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21 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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been scanned and cleaned up.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.]

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Holly has two meanings; one is holy, sacred, spiritual. It is a beautiful word but it has very wrong associations. It has the smell of holier-than-thou, it has some subtle egoistic flavour to it. The word in itself is beautiful; it comes from whole, the total. To be holy means to be whole. That's my whole approach, my messages be whole and you will be holy.

But for centuries the word has been in the wrong hands. The church has destroyed its beauty, the so-called saints have polluted its meaning. It has become poisoned. Even beautiful words in wrong hands become ugly, and ugly words in right hands become beautiful. It all depends on who is using them.

The second meaning is far more beautiful. The second meaning is English; the

first is Anglo-Saxon. The English meaning is... it is a name of an evergreen tree. I like that more.

Love is an evergreen tree, always young and always fresh; it never grows old. Time does not affect it, time leaves no traces on it. Love is non-temporal, it is beyond time. The moment you enter love you enter eternity, and god is an ever- green tree.

Remember both meanings; but the first has become contaminated, the second is still pure. Love has both qualities: love makes you whole and makes you holy, and love takes you beyond time; hence it is evergreen.

It is never old, it never dies, it knows no death.

The people who are afraid of death are people who have not known love. Lovers are never afraid of death. They have known something beyond death. Once you have known something beyond death, who cares about death? You know that you will be. The body will be gone, the mind will be gone, but not you; you are transcendental. Even through the fire of death your evergreenness is not going to be destroyed, it is going to abide.

Love is always protected by god. Only those who are not in love are unprotected; those who are not in love are always in insecurity. The moment you enter love, you enter absolute security, safety, because love is another name of god and god is protection. That is one of the greatest insights of the mystics.

The ordinary man lives in fear, anxiety. He tries to protect himself, hence he becomes very tense. The problems are too big and his hands are too small. The moment he loves existence, the moment he surrenders to existence. That's what love is: a deep, total surrender to that which is, a deep let-go. In that very moment all anxiety disappears, fear disappears, tensions wither away. Then you are part of the cosmos, and immediately the feeling arises: I am protected, god is always surrounding me. Now there is no death.

Once god is known, tasted, death disappears. Death exists only for those who have not known love.

Those who have known love are beyond death.

Love is divine, lust is animal. And between lust and love there is something, a

mixture of both, which is human.

Human love is neither love nor lust, it is both: hence it has all the darkness of lust and all the brightness of love. It has all the jealousies, possessivenesses, anger, hatred, of lust, and it has all the poetry, all the beauty, all the joy of love. Man is torn apart between these two -- the body and the soul, the animal and god.

If one does not work upon oneself deliberately, consciously, one is easily pulled downwards, because we have a long long past of lust. Love is only in poetry, lust is in every cell of our body. Lust is our past, love is our future; and the past is very big, it has tremendous weight -- it can pull you very easily. The past is habit, memory, experience -- that's all we have known. One has to be very alert to go beyond lust. And one has to be constantly aware of jealousy, of possessiveness, of domination, because those are the strategies of lust. If you drop jealousy, possessiveness, ego trips, then slowly slowly lust disappears and love arises.

Love is a pure flame without any smoke. It is prayer, it is divine, and it makes you divine.

In ancient times the wolf represented loyalty and courage -- and these are two qualities which are always found together, Without courage you cannot be loyal and without being loyal you cannot grow in courage.

Both qualities are needed for bliss to happen, one needs to be courageous enough to go into the unknown, and loyal enough, trusting enough in existence, in god, not thinking of oneself as a stranger, an outsider, but trusting that "I am part of the whole and the whole is always with me." Only then, with such trust and courage, can one open up to bliss. And bliss is such a tremendous phenomenon that it is not possible with a cowardly heart, it is not possible with a cowardly heart, it is not possible with a deceiving mind.

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Bliss means the ocean descending into the dewdrop. One has to be really open to take in the whole sky.

And it is a death because the dewdrop will disappear; courage and trust are needed because you can't know what is going to happen after this death. Much trust is needed so that you can visualize a resurrection, so that death will only take away the non-essential from you, so that surrender will be the surrender of the non-essential and the essential will evolve, will grow. All the hindrances in its path will be removed by surrender.

Bliss is possible, but let those two qualities be there -- not in a calculative way: innocently, be courageous and trusting.

Be a friend to existence, to all that is, and you will be blissful. Bliss is the reward for being friendly to all.

We are brought up in such a way that all possibilities of friendliness are destroyed. On the contrary, we are taught to be enemies of each other; our whole education depends on competition, and competition is enmity, competition is jealousy, competition is envy.

Yes, formally we show great friendship, courtesy, culture, but that is all formal. Deep down we are all enemies of each other, ready to kill each other if needed, trying to use each other as a means, reducing everybody to just a stepping stone for your ego trip.

Our society destroys friendship, it creates a very ugly world, There is a constant underground war going on, a cold war: it does not always surface but it remains there. It has to be changed, then only does a person become religious.

Really be a friend. There is no need to compete, no need to be jealous, no need to be envious. God has given you enough, more than you will ever need. Be thankful for that! And open your heart to friendship.

Become a host to the whole existence -- to the trees, to the birds, to the rocks. Create an atmosphere around you, a climate of friendship, and bliss is yours. Then nobody can prevent it from happening.

Peace is always victorious, it knows no defeat. But to be peaceful is very difficult, arduous, it needs a total transformation of your interiority.

War is easy, fight is easy, violence is easy. Nature has given us all those qualities already, we are born with them. But peace is something which has to be created. Out of violence peace has to be created. That's the whole work of spiritual transformation, of alchemy: from poison, nectar has to be created.

In the beginning it looks almost impossible -- how can nectar come out of poison? But in the right hands, in the hands of a physician poison becomes nectar. And in the hands of a stupid person even nectar may prove to be poisonous, It all depends on how you use your energies, on how you use your natural endowments. If you use them in their crude form they are ugly. They are like raw diamonds direct from the mine, only a jeweller may be able to see something of beauty in them, otherwise they are just ordinary stones. Before everybody can recognize the beauty, they have to be polished, cut.

The greatest diamond in the world is the kohinoor. It was found in a mine in India, in the mines of Golconda. It remained with a poor man for three years. His children were playing with it, thinking it was just an ordinary, good-looking colourful stone. And the man remained poor. Nobody was aware... It was a visitor who told the man, "This is the rarest diamond I have ever seen in my life -

- what are you doing with it? Your children are playing with it!"

Now it is in the crown of the British Queen, although its size and weight are no more the same: it is one-third of the original. Two-thirds have been cut away; the more it has been cut, the more valuable it has become. The weight is less, the value is more.

And that's exactly the case with human beings: we are raw diamonds, great polishing is needed. And we have to learn the art of how to change the ugly into the beautiful.

That's what sannyas is all about: it is learning a very subtle skill, a craft, an art, the most precious art.

Nothing can be more valuable than this, because you will be transforming your own energies. Slowly slowly, through meditations, through prayer, through silence, through love, through song, through music, through dance, you will be changing your inner qualities. One day the very poison of violence becomes peace. And peace is victorious, and peace is divine, God has entered you. Peace means that god has entered you, peace means that god has chosen you as his

vehicle -- and that is victory.

To be chosen by god as a vehicle. Nothing can be more important than that.

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will be, the future tense is irrelevant. You can only say that god is. Only the present tense is relevant because god is in the present, always. Now is his quality; here is his space. The moment you also become now-here, you start experiencing the newness of the whole existence. It is continuously bathed in newness.

Except for man's mind nothing ever gets old; only man's mind accumulates memory and becomes old. It is through memory that aging happens.

A meditator comes to know how to put the mind aside, The moment he can see himself separate from the mind he is no longer old, no longer of the past, he is no longer memory. And then great freshness explodes. The joy and the thrill and the bliss of it is indescribable.

There are two kinds of sounds: one is that which is created by the clash of two things.… That's how we produce sound on musical instruments, that's how we speak; it is a clash. There is another sound which is heard in deep silence, at the innermost core of your being. You don't produce it, you simply hear it; you discover it. It has always been there. That is called the soundless sound. That is the sound of one hand clapping -- that is nadamo.

And this is going to be your work: you have to hear that which cannot be heard, you have to see that which cannot be seen, you have to grasp the ungraspable, to conceive the inconceivable, to know the unknowable. That's the enquiry, the fundamental enquiry of a seeker. That enquiry makes you a sannyasin.

Shunyo means nothingness, emptiness, void. It is Buddha's word for your

innermost core.

At the very core of our being there is nothing, just a pure emptiness. Because of this emptiness we are afraid to go in. Buddhas go on saying to people, "Go in." People hear them but nobody follows, people worship them but nobody follows.

People say, "You must be right but our time has not come yet." The fundamental reason is that people are afraid of going in. Somehow unconsciously they feel that the experience is going to be too much, it may prove unbearable. And they are right: the experience is tremendous, it is unbearable. It kills you as you are and gives you a birth. A new being arrives, the old completely disappears. For the old it is really drastic, it is death. But the old is not worth keeping. It is ugly and it is the source of all kinds of miseries and nightmares.

It is good that it dies. On its death a new being arises. But before the new can arrive, the old has to go. For the new to be, the old has to cease.

Sannyas is a death and a resurrection.

Sanatano means the eternal one; one who has always been, is and will be, one who is unchanging.

Changes happen but nothing affects you. Things come and go, you remain the same... like the sky, clouds come and go; days come and nights come; in the day it is sunny and there is light, and in the night it is dark and there are so many stars; and sometimes it is cloudy and sometimes there is not a single cloud.

But the sky remains the same, unaffected, untouched.

That's exactly the quality of god, like the sky. And that is the quality of your inner being too -- because we participate in god, our consciousness is part of him. We are not separate from him, we are absolutely one with him.

Meditation is a discovery of this eternal element in your being. Once you have known this eternal element in your being you know that it is everywhere, in everything. That day becomes a day of great blessings. After that there is no misery, no pain, no agony, no nightmare, you are awakened.

To know the eternal is to be awakened. To know the eternal is to be enlightened. To know the eternal is to be a Buddha, is to be a Christ.

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