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22 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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been copy-typed.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 Sanjay) -- Your name: Swami Sanjay Bharti. Sanjay means victory and not just victory but right victory.

That word right, 'sam' is of immense importance. All the great words are composed of it. Sambodhi, which means enlightenment comes from the same root 'sam'. Samadhi, which means ultimate achievement, self-realization, comes from the same root 'sam'.

Gautam Buddha was immensely in love with the word 'sam'; whatsoever he will say he will always use the word 'sam'. The eightfold path that he preached, all the eight links start with sam: Samyaksmrati, right remembrance, Samyakahar, right food -- whatsoever he will say he will always emphasize that it should be right because the problem is with man's unconsciousness. With this everything can go wrong. Even beautiful things can go wrong, they have gone wrong. You give them gold and the moment their unconsciousness touches it, it turns into dust; they have to be constantly reminded how to use it rightly, how not to destroy it.

And one of the greatest problems of life is that light is not destroyed by darkness. Light has no danger from darkness. What can darkness do to light?

Light is in danger from a false light. The flower has no danger from the leaves and the thorns. The flower has danger from pseudo flowers; the paper flowers, the plastic flowers. And they are cheap and they are easily available. Religion is not in any danger from irreligiousness. Religion is always in danger from pseudo religion. Hence just to say religion is not enough, it has to be preceded by right -- right religion so that you remember always, so that you can always check and be absolute certain before you start moving into anything, whether it is false or right, whether it is pseudo or real.

The pseudo victory is through violence and the right victory is through love. The pseudo victory is enforced on the other. The right victory is never enforced on the other; on the contrary there is no effort to enforce anything at all. Not in the least, not even in any indirect, subtle way. There is no desire to impose anything. But when you love deeply, victory comes on its own accord.

Love is victorious and it brings right victory because it does not destroy the other. On the contrary, it enhances the other. It makes the other more valuable, it makes the other's freedom more solid, more crystallized.

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Query:-

Meditation gives you an insight into rightness. Then you can apply that rightness to all dimensions of life. Then whatsoever you do, remember, it should not be false and pseudo, it should not be a pretension; it should be authentic and true. And once you start living a life of truth, there is great joy! Joy follows truth like a shadow. Now start meditating. Good.

(To Koya) -- This is your name: Swami Prem Vandan. Prem means love. Vandan means prayer.

The only prayer worth calling prayer is love; All other prayers are only so-called prayers.

They are pseudo, they are just poor substitutes: Because people cannot love, they pray.

Of course their prayer gives them A certain consolation.

Man is so cunning in deceiving others

That ultimately he starts deceiving himself. He cannot love human beings

So he starts loving humanity. Now that is a strategy:

The mind is befooling you.

Where you are going to find humanity? Whenever you will find

You will always find a concrete human being. Humanity is only an abstract concept

Just an idea -- you cannot love an idea But it is easy to love an idea

Because it creates no trouble

You are not expected to sacrifice anything, You can remain the same and you can brag That you are a great lover of humanity.

People who cannot love existence

Start loving god.

Now existence is here now

And god is just in your mind, just a concept. It does not exist but it is easy to love god.

It is difficult to love a tree: Even a tree

Will create trouble for you if you love the tree Because it has its own moods.

And if you love a tree

You are risking many things because One day the tree can die --

That is the greatest risk And you will be left alone And you will feel empty. 1/08/07

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Query:-

People are afraid of love.

It is easy to love god. God never dies, Because god never is in the first place. It is impossible

For something that does not exist to die. Friedrich Nietzsche declared

In the beginning of this century That god is dead.

And I say he was utterly wrong

Because god can be dead only if he was alive! He has never been alive in the first place.

Nietzsche must have been

A far more religious man that I am. At least he believed

That god has lived up to now.. And he gave a long life to god,

Since the very beginning, almost an eternity. He does not allow any future to him

But he allows the past. But I say to you

That god neither has a past nor future. Godliness is true

But god is only a philosophical concept. Hence Buddha

Who was the most enlightened man in the world Never talked of god.

He certainly talked about godliness

But to love godliness, you will have to love All the manifestations: The river, the mountain The stars, the people, the animals...

And I call this love prayer.

The people who pray in the churches In the temples, in the mosques

Are simply deceiving themselves and nobody else. They are simply wasting their time.

It has no more value that playing cards; Playing cards is a mundane way

Of wasting your time

And going to a church on the Sunday Is a religious way of wasting your time.

But a real religious man lives his prayer. It is a question of living, breathing.

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Query:-

Breathe prayer, live prayer

Love this beautiful existence, And it is through this love You will become aware

Of the immense presence of godliness everywhere. And I repeat again: not of god but of godliness.

(To Tomoko) -- This is your name: Ma Anand Prartho. Anand means bliss. Prartho means prayer.

To be blissful is to be prayerful.

To live blissfully, is a dancing way, Enjoying each moment of life

Is the way of sannyas.

I am not against the world, not against life.

I am in tremendous love with the world and life And I teach my sannyasins

To be great lovers of life.

Dance with the wind, dance when it is raining Dance with the trees

And you will be surprised that Religion is not in the scriptures, It is spread all over existence From the dance of a peacock

Or a cuckoo calling from a faraway distance Or somebody playing on a flute.

Religion is not something dead And scriptures are all dead.

Religion is very much alive And you have to be alive To make contact with it.

If you live in misery, you live in death, If you live in bliss

You become more and more alive. When your bliss reaches to a peak

To an orgasmic peak, then you contact existence. And that contact gives you the proof

That live is not only matter but something more. And that something more is indefinable.

You can call it XYZ, enlightenment, tao, Truth, godliness, but these

Are just words to indicate to something Which cannot be contained in any word. 1/08/07

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The only way to know it is through bliss. So here, learn to be blissful.

This is not a place to be sad and serious. This is a place to be playful

This is a place to take life as fun And death too as fun!

(To Michael) -- This is your name: Swami Prem Gitam. Prem means love; gitam means a song -- a love song.

That's all one needs to become And life is fulfilled!

If one is not able to become a song Life remains empty, meaningless. And people try

To become everything except a song.

They want to become rich, powerful, famous But in becoming rich

In becoming politically powerful

In becoming famous they lose all qualities That can make their life joyous;

They lose all cheerfulness, they become serious They have to become serious because

The things that they are trying to achieve Are competitive, they are all ego trips, And ego is a very serious thing.

Ego never takes anything as fun.

Fun seems to be dangerous for the ego. Ego is never playful, it is very serious. Hence egoists tend to become saints Because that seems to be the easiest way To become powerful, respected, famous -- And without losing your seriousness at all:

In fact, you can become more and more serious As you become a bigger saint.

But you become more and more dead too... Have you ever seen a dead man laughing? Dead men are very serious, bound to be!

They can't laugh. That will be out of place. And they follow all the manners

That dead people should follow.

There is a famous story about a Sufi mystic

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Who was a great philosopher also. He was always worried that,

'How I will know when I die that I am dead?' Philosophers are always worried

About such stupid things.

His wife told him, 'This is all nonsense, I don't think this is philosophy because When you are dead, you will know.' But the man said, 'How?

How I will be certain that I am really dead?' The wife said, 'You will know because

You will become cold. So don't bother me! You will know perfectly well.

You will become cold.'

So he said, 'Okay. If this is an indication Then the problem is solved.'

One day he was in the forest and lost the way

And it was a cold night

And he started shivering and becoming very cold And he was on his donkey. He told to the donkey, 'Listen -- it seems I am dying.

That's what my wife has said

And she has never said anything wrong.

She is always right, always I prove to be wrong, So she must be right. So ...

And she had told me that You will know perfectly well

And now I am knowing it perfectly well That everything is becoming cold

So goodbye friend! You served me many days And I have to leave you in this jungle

And I don't know what will happen to you, But god will take care of you!'

So he lies down underneath a tree Because he thought,

'That's how dead people are expected to behave.' He has always seen them lying down!

You don't see dead people

Riding on their donkeys or sitting or standing. He remembered -- he has seen many dead people So this is the way how one should behave.

So he told to the donkey that,

'You can stand or whatsoever you want you can do But I have to lie down -- I am dead!'

And of course when he laid himself Down under a tree, he became more cold 1/08/07

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Query:-

So it was absolutely certain that death has come. At that very moment

Two wolves came and attacked the donkey. Now he is seeing.

He became very puzzled -- what to do? In such a situation

What a dead man is expected to do?

That is the problem: 'Now the wife is not here I cannot ask anybody else.

My donkey is being attacked and I am dead!' So at the most he said to the wolves,

'Listen -- you can do whatsoever you can do But this is not good: having in such a way With a dead man's donkey! Had I been alive I would have taught you a lesson!

But now it is too late,

I cannot do anything else.'

And he said to the donkey, 'Forgive me ,sir. Don't have any expectations from me Because I am dead!'

Dead people have their own manners, etiquette. And one thing is absolutely certain:

Nobody has ever seen a dead man laughing. That seems to be

An absolute commandment for dead people: Don't laugh. Laughter is not allowed.

But the people who stop laughter

While they are alive, start becoming dead. Rejoice! Rejoice as much as you can,

Become more and more alive as much as you can.

To me, to be religious means To be overflowing with life So abundantly overflowing

That you can share your life with others That you can make a few dead people alive. That should be the way of a sannyasin:

He should become himself alive And he should make others alive.

He should trigger the process of being alive Into others -- and there are many who are dead There are many who are cold

Who has lost all warmth, who has lost all love Who has lost all laughter.

(To Bruno) -- Hello, Bruno! Come here. So finally you have come!

Yes. 1/08/07

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That's good -- I was waiting for you. Good. This is your name: Swami Veet

Niten. Veet means going beyond. Niten means morality.

Morality is not religion. Of course, religious people are moral but the vice versa is not true: moral people are not religious; moral people are simply pretending to be religious. They are wearing a mask, a face. The mask may be beautiful, the face may be beautiful, but it is a veil: it hides your reality. It gives you a beautiful appearance but you lose all track of your authentic being.

The moral person lives according to the social dictates. He is not a free man. He lives according to the ten commandments: Do this, don't do that. His whole life is being ruled by others: the powerful, the orthodox, the priest, the politicians, the people who are dominating the establishment. But he is moral only on the surface, his morality is not even skin-deep. If you scratch him a little deeper, immediately his immorality comes up. His unconscious is full of all kinds of scorpions and snakes and all kinds of wild animals. And he is afraid of them, he has repressed them. He is sitting on top of them as if on top of a volcano. And he is very fearful, trembling constantly because the volcano can erupt any moment. His life is a life of misery and he has to live a double kind of life. On the front door he is one person, on the back door, he is a totally different person.

My sannyasin has to live a single life, integrated, true to the very core. Whatsoever he is, he is. He has no need of any masks, no desire to hide behind anything. He simply allows himself -- he exposes himself to the world as he is, in his total nudity, without any fear. He stands before god utterly naked. And that is the only way to encounter god, that is the only way to encounter existence. And then a totally different kind of morality arises, which is not imposed from the outside but arises from within one's own heart. It has the touch of your own heartbeats, it has the flavor of your own experience and being. It arises out of your own meditation. It is not your conscience, it is your consciousness. Now you do whatsoever you see is right. You don't do what others say is right; because others are simply repeating cliches handed over to them by others.

And so on, and so forth, for centuries the same cliches have been handed over by people from one generation to another generation. These cliches are like hereditary diseases. And people go on suffering from them.

To be a sannyasin means to be free from the past, free from traditions, free from orthodoxies. To be on one's own and to live in freedom, to risk whatsoever the freedom requires. And then slowly slowly your own conscience starts

functioning because you give an opportunity for it to function; it starts responding to challenges that you have to encounter every day in life. Because you don't have any readymade answers --

you have to search within. Your intelligence has to function and as your intelligence functions, you grow.

A religious person becomes moral but his morality is his own. He is the source of it, he is his own authority, he does not believe in any other authority.

My function here is not to be an authority to you, but to help you to become your own authority.

Now you have come forever? That's good. Start working. Good!

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