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4 July 1980 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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been scanned and cleaned up.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.]

Marianne is a very beautiful name, of great meaning. It also has a paradox in it. That paradox makes it even more beautiful, more truthful. So it is not only a name but becomes representative of something significant in life. It has two meanings. The first meaning is bitter grace.

The first time that one hears that it means bitter grace it appears a little bit strange, because we have always thought that grace is sweet -- why should grace be bitter? But in fact in the beginning it is bitter, because grace is possible only when one allows one's ego to die. That is its bitterness, its pain. It is very difficult to allow oneself to disappear; to drop the ego is the most difficult thing in life. People go on clinging to it in one way or another, because they think if the ego is totally gone then we are lost, completely lost. But that's an illusion. When the ego is gone you are found for the first time, not lost; hence the beginning is bitter, but the end is tremendously sweet.

And from that end part comes the second meaning... The second meaning of marianne is living fragrance; when one has allowed the ego to die then life becomes a fragrance; then all misery disappears.

Misery stinks, it is dirty; it is a wound full of pus. Once the ego is gone one is

healed and whole. Then life opens up like a lotus flower. There is great rejoicing

-- one is fulfilled, contented. For the first time one feels one has come home. The beginning is bitter but the end is very sweet.

Gautam the Buddha used to say again and again that worldly pleasures are sweet in the beginning and bitter in the end. And divine bliss is bitter in the beginning and sweet in the end.

Bliss alone, without peace, is a state of feverishness, excitement, but not of ecstasy. That's the difference between excitement and ecstasy: ecstasy is both blissful and peaceful; excitement is only bliss; hence there is such turmoil. It is a beautiful turmoil, it is a noise, a noise that one would like to have, but sooner or later one is bound to get tired of it. That's what happens to all kinds of pleasures and happiness and joys in life.

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They are all different facades of bliss, but one thing is missing -- peace is missing -- hence they are shallow, and ultimately boring and tiring. They are good for a few moments but how long can one remain excited?

Excitement is exertion, it is not rest; hence bliss alone is not of much value.

Peace alone is also not of much value. It is cold and dead. It is like the silence that prevails in the cemetery; it is the silence of the grave. You will find it around the so-called saints. They are peaceful because they are dead.

The real thing is to have both together, then peace remains the centre and bliss becomes the cyclone.

And when you have both, life is ecstatic, it is tremendous joy. And it is not tiring; on the contrary, it goes on refreshing you. Then it is bliss with a new dimension, the dimension of peacefulness. It is peace with a new dimension, the

dimension of blissfulness.

Both together make life whole. Otherwise, it is easy to achieve one, but then one remains lop-sided and one remains half; and to be half is to be miserable. To be whole brings celebration to life.

My sannyasins have to be really whole persons.

A person becomes capable of blessing others only when he is full of blissfulness. In fact then one need not bless, blessings go on pouring. Your bliss starts overflowing; you become like a fountain. And you become connected with the inexhaustible source of life. That source is called god.

God is not a person, remember. God simply means the ultimate source of all. We come from it, the trees grow from it, and the stars and the whole world... God is like the ocean and we are all waves in the ocean.

Not remaining rooted in the whole is the cause of man's misery; being rooted in the whole life immediately becomes blissful.

We are not separate entities, but we go on believing that we are separate entities. That is just an illusion, but it has been perpetuated by the society, by education, by every method and means. There are vested interests behind it: they want you to remain miserable, the state wants you to remain miserable, the church wants you to remain miserable, the priests and the politicians are in conspiracy to keep everybody miserable for the simple reason that only miserable people can be controlled, they can be enslaved. They are so tired and exhausted, they are not in a state to fight or rebel. They are in such misery that they lose all intelligence.

Intelligence needs the soil of blissfulness. It is a rose that grows in the soil of blissfulness. And the politicians and the priests are very much afraid of intelligence because intelligence is rebellious. Intelligence cannot say yes to all kinds of imprisonments. An intelligent person would rather die than sell his soul. He will not allow himself to be reduced to a commodity.… And that's what the priests and the politicians want: everybody should be reduced to a commodity, everybody should be reduced to a thing, to a machine. Of course they want the machines to be efficient; for that purpose schools, colleges, universities exist. They are not to make you intelligent, mind you; they exist to destroy your intelligence, they exist to create mediocrity in you. Their purpose is to make you efficient machines so that you can be used by the powers. The powers may be

political, religious, social... whosoever is in power. Educational systems all over the world serve the powerful people and their interests. They are not in the service of people.

The function of a master is to undo whatsoever the society has done. It is to negate all that has been imposed upon you. And once all the thick layers of conditioning are removed, your ego starts disappearing.

It is the ego that keeps you separate from the whole and keeps you miserable.

The moment bliss arises in your heart -- and it always means only one thing, that you are again bridged with the whole -- then immediately your life becomes a light, not only for yourself but for others too. Your life becomes love. Not that you are loving, you become simply love. That's how one becomes a blessing to the whole existence.

Blessed are those who are blissful because they are not only a blessing to themselves but a blessing to all.

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