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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been copy-typed.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

This is your name: Swami Premendra Bo. Premendra means love is god. And Bo means to live.

Life basically is an expression of love. Love is the fragrance of the flower of life. They are two sides of the same coin. The person who avoids love is simultaneously avoiding life too; hence the people who have been life-negative have also been love-negative. In fact escaping from the world was really escaping from any situation where love can arise.

For thousands of years man has lived in tremendous fear of love -- and love is god, and love is life, and love is the very core of existence. But one has to learn

the art of loving. It is an art. The capacity is inborn but it can be refined, it can be slowly slowly helped to grow, to become an Everest, a peak. and only when love comes to its crescendo you experience godliness. Then life becomes a sheer joy, then each moment is ecstatic. Then all this nonsense of calling life a misery, condemning life as sin, trying to escape from life, avoiding life, looking so idiotic that one cannot believe that for thousands of years man had lived under this impact.

This very life/love-negative attitude proves that man has not allowed his intelligence to bloom. He has lived in a retarded way, like an imbecile.

My own approach is that religion is the name of the art which teaches you how to love, how to live, which makes you capable of loving without attachment, without possessiveness, without any manipulation, without any ego trip. It makes you understanding the complexities of existence, it helps you to work out your way in the jungle of life. It is a great challenge. It is worth accepting, because only those who accept it grow. Those who turn their hips towards life. they never grow. The remain juvenile.

All escapists are basically hippies. Hippies means those who have shown the hip to the life. All your saints, mahatmas, sages are hippies. They are real hippies, howsoever serious and sombre they may look, but they have shown their hips to the world. They are cowards.

But they have been worshipped, they have been imitated by others. Every effort has been made to make the whole humanity follow these stupid people. It is time enough to say a total "Stop!", a full stop to all this nonsense that has been going on and on. Enough is enough.

And my sannyas is a full stop to the whole life-denying approach; in place of it I teach you to love, to live, to be a light unto yourself. That's the only way to become awakened, to be enlightened. That's the only way that one can realise one's potential of becoming a Buddha or a Christ. Not be following Christianity one becomes a Christ, but by living one's own life authentically, without any hypocrisy, without any pretensions, utterly naked in the sun, in the wind, in the rain, open and available. Because there is no need to fear -- it is your life and you are not accountable to anybody else, you are the master of your life -- then why create misery? And why live life in such a way that it becomes a sad affair?

The same energy can become a dance and the same energy can become a death. It is the same energy: all depends on you. You can accumulate the manure in your living room, then it will stink, it will be horrible to live there. But the same manure can be used in the garden and then it will bring beautiful roses, great lotuses. It is the same manure which will stink in the room but will create perfume in the garden. One just needs to arrange one's life in a beautiful way, then there is no need to go anywhere. Paradise is herenow!

This very body is the Buddha andthis very land the lotus paradise. This is your name: Swami Satyam Bharti.

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There is only one truth, because there is only one existence. Existence is the circumference and the truth is its centre. Unless one knows the truth whatsoever you do always goes wrong. It is bound to go wrong. It is like a blind man groping in darkness to find a door.

They define philosophy as a blind man searching for a black cat in a dark room where in the first place that cat is not (laughter). Now the blind man can go on searching forever and forever. The cat is not there, it is black, the room is dark, the man is blind -- this is what philosophy is.

One needs eyes to see, one needs light to see. Only two things are needed: light and eyes. Thinking is not going to help, philosophising is of no use; because a blind man can think about light there is no intrinsic difficulty in it. He can think about light, he can gather all kinds of information about light, he can become a great scholar about light, he may even start concocting few theories about light. He may be very logical, capable, to create a systematic idea what light is, but still, he has never experienced it.

He may know everything about it but he knows nothing about it. He has not known it, it is not his own experience. It is all borrowed. He is blind.

Thinking is not going to help and people go on thinking about truth, about god, about love, about beauty, about everything, and all these things are experiences.

Clarity, understanding, insight.(???)

Meditation simply means dropping all the knowledge that is there, that has accumulated, that has been taught, that you have learned, that you have read, that you have been told by others. Dropping all that is meditation. Emptying yourself of all knowledge, knowledgeability, is meditation. Becoming spaciousness, throwing all the furniture known as knowledge outside the room, making it utterly empty -- that's what meditation is.

Only in that spaciousness your inner eyes start functioning. And then light is needed.

Light is created by love, eyes are created by meditation. Love is the inner way of creating light. The loving person becomes light-full. His darkness disappears.

So I teach only two things; meditation and love. Meditation to see and love to create light. And nothing else is needed! The moment you have eyes and the light truth is revealed. And truth liberates. Truth brings bliss, truth brings immortality, deathlessness. It takes you beyond the ephemeral to the eternal. It is a radical transformation, from the circumference to the centre. And the moment you are at the centre there is no problem, no anxiety, no anguish. The whole energy that was involved and entangled into anxieties, turns into an eternal celebration, a festival of lights.

In fact, in India the festival of lights has lost its meaning. It has gone to something, to its.… not to its real meaning but to its very opposite. (sp?)"Deepavali" the light festival, started by the enlightenment of Mahavira. It is Mahavira's enlightenment day.

He is a rare person in that sense because almost all the enlightened persons have become enlightened either on the full-moon night or just close to it. He is the only person who became enlightened on the no-moon night.

Because he became enlightened, because he found the inner festival of lights, to

represent it we started the whole celebration. But because he was a Jaina Hindus never accepted the story, how the light festival came into existence. They have created their own story about it which is just very ordinary, that Rama has become victorious over Ramana, and that's why we are celebrating. This is a very mundane story, nothing of inner significance, just ordinary. But Mahavira's story has true significance.

It actually happens: when you are in a meditative state and love starts growing in you, you can see a line of lights unending and without any beginning. Kabir says "When I became enlightened I saw as if thousands of suns have suddenly arisen in my inner horizon.

It is the same energy that was our darkness, it was our misery, it was our blindness. The same energy was upside-down.

My work here is to help you to put your energy in a right combination, then it becomes an orchestra.

And when life is an orchestra, life itself then is the ultimate truth! This is your name: Ma Prem Anando.

Prem means love. Anando means bliss. These are the two most important values.

Bliss has to be the quality of your inner being and love has to be the expression of your inner being, into the outside world. Love is bliss radiating and reaching to others. Without bliss there is no love, that's why so 1/08/07

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many people want to love and desire to be loved but they all feel frustrated, for the simple reason that they never look for the basic requirement without which love is not possible.

You never sow the seeds and you go on waiting for the flowers. And when flowers don't come and you so much jogging and running and wrestling and yoga and all kinds of stupidities, but flowers won't come still. They need seeds- yoga postures won't help! (laughter) Your jogging is not going to help, wrestling is not going to help. One has to do the right thing.

People want love -- and it is a basic need. Just as the body needs food the soul needs love. Love is the soul's nourishment. It starts shrinking. And many people's soul dies before their bodies die. In fact near about the age twelve the soul dies, then only the body goes on living. It is only the container; the content is no more there; hence the average physiological age is twelve. That's the moment when you stop growing inwardly.

And remember one thing: a river is river only if it is flowing. If it stops flowing it is no more a river, it becomes just a muddy pond. It is river only if it is reaching towards the ocean, but once it stops flowing it is no more reaching to the ocean. It (?)

The moment your inner being stops growing you are no more a river reaching towards god. So people go on growing only physiologically. Their age may be eighty, eighty-five, ninety, but their souls are left far behind when they were twelve, thirteen fourteen, at the most. There is such a gap between their spirituality and their physiology, unbridgeable gap, but somehow they go on managing pretending that they are grown-ups. But you can see that their grown- upness is only phony; they have aged but they have not become grown-ups. These two things are totally different.

To grow in age is one thing, to grow up in maturity is a totally different phenomenon.

Love is a fundamental need. Because it i a fundamental need everybody longs for it, but just longing is not enough. You have to prepare the ground, you have to understand the fundamental laws. These three laws have to be remembered. One is: you cannot get love if you don't give it in the first place. It always comes as an echo: first you have to give, then it comes, it comes thousandfold. But it comes only when you give.

If you want to get without giving it, it is not going to happen. It is against the law of nature, it is against tao. The second law to be remembered is: you can give it

only if you have it; you cannot give something which you don't have.

What you are doing to give to people if you are miserable? You will give your misery. And to give misery to somebody is not love. And in return you will get thousandfold misery. One has to be blissful then one can share.

You can give bliss, then bliss comes back. That's what love is all about: an exchange of bliss.

So the second law is -- first you have to have it -- and with the second law comes meditation in. It is through meditation that you create bliss. It is there but there are few hindrances to be removed. The ego has to be removed, the greed has to be removed, the jealousy has to be removed -- these are all hindrances, and meditation is capable. Meditation is like a sword: it cuts the very roots of all that is ugly in you all that creates misery in you.

A sannyasin has to go on sharpening his sword and go on uprooting all the weeds. Once you have thrown all that is ugly in you you will be surprised: in that very moment bliss explodes. It is your intrinsic nature but it was hindered, prevented, blocked. Those blocks have to be removed.

And the third law is that when you have got bliss don't hold it in, don't be miserly, because the more you give, the more you have it. That is the third law: the less you give, the less you have it. If you don't give at all it dies. If you give it totally you will be surprised that you have found infinite streams coming to you from some unknown beyond. You go on giving and it goes on coming, and it always comes more than you give.

The ordinary laws of economics are not applicable. Just the opposite is the inner law. In economics if you want to have something, be greedy, hold to in, don't give it, otherwise you will lose it. But in the inner world just the opposite law functions: hold it, be greedy and you will destroy it. Share it, dance it, sing it, be festive about it, declare it and don't make any conditions when you give. Give unconditionally, because to put conditions is again miserly.

Just give for the sheer joy of giving and it will be coming more and more, more and more.

Bliss has to be your innermost core and love has to be your radiation of it. And between these two transpires something which people have called god or tao or

nirvana. No word is adequate enough to express it, but something beyond words, beyond our imagination, beyond our dreams, happens.

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But it happens between these two: bliss inside, love outside. And just between the two, in some strange moment -- I call it strange because it is unpredictable, I call it strange because when it comes it comes, you cannot bring it in, I call it strange because it is not within our grasp. It comes as a gift, as a grace, from nowhere. Suddenly, a moment before it was not there and a moment after it is there, for no visible reason, why it is there and why it is not there -- it is mysterious. And once this mysterious moment has been tasted, one has arrived, one has found the home. Only then this homesickness disappears.

That's the goal of sannyas. Nirvana now or never Chapter #12

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