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CHAPTER 11
Love is the essential religion
11 January 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Deva means divine, shantam means silent – divine silence. And let this be your basic key – silence. Whenever you can find time, wherever, fall into silence. And there is no need to find a separate place for it. Walking on the road you can remember and fall into silence, and you will enjoy the walk more, because when you are silent you are more alive, more pulsating. When you are silent the mind is not making noise. You are more aware – aware of the birds singing, aware of the wind blowing, aware of the sunrays falling on you, aware of people, and aware of the whole that surrounds you.
Ordinarily we live in a kind of fog – we are surrounded by our own noise. And that noise is so much that it doesn’t allow anything else to enter. The bird goes on singing, but the mind is too loud. Mm? these insects – they are there.
[There are sounds from the garden surrounding the auditorium.]
... a beautiful music, but the mind is too loud and does not allow entry.
The world is really beautiful. And to feel beauty intensely is to be liberated. Intense beauty is liberation. And the only way to feel intensely is to be silent. The more noise, the less is the intensity of your feeling – the more silent, the more intense. One becomes very very sensitive.
Eating, eat silently. And you will be surprised – food is divine when you eat silently. Then just the ordinary gesture of eating becomes like prayer... it should be prayer.
Just breathing becomes such a beautiful experience. Just breathing in, breathing out, is enough of a joy – more is not needed. So doing or sometimes not doing anything – just sitting – fall into
CHAPTER 11. LOVE IS THE ESSENTIAL RELIGION
silence. And the way to fall into silence is very simple: just relax the body, relax the breathing, and start feeling that you are silent... you are silent. No need to repeat it, mm? just the feeling that you are silent.
Soon you will be able to – it will not be difficult for you, that’s why I am giving you the name. It will be easy for you. And once you have learned the art of how to fall into silence, you have known what meditation is.…
Prabhu means god, and bhajan means singing – singing the name of god, chanting the name of god that is the meaning.
[Tonight the sufi-dancing meditation was happening in Radha Hall as darshan was in progress. The music and chanting could be heard in the auditorium.]
This is prabhu bhajan. And make it a point to chant it. Sitting, chant; walking, chant – sometimes loudly, sometimes silently. Chanting help you tremendously.
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