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‌CHAPTER 24

27 March 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium

Anand means bliss, heinz means home – home of bliss; and that’s what you have to create in your being. Bliss is always ready to come in; it is just that we are not prepared to receive it, to welcome it, even to recognise it. We have forgotten all language that can recognise it. We immediately recognise misery. We are so accustomed to it, it is so familiar; we have lived in it for so many lives.

Bliss has become alien, unacquainted; it has to be re-introduced. Once you start learning the language of bliss, it is so close by that you are surprised at how long you have missed and for what; it was always within your grasp. It is not far away: we just have to make an opening for it. It goes on knocking on your door, but you are so full of the noise of your own mind that you cannot hear the still, small voice.

So learn the ways of being blissful. Don’t miss a single opportunity, and they are coming every moment. Miss as many opportunities as possible for being miserable, ignore misery, neglect misery. Don’t take any note of it, don’t befriend it. And whenever you see a ray of bliss. jump into it, merge into it. Slowly slowly the art is learned.

Deva means god, stephane means the crowned one – crowned by god. Everybody is born crowned by god, everybody is born as a king or a queen. Nobody is born as a beggar, but everybody becomes a beggar. We forget all about our kingdom, the kingdom of the within, and the moment we forget the within, in the without we are beggars. Then we can become even emperors, Alexanders, still the begging remains, because on the outside man has to live in desires. And it is desiring that creates begging, it is desire that makes a person a beggar. One can become the richest person in the world and still one remains a beggar. One goes on asking for more and more and more, and there is no end to it.

The king is one whose crazy desire for more has disappeared, who is utterly contented with whatsoever is.

CHAPTER 24.

One Indian mystic in the beginning of this century travelled in America; his name was Ramateertha. He used to call himself ‘Emperor Ram’, and people would laugh because he had nothing! They would ask again and again: Why do you call yourself an emperor? He would say: Because I am utterly contented, because I don’t need anything, because there is no desire left, and it is desire that makes one a beggar. It is contentment that makes one crowned.

We come as kings, we live as beggars; it is our decision to be beggars. It can be dropped, and sannyas has to be a dropping of it. It is a re-entry into your inner world where you are a king. It is becoming reborn. it is dropping that constant, neurotic desire for more. It is becoming utterly contented with the ordinary, with the available. with that which is.

Prem means love, and ‘christian’ is a very significant word. Ordinarily it means a christian but that is not the true meaning of it. Really it means one who has attained to Christ-consciousness. A Christian is a believer; he knows nothing. A man who has attained to Christ-consciousness knows; he believes nothing. The Christian is a follower; the man of Christ-consciousness has arrived, he is a light unto himself.

Christ-consciousness is the ultimate state of consciousness. In the East we call it Buddha- consciousness; it is the same. It has nothing to do with Jesus Christ as such. Buddha is a Christ and Krishna is a Christ and Lao Tzu is a Christ. Everybody is potentially a Christ and can actually become a Christ. Jesus is one of those who became one; who came to know himself, who became actualised, who was not contented to remain as a seed, who became a fruit. a flower, who bloomed, who came from the unmanifest state to the manifest state.

And the way to attain Christ-consciousness is the way of love. The more you love, the more you become Christlike; and when you it become love, you are a Christ.

[A sannyasin, leaving, says: I am really afraid to go back... I’m alone in the town... there are no sannyasins there.]

I will be with you, don’t be worried. None of my sannyasins is alone! That’s the whole point of being a sannyasin – that I will be with you. Even if you want to be alone, I will not leave you! Don’t be worried!

And soon a few sannyasins will start gathering around you. Just go there happily and people are going to gather around you, and a centre will arise soon. That’s how my centres arise: one sannyasin happens and then others start happening; it is a chain reaction!

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