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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been scanned and cleaned up.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

Renee means reborn -- and that's exactly what sannyas is: a rebirth, a new beginning, from ABC.

The way you have lived up to now will not be the way any more. From the outside everything will be the same but from the inside nothing will be the same. Up to now life has been an unconscious affair, now it has to be conscious. Awareness has to be added to your being. That is rebirth, and that is being born into 1/08/07

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Catherine means pure, clean, innocent. Purity has nothing to do with morality, it has something to do with innocence. Morality is a calculated step. One tries to be good so that one can be virtuous. And why does one want to be virtuous? -- to

gain something in the other world. It is all arithmetic, it is not innocence.

Morality is very clever, cunning. Real purity knows nothing of moral and immoral, it is a transcendence, a transcendence of all dualities: good and bad, even god and devil. The child is not concerned with anything. The child simply lives spontaneously, moment to moment...

Sannyas needs tremendous courage because it is an effort to live your life according to your light -- not according to the convention, not according to the priest and the politicians, not according to the past tradition, the church, but according to your own light. It is a tremendous assertion of one's freedom. It needs courage, and not ordinary courage. It really needs the utmost in courage, fearlessness, because all those powers that you will be rebelling against would like to crush you. One has to be very intelligent not to be crushed by them and yet never to compromise.

And sannyas is also the beginning of a kingly life. Ordinarily it has been taught in the past that the sannyasin is a beggar. My sannyasin is not a beggar. Even if he has nothing he has to live like a king. To live like a king does not require many possessions; it requires integrity, it requires individuality, it requires intelligence, it requires a centred, rooted being. It has nothing to do with possessions, kingdoms. A Buddha becomes a bigger king when he renounces his kingdom. Jesus never had a kingdom, but who can compete with him in his kingliness. Even on the cross he is a king: he dies with such grace, such beauty, such prayer.

Only a king can afford that -- He does not die a dog's death.

George Gurdjieff used to say to people, "Beware, otherwise you will die a dog's death... because out of millions of people it is only once in a while that a man dies, not like a dog, but like a king. Not even Alexander dies like a king; only a Buddha can, only a Jesus can die like a king.

Some inner kingdom is needed, some inner luminosity is needed. Those who are courageous, they can attain it.

Tilo: one who trust in justice.

People are so selfish that they cannot be just. They only think of themselves, they never think of others.

Their whole interest is in how to use others, how to manipulate others, how to dominate others. They cannot be just. Their interest is in possessing people. A just person cannot possess anybody, not even the wife, the husband, the child. We cannot possess, because to possess is unjust; it destroys the other's individuality, the other's freedom. And that is the most unjust act in the world: to reduce the other to a thing. To possess him means to reduce him to a thing.

Justice is possible only when you start feeling that you and others are not separate. That happens only through deep meditation -- the realisation that "I am one with the whole," that "If I am unjust to anybody, I am unjust to myself. If I harm anybody I am harming myself and nobody else, sooner or later it is going to rebound on me." This is the whole philosophy of karma: whatsoever you do to others will be done to you.

Jesus is right when he says: Do unto others what you would like to be done to you. That should be the foundation of all justice. But that is possible only through meditation; not by believing in Jesus but by coming to know this reality, we are not separate beings, we are only separate on the surface. The deeper we go, less and less is the separation. At the very centre your being, the whole universe converges. And to feel it once is enough; you will never be the same again. Then your life is that of justice, of love, of compassion.

Man tries to live as a separate will, separate from the whole. That's how he creates aLl kinds of miseries for himself: he is trying to do the impossible. It is like a wave in the ocean trying to live according to its will, not according to the whole ocean: the wave is bound to go crazy. That's what has happened to humanity at large: humanity has gone mad for the simple reason that everybody is trying to live as if the separation from existence is a truth. It is a lie. He are one with the whole. God's will is our will.

To understand this brings a tremendous relaxation.' Then one is at peace with existence, in harmony; then there is no problem, no conflict. Then whatsoever is the will of god is good, because god cannot will evil. God is good, the whole is good, and whatsoever is going to happen is going to be good. One can relax, one need not be anxious, anxiety-ridden; one need no worry about what is going to happen.

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worries. That's how a sannyasin lives: knowing that god cares, knowing that god loves, knowing that whatsoever happens is good; it can't be otherwise!

God is not to be realised, not to be achieved, but only remembered, recognised, declared. You are already that. The Upanishads say TAT TVAM ASI Thou art that. Not that you have to become that, there is no question of becoming: god is your being. You may know it, you may not know it; it makes no difference: you are godly.

Meditation does not bring you closer to god, it does not make you a god, it simply helps you to discover who you are. It simply removes a few curtains, it simply removes a few layers behind which your reality is hidden. It is a discovery, not an achievement. And the moment you discover it, it is nothing special, because it is not only that you are godly, everybody is. It is the most ordinary phenomenon.

To be divine is natural: trees are divine and rocks are divine and man is divine. But the moment you know who you are you become a Buddha, you become a Christ, you become a Krishna. That becoming is not really a becoming but just a recognition of a long-forgotten truth, a remembrance of a language forgotten.

We are all manifestations of god. The forms are different, but the spirit is the same. There are many things which are different; they are all accidental. But the essential is not different. The incidental is different but the intrinsic is the same. This has to be remembered again and again so that it becomes a natural undercurrent of your consciousness. As it deepens in your heart you start manifesting something which you have never known before: god starts radiating through your being.

He is waiting deep inside you like a seed. Remembrance becomes the soil. If you go on remembering it the seed starts growing, and soon there is great foliage and flowers and fruits. Life then knows what beauty is, what meaning is, what glory is. To die without knowing it is to have lived fruitlessly.

Sannyas is a vow, a commitment, a total involvement: "I am not going to die without knowing the truth of my being."

We are not what we appear to be. Our reality is unmanifest, it is hidden. It has to be searched for. It is not far away, it is deep within you; you cannot find it anywhere else, you need not go anywhere else. But one has to pull oneself in from many many desires and dreams. One has to pull oneself inwards.

When you are centred, at your centre totally he revelation, you are not the body, you are not the mind, you are the stuff called god. The whole existence is made of the same stuff. To have felt it once is enough; then your past disappears as if it has never existed, just as in the morning when you wake up there are no more dreams. You know that they have not been there at all, you have only been imagining them. We have imagined so many lives and so many worlds, but it is all dreaming.

Becoming a sanyasin means making an effort to wake up.

This moment you are becoming new. Forget the past. Simply disconnect yourself from your memories; don't look backwards any more.

The moment we stop looking backwards, we also stop looking forwards. It is the past that creates the future, it is the memory that creates imagination. When neither is there, there is great silence. That silence is meditation, and in that silence you are in tune with existence. And that moment of attunement with existence is bliss.

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