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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been copy-typed.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

(To Shakuntala) -- Your name: Ma Shakuntala Bharti. Remember only one thing because

I have reduced sannyas to its bare minimum -- And that is meditation.

Everything else is peripheral. Everything else can be dropped But meditation cannot be dropped.

That is the only essential thing Which no religion can dare to drop.

There are religions which believe in god There are religions which don't believe in god; Even the concept of god

Is not very essential for a religion.

There are religions who believe in many lives And there are religions

Who believe only in one life; Even that is not essential.

Those are all hypothetical things. But there in so religion possible Which can drop meditation Which can be non-meditative.

All the religions meet on one point only And that is meditation.

Whether they call it prayer or meditation It doesn't matter.

Those are different names for the same state, A state of inner silence.

And the miracle is:

Ordinarily your inner world

Is full of thoughts, desires, dreams; When all these have been dropped

Through being aware of the whole process of mind; Nobody can drop them by any act,

They drop on their own accord If you are simply watching them With no effort to drop them.

Just by watching a distance is created. Slowly slowly

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The watcher disappears, it becomes disconnected. It becomes uprooted from your being.

This moment it the moment of radical change: Here thoughts, desires, the whole mind disappears And suddenly a new being explodes in you.

That being can only be called love. The word that comes closest is 'love'. A man who has no mind to cling to Becomes full of love.

Meditation helps

To get rid of the mind, on the one hand, And on the other hand

It helps you to become receptive For the energy called love;

It descends from the beyond.

It is alight, eternal light and delight too. And the moment one knows what love is One has tasted eternity, on has tasted god! Jesus is perfectly right when he says,

God is love. He is talking about

This innermost experience of meditation.

So my sannyas has no other peripheral hypothesis. Nothing has to be believed in

No rituals to be performed But a constant watchfulness. And whenever you have time

Then sit silently, just looking at your own mind. Let your mind be the screen on which

Pictures move and you are just a witness --

Don't forget the witness, go on remembering that 'I am only a witness.'

This simple process

Can do the greatest miracle on the earth because It brings buddhahood, it brings enlightenment

It brings awakening.

(To Yves) -- This is your name: Swami Anand Yves.

Anand means bliss, blissfulness. Yves means a beloved disciple. Bliss is possible only if you become a disciple.

The process of becoming a disciple Is the process of renouncing the ego. Ego is the cause of all misery.

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Is only a device, a strategy

To help the disciple to drop the ego. It is very difficult

To drop it by yourself, all alone. It is possible, it is not impossible. Once in a while it has happened But those are exceptions

And exceptions only prove the rule.

The rule is that you will need a certain device To support you, to help you because

To drop the ego means

To become so vulnerable, so insecure, so open That one becomes frightened, one again closes up One again clings to the ego because

You don't know anything else except the ego. Dropping the ego is like death.

It is possible only

In a deep love affair with a master

That slowly slowly you can gather courage. As you trust in the master grows

It becomes possible for you to risk.

And the moment you are ready to risk the ego Bliss starts flowing from every nook

And corner of existence towards you. It is the rock of ego

That prevents bliss from reaching to you

To be a disciple is the whole science of religion Because through being a disciple

The ultimate bliss opens its mysteries to you. In fact, except your ego

There is no other problem in the world.

All other problems are by-products of the ego. You have a beautiful name

Now this name has to be made a reality. Sannyas is a first step towards that realization.

(To Nasser) -- This is your name: Swami Dhyan Nasser. Dhyan means meditation. Nasser means victorious.

It is one of the qualities of god Described in Koran.

Koran describes ninety-nine qualities of god. One of them is nasser, the victorious.

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We can't be victorious.

If we allow god to pass through us Then the victory is ours,

We can't be victorious on our own.

On our own we are going to be defeated On our own there is no hope.

We are so tiny, like dewdrops, Dewdrop on a leaf of grass --

That's how Mahavira used to describe man's life. A little breeze and the dewdrop is gone

Or the sun rises and the dewdrop evaporates. We are very small:

Unless we drop ourselves in the ocean of god Unless we become oceanic, we can't be victorious. We can't be victorious as ourselves

We can be victorious only through god. And that's what meditation is:

It is allowing god to pass through you

Not preventing him. Removing all the barriers, Barriers of thoughts, desires

Memories, imagination; removing all the barriers So you can simply become a pure passage

And god can flow though you.

Then your life will have the taste of victory Of tremendous joy, of bliss, of benediction.

(To Peter) -- This is your name: Swami Nirmal. Nirmal means pure.

Man's consciousness is eternally pure

But it becomes covered with many layers of dust; Like a mirror.

Although the mirror remains pure The dust cannot destroy the mirror But the dust can destroy one thing: It can hide the quality of the mirror The quality of reflecting reality.

The mirror remains the same

No change in the mirror happens Through the layer of dust

But is no more functioning

It becomes non-functional; it cannot reflect. The sun rises but not for it

The night becomes full of stars but not for it The rose opens but not for it

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It is there but a layer of dust

Is preventing its qualities to function.

That's our situation: Our consciousness is pure But our mind is a layer of dust and nothing else. Sannyas means becoming aware of this fact And putting the mind aside.

Use it when it is needed; it has its utility It is a good machine, it is a biocomputer

It has all the memories, all the information -- So whenever you need it, use it.

But there is no need to allow it

To cover you for twenty-four hours Day in, day out, year in, year out.

It should be put aside when it is not being used And the consciousness should be allowed

To reflect reality -- then god is everywhere. Once your consciousness reflects that which is You know. God need no proof.

Only god is and nothing else is Every form is a manifestation of god.

And to know it, is to rejoice because that means There is no death, no misery, no darkness.

One has arrived home!

(To Paolo) -- This is your name: Swami Nirdosh. Nirdosh means innocent, innocent like a child.

Man has to become a child again Only then he is really aware

Of the beauty of existence Of the wonder of existence.

That very awe is the beginning of religion. But it happens

And it is bound to happen, it cannot be avoided,

It is almost a necessary evil that

Every child will have to lose his innocence Because he will have to be educated

He will have to be taught certain languages, Science, geography, mathematics

Certain essential subjects.

He will have to be an expert in a certain branch, A doctor, an engineer, a scientist.

Life's requirements are such:

He cannot be left alone.

And all this education takes away his innocence; He becomes knowledgeable

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He becomes full of information And he forgets the joy of wonder Because now he thinks he knows So what is the point of wonder?

He forgets the immense dimension of awe.

Nothing surprises him --

That is a kind of spiritual death.

He becomes very useful for the world

He become clever, cunning, he becomes powerful Because he has a certain utility in the world.

He becomes a commodity in the marketplace, He is purchasable, sellable.

The greater his knowledge, the more is his price, But something of great value is lost --

That has to be regained. Sannyas is nothing but

An effort to regain the paradise lost.

It is a conscious effort to put aside knowledge So that you can again look like a child: Innocent, with the same eyes of wonder.

The day it happens you are transformed Your life starts having a dance

Your heart starts singing again,

A forgotten language is remembered Again everything is full of surprise. The whole existence is full of wonder

Everything is mysterious, miraculous. This whole mystery and miracle

Is condensed in a single name, god. God is not a person

But this whole experience of mystery

This unending pilgrimage from one peak of wonder To another higher peak of wonder

From one awe into another awe, This is what god is all about.

Jesus says, 'Unless you are reborn again You will not enter into my kingdom of god.' That's exactly what he means:

Be innocent like a child. That is going to be

The work for you to do upon yourself.

(To Doris) -- This is your name: Ma Anand Sindhu.

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Our body is small, out mind is small

But our being is vast -- as vast as the ocean; In fact, vaster than any ocean because

Even the greatest ocean has its limits But our being has no limits, it is infinite. It has three qualities.

The first quality is truth.

When you experience your being

For the first time you taste something of truth. Before that

You had known only theories about truth.

It was like a man who has known much about food But has no experience of eating anything at all.

It is like a man

Who understands everything about water And is thirsty: He knows the formula, H2O

But that formula is not going to quench his thirst. He understands intellectually what water is,

Of what it is constituted But he has never seen water He has never drank water

He has never tasted the coolness, the contentment That comes when your thirst is quenched.

Truth we have not known

We have only heard many theories about it. Those are all hypotheses.

When you enter your being Beyond the body, beyond the mind The first taste is of truth

And the second taste is of consciousness. Otherwise consciousness is only a word. People are fast asleep,

They don't know what consciousness is. They are not conscious at all,

They are like robots, functioning like machines. And the ultimate, the third thing

Is bliss, anand -- that is the peak. As you go deeper into yourself First you encounter truth

Then you encounter consciousness

And at the very core of it, you encounter bliss. The way to this bliss is

To this oceanic bliss is

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One has to remember constantly that

'I am not the body,' that 'I am not the mind,' That 'I am the watcher, the witness.' Slowly slowly it becomes so natural

That you need not remember it,

It is simply there, an undercurrent; Even in your sleep you know that,

'I am not the body, I am not the mind, I am the witness.'

Even in your dreaming you know 'I am the witness of the dreams.'

When this witness has deepened so greatly You are on the verge of a breakthrough.

Then any moment all boundaries disappear And suddenly you are unbounded, infinite.

That's the goal of sannyas

That's the goal of all religion as such: To become infinite.

No Man is an Island

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