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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been scanned and cleaned up.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

Faith does not mean belief. Belief is not trust. Belief is a pseudo trust, imposed, cultivated out of fear. It is not something that has grown in you but that has been implanted by others: the society, the church, the state. They have their own interest in creating belief in people: believers are obedient, believers are not rebellious, believers remain stupid; they never grow in intelligence. And the society does not want people to be intelligent.

It can tolerate the intellectuals but not the really intelligent. It can tolerate the professors, the scholars, the educated people, the knowledgeable people. They are intellectuals, not wise, not intelligent, because if they were intelligent they could not co-operate with all the kinds of stupidities that go on in the name of tradition, culture, civilisation, religion. They would not be able to co-operate

with all this nonsense, they would be bound to rebel.

Hence society has a vested interest in belief: Create belief. It is a poisonous phenomenon. It destroys intelligence; it destroys independence, it destroys rebelliousness; it creates yea-sayers. And the yes of a man who cannot say no is always impotent. First a man has to learn to say no, then only is his yes of any meaning.

Faith is a totally different phenomenon. It is not social, it is individual. It is not given by others. It is out of your own search that slowly slowly it grows in you, that you start trusting existence -- not out of fear, but out of experience, out of love, out of joy. And then faith is freedom, tremendous freedom, and infinite ecstasy.

There is no god, but there is godliness. God means a person; godliness means a quality. Because for thousands of years we have conceived of god as a person, we have created unnecessary trouble for ourselves. In the first place, our idea of god never fits with reality -- because there is no person. Existence is not a person, it is energy, unbounded, infinite, beginningless, endless; it has no form, no shape. It is not a person, so you cannot pray to it.

Because of the idea of god as a person, prayer became very important. The moment you drop the idea of a person, prayer disappears; instead meditation becomes significant. That's why in the West meditation never became the central core of religion. It was Buddha, Mahavira, Patanjali -- these three persons in the East, in India; and Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu and Lieh Tzu -- three persons in China. These six persons arc the most important people because they changed the whole shape of religion from the very foundation. Instead of prayer, meditation became important.

If god is a person you can pray with folded hands. You can ask and demand and you can bribe, you can praise and you can do all kinds of foolish things. If there is no person then you cannot address anybody.

Then you have to go within, there is nobody without. Then you have to dive deeper into your own being. It is at the Very core of your own existence that you become aware of a quality that permeates the whole: that quality is godliness.

The world is full of godliness but there is no god. Because of the idea of a person Friedrich Nietzsche could say that god is dead. And a hundred years have passed

and nobody has been able to refute him --

because there was no god in the first place. If I meet Friedrich Nietzsche I will say "What nonsense arc you talking about? How can somebody die if he has never been there in the first place?" But he shocked the whole Western consciousness. Nobody has been able to answer him because in fact he declared a truth: god as a person has collapsed. Man has become a little more mature and the whole idea of god as a person is 1/08/07

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childish, immature.

My effort here is to give you a glimpse of godliness, not of god; to create a bridge between you and godliness, not god. And godliness is everywhere. We are overflooded with it: it is in the flowers, in the trees, in the rocks, in people, in you. Wherever you look it is there. But the first experience has to happen within; then you will start seeing it without too.

God, or godliness is our strength: they both mean the same to me.

Man alone is absolutely powerless. The moment man becomes part of god, he becomes powerful. With god is our victory, without there is only failure and nothing else.

This is the first lesson of sannyas. From now onwards remember as much as possible that you have to be in tune with the whole. And to be in tune with the whole one has to surrender. One cannot go on believing in one's ego; the ego has to be dropped. The ego is impotent. And once you drop the ego you are omnipotent. Then the whole energy of god starts flowing through you. Ego blocks the energy; egolessness becomes a medium.

Love is the ruler of all.

I teach only two things, meditation and love. For you the emphasis is going to be on love; meditation will be a support. For a few others meditation is going to be

the main key; then love becomes the support.

Both are needed, the question is just of emphasis. For you the emphasis is going to be on love: be loving to the whole, let love be your religion.

Love is the most shining star. No star in the whole sky is comparable to it. It is more shining than the sun, it is more shining than the many great suns that surround our earth, that are spread to infinity.

Love is the most luminous phenomenon but one needs totally different eyes to know it, to see it, to feel it. The ordinary eyes cannot look into it. They are meant to look only into matter; they are capable of seeing the peripheral, the superficial, they have no capacity for depth. And love is something which belongs to your ultimate depth. The more inwards you go, the more loving you become. In fact that is the only criterion of whether a person is going inwards or not. If he is becoming more and more loving to others, towards himself too, if his life is becoming a compassion then certainly he is going deeper, he is coming closer to truth, he is becoming suffused with the divine energy of existence.

And at the ultimate peak or at the ultimate depth -- which are the same -- when love explodes, it is like atomic explosion: one becomes pure light, just light from one end to the other end. That's why this ultimate moment is known as enlightenment. It is a transmutation, transfiguration. A totally new being is born which does not belong to time, which belongs to eternity. The mind is part of time, the heart is not part of time.

And the heart is the centre of love.

Seek the heart, go deeper into it, risk everything for it because nothing is more precious than that. Even if life is lost but you have attained a single moment of glorious love, life has been a fulfillment; you didn't live in vain, you lived, you really lived meaningfully. A single moment of love is more valuable than thousands of lives which are loveless.

To be a servant of love is really to be a master of love. One begins as a servant but one ends as a master.

In the world you begin as a master and you end up as a servant. That is the law of the outside. In the inner world there is a totally different law: you begin as a servant, then you can end up as a master.

Buddha has said: In the outer world everything is sweet in the beginning and bitter in the end, and in the inside everything is bitter in the beginning and sweet in the end. And remember, only the end is true; the beginning can be deceptive.

Keep alert about it: always remember the ultimate outcome. Otherwise one can go on swallowing sugar-coated poison -- that's what goes on happening.

So it is difficult to surrender the ego, to be just a servant, to be a slave of god, of love, of existence; it is hard to swallow it, but once you have understood the inner law it is possible to do it and to do it joyfully.

Man ordinarily always remains in struggle, always fighting with something or other. And deep down every fight is a fight against god, because only god exists and nobody else.

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life, to be overcome by him is the most precious moment.

That's what sannyas is all about: it is asking for your own defeat. Let me repeat: sannyas is a defeat, a defeat of the ego. And the moment the ego is there no more, god is realised.

Sannyas is the search for the divine principle. Call it god, truth, freedom, nirvana -- it comes to the same thing. The search is for something which is missing in life. We are alive but unaware of what life is all about. We are, but are completely oblivious of the fact of who we are. Existence is there but awareness is not there -- and unless existence becomes aware of itself life goes on remaining empty, unfulfilled.

The search is for awareness. Awareness is the divine principle, the principle that can transform you from a mechanical existence into a conscious ecstasy and the

search is not outer at all, it is inner. The principle has to be found with closed eyes within oneself. It is already there; we have to dive into ourselves.

Meditation is the art of diving, into oneself. Sannyas is the courage to take the plunge. One is going into the unfathomable; and in the beginning it is frightening, but only in the beginning. As you become more and more skillful at diving deeper and deeper, life becomes an adventure of tremendous beauty and benediction.

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