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‌CHAPTER 5

5 March 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium

Deva Rahi: It means a traveller to the divine, a pilgrim of the divine – deva means divine, rahi means a traveller. You are a traveller and you have been a traveller for a long time, many lives.

This is not the first time that you have become interested in it; you are an old one. But every time you have tried, you have tried only half-heartedly, hence you have travelled long but you have not arrived yet. Many times the goal was very close by and you missed it. Many times it was within your reach but you go tired, or just when the tide was going to turn you left the effort; you turned back or you went astray into some other thing.…

That’s how you have been missing. Please, don’t miss this time!

[A sannyasin’s mother says: I feel it very difficult to call my son by his new name... It seems to annihilate him... ]

It is difficult for mothers!

It is difficult because from his very childhood you have been calling him his old name. But try to call him with the new name; he will be happy. It is difficult, but try.

It is difficult always because you are so much accustomed to the old name and the new name seems to be so foreign...

The very word annihilation seems to be very frightening.

But each moment one should die to the past; that is the only way to live totally. Each moment one should forget the past. The past is gone; it is not there. It is just a smoke in the head, nothing else.

One should die to the past each moment so that one can be in the present totally; that is the only meaning of it. Dying to the past is the only way to live rightly. But we all live in the past and we cling to the past and we think it is very valuable. It is nothing to beIt is gone already. It is nowhere

except in the mind, but we cling to it.

But if you cannot call him by the new name, you can continue to call him the old. Nothing to worry about. He will understand.

[A sannyasin says her sexual energy has disappeared: It never crosses my mind.]

It is a blessing. Something very significant has happened in the body: the body energy is not functioning as male or female.

But I can understand your difficulty, because in the world, and particularly in the West, you will feel very strange...

It is perfectly good; it is how it should be. And now you can move higher very easily because sex remains the basic problem and sex holds a person down, keeps one earthly. Now you can fly! Now the roots are gone you can grow wings.

The same energy that appears as sex, now can appear in different forms, higher forms. It has disappeared from the sexual plane; now it is waiting just in the middle to take off.

So you need to go deep in meditations now. Forget about sex. It is finished and it is good that it is finished. It very rarely happens so easily so it is a rare fortune...

Now go deeper into meditation so that soon the energy will start transforming its quality. The energy that was sex will become compassion, will become more and more compassion, more and more love – love unaddressed, love with no sexual colour, just pure love without any conditions.

[Someone asks: What is the meaning of sannyas?] It is a great step.…

God is invisible. He is everywhere but still intangible; we cannot touch him. so you have to find a master whom you can touch, whom you can feel. The master is a mid-way station: the master is just like you and yet not like you. The master is one who has seen god.

Sannyas means coming closer to the master so that you can see through his eyesit is falling ’en

rapport’ with the mastermerging and melting your energy with the master. It is holding the hand

of the master so that he can take you into the unknown where you have never been. Once you have entered, by and by the master is not needed.

So sannyas is just a love affair with a master, a commitment, an involvement, and the real feeling comes only when you enter into it. It is to be experienced.

[She asks: Can one continue to feel as in contact with you as when one is here?]

Everywhere you can continue... because it is a question of falling in love, space doesn’t matter and time also doesn’t matter; if you become related in love, time and space don’t matter. Whether you are here two feet away or two thousand miles away, it doesn’t matter. We are linked... something is joined.

Then it is my responsibility. It is your commitment and my responsibility. Then I have to look after you...

The understanding will come only through experience.

[A sannyasin says he is confused about the literal meaning of his name.]

In Sanskrit one word can have at least twelve meanings, so it is a very poetic language. It is not like modern languages. Modern languages are more scientific: one word means one thing.

Old languages – Arabic, Sanskrit, Hebrew, Greek – are all poetic. Every word is fluid, not very fixed. You can make it mean anything – just a slight change, and it can change much. Then every word has many meanings, so there is much more freedom with old languages.

Otherwise it will be very difficult for me to find out new names. I can give new meanings to the same word; there is no problem in it. I have given twenty-five thousand names; it will be difficult to find new names! and I am to convert the whole earth so... That’s why I have to use Sanskrit; that is very fluid.

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