The Sun Behind the Sun Behind the Sun

Talks given from 1/1/78 to 31/1/78 Darshan Diary

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 1 January 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Sat means truth, being, existence, rahasya means mystery, mysteriousness. Truth is mysterious. It cannot be known, it is unknowable... not unknown but unknowable, because the unknown can be known some day, will be known some day, but truth can never be known. That’s its intrinsic quality. Remove one veil and you find another. Remove another and you find still more, and it goes on ad infinitum....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 10 January 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [veet artho – beyond meaning] Truth has no meaning; all meaning is in man’s imagination, it is man’s projection. Reality simply is. There is no why and there is no way to find its why. But the mind feels very much disturbed by this meaninglessness, because it cannot exist without meaning, it lives on meaning....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 11 11 January 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [deva jyotsna – divine moonlight.] The moon and its light is very symbolic. When one comes to one’s own inner light, it is not like the sun: it has no heat in it. It is like the moon, it is cool. The inner energy is not a hot energy. All heat is on the circumference; at the centre there is just coolness, pure coolness....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 12 12 January 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium ... That’s my whole teaching, celebration; not worship but celebration. When you worship, you start making a hierarchy; the lower and the higher. When you worship you put something on top of other things. When you worship, something becomes sacred and something becomes profane. When you worship you divide, you split existence. Then something is praised but in the wake of it, something is condemned too....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 13 13 January 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says: In the last group, leela, the leader told me that I have a lot of energy in my head and in my sexual centre, but there is no connection between the two. I have another question: I am too identified with my emotions.] It is true: energy is there and the connection is not there....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 14 14 January 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says: I feel very vulnerable and my emotions keep changing. I feel happy and then it changes and I feel sad. I don’t know how I’m going to cope when I get to the West.] When you become more sensitive, naturally you can either be made very happy by small things or you can be made very unhappy by small things; people can hurt you....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 15 15 January 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss, guha means secret – the secret bliss. Happiness can be shared, it is always in sharing; bliss cannot be shared, it is utterly private. Happiness happens in a relationship, in love. When you are feeling in tune with somebody there is happiness. When you feel in tune with yourself there is bliss; it happens in utter aloneness....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 16 16 January 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin mother says: I’ve had a really hard time with the children here... If I want to go to meditate, they don’t want me to go and then I feel very torn.] Children can be very very manipulative. And one has to be very alert not to be a victim of one’s own children, because that way you don’t help them; that way you destroy their future....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 17 17 January 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss, kadamba is a name of a tree – bliss tree. Kadamba is also very symbolic. There are two trees in India which are very symbolic. One is the bodh tree, because Buddha became enlightened under a bodh tree. So the bodh tree became a symbol for meditation. Kadamba is the other tree which is very symbolic, because krishna used to dance under a kadamba tree....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 18 18 January 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [veet subpta – beyond words.] Truth is beyond language. That which can be said is necessarily untrue. Truth is inevitably beyond words; at the most we can indicate through words, but we cannot express it. It cannot be contained in words; words are too small, and the truth is like the sky – it is infinity, unboundedness....