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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. If there is meaning then the mind is exhilarated; it has something to explore, it has some work to do, it can live. So even when there is no meaning the mind goes on projecting it.
Truth is like a rose flower or like a cloud: utterly meaningless. That’s why the mind cannot meet truth: it searches for meaning and truth has no meaning; it is pure is-ness. So the mind can never find truth. It will go on inventing meaning, it will go on spinning, weaving meaning. It is perfectly at ease in philosophy. In religion it simply feels suffocated, it cannot breathe in religion.
If this is understood, then life starts taking on a new form, a new shape, a new dimension. Then you don’t look for meaning, you start looking for truth. Whatsoever is, is. We have to be with it, we have to accept it. There is no way to escape from it and there is no need to either; we have to be utterly in tune with it. In that attunement with a meaningless existence, bliss arises. Bliss is a by-product of falling in tune with existence .
That is the meaning of your name: veet artho – beyond the meaning. Search for that which is beyond the meaning, and it is not far away, it is very close by. Once you stop searching for meaning, you are bound to find it; you cannot miss it.…
Much has to be done to destroy your mind. And once the mind is gone, there is only joy, only love, only life.
Prem means love, idama means this – love this. That is futile, that is illusory, that is a mind trip. Reality knows only this, it has never known that. This is existential; that is just intellectual. That is a word; this is a reality.
Go on falling into this in every way and then there is no need to do anything else. This is your meditation. The mind will rush and run, will seek and ask, but the moment you remember, relax. Always fall back to this, whatsoever it is: taking a bath, then this is the reality and the only reality; eating your food, then this is reality and the only reality. For that moment nothing else should be allowed.
And I am not saying to start fighting with the-mind that starts running here and there; fighting won’t help. The moment you remember, simply relax, and you will be surprised; in that very relaxing mind stops.
The mind lives only in tension; relaxation is its death. A relaxed person has no mind and a person who has a mind knows no relaxation. That’s why, as man has become more educated, more intellectual, more of a thinking animal, sleep has disappeared from the earth, because sleep needs relaxation. People have completely forgotten the language of let-go. So I am not saying to start fighting. If you start fighting with the mind, it is the mind again, because all fight is of the mind. Let me repeat it: all fight is of the mind because all tension is of the mind. So through the mind one can never come to a state of peace, silence.
One has to relax. The moment you find your mind running, just relax. Take a deep breath, relax the breath, and collapse into this as many times in the day as possible. Soon you will start feeling the reality of this moment, of this place. It is a small moment but it is the door of reality, the door of god.
The sufi vision is one of the deepest visions, so drink out of that well as much as you can and you will be benefitted by it. And never create any problem between me and sufism. I will make you a sufi, so never for a single moment create any trouble inside the mind. My sannyasins are absolutely free to do whatsoever they feel like doing and to get light from anywhere they can, because all light is the same and all paths lead to the same reality. So wander, search, and whatsoever you can gather from anywhere, all is acceptable to me.
[A sannyasin says: I don’ t feel any love.]
Mm mm. It will come... this understanding will help it to come. Millions of people go on thinking that they love and they don’t, and because they go on thinking that they love, they will never love. First one has to realise the fact. It is painful to realise that you don’t love, that you don’t feel any love, but once you have realised this, then things start changing; this very recognition is the beginning.
To realise this fact, that one has no love, is to come upon a truth. The false idea that you are a lover, that you love, has disappeared. Half the journey is already finished, now the other half can begin; and the other half can begin only when this first half has been completed.
It is a good indication, because how long can one remain without love if one goes on feeling that one doesn’t love? Love is such an inner necessity; it is the food for the soul. Now you will be very hungry for it. You will cry and you will weep, and there is going to be great turmoil, but that turmoil
is good; it will help you to seek and search. And don’t be worried, it is going to happen, because no man is without love. We all carry that oasis somewhere in the desert; we just have to find it.
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