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23 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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been scanned and cleaned up.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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Grace can only be blissful. It cannot be sad, it cannot even be serious, it can only be cheerful, laughing.

And bliss cannot be other than graceful; it can't be ugly. It has tremendous beauty to it, it is the very spirit of beauty; they are both two sides of one coin. And a sannyasin has to be blissful and graceful.

Bliss is an inner phenomenon, grace is its outer expression. Bliss is the flower, grace is the perfume.

Ordinarily people think about bliss as a peak, never as a valley, but bliss has both sides. No peak can exist without a valley, no valley can exist without a peak;

they are one phenomenon, inseparable. One has to learn to be blissful in both ways. When you are on the sunlit peak it is easy to be blissful. The very altitude, the silence, the sun, the open sky, the freedom of that openness helps; and makes you blissful. You are far away from the world and its problems and anxieties. But you cannot live on the peak; one has to come back to the valley.

The peak can only be a holiday. One cannot exist there longer than that; hence one has to learn how to be blissful in the valley, in the turmoil of the world, in the darkness, in the dismal world of the valley, in the struggle, competition, in all that the valley contains. One has to learn to be silent, blissful, even when the situation is just not right for it, when in fact the situation is just against it.

Unless you can be blissful in a situation which ordinarily will create misery, you are not a blissful person yet. Unless one can be in heaven even in hell, one has not arrived home; then much has still to be done.

There is an ancient parable. An enlightened master is asked at the gate of heaven, "Where would you like to go?" He immediately says "To hell." The gatekeeper is puzzled, confused. He says "You are the first person in millions of years who has asked to go to hell. Are you crazy or something? Why do you want to go to hell?"

The master said, "Because I know that I can be in heaven anywhere; heaven is in my heart. So leave heaven for those who cannot be in heaven in hell; leave it for the weaker ones. I am strong enough. I have lived in the world, but I have not lived there, I was always in heaven. So send me anywhere and I will be in heaven. Wherever I am, there is heaven."

That is a true achievement, real, authentic; otherwise you can live cheerfully, blissfully only when the situation permits, allows, helps, nourishes you.

So live in the world, in the valley, with a song in your heart. I don't want my sannyasins to escape to the Himalayan peaks. Live in the valleys of the world and yet remain unaffected, untouched, uncontaminated by all that exists there. It is possible, and it is the greatest miracle when it happens, and the greatest joy, because then you have transcended all outer situations. And transcendence is the ultimate goal of sannyas.

Love is another name for life, another name for existence, another name for god. Don't condemn it, even if it exists on the lowest rung, because through

condemnation you will not be able to transform it. Accept it as it is. Try to understand it. In that very understanding love starts changing: it starts going higher than lust.

The more understanding grows, the higher love starts soaring. Love moves higher on the wings of understanding, on the wings of awareness, meditation.

Love plus meditation is equal to sannyas. Just make your love more and more meditative, wherever it is, and meditation will take it upwards. Meditation alone is without energy; love alone is without consciousness. They both need a co- operation, a deep co-operation.

There is an ancient parable. Two beggars lived in a forest. One had no legs and the other had no eyes.

Once it happened that a great fire broke out. Both would have died if they had tried to get out separately, because the man without the legs could not move. He could see, but just seeing was of no use. He could see from where to escape but he could not escape. And the man without eyes was able to escape but was not able to see. They joined together. The blind man took the other beggar on his shoulders. Joined together they had both eyes and legs.

That's exactly the situation of man: without love you don't have energy to move, without meditation you don't have any vision, any insight. Love plus meditation and you have both: you have energy to soar and you know where, how, when.

Our bodies die but we are neither born nor can we die: we are eternal. To know this is to be free from all fear. It has not to be a belief. Millions of people believe that they are immortal, but they believe out of fear.

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They are afraid of death. They want to be immortal, hence they believe in it. But they don't know, and deep down there is always doubt persisting. And at the

moment of death their belief won't help them; the doubt will explode. They will die in doubt, and to die in doubt is to miss the whole point. It is not a question of belief, it has to be known.

Meditation is the way to know it. It opens the doors of eternity, of timelessness. In the beginning just moments happen when time disappears; then more and more, then more and more. One day suddenly you are surprised: hours have passed but it is as if the inner clock has stopped, there is no time movement in you. When you see it happening, that you can transcend time, you have transcended death. It is time that brings death, it is time that brings birth.

In Sanskrit we have one word for both time and death. We call both time and death kal -- the same word for both. A great insight is there: to go beyond time is to go beyond death. And meditation slowly slowly leads you beyond time.

Let it become your experience. I am not here to help people believe. There are enough believers in the world: Christians, Hindus, Mohammedans. I want people who know, because those will be the harbingers of a new humanity -- the people who know. They don't believe, they know god.

Bliss is a phenomenon which cannot be hidden. It is fire, it is flame. You cannot hide it; it shines forth --

it is impossible to hide it.

There are secret traditions which say "Hide it.' Sufism particularly tries hard to hide it. It is for a particular reason: because in Mohammedan countries if your bliss is known you will be in danger. They have killed many people for the simple reason that they were so joyous that in their utter joy, in their divine madness; they started saying things which go against the dead scriptures, which go against tradition, which go against conformity.

For example, Al-Hillaj declared Ana'l Haq, I am god. He declared it in great joy, he wanted to share it.

His master was telling him to keep his mouth shut, not to utter a single word. Hillaj would promise him but moments would come when he would simply shout Ana'l Haq: I am god. And not only would he shout, his whole being would shout, each fibre of his body would shout! He was so full of light.… He was killed, murdered, because miserable people cannot tolerate such a blissful

person. It hurts to see somebody so blissful, it creates jealousy. It wounds your ego. p So Sufis have tried to hide it. But it is impossible, it is a luminous phenomenon.

Misery is dark, bliss is bright. Misery is a light unmanifest, a candle unlit; bliss is a candle lit. How can you hide it? -- it is not possible. Of course we have not yet been able to create a society which will love Al-Hillaj, Jesus, Buddha; we have not been able to create a society which will appreciate really blissful people. But even if you lose your life in letting your whole being declare the ultimate truth, the ultimate joy of existence, it is worth it.

Man looks small but he is not. He is like a small seed which can grow into a big tree. And a single seed can fill the whole earth with greenery; a single seed contains so much, it almost contains the infinity. So is man a seed of love... but the seed can become a vast continent. And unless it does one is never contented.

Unless one becomes just love, pure love, with no desire to gain anything out of it but just the joy of sharing, one is not fulfilled. It is only by becoming total love, absolute love, that life comes to its ultimate crescendo, its ultimate peak. In fact that peak is called god, paradise, nirvana.

My whole effort here is to help you grow towards more and more love. No other prayer is needed, no other scripture is needed, no other discipline is needed. Love is more than any scripture, more than any discipline. It brings its own order: it turns your chaos into a cosmos.

Trust in love because love is the very foundation of all transformation. Love is the innermost core of alchemy.

Paritosh means total contentment, absolute contentment -- and that's what brings god into your life.

People live in discontentment -- and to live in discontentment is to live in complaints, grumbling, always asking for more and more. To live in discontent means to live in desire, and desires are unquenchable. One becomes just a long long tragedy, a long series of failures, frustrations, a desert where nothing grows, nothing flowers. Man can live either in desire or in no-desire.

Sannyas means starting, a life of no-desire. Sannyas means Whatsoever is, is more than enough, whatsoever is, one is thankful for it; one does not ask for

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because so much has already been given. And one is not worthy of it. When you see what has been given to you already, you will be surprised: you don't deserve it. We don't deserve life, we don't deserve love, we don't deserve joy, and so much has been given, unasked.

Feel grateful for it. That is the way of contentment. Contentment is always thankful towards existence and in that thankfulness much more goes on and on coming to you. It is a paradox of life that you desire and nothing happens except frustration; you don't desire and everything happens, you become entitled to all kinds of miracles.

So this is going to be your work on yourself. Remember it: this single word "contentment" contains the whole of religion.

Pragyano means wisdom; not knowledge but knowing, not knowledge but experience, something not based on other authorities but rooted in your own vision.

Knowledge is cheap: you can collect as much as you want. All that you need is a good biocomputer, a good memory... which is not very difficult. Memory can be trained, can be made more skillful. But memory is not going to transform you. It has its use in the world, in day-to-day affairs, in scientific work, but it has no use as far as your subjectivity is concerned.

The inner journey needs to be without any burden of knowledge. One has to go inwards more like a child, innocent. The less you know, the better. If you don't know anything, that's the best. That's what Socrates says: I know only one thing, that I know nothing. That is the turning point, that is the moment when one turns in. That is the moment when one becomes wise. And that is the moment when one starts experiencing life. Otherwise words, theories, philosophies go on interpreting life for you, they don't allow you direct, immediate contact with life. They are not bridges, they are walls.

Innocence is the bridge and when innocence blooms it is wisdom. Then a man again becomes a child and then the circle is complete, the circle is perfect. We are born as a child and we die as a child. This is the perfection of life. If we die knowledgeable, we miss the point, the circle was incomplete. We will have to be born again to complete it.

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