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14 December 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium

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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been scanned and cleaned up. It is for reference purposes only.]

Bliss is never an achievement on our part. Whatsoever we do is doomed to fail. Because it comes out of the ego it comes out of the stupid mind, it comes out of our anguish, anxiety, desire, ambition, it comes out 1/08/07

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of our confusion. It can't bring bliss to us, it can bring only misery.

And people go on moving from one misery to another misery. Just while they are changing from one misery to another misery they think that they are blissful. It is just in those small gaps when they are changing trains, that's all.

Bliss comes from the beyond as a gift, always as a gift. We have to be on the receptive end. We are not to be aggressively active for it, but just receptive like a womb. We have to be feminine to receive bliss. We have to become pregnant with god.

Today you are becoming a follower of Christ. Up to now you may have been a Christian but not a follower of Christ. A Christian is one who is a follower formally, superficially; one who has not risked anything, who is not really committed. His religion is a Sunday religion, a kind of social phenomenon. It is good to go to the church every su day and meet people and say "Hello" and "How are you?" In the society it is good to keep the religious face; it pays. It is a good policy, good politics, but it is not religion. Religion is dangerous.

Today you are becoming a follower of Christ. By becoming a sannyasin you are becoming committed to spiritual growth. You are becoming involved in the tremendous process of transforming your being into a Christ-consciousness.

Bliss is a by-product of trust, of total trust in existence or in God. God is not a person but the impersonal presence. The very life of existence is God, the living energy is God. And to trust in it means to stop struggling against it. Struggling against it creates misery; it is trying to go upstream. But trust means surrender, going with the stream. And going with the stream is bliss.

All misery is because of the ego and its struggle, its resistance. Trust means that resistance has been dropped. You don't think of yourself as separate from the whole; you are just an intrinsic part of the great harmony of existence, a small note in this great orchestra. Then bliss is natural.

There is no need for war and there is no need to be a warrior. Relax. Drop those attitudes which have made man a fighter with others or with himself. Drop all those attitudes. There is no need to fight with anything. Accept. Whatsoever is, is good.

Jesus prays on the cross "Thy will be done, thy kingdom come." That is dropping all fight, that is surrendering to god. In that surrendering, for the first time you will taste what joy is, what truth is, what godliness is. A warrior, worldly or religious, remains in misery. He is fighting a losing battle. We cannot win against the whole, remember it. We can win only with the whole, not against the whole. Hence the stupid one fights and the wise one surrenders.

The most important thing to remember in life is that God loves us, that he has not forsaken us, that he is not indifferent to us, that he is continuously concerned about us, that he cares.

The deeper this idea enters your heart, the better, because when you start feeling

more and more loved by God you will be able to love others. That's how we become able to love: if we are loved we can love; if we are not loved we don't know how to love, we don't know what love is.

In the world today love is disappearing because God has disappeared. The sky is empty. It used to be full of love. For centuries people prayed looking at the sky. They were uplifted, they felt love pouring, raining, showering on them. They were moved and touched by it, they were transformed by it. And then they were able to love others -- because when you have love you can give it to others. If you don't have it, how can you give it to others? And the only source to get it from is God because he is the only inexhaustible source.

Narayani simply means goddess.

God is our substance, our very being. He is not something outside us, he is our innermost core, our interiority. We are not to seek and search for him. Only this has to be remembered: we have forgotten it.

God is not lost, it is only that we have forgotten who we are.

Nartano simply means the dance -- and that's my definition of a sannyasin: a pure dance.

A dance is pure when the dancer dissolves into it, when the dancer is no more, when you cannot find the dancer and only the dance remains. That's what meditation is, sannyas is, ecstasy is, and ultimately that's 1/08/07

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Slowly slowly learn how to dissolve. Dissolve in any act, then that act becomes a dance. If you are jogging and you disappear in the jogging and there is no jogger, only jogging remains; or if you are running in the early morning and there is no runner but only the running -- you are so possessed by the act itself there is only the act and no doer inside -- then it is dance.

Wherever you can lose yourself there is dance and there is sannyas. And slowly slowly let it become your very heart. Then god comes seeking and searching for you. You need not go anywhere -- one day he knocks on your door.

Prayer has nothing to do with what is known all around the world as prayer. Real prayer is not a ritual.

Real prayer has nothing to do with the church or the temple or the mosque; the real prayer is neither Christian nor Hindu nor Mohammedan. The real prayer has nothing to do with words, it is not verbal. It is silent gratitude. It is a silent bowing to existence.

So wherever, whenever you feel like bowing to the earth, to the trees, to the sky, bow. That bowing will help you slowly slowly, to disappear.`Prayer is one of the greatest methods of destroying the ego, and when the ego is gone, God is left. It is ego that is hiding God in a dark cloud. when the cloud is gone the sun shines forth in all its glory, beauty, grandeur, splendor.

Niranjan is one of the names of god.

The East has given many beautiful names to god. Although god has no name we still have to call him, invoke him, pray to him, so we have invented many names knowing perfectly well that they are all arbitrary.

But still, those names signify some quality in god.

Niranjan means the quality of remaining aloof, untouched in the midst of all, remaining in the crowd and yet remaining alone. God is in the world and yet the world touches him not, He remains above it -- in it and yet above it. He is not colored by it. The dust does not gather on him, he remains pure, unpolluted. And that's how a sannyasin should be.

Sannyas is the art of living in the world and yet not allowing the world to enter you, living in the world and yet not being a part of it.

Bliss has a luminosity of its own. Misery is dark, bliss is bright. The miserable person casts a shadow on others too. He comes like a black hole, he sucks people's energy; his very presence is destructive. But the presence of a blissful person is creative, nourishing. It showers light on others. It is a blessing, a benediction to existence.

Every being is a divine flame. We are made of the fire called God. We are small flames but the smallness does not matter; the flame is a flame, big or small. Even the dewdrops contain oceans, even a small wave is as oceanic as the biggest wave. We are small flames but the fire is eternal, infinite. Our quality is exactly that of God, although our quantity may be small.

Science inquires into the quantity of things because only quantity is measurable. Religion inquires into the quality, but the quality is immeasurable: it can only be experienced.

(To his father accompanying him) Help him from the very beginning to feel like a divine flame!

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