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‌CHAPTER 28

28 October 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium

Deva means divine, lolita means moved by – moved by the divine, stirred by the divine. Just as wind comes and makes the tree a dancing girl, like that god comes and moves man’s heart. God is a breeze – invisible – but the heart can feel it and the heart can feel its movement. And only the heart can feel it – the mind remains completely oblivious of it; the mind has no possibility to know about God never comes through the mind, and it is because we go on searching for it through the mind that we go on missing. It does not come by way of the mind. The mind can only know matter. The very method of the mind is decisive. The mind is the capacity to measure, to calculate. The mind is arithmetic. And that is the meaning of the word ‘matter’; ‘matter’ means that which can be measured. And the mind is the instrument of measuring, so it can only know about matter – that which can be measured, calculated. God cannot be measured, hence god is not matter. And the soul cannot be measured, hence the soul is not matter. Not that they don’t exist; they don’t exist in a measurable way. They are immeasurable, they are beyond all measurements, they are infinities.

So those who search through the mind and reason and logic search in vain. And slowly slowly they become frustrated, and because they cannot find, their life starts losing meaning. And the only problem with them is that they are searching through a wrong method.

The heart is the door to god... the breeze enters through the heart. Only the heart has the capacity to feel the immeasurable. It is through love, not through logic, that one knows. So while you are here, be here as a heart, more and more as a heart. Put the mind aside, forget about it, and you are already moved and more and more will be happening.

Prem means love, lokottara means beyond the world – love that goes beyond the world, love that goes beyond the mundane.

Love has both the possibilities: it can go downwards; it can go upwards. Love is a ladder – you can use it any way; it has both possibilities. If you want to go down you can use the ladder or if you want

to go up, again you can use the same ladder. The ladder is a bridge. The ladder is not decisive – in itself it is not a guide; it depends on you how you use it. Millions of people have used the ladder of love only as lust, hence it takes you downwards, more and more into the world, into the mundane, into the useless, into the repetitive, boring, vicious circles.

But, love is not responsible for it; we are responsible. And that is where all the old religions have missed the point: they thought that it is love that drives people downwards; it is not love. It is making the ladder responsible. It is you who go downwards: you use the ladder in a wrong way. The ladder is neutral. Because religions thought that love leads people into more and more gross a life, more physical, more material a life, they all became anti-love. And if one becomes anti-love, one may stop going downwards but one cannot go upwards either. One is stuck, because to go upwards you will need the same ladder, and you have thrown the ladder; you have become anti-love. This has been the misery of all the religious effort that has happened in the past. Much effort has been done but the result has not been much – once in a while a Buddha, a Christ, a Krishna, but only once in a while. Millions of people have tried but failed, and their whole failure is fundamentally rooted in a simple thing, in a simple miscalculation, a misjudgement.…

Once you become aware of it, love can be used tremendously, and it can take you as high as you can imagine. It can take you very low to hell; it can take you very high to heaven. All that is needed is the change of direction. There are people who love money; then it takes you downwards. There are people who love music; then it starts taking you upwards. There are people who love only sexuality; then it takes you downwards, it makes your life more and more muddy and messy. There are people who love love itself, then slowly slowly it starts becoming prayer.

Use love wisely, because love is immensely potential. Either it can become your fall or it can become your victory; it is a double-edged sword. Use love to take you towards the stars. Love higher values. If it is a question of choosing between money and music, love music. If it is a question of loving prose or poetry, love poetry. If it is a question of loving syllogism or song, love the song; forget the syllogism. Always go on choosing the higher, and at each step of life there are alternatives opening; in fact at each step we are again on another crossroad. We are always on the crossroads – that’s how life is – and each moment we have to decide. Let this be your criterion: whatsoever is higher, subtler, is not the grosser, has to be chosen. Slowly slowly the knack is learned. Slowly slowly there is no need to choose – one easily starts moving towards the higher.

The whole training of religions is the training of love – love that becomes your wings.

Kalyan Mitto. It is the name of Gautam the Buddha – it means the true friend of all. Mitto means friend, kalyan means one who wishes good for all, the true friend of all – man, birds, animals, trees, rocks. And only a Buddha can be a true friend of all, because unless the ego disappears completely enmity does not end.

One can pretend that one is a friend, but if the ego is there, all that friendship is only a veneer, a camouflage. You are hiding yourself behind a screen. You are creating smoke around yourself so nobody comes to know your reality. People smile, look very friendly, and deep down are very poisonous, because the ego cannot be friendly; that is impossible.

The ego is always in conflict with others. The ego is ambitious. It wants to conquer, whatsoever the cost. If it has to use others as means, it will. If they hinder it will destroy them. It will be friendly only

to those people who will satisfy its desires and ambitions, and only to that extent, never beyond that point.

That’s why Machiavelli says that for the ambitious man there is no friend. The ambitious man only pretends friendship, because everyone is a potential enemy, because everyone is a potential competitor. For example, thirty small children are studying in the same school, in the same class. How can they be friendly? because deep down there is competition. Who is going to come first? So all friendship is just on the surface; deep down they are at each other’s throats. They will be jealous of each other. They will try in every way to hinder others from reaching the position that everybody else desires and they will try in every way to reach to that position themselves.

And the same thing is repeated on bigger and bigger scales. The whole politics consists of this: egos fighting... who reaches to the topAnd so is the case in the world of money, market – the same

conflict. So is the case in the academies, universities – the same conflict, the same competition: who is going to become the vice-chancellor and who is going to become the professorcontinuous

fight everywhere. If you watch deeply then each person is fighting against the whole humanity.

Only a Buddha – one who has disappeared, one who has no longer any competition with anybody, one who has no more desires to reach anywhere, one who has arrived – yes, only he can be a true friend of all, only he can have compassion. That’s why Buddha was called ’kalyan mitto ’the true friend of all.

Let that be the beginning of the work on yourself: drop the ego, drop competitiveness. Watch how much enmity we are carrying within ourselves and slowly slowly drop it; chunk by chunk cut it and throw it away. Empty yourself of all competition, and instead of competition start growing roses of love. So the work is double: on one hand one has to grow roses of love. Then one day the garden is ready, and when the garden is ready, one is a true friend of all. And when you are a true friend of all, the whole existence is friendly towards you in response.

When you are in love with the whole, the whole is in love with you. We receive only that which we give.

Deva means divine or godly; dwarika has two meanings. One is the doorthe door to the divine.

Another is: Dwarika is the city where Krishna lived. That’s why it started to be called Dwarika, because it became the door to reach Krishna. So another meaning is the city of god. The door of god – one meaning; the city of god – another meaning. And both are significant.

Man is empty unless god lives in him. Man is a deserted city unless god starts residing in him, and the moment god comes in the whole city comes alive. There are incredible beauties in the human body, in the human mind, in the human heart, but they all remain dormant till god comes.

Just as in the night one goes to sleep and everything becomes dormant.Even an Albert Einstein

asleep is the same as a foolish person asleep – no difference. What difference is there? But let the morning come, let the sun riseOnce an Albert Einstein is awake he is so totally different from

the foolish person. When god comes in the real awakening happens. The awakening that happens through the sun is not the real awakening; it is just superficial, it is just on the surface. We become a little more alert, that’s all. The difference between the sleep and the awakening – the ordinary

awakening – is not of quality, it is only of quantity, only of degrees. Even in your sleep you remain a little bit aware, and even in your awakening you remain a little bit asleep. The difference is only of degrees – more or less, that’s all.

But when god enters into one’s being the real awakening happens. One is one hundred percent awake. One is simply wakefulness and nothing else. All dreams and all sleep have disappeared; there is no unconscious left, no darkness inside. In that moment, when there is no darkness, no night, no sleep inside, the whole potential starts blooming, as if a tree has suddenly bloomed... thousands of flowers, and the fragrance is released to the winds to be taken to all the directions. Naturally, then there is joy, and only then, because joy is a by-product of fulfilment, of arriving... of coming back home!

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