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7 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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been copy-typed on to the computer.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.]

Prayer, grace and mercy are three dimensions Of a really religious life.

A religious life begins in prayer and ends in mercy. A religious life means a deep "Yes" to god --

That is prayer:

A total yes to god, not holding yourself back, A whole-hearted "Yes". And once that "Yes" has happened

Your life becomes full of grace.

It attains to a beauty that is not of this world That belongs to the beyond That starts showering on you.

And not only you feel it Even others start feeling it. It surrounds you.

It is like an aroma, an aura, a fragrance. It is true beauty.

And when grace has started descending in your life All your energy becomes compassion, mercy.

It transform your energy.

It makes your life full of love. There is nothing else to do.

All desires disappear and you are so full of energy That you start sharing your life, your love,

Whatsoever you have.

That sharing is compassion. These are the three dimensions. Between these three is born The religious consciousness.

Your name contains the whole art of religion. Matthias was one of the disciples of Jesus One of the twelve apostles.

He is symbolically represented by a young angel To signify Jesus Christ's humanity.

He was the most human disciple Out of all the disciples of Jesus. 1/08/07

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You start becoming more and more super-human. It happens naturally:

You start transcending humanity You start surpassing humanity.

Matthias remained utterly a human being

And became a representative of Jesus' humanity. All the twelve disciples represent something.

They are twelve aspects of Jesus.

Nobody represents Jesus in his wholeness He is so vast

But each disciple can represent him at least In a single aspect.

Matthias represents his humanity

And that is of great significance Because in the East

Buddha is thought to be absolutely super-human.

All the stories that we have written about Buddha Have taken away everything human from him.

He is just an abstraction He is almost intangible.

He looks more like a myth than like a reality. And so is the case with Krishna and Mahavira: Everything human has been taken away.

It is not that they were not human, They were human, very human, But the idea was that a ,am of god Has to go beyond humanity.

For example

Mahavira is said not to have perspired Because that is too human.

Now, in India not to perspire... It is a super-human feat!

It is easier to walk on water Than not to perspire in India!

And he lived in the hottest part of the country, In Bihar, and he lived naked And he walked bare-footed on muddy paths

In dirt and dust and in the burning sun. But the stories say that he never perspired Never urinated, never defecated.

These are human things too human!

The followers of Mahavira, cannot conceive Him urinating.

That looks below Mahavira, too below:

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In deep meditation.

That's the only activity left for him. In that way Jesus is far more human. He enjoys eating and drinking

And mixing with people and laughing and joking.

He enjoyed company, and the company of all kinds Of people -- gamblers, drunkards, prostitutes.

He is really human!

And Matthias is the most human of all His disciples, he represents his humanity. My effort here

Is to make religion as human as possible. It should not be airy-fairy!

We have to bring it down to earth.

And I allow my sannyasins to perspire!

There is nothing wrong in it, no sin is committed. Even a sauna bath is perfectly virtuous!

Perspire as much as you can.

Remember that religion has not to be unearthly. It has to be rooted in the earth

Only then is it alive.

When it becomes too cloudy, uprooted

It looses all greenness, it looses all aliveness. It becomes just an abstract philosophy.

That's what has happened in the East. Hence Jainas cannot believe in Jesus, Neither can Buddhists believe in Jesus Because he is too human.

But I am all for Jesus

Simply because he is so human! We want a religion which is human.

Of course one has not to end with humanity

One has to go beyond it, one has to transcend it But one should remain rooted. A tree is rooted in the earth

Yet it goes above the earth. It reaches into the sky

It whispers with the clouds

It has a dialogue with the winds.

It blooms, but it remains rooted in the earth. 1/08/07

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And will also have roots

Roots in the earth and wings in the sky. That is the true synthesis.

And then religion is complete, total, whole. God loves playfulness.

This whole existence is out of his playfulness.

He loves celebration. This whole existence

Is in a continuous celebration. He loves songs and dances.

But our so-called religious people are very sad Very serious -- pathologically serious.

And I know why they cannot find god:

God avoids them!

Who would like their company? The moment god gets any news

That they are coming close, he escapes! He abhors saints like people abhor death.

Even sinners are far better company than saints For the simple reason that At least the sinners can sing and dance

And laugh and love. Saints can't do anything.

They can only remain serious, dead, cold. God is utterly afraid of your saints!

My sannyasins

Are not to become so-called saints.

They have to become singers and dancers.

I believe in a god who is a dancer Who is a singer, who is a musician. His existence is not a business project. It is out of fun that he creates.

And when you also start living life as fun You start growing.

When life becomes a non-serious affair Then you have no limits

Then the whole sky is yours. That we are beloveds of god

Is something to be constantly remembered. 1/08/07

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There is so much a feeling of being outsiders As if we don't belong to the existence

As if the existence does not care As if the existence is indifferent

As if we are just accidental, not essential. The whole world

Is dominated ba a dark cloud of alienation. And the reason is that we have forgotten

A simple truth: God loves us, hence we are. We are his love-products.

His love is the very base of our life. We can't breathe without his love

Our hearts will stop beating without his love His love is our existence.

But because it is so close tu us It is easy to forget about it.

There is no distance between it and us

Hence we can't see it and we become oblivious Of anything we can't see.

It has to be consciously remembered, and as

The remembrance deepens all alienation disappears. The dark cloud is found no more and the world

Is full of sunshine. It is a joy to be

Because this is our home and we are not accidental We are absolutely essential, we are needed.

We are serving some grater purpose, something Greater than we are, something bigger than we are.

Man unaware of himself is a beggar. Man aware of himself

Is the greatest emperor possible

Because the moment you become aware of yourself The whole kingdom of god is yours.

It has already been given to you It is just that you are asleep.

It is there, but you are not looking at it. Your eyes are focussed on the outside. The whole effort here is

To help your eyes turn inwards. Sannyas is an inner pilgrimage. We are born with a great treasure 1/08/07

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But we live in utter poverty

Because we never dig within our own being. We go on looking everywhere else.

This is the most strange thing about man

That he searches and seeks everywhere. He is ready to go to Everest

He is ready to go to the moon But he is not ready to go within. The moment you say "Go within" It falls on deaf ears.

And it is there the treasure is.

So we go on carrying the treasure with us And still remain beggars.

Sannyas means a radical change From this stupid approach From this idiotic behavior; Your reality is within

And you go on seeking and searching without. The first enquiry should be made within.

If you don't find it there, then of course You can go on exploring the whole world. But that has never happened.

Those who have gone within have always found it. Meditation is a simple process

Of watching your own mind.

Not fighting with the mind Not trying to control it either

Just remaining there, a choiceless witness. Whatsoever passes you simply take note of it With no prejudice for or against.

You don't call it names

That this should not come to my mind That this is an ugly thought and

This is a very beautiful and virtuous thought. You should not judge

You should remain non-judgmental

Because the moment you judge, you lose meditation. You become identified.

Either you become a friend or you become a foe. You create relationships.

Meditation means

Remaining unrelated with your thought process Utterly unrelated, cool, calm

Watching whatsoever is passing. And then a miracle happens: 1/08/07

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That less and less thoughts are passing.

The more alert you are, the less thoughts pass The less alert you are, the more thoughts pass.

It is as if traffic depends on your awareness. When you are perfectly aware

Even for a single moment, all thinking stops. Immediately, there is a sudden stop

And the road is empty, there is no traffic. That moment is meditation.

Slowly slowly those moments come more and more Those empty spaces come again and again

And stay longer.

And you become capable of moving easily Into those empty spaces with no effort.

So whenever you want you can move Into those empty spaces with no effort. They are refreshing, rejuvenating

And they make you aware of who you are. Freed from the mind you are freed

From all ideas about yourself.

Now you can see who you are without any prejudice. And to know oneself

Is to know all that is worth knowing.

And to miss self-knowledge is to miss all. A man my know everything in the world But if he does not know himself

He is utterly ignorant

He is just a walking Encyclopaedia Britannica. Freedom without awareness is only an empty idea. It contains nothing.

One cannot be really free without being aware

Because your unconscious goes on dominating you Your unconscious goes on pulling your strings.

You may think, you may believe that you are free But you are not free, you are just a victim

Of natural forces, blind forces.

So there are two types of people. The majority Follows the tradition, the society, the state.

The orthodox people, the conventional The conformists -- they follow the crowd They are not free.

And then there are a few rebellious spirits Drop-outs, bohemians, artists

Painters, musicians, poets;

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Against the tradition you don't become free. You are still under the rule of natural instincts.

You are possessed by lust, by greed, by ambitions. And you are not a master of these things

You are a slave. Hence I say

Freedom is only possible through awareness. Unless one transforms ones unconsciousness Into consciousness there is no freedom.

And that is where only very few people Have succeeded -- a Jesus, a Lao Tzu A Zarathustra, a Buddha

Just a few people

Who can be counted on one's fingers.

They have really lived in freedom Because they lived out of awareness.

That has to be the work for every sannyasin:

To create more and more awareness. Then freedom comes of its own accord.

Freedom is the fragrance of the flower of awareness. Decisiveness is a very essential quality.

There are many people who are incapable Of deciding, who go on thinking.

They waste their whole life in thinking Whether to do this or not to do,

To be or not to be.

And they are always hesitating, they can't act And without action life is futile. They can't decide, and without decision

There is no possibility of your growth. Yes, one should look

At all the possible alternatives But not for too long.

It should not become a habit.

One should look at all the alternatives And then one should be able to decide.

One should not wait for a perfect decision Remember, because in life

There can never be any perfect decision. I have heard about a man

Who was searching for a perfect wife. He died unmarried obviously.

When he was dying somebody asked 'You travelled all over the world 1/08/07

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Couldn't you find a single woman who was perfect?' He said,'Yes, I came across a few

But they were searching for perfect husbands!. If one is a perfectionist

One is doomed to fail. Perfectionists are indecisive people.

Nothing satisfies them, everything falls short. Their ideal is too high.

Everything seems to be unsatisfactory.

Decisiveness means knowing

That life is imperfect and life is short Knowing that we have limitations Yet we have to decide.

Alternatives are limited, we cannot wait forever.

One you decide then you go wholeheartedly into it You risk all. One has to be a gambler

Then only something is possible: Growth is possible

A new birth is possible, a new being is possible. Otherwise nothing is possible.

Decisiveness is absolutely necessary. And it is good that you have decided t To be a sannyasin.

Now go into it totally, wholeheartedly.

Let it be a commitment, a deep involvement. Don't remain on the periphery

Move towards the very centre of it. Only then some revolution

Some transformation can be hoped for.

God has no form, neither do we have any form.

The form belongs to the body.

It is as if you look out of your window

And the sky seems to be framed be the frame Of the window, although the sky has no frame. If you come away from the window

You will be surprised:

There is no frame around the sky.

Hence a few modern painters have dropped

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If you paint a sunset there is no frame But when you paint a painting you put A frame on it; it begins somewhere And ends somewhere.

But the real sunset does not begin anywhere And does not end anywhere. It is infinite.

Our body and our mind give us a certain form But that is not our truth. We are formless.

One has to know it; unless one knows it

One is not aware of god One cannot be aware of god.

God is not somebody sitting there

In the seventh heaven, directing, guiding... A super-boss or something like that.

God is within you!

If you look in and if you can find

Something which is formless, you have found god. And then you will come across him everywhere.

In the trees, in the mountains, in the people You will be able to see the formless.

All forms are arbitrary: reality is formless. And when one is formless one is oceanic. That vastness gives so much ecstasy

It brings such blessing, such benediction That one cannot imagine it.

Unless it has happened.

The sky is not really blue, it has no colour But because it is infinite it appears blue.

The blue is only an appearance.

Whenever the river is deep it will appear blue Although the water has no colour.

Depth gives it an appearance of blueness. That's why in India you will come across Krishna painted as if he were blue.

Now, nobody is born blue.

There are black people and there are white People and there are red people and yellow People.

But nobody is born blue

Except a few blue children who die Who cannot survive.

But Krishna is painted as if he were blue. The very word 'krishna' means the blue one. 1/08/07

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Blueness represents depth, infinity, vastness. Remember it, the body is not our reality.

It is just a caravanserai, an overnights's stay. Nor is the mind our reality.

We are as vast as the sky.

Once you know this vastness as your real being You are freed from all small identities.

From all mediocre, mundane confinements. You are freed from all prisons.

And that freedom is sannyas. Eighty Four Thousand Poems Chapter #6

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