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‌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. And all words have a definition. They have to have, otherwise they won’t have any meaning.

Truth has no definition; it simply is. It has no meaning either; it simply is. One can enjoy it; one can live it, but one cannot come to know its meaning. All the meanings are given to it by us, they are projected meanings. It is an empty screen. And to know its emptiness is meditation, to know its meaninglessness is meditation. To know its indefinability is meditation.

We are too occupied by the words; occupied too much with too many. There is a constant traffic going on inside the mind, words upon words. Not for a single moment does the traffic stop, not even in the night when you are asleep; it goes on moving. It takes a new form, the dream; instead of words, pictures start moving, but something goes on moving. Because of that constant movement you cannot know the eternal. One has to look between the words to go beyond; one has to find a way between the words and between the lines. The real message is there.

So while sitting, walking, always remember that the words are insignificant but the intervals between the words are immensely significant; that will change your gestalt. Emphasise the gap, look more into the gap, enjoy the gap, and neglect the words. One word comes, I another comes; ignore them, just don’t pay much attention to them, keep your back to them. But when a gap comes, jump into it, nourish it, cherish it, delight in it. Through your delight, it will come more and more, through your delight it will become bigger and bigger. And that is the door to the divine.…

[A new sannyasin says she is a university lecturer in chemistry.]

That’s very good! So now start teaching alchemy too! (laughter) I teach alchemy – that is the higher form of chemistry, although chemists go on writing that chemistry is born out of alchemy. That is true. But alchemy is not a primitive form of chemistry; it is a higher form of chemistry, because chemistry only deals with the material and alchemy deals with the spiritual. Alchemy is the chemistry of the divine! So that’s good, mm? – I will make you an alchemist.

[She adds that she has to work with mathematics a lot, which is not where her love is.]

It can be transformed. It is just your attitude, you have taken a certain attitude. It is not mathematics that disturbs you, it is your attitude. Change your attitude. Numbers also have a poetry and precision also has great beauty. Enjoy it like an art; don’t think about it as a job. If you think about it as a job, then it is heavy. Make it a love affair! And this is just a question of attitude. One can fall in love with numbers and can start playing around; then much becomes possible. Mathematics need not be always dry and neither is poetry always necessarily juicy.

The modern poetry is very dry, and you will be surprised to know that in india there are ancient treatises on mathematics written in poetry – even books on medicine written in poetry, great poetry. The poetry is also great; if you don’t look into the subject matter, no need; even the poetry has beauty. Those were great people who wrote mathematics and medicine in poetry. One cannot conceive of how to write chemistry in poetry, but it can be done.

Start changing your attitude: when you are back home start playing with the numbers. Drop the idea that it is a job, that you have to do it... no. Within just two, three months you will be surprised that things look different.

[A sannyasin who is leaving for the West has an ‘energy darshan’.]

The energy is beautiful; nothing to be worried about. Enjoy it. You must be preventing it. That has not to be done, because if you prevent it you create a contradiction.…

Don’t stop it! Go into it – it is beautiful, it is something valuable arising in you. But you stop it and then you create a contradiction; then there will be trouble. Celebrate it. Shake and dance and go into it, and it will bring you great experiences; it will become orgasmic. You will have such joy arising out of it as you have never known before.

So you are on a threshold of a great change; the energy wants to take a jump, it wants to change its plane. It is ready, it is getting ready. It is just like an aeroplane: before it takes off, it runs on the runway to gather momentum. It goes on gathering momentum, and there comes a moment when the momentum is enough for it to take off against gravitation. That’s what is happening: you are growing wings!

And it feels strange and weird.

[The sannyasin answers: Yes, painful too sometimes.]

Painful because you stop it, otherwise it will never be painful. Stop any pleasure and it will be painful. Pain arises out of the energy being stopped.

Once the whole of humanity was in this state: the primitive people were all shakers, and every night they would all dance and shake. It was an accepted phenomenon. Even if on the street somebody would start doing it, there was no objection; people would be very respectful towards the person. But now that has become difficult – people think you are abnormal, neurotic or something is wrong. And because people think something is wrong, of course you also think something is wrong: ‘I should not express it before others; if somebody comes to know, they may hospitalise me.’

You are going to the west, so remember it: don’t allow it somewhere on the street before people; allow it where sannyasins are together. That’s why I am creating sannyasins, so you can have a support everywhere, wherever you are. You can have a few people who will support you, and who will say, ‘This is absolutely right and there is no abnormality in it.’

Sannyas has to do so many things of which sannyasins are not aware, because so many things will start happening; then you will need support. You will need a group where you will be totally open, where everybody will be simply respectful towards your energy and nobody will be condemning.

So every day at least twice, sit in your room, once in the morning, once in the night, and allow the energy. And sometimes when you sit with sannyasins, allow it. But if you come across the energy somewhere with strangers, just hold the locket in your hand and it will go; you will not need to stop it. If you stop it, you will create trouble for yourself, so let me do that. You simply hold the locket and I will do it; it will stop, it will subside...

Twenty minutes, thirty minutes, will do at one time. Just sitting and allowing it and going into it totally. It will be a release twice a day so you will not come across this energy somewhere where it can become a little awkward, embarrassing to you.

[A sannyasin asks whether she should start a centre in a place where there are only two other sannyasins.]

I will give you a name; you start a centre. Three sannyasins are all that is needed. The whole trinity is there – you start! This will be the name: triveni. It means where three rivers meet, mm? (a little chuckle) And in India, wherever three rivers meet it becomes a sacred place for pilgrimage. Because the meeting of the three is the birth of the ultimate. The concept of trinity is really very valuable; it exists in all the religions. In India we have statues of god with three faces, called ‘trimurti’. Man is also a trinity or a trimurti or a triveni: the body, the mind and the soul. These three are meeting in you. If they really meet, one becomes illuminated. Right now they are only potentially there; they can meet but they have not met yet. Two are visible, the body and the mind, and the third is invisible. The greatest place in India for pilgrimage is Allahabad; it is called triveni. Three rivers meet there; two you can see, the third is invisible. You can see the Ganges and the Yamuna, and the third is Saraswati; it is invisible. That represents the soul, or call it the holy ghost.

Each individual has to find the unity between the three. And the moment you start feeling the unity between the three, you become a sacred place, you become a saint, you become a place of pilgrimage. So each saint in India is a place of pilgrimage. People start going towards the saint

because the three have met in him and he has become one, integrated. Now those three aspects are only aspects, only faces of one unity.

So this will be good, mm? – my three sannyasins are there; that’s perfectly good!

[Another sannyasin says he gets sensations in his heart and is scared of having a heart attack... especially when he goes to the movies and when there is something stressful.]

You will give him a heart attack! (laughter) That will do.

Nothing to be worried about, but no need to go to the movies too much. (much laughter) It has something to do with your eyes: you must not be moving your eyes in the movie, and that creates strain. If you have to go, if you have to sit and watch the tv – and in america it becomes almost unavoidable – then remember one thing: go on blinking your eyes, and then it will not happen.

What happens is that when you become too interested in something, you stop blinking. And whenever eyes stop blinking there is a strain, and that strain can be too much. Your heart is opening, so it is becoming more vulnerable, more fragile; you are losing the hardness of the heart. That was protective before; now that protection is no more there, so you have to be a little more careful.

Soon things will settle again and there will be no difficulty, but meanwhile, in the transitory period.… It is as if you lose old skin and the new skin comes. The new is very soft, can be hurt very easily, can be bruised very easily. You have to be a little careful. Soon it will not be so soft and there will be no trouble. So for the time being, avoid anything that creates unnecessary stress... and those are unnecessary stresses; people pay for them!

America will be far more happy without movies and tv; fifty percent of illnesses will disappear. Continuously looking at that much light is a great strain, and now there are suspicions that it creates cancer, because never before has humanity looked into a direct source of light for so long. Nobody looks at the direct source. If you are reading, you look at the book; you don’t look at the bulb. Now, looking at TV you are looking at the direct source of light. Eyes are not meant for that, the strain is too much. It starts wearing on your heart, on your nerves, it starts poisoning your system. And whatsoever place is more fragile, is affected first. Your heart is opening, so avoid movies; at least while you are here, avoid. And even sometimes if you have to go... I don’t give you any absolute rules, because absolute rules become slavery. If sometimes one finds oneself in a movie, it is okay, but keep alert and go on blinking your eyes, and then it will not happen.

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