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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been copy-typed.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

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(To Jagdeesh) -- This is your name: Swami Jagdeesh Bharti. Only two things have to be remembered.

One is meditation and the other is love. If these two things are fulfilled

Nothing else is needed, no other religion. This is the whole of religion:

Meditation for yourself and love for others

Meditation to go in and love to go out.

It is the same door; these are not two things. It is like a door: When you enter

On the door it is written 'entrance' And when you come out

On the same door is written 'exit'. When you go in the door is meditation When you come out it is the same door But now it is called love.

And both have to be simultaneously grown Otherwise one becomes lopsided.

That has happened for centuries: The people

Who have tried to meditate have become unloving They become closed to the world

They become self-centered.

Their spirituality becomes very selfish. It seems they are not at all interested

In anybody, only interested in themselves. It is a kind of morbidity, it is ill

It is not healthy, they are no more flowing. Their life has become static, undynamic, dead.

Slowly slowly they become very cold Because without love you lose warmth.

That's what happens to Jaina monks: They are Absolutely concerned only with themselves, The world is not a concern.

That is one of the basic causes Of this country's fall because

All the so-called spiritual people become

So much selfish that nobody cared what is happening To the whole country, to the people.

Everybody was concerned only for his own salvation And let all else go to hell.

That is none of our business

That's not really a spiritual attitude It is very unspiritual.

Or if people are very loving They forget meditation.

Then they become superficial

They become indulgent; then eat, drink, be merry Then that becomes their whole life.

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And their life remains just mundane Nothing sacred.

And the world has lived

In these two extremes, divided:

One we call the worldly

And the other we call the other-worldly. My sannyasin has to become a bridge He is neither worldly nor other-worldly He is both and neither, he is a bridge He is a constant flow

And he is capable of moving in and out easily. Whenever he wants to go in, he goes in

And forgets the whole world,

But whatsoever he attains within his being -- The joy, the blessings, the peace, the silence, He is not a miser, he does not hoard it.

He starts sharing it, he immediately comes out Because he is very loving.

Love keeps him warm, meditation keeps him deep And this is the ultimate balance.

To attain it is the goal of my sannyas. Remember these two things;

This is the whole of religion.

(To Dirk) -- This is your name: Swami Prem Dirk. Prem means love. Dirk means full of justice.

Only love can be just, because only love can understand. Without love there is no understanding and without understanding how there can be any justice? One cannot be just; but for thousands of years this has been told to people that if you want to be just, you have to be indifferent; you have to be utterly detached, unloving. You have to be just an onlooker.

That's perfectly right as far as science is concerned because you are observing objects -- there is no question of loving objects. If you are observing water and hydrogen and oxygen, it's perfectly okay. Nobody can ask you to be in deep love with oxygen you can remain detached; in fact you will be detached unless you are mad. Mad people fall in love with strange things!

One madman was saying to the other that: "This psychiatrist seems to be very strange. He's talking all nonsense. When I went to him he told me that; 'You are in love with your umbrella' -- that is utter nonsense!

What do you think?" He said, "Certainly -- that is absolutely absurd." And the man said, "Yes, that's what I think! It is absolutely absurd. We care for each other, we are tender about each other -- that's one thing but love is another thing! I am not in love with my umbrella!"

So it is okay with the scientific observation but as you move higher, higher than the objective world, you cannot remain detached; if you are detached you will

miss the whole point. That's why science cannot know anything about love and cannot know anything about man's inner being and cannot know anything about god. It is impossible because the scientific approach itself inhibits it, prohibits it. The very approach is such, the requirement is such, the methodology is such that these things are debarred. Science cannot understand beauty and science is absolutely incapable of understanding what music is. Science can understand what sound is but science is absolutely incapable of understanding what music is. Science can understand linguistics but cannot understand poetry. Science can understand language, grammar -- everything, but what is poetry? That simply is missed. For that one needs a loving approach. If you want to understand the truth you have to be very loving. If you really want to understand the whole of life in all its dimensions, you have to approach with great love and care; you have to be very tender, soft.

And then a new phenomenon arises in you: your life becomes full of justice you cannot be unjust then; you cannot be unfair then; it is impossible. A loving person cannot be unfair.

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So love as deeply as possible but remember that love should not become an attachment, otherwise you become prejudiced. Love should not become demanding otherwise you start imposing your ideas. Love should not be possessive otherwise it becomes violent. If love can be non-possessive, non- demanding, unconditional then your whole life has a tremendous beauty; you radiate something of godliness and that radiation is what justice is: Only god is just and when you start radiating god, you are just, never before it.

(To Paul) -- This is your name: Swami Anand Svabhavo. Anand means bliss. Svabhavo means self-nature.

Bliss is our self-nature. It has not to be found somewhere else. It has to be discovered within yourself. It is already a gift by god. You are carrying it with yourself. It has been all along with you from the very beginning; still you are

miserable. For the simple reason that you never search within. You search where it is not and you never search where it is. That's how one goes on missing bliss and one goes on stumbling more and more into misery.

Sannyas means a radical change; a change in the very direction of your life energies. It is a turning in, it is a pilgrimage to one's own center. Sannyas is nothing but the very essence of meditation.

Once you have known yourself, you have known all. And once you have known yourself you are the possessor of an eternal kingdom, of an inexhaustible treasure.

(To Robyn) -- This is your name: Ma Dhyanprem. Dhyanprem means lover of meditation.

That is the greatest love That can happen to a person.

All other loves are small things.

The greatest love is the love for meditation. Meditation means the search for oneself.

We have completely forgotten who we are We have forgotten the very language How to commune with ourselves.

Whatsoever we know about ourselves Is all false, arbitrary.

You are given a name and you think that

This is you -- but nobody is born with a name. The name gives you an identity.

You are given a religion --

Your parents impose a certain religion on you They impose a certain nationality on you And these things become your identities:

One is a Hindu, an Indian

With a certain name, with a certain caste And these become definitions but

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That life goes on slipping out of our fingers And we go on remaining

As ignorant of ourselves as ever. In fact the more time passes

The more ignorant we become.

The children

Are a little more aware of themselves.

It is not an exceptional thing to find children Calling their own name in a third person.

An little boy can say, 'Mommy, Johnny is hungry.' He is not still identified with Johnny,

He does not say, 'I am hungry.' He says, 'Johnny is hungry.'

His understanding is far more deeper;

He still keeps himself aloof from Johnny. Johnny is as far aware as anybody else.

He is just a watcher:

He has come to know that Johnny is hungry But he is not saying, 'I am hungry.'

Soon he will forget, the distance will dissolve: He will become one with Johnny.

By becoming a sannyasin you have to do two things. One, the first essential step is:

To become aware of all false identities because To know the false as the false

Is the beginning of the journey towards the real.

Once you become aware

That all these things are false --

Being Christian, Hindu, Mohammedan Indian, German, Chinese --

These are all just arbitrary, accidental, They have nothing to do with you.

Your consciousness remains Absolutely untouched by them,

Then the question arises, 'Who am I?' You are not your education

And you are not your money And you are not your post -- Your are nothing of these things

Then, 'Who am I' -- then the question becomes More and more poignant.

Then it takes an insistence

Then it becomes a constant undercurrent in you That 'Life is running out

And I have not yet even known myself, What am I doing here?

At least one thing should be done

That I should become aware who I am.' Once this deep longing arises in you to know Then knowing is not difficult.

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Meditation simply means Becoming silent, utterly silent Getting unidentified with the mind

Remaining absolutely still and trying to see What is this consciousness that I am.

It takes a little time for the mind to quiet To calm down; it has been noisy for lives It has become a habit, but it disappears. And the day it disappears, suddenly

All is light, all is joy, all is benediction! You have arrived home,

You have penetrated your own being.

That is the meaning of your name.

(To Sally) -- This is your name: Ma Anand Avinash. Anand means bliss. Avinash means eternal.

Bliss is eternal. Happiness is momentary -- It comes like a breeze and goes.

When it comes, it feels good But when it goes it leaves you In a far more miserable state

Than you were before, obviously Because now you have tasted something And now you know the taste of happiness And the misery hurts more.

People who attain few glimpses of happiness Are far more miserable

Than the people who have never had any glimpses Hence the very strange phenomenon that

Poor people don't look so miserable. It is very illogical

They should be more miserable But they don't look so miserable As rich people look miserable.

They live in misery, in other's eyes. If a Westerner comes to India

He can see the whole misery of the land. Everybody's living in misery but

People who are living are not even aware of it. Even the beggar on the street

Does not think that he is miserable He accepts it just as matter of course. That's how life is:

He has known it this way from the very beginning. His father was a beggar

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His father's father was a beggar;

This is his karma and he is utterly contented. He has no desire to be anything else.

He may have money in the bank, he may have Every opportunity to change his business

But he is no more interested

He is perfectly happy, things are going well. He has never tasted anything else

So he lives into whatsoever condition he is In a state of a dull kind of satisfaction.

But the people who have tasted some joy

Some happiness, some glimpses -- they feel misery. Now America

Is the most miserable country in the world For the simple reason because

It has more glimpses available.

I am all for richness, for the simple reason Because once you are aware of misery

Once you see the momentariness of happiness, A desire arises to seek and search the eternal. Otherwise

There is no desire to search for the eternal. If you have tasted for a single moment Something of joy, you are bound to look; How you can make it an eternal state of life? How you can be in it permanently, forever? And that is possible.

The whole art of meditation is

To bring eternal peace, silence, joy to you. And the miracle is:

It (can't read, words missing) from anywhere else. It wells up within you.

Meditation simply removes All the barriers in its path. It removes all the rocks

And the stream starts flowing. And once you have known that

It is nothing to do with anything on the outside You have a great independence, great freedom, You don't depend on anybody.

You can be absolutely joyous in your aloneness. Your aloneness becomes luminous.

It is no more lonely, it is full of joy It is a dancing aloneness

It is a singing aloneness, it has great beauty And great poetry and great music.

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No Man is an Island

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