The Passion for the Impossible

Talks given from 21/8/76 to 18/9/76 Darshan Diary

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< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 28 18 September 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [To a sannyasin who is leaving] ... continue to meditate there and come back as soon as possible, because much work has to be done yet. Something has started but it is just a beginning – never forget that. And never be satisfied too soon. Sometimes it happens that we become satisfied too early. As far as worldly things are concerned, never be dissatisfied, and as far as the inner world is concerned, never be satisfied....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 3 23 August 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Kalpana means imagination and deva means divine – divine imagination. And that you have to remember: that your path will go through imagination. You have a tremendous capacity to imagine. If you can use it, it can be an immense help. If you don’t use it, it can become a barrier. If one has some capacity, one has to use it, otherwise it becomes like a rock on the path....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 4 24 August 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says: I feel I have a legacy of laziness and escapism. Either I don’t feel energy, or if I do, I find it difficult to just completely let go. I feel a control.] I feel it is somewhere and has become part of your bio-computer. The mind functions as a computer, and we go on feeding it attitudes....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 5 25 August 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [An indian visitor says: With so many ideas before me, and having to make a decision, I feel that by making a choice I’m locking myself within a definition. By making a choice, I think I define myself, and in a sense imprison myself.] Mm, I understand. But whether you choose or not, you choose....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 6 26 August 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says: I’m just getting ready to leave. I had many questions when I arrived, but I don’t remember them.] That’s very good. That’s how it should be. When you come, you come with many questions. When you go, go without any questions. I’m not saying you will be going with answers, but if you can go without questions, that’s enough....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 7 27 August 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine and navaneet means essence, essential. Divinity is our essence. We may have forgotten it, but we cannot lose it. We may have become completely oblivious of it, but there is no way to get away from it. It is not accidental, it is essential. Anything accidental can be taken away from you....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 8 28 August 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A visitor said she had trouble becoming involved in the meditations here, adding that she could not stay much longer as she was a psychiatrist and had patients to see.] A psychiatrist needs to be meditative more than anybody else – because your whole work is dangerous in a way. Unless you are very calm and quiet, unless you can remain unaffected by things that happen around you, it is very dangerous....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 9 29 August 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says she is confused because she sometimes feels lower than ever before: It begins with the fact that I don’t feel anybody loves me or that I’m worthy of being loved. This happened last night, and I’m very frightened of having that experience for a long time when I’m alone.] Sometimes it happens that you can be more confused here than anywhere else because a possibility for fusion exists here....