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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been scanned and cleaned up.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

Prayer has nothing to do with language, with words, with thoughts, with mind itself. It is a state of no-mind. What goes on in the name of prayer is not prayer, it is just a pseudo ritual. But all religions are caught in rituals because the ordinary unconscious human being does not really want to be transformed. He wants everything, but without any change in his being. Because of this foolish desire he gets caught by the priests, he is being exploited. He himself is responsible.

If he is really interested in going through a change no priest can exploit him, no ritual can satisfy him, and all that will just look like rubbish. Then he will seek a real master -- not a teacher who has some philosophy to teach, but a master who has attained, who has tasted of truth. Then he will not be interested in superficial

things. His interest will be in getting totally transformed, whatsoever the cost. Even if he has to die, he will be ready to die for a new birth. In fact nobody can be born again unless they are ready to die.

The seed has to die before it can become a sprout.

Before you can attain to consciousness you will have to die as an unconscious being. And the whole process of this death and resurrection is the process of shifting your energy from mind to no-mind.

Shunya means a state of no-mind, no-thought, no-feeling, just pure silence, utter silence. But in that very silence you come into communion with the divine, with the whole. That is prayer.

To be in communion with the whole is prayer. Nothing is said, nothing is heard, but everything is understood. It is not a communication. It is not that you have to kneel down and you have to say certain words, certain cliches to god almighty. Mm? -- there is no god as a person. There is godliness -- the whole existence is full of the stuff called godliness -- but there is nobody to hear what you are saying. If you stop saying everything, if not only words on your lips but words in your mind disappear, you fall out of language absolutely, out of thought. You remain alert and aware, watchful, witnessing. In that witnessing the individual melts into the universal. That melting is prayer, that reunion is prayer.

Satys means in truth and Christiane means a Christian... but in truth, not just an ordinary Christian who is Christian by an accident, the accident of birth. One can be born in a Hindu family and will be a Hindu, one can be born in a Mohammedan family and will be a Mohammedan, or one can be born in a Christian family and will be a Christian. But these are accidental things.

Christ was born a Jew but he never belonged to that tradition. A real Christian can never belong to any tradition, not even the tradition called Christian.

A real Christian has to be a rebel, just like Jesus. A real Christian cannot be a blind follower, a believer.

He is a seeker and he is ready to risk all. Jesus risked all, he risked his very life. He died on the cross when he was only thirty-three. He was too young -- but his intensity for truth, his love for truth, his passion was tremendous. He was ready to die but he was not ready to compromise.

Hence Friedrich Nietzsche is right when he says that the first and the last Christian died on the cross.

And that happened two thousand years ago. Since then there have been only believers, followers. These people are not Christians. If they are in a Communist country they will be Communists. The whole of Russia is Christian before the revolution, and after the revolution, within ten years, the whole country -- and it is a vast country -- turned atheistic. What kind of Christians were these people? And they were really the most orthodox Christians in the whole world, Their church was called the Orthodox church, it was the most orthodox church amongst all the churches. But it simply disappeared, withered away, because the people who were believing in it had not risked anything to find it. It was just a given thing. Their parents had conditioned them. In fact they felt good when they became free of all conditioning.

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ordinary sense at all. A true Christian can only be a Christ. For that one has to go through a certain inner crucifixion. One has to die as a mind and one has to be reborn as a consciousness. And that is the whole process of sannyas.

Knowledge is a conclusion, knowing is a process. knowledge has the false attitude that one has arrived, one already knows. Knowing is a pilgrimage, one is always learning, moving, progressing, evolving.

Knowledge means now there is nothing left for you to know, you have come to a full stop. It creates a kind of stagnancy. knowing is dynamic, it is riverlike, it is always flowing.

A true seeker is not after knowledge, he is after knowing. Ho wants to learn the very process of learning.

He is not interested in arriving at conclusions, he is not interested in goals in

fact, he is more interested in the journey itself. The journey is also beautiful, each moment of it is so delicious -- who cares about the goal?

The very idea of a goal is created by the lazy mind so that you can rest; once it is achieved you -- are finished. So one tries to find a short-cut. The people who are interested in goals are always interested in short-cuts. naturally. Why go by a long route? The people who are interested in goals are prone to believe as soon as possible so that they can be finished with it. They became more interested in scriptures than in truth itself. They became more and more possessed by words because words give a false idea of knowledge, they make you knowledgeable .

The people who are lazy cannot be true seekers. A true seeker has no desire, no ambition to have a goal .

He is interested in the moment, this moment, now and here. His whole being is involved in living. And if you go deeper into any experience you will be surprised: life does not consist of nouns, it consists of verbs.

But man's mind is so cunning that it has become more and more attached to nouns. It changes every verb into a noun.

For example, there is nothing in life as love. There is loving but there is no love. In fact there is no life as such but only loving. And the same is true about everything -- the whole of life, the whole of existence consists of verbs.

Knowledge comes through memory and knowing comes through awareness. Knowledge is mechanical; hence a computer can be very knowledgeable, more knowledgeable than human minds because it has a memory system. You can simply go on feeding; it and it will accumulate all kinds of knowledge and you can retrieve any kind of knowledge whenever you want.

Our brain is nothing but a biocomputer. It has taken millions of years for nature to evolve the brain.

What we have done by creating the computer is that we have simply made a brain outside the body, a mechanical brain. Of course, computers will go on growing more and more, they will become bigger and bigger, and they will be capable of doing miracles. Even great geniuses like Albert Einstein will look like pygmies beside computers very soon, for the simple reason: How much can you remember? -- the computer can be made to remember any amount of knowledge.

Memory is a mechanical phenomenon but awareness is non-mechanical, hence no computer can ever learn to be aware, no computer can ever be meditative. That is impossible. The computer can have knowledge but it cannot be in a state of knowing. You have to feed it dead knowledge, it can accumulate.

And that's what our so-called scholars, pundits, have been doing for centuries. We have respected them very much, and they nothing but computers. Machines have been worshipped, and we are still doing that, our universities are factories where we create machines out of men.

My work here consists in doing just the opposite, in de-automatising you, in de- conditioning you, in helping you to become aware. When you become amore aware you are more open to existence, to all that is happening all around. All your windows and doors are open; existence can pass through you. You can be more and more sensitive as you become more and more aware.

But a man of awareness never accumulates it. He goes on refining his process of knowing; there is no limit to it. He goes on sharpening his sword. But he is not interested in information, his interest is transformation. And through awareness, through knowing, transformation happens. You become a new man.

Through knowledge you remain the same old person with more knowledge added to you. But you are not new, you are the same old person, with new acquirements, that's all. With awareness you are new, and you are new in such a way that you know how to go on renewing yourself every moment so you are never old, never dull, never insensitive.

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are not just to be remembered, you have to experience them, then only do you know. Otherwise you can remember them, you can start repeating them -- and again you have missed the point, again you have transformed knowing into knowledge. Beware of that pitfall. Almost everybody falls into it.

Love is bliss, but very few people in the world are loving people, that's why there is so much misery.

Everybody wants to be loving, everybody wants to be loved, but nobody learns the art of loving. It is a great art. You are born only with the potential, but the potential has to be transformed into the actual, it has to be made into reality. And the first requirement is to become more alert, People are unconscious, hence they want love, they want to love, but because they are unconscious whatsoever they do is just the opposite. They destroy their own love, they destroy all the possibilities of love, and then they are miserable . And they blame fate, god -- they blame everything, except themselves.

The alert person will always blame himself because he will become aware of the fact that his desires and his actions are opposite to each other, they contradict each other.

Once you become more and more watchful of your inner workings things become simple. Then a few things have to be dropped. One has not to be jealous if one wants to be loving. It becomes so clear that there is no question about it; one can simply see the point that if you are jealous, love is impossible. Jealousy is bound to create misery. Jealousy is part of ego, the shadow of the ego, the shadow of a shadow -- and love needs egolessness. They can't go together, they can't co-exist.

If one chooses ego knowingly, the one drops the whole project of love and once accepts the misery. But then there is no question of being miserable about your misery. That is your doing, this is your choice.

There is no point in making any fuss about it. Either you drop the ego and all its companions -- jealousy, domination, possessiveness -- and then love flows and there is bliss -- or, you cling to the ego. Then love disappears, bliss disappears, god disappears, and your life is nothing but hell.

The basic requirement is to be aware -- that's what you have to learn here. The art of awareness becomes the art of love, becomes the art of bliss. It is the whole of religion.

Bliss happens in a profound silence. Bliss is not a not a state of excitement, it is not feverish. Pleasure is feverish, happiness too -- not as much as pleasure, a little milder, but it too has its own excitement. Bliss is absolutely cool -- not cold

but cool, utterly silent. And to receive it one has to be very silent, because we can be in communion only with that which we are creating in ourselves.

A madman can be in communication only with other madmen. A Buddha can commune only with other Buddhas; otherwise the gap is so big, unbridgeable. You can commune with bliss only when you are in a total silent state, when everything in you has become still, as if all has disappeared, as if there is nobody inside. When your temple is absolutely empty bliss comes dancing. It fills you and it fulfils you.

Being here learn to be more and more silent, learn to be more and more still. Enjoy silence and stillness.

Those are the basic preparations for the ultimate guest. When you are in a profound silence you are capable of becoming the host to god.

The Imprisoned Splendor

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