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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been copy-typed on to the computer. It is for reference purposes only.)


God is only for the lions
He is not for the crowd, for the sheep.
He is only for the courageous ones
Not for the cowards.
Cowards cannot know god; they can believe in god
But their belief is also because of fear.
That too is part of their cowardice.


Courage is needed to love, courage is needed
To change yourself so that you can love.
Courage is needed to accept your responsibility
Courage is needed to drop all that is rotten,
And almost ninety-nine per cent is rotten.
The coward clings to it, he protects it
He feels secure with it.


Only the courageous have enough guts
To drop all that is rubbish
To drop all that is rotten, to slip out of it
To risk all for the unknown.
To risk the known for the unknown --
That's exactly what courage is.


Each sannyasin has to be a lion of god.


The ultimate goal of all meditation is
To hear the unhearable, to see the unseeable
To touch the untouchable
To experience the unexperiencable.


The ultimate experience of life is a paradox.
It is the sound of silence.
Now, logically that is absurd: either something
Can be sound or it can be silence --
It can't be both together.
But those who have known all agree about it
That it is the sound of silence
It is the sound of one hand clapping.
All those who have known agree about
The paradoxical nature of the ultimate reality
Because it contains the polar opposites.
It is night and day simultaneously
It is life and death together.


Logic divides, experience unites.
Logic creates opposites
Experience makes you aware that
There are no opposites at all, not at all.
All opposites are just complementaries.


Bliss is really the search of everyone
Not only of human beings
But of animals, of trees, of rivers, of stars.
Knowingly or unknowingly
Everybody is groping for bliss.
A sannyasin is one
Who makes it a conscious, deliberate search.
And only those few people have arrived
Who have made it a conscious search.
Unconsciously you can seek bliss
But you will find misery.
It is only through a conscious search that
One can avoid misery and can attain to bliss.
Become a conscious seeker of bliss.


Let meditation be your nest, your home
Your refuge, your shelter
Because without meditation
One simply gropes in darkness
One goes on stumbling, one goes on falling
In the same ditches again and again.
Without meditation one is blind.


It is meditation that gives you eyes
Inner eyes to see, and a clarity.
It creates a perspective, the right perspective
In which things can be seen as they are.
You are no more clouded
The sky is clear, unclouded.
The sun is bright. You are full of light.


Without meditation you live in thoughts
Without meditation you make your home in the mind
There is no other place.
These are the only two alternatives available:
Mind or meditation.
Either make your nest in the mind
Or make your nest in the meditation.


If you make your nest in the mind
As millions have chosen -- because it is cheap
It is easy, it is not arduous, it is downhill...
But then you will miss something
That can give your life meaning, significance
Grandeur, splendour: you will miss godliness.
You will simply drag from one event to another.
Your life will be such boredom,
A tiring phenomenon.
Nothing will ever happen to you
Which can make you ecstatic.
You will live at the minimum, a very lukewarm life.
One can say only that you will not be dead
You will just be living somehow, managing somehow
But there cannot be any rejoicing.


Make meditation your nest, your home:
Move from mind to meditation.
Mind is the process of thought
Meditation is awareness, simple awareness.
Just be aware of your mind
And the process of thoughts
And slowly slowly
You will move away from the mind
And you will enter into a new world of no-mind.
That is meditation.


The day you enter meditation
You have entered the temple of god.


Meditation creates ecstasy in you
Such joy that you cannot contain it.
It starts overflowing.
It is so much that you disappear in it.
You are no more -- there is only joy.
That is rapture.
The ego drowns in the rapture
And is never found again:
It dissolves, disappears, evaporates.
You are left with only a deep joy in the heart
A joy which is not of time
A joy which is not of this earth
A joy which belongs to the beyond
To the farther shore.
And only out of that joy, that rapture
That ecstasy, does reverence arise:
Reverence for existence.


In religious terms
You can call it reverence for god.
Reverence is far more important than god itself.
Without reverence there is no god
If there is reverence, god is bound to happen
It is inevitable.


So my effort here is to create reverence in you.
If reverence arises in your heart, god is:
Suddenly you start feeling his presence.
Everywhere, all around, within and without.
In the moment of reverence the whole existence
Is transformed into godliness.
Then trees are divine and rocks are divine.
Wherever you look with a heart full of reverence
You can only find god and nothing else.
Without reverence
Everything is there except god.
With reverence
Only god is there and nothing else.


The nectar which makes you immortal
Is meditation, it is nothing chemical.
It is your inner awareness.
Once you become awake, you know you are immortal.
It does not make you immortal in reality,
You are immortal;
It simply reveals the fact to you.
It makes you aware of it.
It is a revelation, it is a discovery
Of something that has always been there.
But people are profoundly asleep.
They know not who they are
They know not what they are doing.
They go on doing something or other
Just to keep themselves engaged.


By becoming a sannyasin you have to learn
The art of being UNengaged, of being unoccupied
Of remaining alone.
Whenever you can find time
Don't waste it in unnecessary  occupations.
Don't kill time,
It is the most precious thing in life.
Once gone, it gone forever.
There is no way to recapture it.


Whenever
You can find time to be alone, to be silent
Be silent, be alone.
Dive deep within yourself
Because it is by knowing yourself
That you will know you are beyond time
You are eternal, you are deathless.
Knowing it, one becomes free of all fear
And to be free af fear is freedom.


Abraham is one of the most important names
In the history of human consciousness.


The mythology is that god chose Abraham
To be the father of a new race of man.
It is as if with Abraham humanity reached
A new height, a new peak: Abraham became
The end of the old and the beginning of the new.
That has to be remembered.


Each sannyasin in a certain sense IS Abraham:
He has to end the old and begin the new.
He has to move into the unknown
Into a new dimension
Into something which has no map, no measure
Into something which is not conceivable
To the mind.
Each sannyasin has to herald a new consciousness.
And particularly
At this moment in the history of man
Something tremendously radical is needed.


The whole humanity is rotten
It has lived its course, it is finished.
There is no hope for it, it has to die.
The hope lies in something new.
Before the old dies, the new has to be born.


And that's my whole effort here:
To create as many Abrahams as possible.
They will release humanity from the bondage
Of the old, the traditional, the conventional.
They will free humanity
From all kinds of beliefs and ideologies.


Man needs a new impetus to live
A new meaning to live for
A new poetry to resound in his being
And a new dance and a new celebration.



			

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