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30 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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been copy-typed.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 Thomas) -- This is you name: Swami Anand Thomas. Anand means bliss. Thomas is the seeker of truth.

The enquiry into truth

Is the most blissful activity of life

Because it is only through realizing the truth That one becomes capable

Of dropping all the miseries.

Miseries are shadows of lies.

We live in lies, hence we are miserable. Nobody wants to be miserable

But nobody wants to drop his lies. And people don't see

The relationship between the two; There is a cause and effect relationship. For example the greatest lie of your life Everybody's life, is the ego

And it poisons your whole life. Nobody wants to be miserable

Yet everybody wants to protect his ego. Unless one sees this contradiction

One will never be able to get rid of miseries. You want to get rid of the effect

But you go on nursing the cause You go on watering the tree And you are against the fruits!

The fruits are bitter

But you don't see the relationship That if you stop watering the tree

The fruits will disappear on their own accord. Just as lies are causes of misery

Truth is the cause of bliss. Once you know what truth is,

Your whole life becomes blissful.

Each moment a moment of rejoicing, a moment of celebration. (To Rudi) -- This is your name: Swami Prem Rudi.

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It is one of the greatest qualities of life,

Loyalty -- but it is disappearing from the world, For the simple reason that love is dying; Without love there can be no loyalty.

Loyalty is the fragrance of love. Yes, a certain kind of loyalty

Can be enforced upon you even without love But then it is pseudo, then it is ugly

Then it is violent -- that's the difference

Between a soldier and a sannyasin. The soldier is also loyal

But his loyalty is only enforced; He is manipulated to be loyal He is conditioned to be loyal.

In thousand and one ways

A crust of loyalty is created around him His own soul is crushed, he loses his soul. A soldier has no soul of his own,

He lives like a robot. His whole training is

Of destroying the man and creating the machine. A sannyasin is just the opposite pole.

The whole process of sannyas is Destroying your mechanicalness And reviving your humanity Reviving your consciousness.

It is a process of de-automatisation.

The soldier is loyal because he has to be loyal. He is as loyal as a machine:

You push the button and the lights are on, You push the button and the lights are off;

They are loyal, they never disobey, They are perfectly obedient.

A sannyasin is also, lives in loyalty But his loyalty is so totally different That in fact, the same word

Should not be used for both -- It can create confusion

But we don't have another word. He is loyal because he loves

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Not forced to surrender;

On his own accord, out of his own freedom. When loyalty comes out of love

It is as beautiful as a rose flower. When loyalty comes

Through a certain kind of cultivation

Then it is like a plastic flower:

May look like a rose but it is not a rose And it has no fragrance at all.

Loyalty is dying in the world

Because love is dying: love has to be revived. It is only through spreading love

That we can make human beings again Loyal to each other.

Then loyalty is not for small things; The country, the state, the church -- These are ugly institutions

These are hangovers from the past

These are dead things -- they should be burned! We should get rid of all of them.

They are torturing humanity. They are like mountainous burden

On the small heart of man. They are destructive. Their weight is destructive.

Man should be freed

From all these small, mundane loyalties. Man should have only one loyalty

And that is towards existence; Less than that is not good More than that is not possible Because existence contains all! Existence means god

But I am not using the word 'god' deliberately Because it is being used by the churches

And by the politicians and by the priests And in their mouths

Even the beautiful word 'god' stinks.

For few years we should drop the word completely We should forget about it;

Existence, nature, life -- These should be our gods

And we should be loyal to life itself. We will find finally that life is god And that finding is possible only Through love and through loyalty.

(To Brigitte) This is your name: Ma Dhyan Brigitte. Dhyan means meditation and Brigitte is a Celtic goddess, goddess of wisdom and songs. That's very rare because ordinarily in the past, wisdom has never been connected with songs.

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The saints look so sad -- how can they sing? They can cry, they can weep; they cannot laugh, they cannot dance, they cannot sing. But this name, Brigitte, is beautiful; that's my idea of wisdom.

Wisdom should be a dancing phenomenon, a singing phenomenon; it should not be sad and serious. If it is sad and serious, it is not wisdom at all, it is mere knowledge. And this kind of wisdom which can sing and dance, can arise only through meditation; it cannot come through studying the scriptures. Then you accumulate knowledge, and all knowledge is false because truth cannot be borrowed, you have to discover it yourself. It is yours only when you have discovered it.

The truth of Jesus cannot be yours, the truth of Buddha cannot be yours. You can repeat those beautiful words but they will be empty words on your tongue; they won't have any meaning because you will not be able to experience their innermost core. They will be just words without any content, empty containers.

That's how scholars are made: They know all the beautiful words but their life is the life of unconsciousness. They are as stupid as anybody else, in fact more so; they are not intelligent people, they cannot be. Their mind is so full of jargon, there is no escape left for intelligence to grow. Their mind only grows weeds. You cannot grow roses when there are so many weeds. Wisdom is a rose: you need to get rid of all knowledge.

Meditation does two things: First, it gets rid of all knowledge -- that's its negative function. And secondly, it helps you to enter into your own being, into your inner truth -- that's its positive function. Both things fulfilled, one becomes wise. And that wisdom certainly knows how to sing, knows how to love, knows how to rejoice!

(To Candida) -- This is your name: Ma Anand Candida. Anand means bliss. Candida means white.

The white represents innocence, purity

A childlike spirit. And bliss is possible only When you are a child again.

When you are innocent.

The knowledgeable person can never be blissful. He knows too much

Without knowing anything at all But because he thinks he knows He loses all capacity to wonder,

He loses something of immense value: He cannot feel awe, nothing surprises him He becomes absolutely incapable

Of feeling the mysterious. Just because he thinks

That he knows, he knows everything, And all in fact that he knows is Nothing but mere words

But those words clamor in his mind And befool him and deceive him.

In his knowledgeability he cannot see

The flowers, the stars, the beauty of existence

The benediction that life goes on showering on us.

He cannot feel any gratitude.

He loses all contact with his own heart. He remains hung up in the head.

That can be presented by the color black.

It seems very significant that in universities Particularly in their convocations

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All use black robes.

They may not be aware of the fact that

That black color really represents their state: It represents their stupid knowledge Their so-called knowledge

They have lost their innocence.

And when you graduate from a university You have also to wear black robes.

The university is declaring now,

'You are also no more capable of wondering; You have become knowledgeable

You have become part of a dead society. You are included in the dead people -- Now you are no more alive.'

My function here is to make you alive again. It is really a process of resurrection.

Sannyas is resurrection.

All blackness has to be dropped from your being You have to become white again, pure white -- That is the color of innocence,

A state of not knowing, Then suddenly

Your eyes are again full of joy, full of wonder Full of curiosity, enquiry, quest.

Again small things of life start surprising you Again you start collecting seashells

On the sea beach, like a child, playfully Again you start running after butterflies. Again you start dreaming like a child -- The poet is back again

The scholar is gone, the philosopher is gone. The heart is a poet, the head is a philosopher And all that is significant

Happens through the heart

Never through the head. Remember it!

Being a sannyasin means becoming a child again Dropping the whole burden

Dropping your head completely, beheading yourself. Then life is sheer joy, an unending

An eternal journey from bliss to bliss

(To Girgel) -- This is your name: Swami Pragyan Anubhavo. Pragyan means wisdom. Anubhavo means experience.

Wisdom comes through experience

Not through thinking, not through studying. Wisdom is not cerebral, not mental

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Not of the mind at all. It is existential. You can know everything about love

By reading all the books that have been written And thousands of books

Have been written about love, but still

You will not know love by knowing all those books. You may be able to write

A great dissertation on love -- Any university will feel fortunate To confer a D.Lit. on you, a Ph.D Or something like that...

But you will not know love!

You may become a scholar on love

You may be able to give long discourses on love But as far as love is concerned

You don't know any taste of it It has not happened to you.

It is like a blind man talking about light: Yes, a blind man can talk about light

He can study about light. He can study Everything that has been written about light He can memorize everything

He may become a great expert on light But one thing is certain

That he does not know exactly what light is. And a man who has eyes may not be able

To say a single word about light But he knows what light is.

He has experienced it

And that experience is valuable. Even a great scholarship

Is of no value compared to a small experience Because only experience gives you authenticity. Truth experienced liberates

And truth unexperienced is only a theorization It is only a hypothesis.

It creates a kind of bondage It does not bring freedom.

That is one of the most important things To understand for a sannyasins that

Truth is an experience, wisdom is existential. Hence my emphasis here is

To help you to experience.

I want to cure your eyes, I don't want you To become knowledgeable about light -- That is absolutely irrelevant.

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Buddha used to say that, 'I am a physician,' And I perfectly agree with him:

A real master is always a physician.

He treats your eyes, he helps your eyes to see He helps your heart to function.

He makes you aware of many things which are there But you are not sensitive to them.

And slowly slowly

Your windows and doors open up To the wind, to the rain, to the sun And life becomes available to you And you become available to life. When this communion happens Life is a great blessing.

All misery disappears on its own accord And one starts feeling grateful to god -- Prayer arises.

Prayer is gratitude.

(To Marianne) -- This is your name: Ma Dhyan Surya.

Surya means meditation. Surya means the sun, the source of all light. Meditation is the inner sun

The source of inner light. We live as extroverts:

We are acquainted with the outer light

But we are not acquainted with our inner light. Our inner light remains in complete darkness And that is the root cause

Of all our misery, of all our anguish.

We have to become aware of our inner light. There is an eternal flame inside you.

Once seen you start living

Through a totally different perspective. Then there is no need

To follow anybody else commandments: Then you have your own light

And you live according to your own light. Then there is no question

Of anybody else to decide for you What is right and what is wrong;

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There are no alternatives for a wise man. For a man who has seen his inner light There are no alternatives;

He simply knows what is right

And he cannot go against the right -- impossible. You cannot do the wrong

If you know yourself that it is wrong. People go on doing the wrong because

It is somebody else knowing that it is wrong. People go on going against the right because It is somebody else -- Moses, Christ, Buddha Saying that this is wrong

But it is not their experience. In fact, deep down they think,

'Buddha is right,

Christ may have been a great man But he can't be right.'

Their darkness goes on showing them A totally different path

And they go on falling in it Hence their life becomes split:

On the one hand they agree

With Christ and Buddha; on the other hand They go on against their teachings.

They become split and they become hypocrites. My whole effort here is

Not to create hypocrites any more. The world is full of them: Christians,

Hindus, Mohammedans, Jainas, Buddhists -- They are all hypocrites

For the simple reason That they are trying to live

According to somebody else experience. And because it is not their own experience How can they live according to it?

So they are always wavering:

One moment they decide this Another moment they decide that; They are in a constant inner conflict

And whatsoever they do, they will feel miserable. If they do what they think is right

They will feel miserable because

They are going against all the prophets, If they follow the prophets

They will feel miserable because

They are not following their own nature. So whatsoever they do brings misery -- This is inevitable. The only way out is To search for your own light first.

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Jesus says, 'See ye first the kingdom of god Then all else shall be added unto you.'

This is an old way of saying the same thing.

If I am to say it I will say:

Seek ye first your inner light

Then all else shall be added unto you. It means the same. I am using

A far more modern phraseology, that's all. Jesus was, of course,

Using the language of his day -- 'The kingdom of god'.

It simply means your inner light. By becoming a sannyasin means

You are becoming committed to an inner search You are going for a great journey;,

The greatest adventure of life.

Move with your totality, not halfheartedly Not in a lukewarm way.

No Man is an Island

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