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24 December 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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been scanned and cleaned up. It is for reference purposes only.]

This is your name: Swami Anand Ole. Anand means bliss. Ole means peaceful heart.

Peace alone is not enough -- alone it is dead; it is alive only when it is blissful. Bliss is the breath for peace; without bliss there is no heartbeat in peace, then it is just a corpse. It is easier to attain peace if one is 1/08/07

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ready to renounce bliss -- and that's what monks and nuns have been doing down the ages all over the world: renouncing bliss in order to gain peace. But because it is easy and cheap it has no significance at all.

One can move into a mountain cave and live peacefully but there will be no song, there will be no joy, there will be no disturbance certainly and there will be no direction, but everything will be just okay. It will not be a dance, it will not be

something overflowing.

My sannyasins have to understand very clearly that I would like you to be peaceful but not without bliss.

And to attain bliss and peace together needs great skill and intelligence; it needs meditativeness. It is an art to bring these two poles together and create a higher synthesis out of them. Then bliss is peaceful and peace is blissful. Both together are more than just the combination of the two; something plus descends from the beyond. That's what has been called god.

You can call it life, truth, nirvana, but it only comes when both have been balanced and both are together like two wings of a bird.

Anand Mitzi. Anand means bliss. Mitzi means fragrance.

Pleasure is a seed. It contains all possibilities of happiness and of bliss, but they are all hidden and dormant. And millions of people die only knowing the seed, but the seed is worthless in itself unless it finds the right soil and disappears in the soil and dies, only then is the plant born.

Happiness is the plant with many branches and foliage. And when the tree starts flowering -- flowers are like joy -- the tree is rejoicing! Flowers symbolise the tree being ready to share. It has too much; it is in a dance, it wants to share its being, its joy. It is overflowing energy that becomes flowers. An undernourished tree wi ll not give flowers. It will be starving; even its leaves will be dull, sad, dying, on their deathbed. Its branches will not be alive and swaying in the wind and enjoying the sun. Unless it blooms it is not fulfilled.

So flowers are joyous, but bliss is like fragrance, even beyond the flowers. When flowers release the fragrance that is the culmination, the realisation of the potential in its totality.

The seed was very visible, very material, the fragrance is invisible, very immaterial. The seed was like a body and the fragrance is like a soul. Bliss is spiritual, pleasure is physical. Happiness belongs to the mind, joy belongs to the heart. And these are the four things to be understood, from the seed you have to move to the plant, from the plant to the flowers, from the flowers to the fragrance. Then life has arrived, then your destiny is fulfilled.

In the East we have called that moment Buddhahood; in the West it has been called Christ-consciousness, but it is the same moment. One has become just fragrance, and the fragrance merges with the whole, it disappears. That's exactly the meaning of the word 'nirvana'. It is one of the most beautiful words.

When you blow out a candle it is said in Sanskrit that the candle has achieved nirvana -- 'nirvana' means blowing out a candle. The flame was there just a moment before, now either it is nowhere or it is everywhere. Both mean the same; nowhere and everywhere are synonymous. It has merged with the whole so it has no separate entity. Fragrance is nirvana. All that is gross and material has disappeared, only the subtlest has remained -- and that too is merged with the whole. There is no more any ego. Then only does one know what it is -- the bliss, the ecstasy -- for which we have been longing for thousands of lives.

It is possible! It needs just a little effort, just a little conscious, deliberate search -

- because it is our potential so it can become actual.

Anand Vincent. Anand means bliss, Vincent means a conqueror.

A man without bliss is a beggar, a man with bliss is a conqueror, an emperor.

While coming to India Alexander the Great went to see Diogenes -- a rare individual. He was lying naked on the bank of a river in the sun, taking a sunbath. He didn't even get up to welcome Alexander.

Alexander asked him, "Can I do something for you? I have heard stories about you, and I have always longed to see you and I am really happy to see such a blissful man. Can I do something for you?"

Diogenes thought for a while and he said, "Yes, just stand a little further away because you are blocking the sun. Nothing else is needed because I am utterly fulfilled. This is the only difficulty that you are creating and it is you who is creating it; otherwise there is no difficulty at all!"

Alexander was shocked and embarrassed; he could not believe his ears, could not believe what Diogenes was saying. He could give Diogenes anything because he was the richest man in the world at that time, a world conqueror, but this man had not asked for anything. He really felt a beggar before Diogenes. He said,

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make me Alexander; make me Diogenes.'"

There is a story that they died on the same day. And while moving from the earthly plane to the unearthly world one has to cross a river -- Diogenes had died a few minutes before Alexander so he was ahead, and Alexander was following. Diogenes heard a noise and looked back. Alexander said, "Strange that we are meeting again! Perhaps on this river there has never been a meeting of an emperor and a beggar"

-- because Diogenes was a beggar.

Diogenes laughed and said, "You are right. Just one correction you will have to make. You misunderstand who is the emperor and who is the beggar. I am the emperor and you are the beggar! Yes, certainly it is a rare incident on this river, it may not have happened before, it may not happen again, but I am the conqueror and you are just a beggar." And Alexander could not say a single word against it because that was the truth. He had come without ever knowing what bliss was, his whole life went down the drain, and this man had lived each moment of it so blissfully that certainly he was the emperor.

Bliss makes one victorious; bliss and only bliss is worth achieving. Nothing should be made more important in life than blissfulness. If you make anything else more important you will live in misery, you will never be a conqueror. And my sannyasins have to be emperors.

How long will you be here?

-Two more days.

Then come back again for at least three days! Because one has to achieve the fourth! (much laughter) You have to give at least three days for three stages and

then the fourth happens! Next time come for three days -- right? (much laughter) Jivan Teng. Jivan means life. Teng means to ascend.

Life is a ladder and we live at the lowest rung. That's where we find ourselves at the time of birth, but we go on living there for the whole of our life. Many people think that just to be born is enough. Birth is only the beginning of a long pilgrimage, but the majority of people die on exactly the same spot where they were born. They have not moved even a single inch. Their life energy has remained on the same plane; it has not ascended, it has not gone upwards. They are still crawling on the earth; they have not found their wings yet, they have not even looked at the sky and the stars. They are too occupied with their own small things, they have no time to look upwards; and life really begins only when you start moving on the higher rungs of the ladder.

Meditation is the only way to help you to move from one rung to another. Meditation means awareness.

As you become aware of the body you move beyond the body. Awareness means transcendence. When you become aware of your mind you move up another rung of the ladder. You are no more mind, you have gone beyond mind. The moment you become aware of your heart, you have moved beyond the heart.

These three are the most fundamental planes to be transcended. When you have moved beyond these three you come to your real self, the fourth, turiya. And only then does one know what life is all about. One comes to know the truth of life, the meaning of life and the immense splendour of life.

Dhyan Sadhana. Dhyan means meditation. Sadhana means the practice, the discipline.

My whole emphasis is on meditation because it is the master key; it opens all the locks, it opens all the doors and all the mysteries. Nothing else is needed. So one should concentrate one's whole energy on being meditative. And by meditation I means the art of watchfulness, awareness, alertness.

The first step is becoming aware of your bodily activities and actions: walking, sitting, standing -- just a silent awareness of what is going on on the physical plane. People are not aware of that, hence you can see many contradictions.

For example, a man may be smiling and yet his eyes may show anger. He himself is not aware of it. A man may not show something but if you know how to read his face you will be able to decipher it immediately, because he is so unaware that what he is hiding is bound to be expressed in some way or other.

A psychologist was experimenting and he talked to many people belonging to different occupations -- a few monks, a few priests, a few rabbis, a few ordinary people, businessmen, bankers, all kinds of people. He gave them a pack of cards and each card had a picture of a sunset, a sunrise, mountains, this and that, and also a picture of a naked woman.

A man was looking at the cards, and the psychologist was not looking at the cards, he was sitting in front of the man. But when the man came to the naked woman the psychologist would immediately say 'So now, you have come to the naked woman?' And the man was puzzled as to how he came to know. And 1/08/07

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people who have been practising celibacy and saying that sex is sin -- priests and the monks -- even they would be immediately caught.

The simple trick was that the psychologist was watching their eyes. Their pupils became big the moment they saw the naked woman. Now, they didn't know what was happening to their eyes. And in fact one has no control over them. Even if those people had known they could not control them; they are beyond control.

Immediately their pupils would become big. Your pupils become big only when you want to take something totally in, when you don't want to miss anything -- that makes your pupils bigger.

If you watch people's activities you will be surprised, they say one thing, they do something else and their faces express something else again. It is as if they are many people.

A psychoanalyst said to a patient 'Through three months analysis with you I have

discovered that you are a schizophrenic, a split personality.' The man said 'No, I am not,' then stood up and said 'Yes, I am,' then lay down again and said 'No, I am not!' Now he was not aware what he was doing; by saying 'I am, I am not, I am...' he was simply proving that the psychoanalyst was right!

One has to watch one's body very carefully. That gives you a deep understanding and makes you capable of watching your mind, which is more subtle.

The second step is that the mind has to be watched... what thoughts pass in the mind, what desires cross the mind? There is no need to analyse, there is no need to evaluate, no need to judge. Just watching, simply taking note that these are the thoughts that pass, these are the dreams that pass, these are the fantasies that pass, without any evaluation of good, bad, moral, immoral -- just watching -- will again give you a deeper capacity to watch. And then one can watch one's feelings of the heart, moods -- which are the subtlest.

Suddenly you are in the grip of a mood -- it just comes like a breeze and you are sad or you are blissful for no reason at all.

One has to learn to watch these three things, body, mind, heart, action, thought, feeling. And these three take you to the fourth, which is the highest rung of the ladder: being.

Action is the most outside thing and being, the most inside; action the outermost, being the innermost.

So start with action, with doing. Watch your doings, so slowly slowly thinking, then feeling and then being.

The moment you reach being you ascend to real life. For the first time you taste immortality, eternity.

How long will you be here?

-- Three months.

-- That's good. Exactly the right time! Nikhilananda means total bliss.

One should not be satisfied with less than that. One should remain divinely discontented with anything less than that. Sannyas is divine discontentment. It is the search for total bliss.

But all religions have been teaching contentment and because of their preachings people have become contented with whatsoever they have got, wherever they are. So you rarely come across a person who has attained bliss, intelligence, freedom, love, truth. It has become very rare and it is becoming rarer and rarer every day, for the simple reason that religions don't teach you a divine discontent, they don't give you fire.

My sannyasins have to be afire with a tremendous longing for total bliss. And I say don't settle with less than that because it is your birthright. You are meant to achieve it. You have been given all that is needed to achieve it. You are absolutely ready to take the jump. So gather courage and start the journey for absolute blissfulness. Nothing else can really give you contentment.

You can console yourself, you can try to satisfy yourself in some way; you can rationalize and you can remain wherever you are, thinking that this is all there is. This is not all there is, there is far more.

The Upanishads say 'Charaiveti, Charaiveti' -- go on, go on, there is no end to this journey. Go on until you become a god yourself.

Sampurna means the whole.

We are brought up with the false idea that we are separate from existence. We are brought up as egos, and that is the whole problem, the root cause of all other problems, because whatsoever we think, our thinking makes no difference to reality; reality remains the same. We are not separate from reality, we are one with it, but because of the idea that we are separate we get into unnecessary anxieties and worries. Our whole life becomes just a long anguish, a nightmare.

Just by dropping the idea that you are separate, a miracle happens: all worries suddenly disappear. They used to look so big and so important and suddenly they are not there. Even death is no more there, because 1/08/07

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if we are part of the whole we cannot die; we have always been and we will always be.

Surrender the ego -- it is only a false notion. I ask my sannyasins to give to me that which you don't have, so that I can give you that which you already have. Give your ego to me so that you can have the whole. 'Why remain tethered to a small thing?

This whole universe is an organic unity. That is the meaning of Sampurna and that has to be dis-covered. Unless you discover it life is meaningless and a meaningless misery -- on one hand meaningless, on the other hand miserable. It is just an exercise in utter futility. But it all depends on you --

you can drop the ego in a single moment of understanding, just as one drops one's clothes -- because it is a false idea. Clothes are far more real.

You will have to unbutton and unbelt and do a few things before you can drop them, but the ego can be dropped instantly. You don't have to unbutton it, because it is not there in the first place, it is just an idea.

But the idea is creating so much hell for so many people.

Sannyas means getting rid of the ego and entering into the world, into the universe. Just like a dewdrop slipping into the ocean and becoming one with it.

Prem Sagar. Prem means love. Sagar means ocean.

One should not be miserly about love, because the law of love is that the more you give, the more you have, the less you give, the less you have, and if you don't give at all it simply disappears from your heart.

And if you go on pouring infinitely, it goes on growing in you infinitely. It is always in the same proportion as you give.

Once the arithmetic of love is understood life goes through a radical change. When you start giving love for no reason other than just for the sheer joy of it, the whole universe expands. Thousands of songs start falling on you; from each direction, from each nook and corner love starts flowing towards you.

Life can become a festival of lights through love. It can become a spring; thousands of roses can bloom in your being. All that is needed is to share your love without any conditions, without asking for anything in return.

So let that be your work upon yourself: become loving and finally become love itself. That's the moment one discovers god within one's own being. God is another name of absolute love.

How long will you be here? A very long time.

That's good. Be here a very long time. Forever will do -- or a little longer! Akal means timelessness.

Mind is time. Time has two tenses, not three -- the past and the future; the present is not part of time.

The present is part of timelessness, it belongs to timelessness. To be in the now and in the here is to enter into eternity. And god is timeless and truth is timeless and we are timeless. All that truly exists is timeless.

That which does not exist is part of time. The past does not exist, it is no more; the future does not exist, it is not yet. Only the present, between the past and the future, just a small interval between the two, exists; and that small interval between the two is the only reality there is. But that small interval is infinite.

And meditation means entering into the present.

A sannyasin's lifestyle has to be completely free from the past and free from the future. The moment you are free from the past and the future you are in tune with the present. And that harmony with the present brings all joys, all benedictions, all blessings. It brings enlightenment. It brings flowers of love and those flowers start showering on you; day in, day out, they go on showering. Each moment becomes such an ecstasy, so exquisite, that there is no way to imagine it, there is no way to comprehend it through the mind; because the mind is time and time cannot comprehend that which is beyond time.

To know it, one has to enter into the present.

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