Turn On, Tune In and Drop the Lot

Talks given from 1/12/78 to 31/12 78 Darshan Diary

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

19

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 19 20 December 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, wilayat means a sage. The birth of a sage is through love, not through knowing. It is not a head phenomenon, it is a heart phenomenon. The saint remains in the head; he cultivates it thoughtfully. The sage disappears into the heart. The saint is very clever, calculating, logical, methodological. The sage is almost mad, but his madness has beauty, his madness has a transcendence; it is something not of this world....

2

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 2 2 December 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Atit means beyond, manaso means mind. The whole pilgrimage consists only of one step: from mind to no-mind. The mind is the world: no-mind is nirvana. The mind is a state of sleep: no-mind is an awakening. Everyone is a born Buddha, but fast asleep, dreaming a thousand and one dreams lost in the world of thoughts and desires and aspirations....

20

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 20 21 December 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Arhata means one who has arrived. Man is in a constant wandering. He is always departing from one point for another, but he is never arriving anywhere. It is much ado about nothing. The mind goes in circles, and when you move in a circle you cannot arrive. You can go on moving forever, for eternity....

21

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 21 22 December 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Srajan means creativity. The highest value in existence is creativity, and it is creativity that brings you close to the creator, nothing else; there is no other bridge. Only a creative person comes to know something of god. And it is always only something, because god is infinite: the more we know the more there is to know....

22

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 22 23 December 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, darpano means mirror – mirror for the divine. And this is the whole art of meditation. God is; we just have to mirror him. Our mirror is covered with layers of dust. We are not to go anywhere to search and seek because god is everywhere, as much here as there....

23

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 23 24 December 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, anando means bliss. Love and bliss are two aspects of the same energy. They always happen together: if one happens, the other follows, has to follow. They cannot be divided, they are indivisible. And just like that, hate and misery are two aspects of the same phenomenon: the person who is full of hate can never be blissful; and the person who is full of love can never be anything else other than blissful....

24

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 24 25 December 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Veet means beyond, apeksha means expectation. The root cause of misery is to expect, and the mind is full of expectations. The more you expect, the more you will feel frustrated; frustration is a shadow of expectation. Nobody wants to be frustrated but everybody goes on expecting ‘Things should be like this’ and they never are....

25

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 25 26 December 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, bhadrena means grace. There are things which man can achieve by his own efforts and there are things which he can never achieve by his own efforts. The things that man cannot achieve by his own efforts are the really valuable things. The things that man can achieve will be lost sooner or later, death will take them away; they are momentary....

26

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 26 27 December 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Manava means a real human being. There are millions of human beings on the earth but it is very difficult to find a real human being. The humanity of the millions is just an appearance; in truth it doesn’t exist, it is only a facade, a mask. Deep down they have not yet grown to be human....

27

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 27 28 December 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means god, prarthi means in prayer. Prayer is not something that you do or that you can do: it is something in which you can be. It is a state of being, not a state of doing. Prayer simply means in deep communion with existence. It is not a dialogue, it is not a verbal communiCation; it is non-verbal....