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20 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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been copy-typed.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 Gunther) -- This is your name: Swami Veet Gunther. Veet means go beyond, transcend. Gunther means war.

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No more war;

Neither on the outside nor on the inside Neither with others nor with oneself.

Instead of war create love,

Love for others and love for yourself.

A soldier lives in the climate of war And a sannyasin

Is just the polar opposite of a soldier:

He lives in the climate of love. And the beauty of love is

That it conquers without conquering

It becomes victorious without any effort It becomes victorious through surrender.

(To Gregory) -- You have a beautiful name -- it exactly Defines sannyas. Gregory means to be watchful, to be

Aware, to be vigilant.

This will be your full name: Swami Anand Gregory. Anand means bliss. Gregory means awareness.

Bliss is a by-product of awareness.

The more aware you are, the more blissful The less aware you are, the more miserable. You can measure your blissfulness

And you can know how much aware you are. If there is no bliss in your life

It means you are fast asleep. Then don't make Any direct effort to become blissful,

Nobody can succeed in that Because bliss is a by-product, You cannot achieve it directly. You have to go via awareness. If you feel you are miserable That simply shows one thing

It is an indication that you are unaware

So become more aware, become more meditative. And as meditation will deepen

Misery will disperse

And the same energy that becomes misery Becomes bliss. All that is needed is

The mechanism of awareness.

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It is a very scientific process:

It refines the energy, it transforms the energy It purifies the energy.

It takes out everything that is not needed And only the essential is left.

And once your energy

Has passed through awareness, bliss explodes. Misery is an indication, so is bliss

They are not goals. Nobody can avoid misery

And nobody can avoid unawareness, One can achieve awareness.

That is the right direction to work.

(To Bernd) -- This is your name: Swami Dhyan Bernd. Dhyan means meditation. Bernd means brave as a bear. Meditation needs great courage because

It is the journey towards the ultimate, It is no ordinary journey. It is entering

Into the most mysterious, the miraculous Hence it is not for the cowards.

The cowards can only pray, they cannot meditate And their prayer is false because

Unless the prayer is rooted in meditation It can never be real and authentic.

The temples and the churches and the mosques Are full of cowards.

They are praying god to help them

And god has given you everything you need. And he is not going to listen

To all this nonsense

That goes on in the name of prayer.

He has given you intelligence: Now use it! Man has used intelligence

And he has created great science,

And for thousands of years he was praying For the same things

And nothing happened, nothing materialized. Man has dreamt of flying

For thousands of years, as long as you go back Man has been always enchanted

With the idea of flying --

But praying ... it has not worked. 1/08/07

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Once we applied intelligence Man has become able to fly. Man has always wanted

To reach to the moon, to the stars

But he was praying. Prayer is impotent Because god has given you the intelligence -- Use it! That's what meditation is:

It is use of intelligence for the inner journey. When you use intelligence for the objective world Science is created,

When you use intelligence

For the inner world, subjective world Religion is created.

Religion is as much scientific as any science, But certainly it needs more courage than science Because with science you are not involved,

You remain just an observer.

But when you enter in your own being

You have to become a participant; it is risky. The religions of prayer are false

Only the religions of meditation are true. And if prayer arises

Out of intelligence, out of meditation Then prayer too is true, but then

It has a totally different flavor. Then it is not asking for something:

On the contrary, it is simply thanking god For all that he has already given us.

(To Francis) -- This is your name: Swami Deva Francis. Deva means divine. Francis means freedom.

Freedom is the most divine phenomenon Hence never sacrifice your freedom

For anything whatsoever, not even for love Because noting is higher than freedom.

Everything can be sacrificed for freedom Even life

But freedom cannot be sacrificed for anything. Even god can be sacrificed for freedom

But freedom cannot be sacrificed for god. Buddha does not believe in god

But he believes in freedom.

Mahavira never believed in god But he believes in freedom.

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But they could not discard The hypothesis of freedom;

In fact, freedom is the real god. And the whole effort of sannyas is To help you to be free

To be free from all traditions All orthodoxies, all conventions

To be free from all your inner darkness Unconsciousness, instincts, mechanicalness. In a single word, to be free.

And to live in freedom Is to live a spiritual life

But your so-called saints live in slavery. They are not free people, they are really

The greatest slaves on the earth, Slaves of dead ideas, ideologies. Here you have to learn

How to be free, free of everything.

Once your consciousness is completely free It is no more imprisoned,

The imprisoned splendor is released. For the first time you know

Who you are, your glory, your beauty.

And that experience is the experience for which Jesus lived and died

Buddha lived and taught his whole life Socrates sacrificed himself.

Up to now only for very few people It has been possible

To taste that joy of freedom.

My effort here is to make it available To as many people as possible.

The time has come

That the fragrance of freedom Should be spread all over the earth.

(To Edda) -- This is your name: Ma Deva Sonar. Deva means divine. Sonar means gold.

Man is both dust and gold, dust and divine. Form the outside he is just dust.

If you observe him you cannot find any gold If scientifically you analyse him

You will find nothing else but matter. But if you meditatively go

Into your own interiority You will not find dust at all

You will not find matter at all. 1/08/07

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You will find a totally different phenomenon. You will find something

Which is absolutely non-material: You will find energy, pure energy You will find godliness, spirituality. That is your true being

Dust only make you ... (inaudible)

So when you die it is right to say dust unto dust But that is only half truth:

The inner being never dies

But it can't be seen from the outside. You can see it

Only from the innermost core of your being. Once you have seen it within yourself

You can see it in others also But the first experience

Has to happen within yourself. The moment you know that

You are more than the body, suddenly

The whole existence is more than it appears And that more is its reality,

And that more is eternal, immortal. It knows no death, no birth.

And that more is blissful, it knows no misery. That more is pure light,

It has never known any darkness.

(To Anton) -- This is your name: Swami Purno.

Purno means the perfect one. Nobody is imperfect

Hence nobody need to be perfect.

All that is needed is to live your life totally. Perfection is already there

We come from the perfect Hence we can't be imperfect We are born out of the ultimate

We are waves in the ocean of god So whatsoever is the quality of god Is the quality of the waves:

If god is perfect, we are perfect.

So the very idea of becoming perfect is absurd. There is no need to become perfect

Everyone is already perfect

But we are not living that perfection

In its totality, we are living at the minimum. We are not using our potential

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Scientists say, not more that seven per cent, Ninety-three per cent potential is simply lost. And it was always there, available for us to use. We have all the money that we need

But we are living like a beggar, For the simple reason that

We have completely forgotten about the treasure. The function of meditation is:

To remember it, to discover it. And the only way to discover it

The only way to remember it, is to live

More totally, more intensely, more passionately So that more and more potential

Is transformed into the actual.

When you live hundred per cent you are really Using the great opportunity

That god has given to you.

And only at the hundred per cent

The transformation happens, never before it.

So my effort here is not to make you escapists But in the contrary

To make you love life as intensely as possible To live each moment as holy as possible

And slowly slowly

Something starts unfolding in you And you start discovering yourself.

The more challenges you give to yourself, The more you discover.

(To Marijke) -- This is your name: Ma Anuraga. Anuraga means love.

Love is my message, the whole message. The small word contains

Everything that I want to convey to you.

If you can live lovingly, nothing else is needed. If you can understand the ways of love

You will understand everything else. If you can go on purifying your love From all that is unclean, from all

That is not love but pretends to be love, At the peak of that purification

You will find god.

God is nothing but love in its purest form In its most essential form.

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Love, your so-called love

Is very much contaminated, polluted. The ego is there which is like a poison And the ego never comes alone;

It comes with a great army.

It comes with anger, with jealousy, with hatred With all kinds of numbers, trips;

It wants to dominate

It is ready to destroy one's peace It is ready to be destructive

To oneself and to the other. It is very suicidal But pretends to be love

And because it pretends to be love We go on being deceived by it.

Beware of it!

It is the ego that does not allow people Flowering, fulfillment, fruition, otherwise Everybody has the seed to become

A beautiful flower of love, a lotus.

But very few people have been able to become For the simple reason

That very few people are alert;

They can't discriminate what is what.

Watch how many things are pretending to be love Which are not love, which cannot be love.

If they are love; they cannot create misery -- Let that be the criterion: If they create misery Then they are not love, then get rid of them. Love always gives bliss,

It can never give misery -- remember it always Never forget it for a single moment.

But people are so stupid:

Rather than dropping those ugly things Which go on masquerading as love They are ready to drop love itself.

That's what for thousands of years

Monks and nuns have done: They dropped love. They were ready to drop love but

They were not ready to drop jealousy, Possessiveness, domination, ego.

They saved ego and they dropped love, They escaped from the world

Because world means opportunities for love. They moved into the monasteries.

Monks lived separately

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There are monasteries

Where no woman has ever entered Has never been allowed to enter For the simple reason

That any opportunity for love is dangerous. They are so much afraid of love.

And these stupid people have been called saints For centuries.

Hitherto, man's history has been such a history of stupidity that

Future is going to laugh at the whole thing, Our children will not be able to believe That people were ready

To drop the real thing for the unreal But they were not ready

To drop the unreal for the real. That you have to remember.

Your name will remind you again and again.

(To Ernst) -- This is your name: Swami Anuragi. It means love.

Love has nothing to do with relationship It is more a state of being.

You have to become a loving person.

It is not a question of being in relationship -- I am not saying don't be in relationships;

Be in as many relationships as possible

Because each relationship has its own uniqueness

And each relationship has its own beauty And each relationship contributes its own joy And of course its own suffering, its own pain It has its own dark nights

And its own beautiful days, But that's how one grows:

Through darkness, through light Through sweetness, through bitterness. I am not against relationships

But one thing has to be clearly in our vision, That ultimately

Love is more a question of inner state:

You have to be loving, Whether in relationship or not That is not the question.

And you have to be loving to all:

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To people -- you have to be loving in general. Even if there is nobody

And you are sitting silently, alone, still You have to radiate love: Just a flower Will go on releasing its perfume Whether anybody is there or not,

Just as a candle will go on giving its light Whether there is anybody or not.

So is a loving person:

His love is a perfume, his love is a light. If there is nobody to share,

It still radiates, it still goes on spreading Because the loving person can't do otherwise. Once that state is attained you become religious. Religion has nothing to do with rituals

Nothing to do with churches and temples, And the Bibles and the Gitas and the Korans. Religion has something to do

With an inner state of love.

It has nothing to do with god really. If you are loving

If you reach to the pinnacle of love God is bound to happen to you.

That is inevitable

So we need not bother about it

We need not even take any note of it We need not even discuss about it.

It is inevitable, it follows love like a shadow.

No Man is an Island

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