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‌CHAPTER 13

13 March 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium

Deva means divine, yuuichi means strength – divine strength. Man in himself is impotent. All that is alive in him comes from god, all that is power in him is divine: man is only a vehicle. If one functions simply as a vehicle of god then one’s life is religious. And if one starts interfering in the flow of the energy and is no more just a vehicle but becomes a controller, then one’s life is irreligious.

So be just an open door for god to come in, just a passage for him to flow into the world. That’s what sannyas is all about.

Deva means divine and nobuyuki means trust – trust in the divine. We trust in the material – in money, in power, in respectability – and that trust is the cause of all our miseries. We trust too much in the world and it goes on disappointing us, yet we don’t learn. Our trust is wrongly placed. Trust has to be in the innermost core of your being. Trust has to be in consciousness, not in matter. And once trust takes that turn, life starts changing, transforming. Then the spring has come, then the desert has disappeared, then life is an oasis of tremendous beauty and of great joy.

Trust in matter and you will live in hell. Trust in consciousness and you have the key to open the doors of the kingdom of god.

Veet Masatoshi. Veet means going beyond – going beyond righteousness, because righteousness is a very egoistic attitude. To feel oneself right automatically means that one is thinking of others as wrong. To feel oneself holy certainly means that others are not holy. To think of oneself as saintly is a sin, because one is condemning others. The really right person is never aware of his righteousness. The real saint has no idea of who is the saint and who is a sinner.

One has to learn to live beyond dualities. The duality of right and wrong, the duality of life and death, the duality of this world and that, etcetera, etcetera – all kinds of dualities have to be transcended.

One has to become so innocent that one does not know what is what. In that innocence god comes in. That innocence is the invitation to god.

Anand means bliss. jane means a gracious gift of god. Bliss is a gift of god. We cannot manufacture it, it is beyond our capacities to create it. Whatsoever we create is going to be false, and the false cannot satisfy. The false will remain a facade. Maybe others will be deceived by it, but how can you be deceived by yourself? You will know deep down in your heart that there is sadness, there is misery, that there is hell. It is just that you have a painted face, the smile is not true It is not coming from the heart, it is not born in you. It has nothing to do with the beyond; it is not a gift. You are pretending. And the life of pretending is the most ugly thing in the world; that’s what hypocrisy is. But because of the idea that we can create bliss, the whole world has gone hypocritical. It is something which cannot be done in the very nature of things. We can only be at the receiving end.

Bliss has to be received. One has to learn how to be open to receive it, that’s all; one has not to create it. It is already showering; one just has to become a little more vulnerable.

And that’s my work here with my sannyasins: to make them more vulnerable, to make a few openings in them. a few windows, a few doors open, so that the sun and the wind and the moon and the stars, they can all come in. There is tremendous possibility of being blissful, but one has to learn how to be passive to receive it, how to be feminine to receive it. And each of my sannyasin has to become feminine, because that is the whole art of being blissful, the art of being in communion with god.

In the Indian mythology there is a beautiful metaphor that god is the only male and everybody else in the world is a female. That is a really significant idea. That means that only god is active and everybody has to be receptive. Become receptive and you will be surprised how much starts simply coming from nowhere. It becomes almost impossible even to thank god, because so much, unasked for, comes, that all words become inadequate; one simply starts living in gratitude. I call that the life of prayer.

Deva means divine, henry means home. God abides in man just as god abides in everything else – in the animals, in the birds, in the trees, in the rocks – but in man, much more so, because something of tremendous value has happened in man: self-consciousness has arisen. In the rock god lives fast asleep; in man, there is a little awakening, and because of that little awakening, much more awakening is possible. Because of that little possibility, the whole transformation is possible: man can become total awareness; and when man becomes total awareness, he is god.

Remember it constantly, that our body is a temple of god, that it is a home of god. Respect the body, love the body, take care of the body, don’t be antagonistic to it. And the same is true about the world. Because god abides in it, be respectful to it. I teach: rejoice in the world, don’t renounce anything, because to renounce anything is basically to renounce god, because he is everywhere. he is all.

Once this understanding starts settling in the heart new visions arise, the perspective changes. You live in the same world and yet it is no more the same world. It has a different taste, a different flavour – the flavour of the divine. And each small thing becomes so extraordinary, then the ordinary life is no more ordinary life.

Once we start thinking in terms of god everything becomes extraordinary. Forget god and everything

becomes very ordinary. Without god life has no meaning; with god, everything, the smallest, is so pregnant with meaning, with inexhaustible meaning.

Prem means love, yolande is the name of a flower. The full name will mean a flower of love.

Man blooms only in love. Without love man simply remains a possibility. One becomes actual only in love. Without love man is a personality only, a mask; with love man is a presence. Love gives integration. Love gives centering, love gives grounding. With love suddenly one is at ease with existence. Without love one is a stranger in the world, an outsider. With love, one starts participating in the mysteries of existence. With love one is welcome, and in that very welcome, one blooms.

And unless one has become a flower, one remains unfulfilled. In flowering is paradise.

Deva means divine, louis means glory – divine glory. Man is born to be a divine glory. Man is born to manifest god, to be a song echoing the divine, to be a dance allowing the divine to flow into the world. Man is not born just to be an efficient clerk in a office, man is not just born to be an efficient machine; man has something more to fulfil.

Jesus is right when he says: Man cannot live by bread alone. Not that man can live without bread, that is not the point – man needs bread, he has to earn it, he has to do something or other – but it is a means only, it is not the end. And unless the end is there, life remains very very futile.

The end is to manifest god, to come to such an explosion of light and love that you become proof of god. In that moment when you become proof of god, yoU have arrived home. That is the peak beyond which there are no more any peaks. That is the climax of contentment, of fulfilment.

[A sannyasin, leaving, says: I have many doubts about whether to leave or to stay. When I make a decision many doubts arise and I get really confused.]

If you want to stay.… Why create unnecessary trouble? – stay longer. The longer you stay, the less doubts you will have!

Mm? if you stay a little longer, slowly slowly your mind is taken away... then there is nobody to be confused! Because the mind is confusion. It is not that the mind can be in a state of no-confusion, that is impossible; the mind itself is confusion. Unless the mind ceases, confusion continues. The mind is doubt. They are not separable; you cannot separate doubt from the mind, you cannot save the mind and drop doubt, that is not possible. They are the same thing, with different names only.

Hence, stay a little longer; give me a little more time so I can take the mind away, and with it, confusion, doubt, everything will disappear. Then you are just a Rajneesh freak! Just wait a little!

And even if you go you will have to come back, because I will haunt you! I don’t leave people easily.

[A sannyasin says: You say that if one can look at the problem and see the root of the problem, it disappears. How to look at the problem? I don’t understand.]

Have you done Vipassana here?...

Just continue Vipassana and within six months yoU will be able to see the problem and the root and yoU will also see it disappearing. Vipassana is the method.

Just continue Vipassana every day for at least one hour, and within six months there will be no problem, you will understand, because these are things which have to be experienced. Vipassana will cut the root.

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