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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been scanned and cleaned up.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

There is nothing more noble than meditation. There is nothing more divine either. Meditation is the bridge between the earth and the sky, between the dust and the divine, between the base metal and gold.

Meditation is the process of rebirth. It is giving birth to yourself. It is a process -- magical in the sense that it is incomprehensible to the intellect, also magical in the sense that it is something which is not measurable by any scientific method. It is something beyond science.

The historians think that magic preceded science, that before science came there was magic. My own understanding is totally different. Science will be succeeded by magic, it is not preceded by magic. When science has fulfilled all the ordinary

needs of humanity, then only can magic arrive on the scene -- because magic is something higher than science, it is not lower. The lower can precede, the higher succeeds it. But magic has not been understood up till now.

By magic I don't mean that what the ordinary magicians go on doing in the name of magic. Those are all tricks, tricks to befool people -- games, entertainment. It is not true magic.

True magic is known only by the Buddhas. They are not known as magicians because their magic is something which is not at all concerned with entertainment, it is concerned with transformation. It is only for the chosen few, not for the crowds.

When science has fulfilled every ordinary need then suddenly there will be a great hunger, a great thirst felt all around the earth. It is already being felt by affluent societies, by rich societies, by rich people everywhere, because when ordinary needs are fulfilled, extraordinary needs arise.

A man who is hungry cannot think of meditation; it is impossible. He thinks of bread and butter. A man who has no shelter thinks of shelter, of a house. A man who is naked thinks of clothes. It is natural. But when all these needs are fulfilled, suddenly one becomes aware that there is something more to life than all the comforts and conveniences which science can provide, which money can purchase; there is something which cannot be possessed. Which cannot be got from the outside, which has to be grown in the inner consciousness.

For the first time one becomes interested in meditation. For the first time one feels life is meaningless unless some transcendental meaning is touched, becomes available. Unless the doors of something unknowable and mysterious are opened to you, unless some splendor descends on you and fills you and all your emptiness disappears, one feels on the verge of committing suicide. That's why in rich societies more people commit suicide, more people go insane than in poor societies. The poor societies cannot afford insanity; they are so poor, they cannot afford suicide. They don't even have means to live, how can they afford suicide? They don't have any feeling for inner meaning. Their outer life is constantly taking all their attention. Hence I say, magic is not something that preceded science but something that succeeds science.

And the days of magic are on the way.

My sannyasins have to become magicians in the sense that they have to be meditators and they have to learn the inner art of giving birth to themselves.

The first birth is through the parents -- it is biological. The second birth is spiritual. It is by you. through you, to you; nobody else is involved in it at all. Even the matter can only indicate the way, then you have to go all alone.

And by meditation I mean a state of thoughtless awareness. Slowly slowly one has to become so alert, watchful of the whole process of thought that not a single thought passes by unnoticed. I am not telling you to fight with the thoughts, I am not telling you to push them, throw them out, I am not telling you to repress them. Those are not the ways to transcend. Just become alert -- nothing else has to be done, nothing at all.

Just watchfulness is enough And the magic, and the miracle.

As your watchfulness grows your thoughts are reduced, automatically. If your watchfulness is one per cent your thoughts are ninety-nine per cent. If your watchfulness is ninety-nine per cent, your thoughts are only one per cent. If your watchfulness is one hundred per cent then there are no thoughts any more, then the mirror is utterly empty. And only in that mirror is god reflected, only in that mirror do you encounter 1/08/07

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reality. And that encounter transforms, gives you a new birth, for the first time makes your life significant, meaningful.

Life is a divine celebration. For centuries religion has been against life. Because of that it could attract only the pathological people, the ill people, the people who were not really intelligent, healthy, loving. It attracted all kinds of third-rate minds, for the simple reason that only a stupid person can be against life. An intelligent person is bound to feel that life is divine, that life is god. It is impossible for intelligence not to feel it. It is absolutely inevitable for an intelligent person to see the beauty of existence, to feel the music that surrounds nature, to feel the stars, the flowers, the mountains, the rivers, the people. So

many expressions of the divine, so many forms of the formless -- the intelligent person is bound to become aware of it. Nobody has to tell him.

Intelligence means sensitivity. All your sense are functioning at the maximum. Your eyes see totally, then naturally you will become aware of beauty. Only a blind man is not aware of beauty. Your ears are able to hear totally, then how can you avoid the music of the wind passing through the pines? If your body is alive, vibrant, how can you remain closed to the wind, to the sun, to the rain? These are all the ways god comes to you, these are all the ways of his approach towards you. That's how he comes in disguise. But only the intelligent person can understand. The stupid will not be able to see. He will only see the veil and he will not see the veiled one.

And it is easier for the stupid to renounce because escaping from anything needs no intelligence, it needs no genius. I have seen thousands of monks -- Hindu, Christian, Jaina, Buddhist -- and I was struck by the fact that almost all of them were stupid people.

When I became aware of the fact I was really surprised because I thought that I would be coming across the most intelligent people of the world. But the more I came in contact with the so-called saints -- and India is full of them, no country has as many saints as India... Hindus alone have five thousand monks, and then there are Mohammedans, and then there are Christians and then there are Jainas and Buddhists and then there are other small sects. The whole country is full of our so-called mahatmas, and I have come in contact with almost all kinds of saints.

Slowly slowly I had to come to the conclusion that something is basically wrong, because why are only stupid people attracted towards religion? The intelligent person avoids religion. If he is courageous he denies religion, he becomes against religion, he becomes atheistic. If he is not courageous he only pays formal homage to religion -- but just formal, so that nobody takes note of the fact that he is not part of the crowd. He does not want to disturb his ordinary life. He wants the crowd to know that he is with them. But his belief in god is formal, his going to the temple and the church is formal. he goes because others go. He goes because it is helpful, convenient, otherwise you fall apart form the crowd, and you have to manage to be with the crowd. So there is nothing wrong if for one hour every Sunday you go to the church to listen to some stupid sermon. It is worth it, because it gives your life a kind of formal attunement with the crowd.

Those who are courageous become rebels. But both are against religion, deep down. For formal person is also against religion. He believes because he has to believe, otherwise he has no love for it. The cause is somewhere in religion itself because he (some words missing) it has been life-negative.

I am proposing a totally new approach towards religion. Religion has to be life- affirmative. It has to enhance your life, it has to make it more beautiful; it has to be creative, not escapist. It has not to dull your senses but to make them more sensitive. To me there is no god other than life itself, and there is no temple other than existence itself. Then everything becomes a divine celebration. And when I say everything, I mean everything: life is a celebration, death is celebration; meeting is celebration, departing is celebration; childhood is celebration, youth is celebration, old age celebration -- different kinds of celebration. And my sannyasins have to learn to celebrate everything.

If you start celebrating everything you become a real worshiper. And you need not believe in anything; you need not go to any church or temple. Wherever you are, whatsoever you are doing becomes your prayer, becomes your meditation, becomes your sadhana, your discipline.

To me a sannyasin should become more and more aware of all that surrounds him, all that is within and without. And the more you ar aware, the more you will be ready to dance out of sheer joy, out of sheer gratitude, out of thankfulness to the whole.

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