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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been scanned and cleaned up.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

Man can live either by his own will or as part of god's will. The first is the way of the ignorant person, and because of that the ignorant person suffers. His whole effort is futile because he is trying to do something which is impossible. We are part of the whole, we cannot exist as separate entities, not even for a single moment.

We can believe that we exist as separate entities, but that is only belief, not reality. And whenever belief goes against reality it creates suffering because you live according to something which is not the cass; you start going wrong. When you live according to the real there is no misery -- bliss is the outcome.

The man who understands drops his ego for the simple reason that it is only a false notion. There is no way to materialise it; it will remain false. And to spin and weave your life around something false is a sheer wastage of energy... but that's what millions of people go on doing, hence they suffer. The suffering is caused because without understanding the reality they go on trying to do something against it. They are trying to go against the current. Their whole energy becomes a constant fight -- and they are bound to lose, because how can the part win against the whole? It is like a leaf fighting with the tree itself.

If the leaf has consciousness it may start thinking it is separate, that it has nothing to do with the tree, that it will have its own way. And then immediately there will be trouble, there will be conflict. It will become more and more alienated from its own sources of energy. The tree is its mother, and the tree is not only a tree, it is rooted in the earth; it represents the whole earth. It breathes the air, it represents the whole atmosphere. It is connected with the sun and with the farthest star. To fight with the tree is to fight with the universe. Just a poor, tiny leaf trying to fight with the universe -- the whole idea is stupid. But that's what man goes on doing: he goes on pushing the river.

Sannyas means dropping the fight with the river, going with the river, allowing the river to take you, learning the art of let-go. Those two small, simple words 'let', 'go', define the very spirit of sannyas. Then one can say 'Let thy kingdom come, thy will be done.' Then one withdraws one's will, and the moment you withdraw your will your life becomes immensely rich. Suddenly the whole is with you, and we can be victorious only when the whole is with us.

Yogi means one who is practising the art, the science of becoming one with the universe. Except for the ego there is no other problem in life; all other problems are offshoots. But people go on trying to solve other problems which are offshoots. You can go on pruning the leaves and the branches, but unless you cut the root new leaves will come, new branches will come. In fact the more you prune the leaves and the branches, the thicker will become the foliage of the tree. That's what happens: the more you try to solve your problems, the more you become entangled in them. You solve one problem and your solution brings ten more problems in the wake of it, and life goes on becoming more and more complex.

The child comes into the world without any problems, and every old man, almost every one, except for the few Buddhas, die burdened with problems. And they have carried these mountains of problems all their life for the simple reason that they have been trying to solve the symptoms and not going to the cause of it.

And it is easy to solve one symptom, but then the problem will assert itself from somewhere else.

You cannot get rid of symptoms directly; you will have to go to the root. And the stupidity of man is such that he goes on watering the root and cutting the branches. Both things he goes on doing simultaneously because he cannot see

the relationship. There is a certain reason why he cannot see the relationship between the branches, the leaves, the foliage, and the roots: the roots are invisible.

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You need a very penetrating consciousness to reach the roots, because they are underground and everything else is above the ground -- you can see it. So you see anger, you see jealousy, you see possessiveness, you see greed, ambition, and a thousand and one problems -- and naturally because you see them and you see that they all bring misery... Who does not know that anger brings misery? Who has not suffered from answer? Who has not burned his hands in anger? And who has not tried to get rid of it?

The same is the case with other problems... Nobody wants to remain greedy -- it is ugly and nothing ever satisfies it. You can have as much money as you want and you will still want more because greed means the desire for more. It has no limitation, it is unlimited; it does not believe in limits. So when one limit is crossed... that was only temporary. Greed immediately jumps ahead of you, it is always ahead of you, it is always pointing far away, here, to the horizon. It always keeps the goal the same distance from you; whatsoever you have makes no difference. If you have ten rupees it asks for a hundred, if you have a hundred rupees it asks for one thousand, if you have one-thousand it asks for ten thousand. The distance remains the same.

It is exactly like the horizon: between you and the horizon the distance is always the same wherever you are, because the horizon does not really exist, it is an illusion. Greed creates an illusion of a goal, but it doesn't exist, otherwise people would have achieved it, at least a few people would have achieved it. But in the whole of history not a single person has been able to fulfil his greed. Without any exception all have failed. But still we go on trying. So sooner or later everybody comes to feel that it is a stupid effort it is doomed to fail, an exercise in utter futility. And one can see the ugliness of it because the greedy person becomes like an octopus His whole being is just tentacles spreading in all

directions, grabbing everything.

The English word 'greed' comes from a Sanskrit root and the Sanskrit word 'vulture' comes from the same root. The greedy person is like a vulture -- murderous, ready to eat even a dead corpse. One feels the ugliness of is and one wants to get rid of it, but you cannot get rid of it because you go on watering the root: the root is ego. It is ego that wants to fulfil impossible goals. In fact the ego is not interested in possible goals at all, they look too ordinary; anybody can do them. The ego always wants to do something extraordinary to prove 'I am not so ordinary person.' That is the deepest desire of the ego: to prove oneself extraordinary. But the desire to be extraordinary is very ordinary, it is in everybody's heart; it is nothing special.

In fact to accept one's ordinariness is really extraordinary because it is very rare. It happens only once in a while that a person accepts his ordinariness with joy -- not out of despair or failure, not to console oneself, but blissfully, through understanding.

The ego wants to prove, and greed comes in, ambition comes in. And whenever your greed, your ambition, is hindered by anything... And it is bound to be hindered because the same type of people are all around. They are all greedy, they all want the same thing, that you want; hence there is going to be conflict, there is going to be cut-throat competition, hence the answer.

And whatsoever you catch hold of, you cling to, afraid that somebody else may snatch it away because there are so many vultures around; the whole world is full of vultures. Clinging arises, attachment arises, possessiveness arises, and the fear, the constant fear, because you have snatched it from somebody else, now many people are after you.

All these problems arise one by one out of a single root: the ego. The man of penetrating awareness cuts the invisible root; that's what sannyas is: surrendering the ego. And the moment you surrender the ego, immediately the meeting happens; immediately you are one with the whole. And to be one with the whole is bliss, is benediction, is ecstasy, is freedom, freedom from all diseases, freedom from all restlessness, freedom from all ugliness.

Love is the very essence of prayer. Those who pray without love, their prayer remains formal. It is an empty gesture with no reality, no significance. They can

go on praying for lives together -- no transformation is going to happen through their prayer. They are deceiving themselves and nobody else.

Real prayer arises only out of love. And the irony is that all the so-called religions have been against love and for prayer. They destroy the very possibility of prayer and then they impose a false, a pseudo kind of prayer.

There is a reason why they do it; because if a man really comes to know prayer through love, he will not be Christian or Hindu or Mohammedan -- he will simply be religious. But Christians, Mohammedans, Hindus are not interested in somebody's being religious. Their interest is that the person should belong to their fold, to their flock, to their crowd.

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The only way to prevent people from moving in the right direction is to cut the very source of real prayer -- that is love. So they all condemn love and they all praise prayer. It is like condemning rose bushes and praising roses: the natural outcome will be that people will have to purchase plastic roses. And that's what established religions have been doing: selling plastic roses.

Plastic roses can be Christian, Hindu, Mohammedan; they can be manufactured in different shapes, colours; they can even be perfumed. They are cheap and they are lasting. And the churches are not interested in your transformation, they have their vested interest.

All the churches in the world are interested in keeping their power intact; nobody wants to love power hence whenever there is a person who starts talking about real roses, all the shopkeepers who have been selling false roses, paper roses, plastic roses, are angry. They crucified Jesus for the simple reason that he said 'Love is god.' Immediately the Jewish priesthood became aware: this man is dangerous -- he is talking about real roses. Then what will happen to our shops?

And about real roses one thing has to be understood they have to be grown

within one's own self. You don't need anybody else's garden for it. You don't need any church, any temple, you don't need the Bible, the Koran, the Gita. You don't need any priesthood, any mediators between you and god. You have to seek and search for your own innermost core -- and there is the garden, there is paradise.

The English word 'paradise' comes from a Persian word 'firdaus' Firdaus has a beautiful meaning; it means a garden. In English it has lost its original meaning; it simply means a walled garden. Of course in a desert heaven can be conceived, only as a walled garden, as an oasis. And life is almost like a desert, but everybody is carrying the seed, the soil, the climate, the possibility, the potential

-- everything that is possibly needed to grow roses within their being. Once all the churches have to stop you from becoming interested in love, only then can their shops go on doing business.

They were bound to crucify Jesus. They crucified Jesus and then they made the CHristian church along the same lines as those against which Jesus was fighting. The Christian church is as against Jesus as was the Jewish priesthood; there is no difference.

Buddhists are as against Buddha as were the Hindus. When a master is dead you can start the business again in his name.

The garden is within you, and the way to find it is to first become very clear that prayer is a by-product of love; hence nobody can learn prayer from the outside. One can forget about prayer; one should simply move naturally into love. Love as many people as possible, in as many ways as possible. Love animals, birds, trees, rocks. Let love be your religion, and slowly slowly you will see new nuances arising in your love, new fragrances, new experiences, new territories opening. New wonders and new mysteries are being revealed to the lover every day.

And the ultimate phenomenon is prayer; one becomes so full of love that each of one's acts becomes an act of love. does one feel the presence of god- in the rocks, in the trees, in the birds, in the people, everywhere.

My sannyas is a religionless religion. It is not Christian, it is not Hindu, it is not Mohammedan. It certainly has something to do with Christ and Buddha and Krishna and Mohammed, but nothing to do with any established church,

established religion. And as your love grows you will find that your love becomes so absorbing that it can absorb Krishna and Buddha, Jesus, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu. And your love is so vast, it can contain all these people with no contradiction, with no problem at all.

Jesus says 'The house of my god is huge, it has many rooms.' In his house Krishna can be a guest.

Buddha can be a guest, Lao Tzu can be a guest -- they are welcome. In my house too, all are welcome -- but not the priests, not the popes, not the shankaracharyas, not the immams. These are the most irreligious people on the earth, the enemies of religion. They have poisoned everybody's heart and they have exploited peoples' faith, trust, prayer everything. They have profaned something sacred in the heart of man. They are criminals, they are sinners.

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