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booktitle: "Nirvana now or never"
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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been copy-typed. It is for reference purposes only.]


Ma Anand Satyo. Anand means bliss, Satyo means the ultimate truth.


The whole life in all its forms is searching for bliss -- the trees, the birds, the animals. It is not only man who is longing for bliss, it is the longing of life itself.


Life becomes fulfilled only when the flower of bliss opens; hence in the East we have called it the one-thousand petalled lotus. In the lake of life the lotus of bliss. It is everybody's birthright because it is everybody's potential. Hence nobody has more of it or less of it. The potential is equal. In that sense existence is very communistic.


But very few people attain to their ultimate potential, very few people reach to those heights. That's why there is so much difference. You will see miserable people, almost living in hell, and you will also find people like Buddha, Christ, Krishna, almost living with the same people who are living in hell, they are living in heaven. hell and heaven are not geographical.


If your potential remains potential you are in hell; if your potential becomes actual you are in heaven. Or better will be to say, you are heaven, you are paradise.
How long will you be here? How long you will be staying?
(I don't know)
Let it be forever! Less than that is miserly. Good.

Ma Anand Sudhir. Anand means bliss, Sudhir means patience.


The bliss is possible only to those who are patient enough to wait for the seed to disappear in the soil for the sprouts to come, for the bush to grow, for the buds to appear, and for the season, the right climate when buds will open and the hidden perfume will be released.


Life is not a seasonal flower, remember. So those who are in a hurry they miss it. Those who are patient, absolutely patient, they cannot miss it. The more you are in a hurry, the less is the possibility of your ever reaching to the goal. If you are not in a hurry at all, if you are ready to wait for infinity, then it can happen even right now. This paradox has to be understood.
Patience is the door, impatience is a barrier.
How long you will be here?
(Two weeks)


That is what I have been telling to you. It is too much hurry. Then come back again for a longer period. Next time be patient. Good.

Swami anand Dhyanam. Anand means bliss, Dhyanam means meditation.


Bliss is possible to everyone but a basic requirement has to be fulfilled and that requirement is meditation. Meditation means awareness, watchfulness, alertness. One should not live life as if one is asleep; one should live life a little more awake. Just a little effort and slowly slowly, chunk by chunk, the sleepiness disappears. And as the sleepiness disappears you are surprised: life becomes more and more a benediction, a blessing; a bliss, more light, more love, more celebration. But without fulfilling the basic condition nobody has ever attained bliss.


Everybody tries to attain it, but very few people try to fulfil the basic condition; hence the immense failure in the world and tremendous misery everywhere.


People are trying to reach to higher planes without a ladder. It is not possible. You can jump and for a moment you can think that you are reaching but next moment you will fall down flat on the ground and meanwhile you may have broken few bones too.


And as time passes people stop even jumping; seeing that every time they fall back and they fall back in a far more miserable condition than before, they stop they drop the whole project. Their frustration is such, their hopelessness is such, that they start thinking there is no bliss possible, no meaning, no significance.


That's what Jean-Paul Sartre says 'Life has no meaning, no significance.' Now this is the tone of the whole modern philosophy. It is not few people who are saying it. Few people are only mouthpieces. This is the whole century's experience. And not only this century is involved. This century contains all the past, all the centuries that have preceded before.


It is a very critical moment in the history of life. Either we will settle for this hopelessness -- then only suicide is the way -- or we will try to find out another way of reaching to higher planes. Not just by jumping but by creating the ladder. I call that ladder meditation.

Ma Anand Tira. anand means bliss. *Tira means an arrow.


The state of bliss is attained by only those who move straight like an arrow, who don't go zigzag.


Jesus says 'The bridge to the kingdom of god, the way to the kingdom of god is very narrow but straight.' Another great mystic of the same calibre as Jesus, Kabir, says that 'The path is straight and so narrow that it cannot contain two; it can only contain one.' so if I and thou are there you cannot pass through it; you have to drop the duality.


One has to become single-minded, totally committed, utterly involved, then life has intensity like an arrow, arrows shooting from a bow. it flies, goes direct, hits the target.


Very few people live a life of intensity, totality, commitment. They are just accidental. They go on moving anywhere for no reason in particular, victims of chance. Their life is only coincidental, victims of the winds, of the waves -- they are just driftwood.


A sannyasin has not to be driftwood. he has to be an arrow. And the beauty is that you can make an arrow out of driftwood.

Ma Anand Amit. anand means bliss, Amit means unique.


The experience of bliss is always unique, incomparable. You have never known anything like it before and you will never know anything like it again, because bliss happens once and then remains forever; hence there is no question of repetition. It becomes your constant inner climate, it is always there. In fact right now it is there, just you are not aware.


The difference between a Buddha and a sleepy person is not much -- just a little difference, a small curtain of sleepiness shrouds the vision of the ordinary person. Buddha simply throws that small shroud, that curtain, comes out of that sleep, start seeing things as they are without any preconceptions, without any expectations, desires, and immediately there is bliss.


Remember the word 'immediately'; not even a single moment one has to wait if one is clear. If one is not clear one may have to wait for thousands of lives. We have already waited!


And it is not going to happen on its own. If it was going to happen on its own it would have happened already long before. You have to do something, something is needed from your side.


A chinese saying is 'You take one step towards god and he takes one thousand steps towards you,' but you have to initiate the process.


Because of this fact the Sufi mystics have called god the beloved, saki. They have called god the woman, not the man, for this reason because god never takes initiative; hence he is just like a woman. The woman never comes to you and tell you 'I love you'; she waits. You have to take the initiative, the man has to take the initiative. He has to run after the woman and write love letters and bring roses and she will simply wait. In fact when you propose she will say 'No, no.' You have to understand 'Yes, yes.' -- That is another matter -- but she will say no. And you have to show intelligence to understand that the no is not no. The way it is said has to be figured out.


If you simply are a scholar and you think she is saying no 'So let us go home,' then your life is finished! You have to be persistent. Sooner or later she will say 'This is the last time I am saying no to you.' then you can be happy, then you can rejoice, but you have to see the gesture behind the no. The gesture is always yes.


A man was talking to one of his friends. he was very sad, in deep despair. The friend 'What is the matter with you?' asked him. He said 'The woman I love has said what I never wanted to hear.' The man, the friend consoled him. He said 'You are a fool. The woman always says no and you have to understand that no does not mean no.' And the man said 'I know it -- no does not mean no -- but she didn't say no. she said 'Phew!' Now what to understand?'


But god never says that, that 'Phew!' That much I can say to you. Up to now he has never said -- unless you are very exceptional and he says 'Phew!' He may say no but you go on understanding yes, Sufis are right: you take one step, the first step, the initiative has to be from your side, and then god comes running.


But if you are not taking that first step then nothing happens in life. It remains empty canvas which could have been a beautiful painting.
How long you will be here?
(I don't know)
THAT'S good! Good.

Swami anand Divyam. Anand means bliss, Divyam means divine.


The most divine phenomenon in the world is the experience of bliss. Everything else falls short, everything is a little lower than it. In fact we desire other things only as means towards bliss. Even wrong things are desired but the goal is always right. People desire money thinking that it will bring bliss in their life; they desire power, they want to conquer the whole world, dreaming that it will bring bliss. it is another matter that what they are doing has no connection with bliss and it is not going to happen, but their end was always right. As far as the end is concerned the saints and the sinners are similar.


Alexanders and Buddhas are similar but the means are different. Buddhas used the right means and Alexanders used the wrong means, and the whole thing depends on the means.


One of the most significant words Buddha continuously used was the word 'right'. Whenever he will say anything he will always use that word 'right'. If he will, he will say awareness he will not simply say awareness; he will say right-awareness, if he will say compassion he will say right-compassion, because everything can go wrong, so he has to be reminded about the right, continuously he has to be hammered. It is only a question of right means, the end is always the same, so one can forget about the end. The end is bliss.


Bliss is divine, another name for god, a better name than god, because god can be denied by the communists, by the atheists, by the materialists, by the scientists, but bliss cannot be denied by anybody. Nobody can deny it. It is a, a far greater god and its vastness is such that it can be comprehensive of all kinds of people. It is not limited to a particular kind or to a particular category but the means have to be very rightly understood.


The first thing that Buddha calls is right-remembrance; that is his word for right-meditation. Meditation can be wrong, one can use a process of auto-hypnosis, thinking that it is Meditation. That is what transcendental meditation is: just a process of auto-hypnosis. Repeating a certain mantra continuously you become hypnotised. It functions like alcohol, opium, and other drugs. Of course if one has to choose between drugs, TM is a better drug than any other drug, but why choose between drugs. It is not meditation at all.


Meditation means not a repetitive mantra but a constant awareness, a remembrance 'Who am I?' 'I am not the body -- if you can remember this, that is meditation. If you can remember 'I am not the mind,' that is meditation. If you can remember 'I am not the feeling and the moods.' that is meditation. This three-dimensional meditation is the right way to reach to the ultimate goal of bliss. And the moment you have found bliss you have found the kingdom of god.

Anand means bliss. Shunya means zeroness, to be absolutely spacious.


Bliss is vast. It needs your whole inner being to be absolutely empty, only then it can enter. You have to remove the whole furniture -- and there is much furniture inside, all rotten; it is sheer junk but people go on accumulating it. People are so greedy, they never throw anything away, hoping that sometimes maybe it can be used again, that in a certain situation it may be needed, so they go on accumulating.


They use their inner being like a basement where they go on throwing all kinds of rubbish. It becomes piled up. There is so much there that even if you  want to enter inside you will not find space enough to move, what to say about bliss?


Bliss needs a totally empty temple of your being. Less than that won't do. When your inner world is utterly empty -- empty of thoughts, empty of dreams, empty of knowledge, empty of scriptures, empty of all that you have learned before, just empty -- then it has a purity, a deep innocence, a virginity. It is just like the sky, vast and infinite, unlimited, unbounded. Only then in that unboundedness, unlimitedness, bliss descends. It comes from the above. We need to be on the receptive end; we have to be just open to the beyond. As you are open to the beyond, the beyond starts falling like flowers, showering like flowers, and then it goes on showering. It begins, but it never ends.


The process of emptying yourself is meditation. It is simply a process of throwing things away -- the unnecessary, the non-essential -- so that the essential can have space. When you make a garden -- first you have to uproot the weeds, remove the rocks and the stones from the soil, you have to prepare -- and that's what is meant by zero; preparation, a readiness, receptivity.


The zero represents the inner womb, and when the inner womb is ready, the unknown is born into you, bliss is born into you. It comes inevitably, it is the ultimate law.


Buddha says "Es dhammo sanantano," -- this is the law and there are no exceptions to the law.
Just be a zero and you will be full, overfull with bliss.
			

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