: the appearance

Is not the real determining factor in life. The container is of no importance

But the content is.

The body may be ordinary, homely, and yet

It may have a soul which is beyond comprehension. The body may be very beautiful

And bay be utterly empty, with no soul at all. This will happen many times in your life You will come across beautiful people

Who have no souls at all

And you will come across people who are very homely But have tremendous qualities.

Never be deceived by appearances.

Always look deeper, search deeper.

Look at the centre, not at the circumferences. And the same is true about yourself too:

Don't be too concerned

About the circumference and its decorations. Think of the centre

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Because to live without a centre Is not to live at all.

Life begins only when a centre has arisen.

And not everybody has got a centre, remember. A centre has to be created by tremendous effort. That's what sannyas is all about.

Man is not mortal, he only appears to be. The appearance is because of the body.

The body is born and one day dies. Whatsoever begins ends

But there is something within you Which never begins and never ends. That's your reality, that's your being. It is immortal.

There is no way for it to die. It can't commit suicide.

Death does not exist for it

Just as darkness does not exist for light. The moment you know yourself

You know that there is no death.

And in knowing it one is freed from all fear One is freed from all agony, anguish, anxiety. Knowing this one knows 'I am part of god.' And that is the ultimate realisation.

Without it there is no fulfilment, no flowering. Life remains empty.

Be as wide as god himself.

Believe in no limitations, in no boundaries In no adjectives:

Christian, Hindu, Mohammedan Jewish, Indian, Chinese, Japanese.

Drop all limitations.

Feel more and more just a pure consciousness And your horizons will become wider and wider.

A moment comes when you are as big as god himself Because you are pure consciousness.

Pure consciousness is another name for god. But we cling to narrow limits

We cling to our prison cells.

We think that these walls that surround us Are very secure.

Outside the walls there seems to be insecurity So we don't go out, we remain in our black holes.

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That's what our life has become. And we go on crawling and fighting

And quarrelling with each other for small things While the infinite waits to receive us.

God waits to welcome us.

He is ready to take you into his very heart.

But you don't listen to the message of the vast Of the oceanic You remain with your small holes

Clinging out of fear

Afraid of insecurity and safety

And believing that these are not prison cells That these are beautiful palaces.

And you have decorated the walls. You have painted the walls

You have made it a little bit comfortable there. But howsoever comfortable it is

A prison is a prison.

It may even be luxurious But a prison is a prison.

One has to know the unlimited sky Only then does one know what truth is. Everybody is born only semi-precious. But by becoming a sannyasin

You are moving towards becoming really precious! Just a few things which have gathered

Around the real jewel will have to be dropped. They are clinging to the real jewel

And we think that they are part of it.

They are not part of it; they may be just mud.

They may have been with the jewel for centuries They have become almost a part of it.

My work here is to make you aware

Of what is real in you and what is unreal in you What is essential in you And what is accidental in you.

Once you are aware

Of the essential and the non-essential

Then the non-essential can be dropped easily. There is no problem.

In fact the moment you know That it is non-essential

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The very understanding brings its own revolution. There is no revolution apart from understanding. Everybody comes here as a semi-precious jewel

And we start hammering and cutting. The work is hard in the beginning.

It hurts too, it is painful.

But if you are ready to go through the process One day only that which is real That which is eternal will be left

And all else will disappear.

That day you have discovered yourself. And the whole life

Is nothing but a pilgrimage to self-discovery. In discovering oneself one discovers bliss One discovers truth, one discovers beauty.

One discovers all the splendours And the glories of existence.

And ultimately one discovers god. Nobody is born noble.

The whole idea of aristocracy is sheer nonsense. One hat to achieve it, one is not born with it.

It is an art to be learned. One has to be reborn

Only then does one become noble.

One has to become full of light, awareness, love Then is one noble.

Ordinarily people are so full of poisons All kinds of poisons

How can they be noble?

Whether they are born in a poor family Or a very famous family

It doesn't matter -- they are all unconscious The poor as well as the rich

The anonymous as well as the royal ones. But one can become noble.

Sannyas is an effort to bring A new life to you

A release of new energy

Which is potentially there but dormant. It has to be made dynamic.

It is almost frozen; it has to be heated up Through love and warmth so that it can melt. People are ordinarily ice-cold in their being. Their smiles are pretensions.

Deep down they are dead, deadly cold. Unless your being starts warming up You are not noble.

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Full of love for the whole.

You are full of gratitude to god.

That warmth brings thousands of rewards. It is the true beginning

The beginning of a real, authentic life. A humble heart

Is the very essence of religiousness. But beware of one thing:

That is false humility.

There are thousands of people Who are deceived by it.

It is better not to be humble

Than to be humble in a pseudo way Because the person who is not mumble Sooner or later will have to recognize

That all his suffering is coming from his ego

And for how long can you cling to something Which goes on giving you suffering? For how long? The more intelligent you are

The sooner you will drop out of it.

The pseudo humbleness can recreate trouble For you because it hides the ego

It covers up the ego.

It is like covering your wound with a rose flower So you don't see the pus And the stink of the wound

You see the flower

The beauty and the fragrance of the flower. And meanwhile the wound goes on deepening Meanwhile the wound is turning into a cancer. The pseudo-humbleness is created, cultivated. It is ego standing on its head, upside down.

That's what is being taught By all the organised religions:

Be humble, try to be humble

Learn manners, etiquette that help you to be humble. But this is all from the outside.

My effort here is that your heart should open up.

You should not cultivate The quality of humbleness.

It should be a by-product when your heart opens up. It comes of its own accord.

A cultivated humbleness is not humbleness at all; It is just its opposite. It is not a friend

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Hence it is more dangerous than the foe itself. Real humbleness

Comes through silence, meditativeness, awareness. It has nothing to do with humbleness directly

It always comes as a consequence. Be more and more meditative Silent, alert, watchful

And many things will come

In the wake of your meditativeness. Humbleness will be the first guest. Then it is true

And then it has a beauty of its own. Light is synonymous with god.

The whole existence is made of light. That has been the experience

Of all the mystics down the ages. Now even physicists agree with it In their own way.

They also say existence Consists of electricity, electrons.

Electrons are nothing but light, pure light. This is the first time

That mystics and physicists agree an one point. They have come to the conclusion

Through different directions

Totally different, diametrically opposite. But how long can you avoid the truth?

If the truth is there

And your search is authentic

Sooner or later you are bound to discover it. Your path may be physics, it may be mysticism It may be poetry, it may be music

It may be meditation.

Whatsoever path you have been following

If your search is true, if you are really a seeker Who is ready to risk all Then one day you are bound to discover the truth.

Now this is the truth: we are made of light

But we live in darkness, we all live in darkness We stumble in darkness. This is very strange: we are made of light

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Eighty Four Thousand Poems

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