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booktitle: "Scriptures in Silence and  Sermons in Stones"
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dategiven: "22 December 1979 pm"
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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been scanned and cleaned up. It is for reference purposes only.]


Man is born as a seed. The fragrance is there, but hidden, unmanifest. The seed has to grow, the seed has to become a tree, the seed has to wait for the spring. And then suddenly one day, the fragrance is released, it becomes manifest.


To be a disciple means that you are falling as a seed into the soil of the master, you are dissolving yourself in the soil. To be a disciple requires such trust that one is ready to die. The seed has to die before it can start growing into a tree. So the first need is trust.


The second need is to continuously grow in every possible way. People remain stuck, they go only so far and they think that this is the end, there is no more to life. In fact there is no ends life is an eternal pilgrimage. The deeper you go into it, more and more mysteries will be encountered. The more you know, the more you will be wonderstruck; much more has to be known. It is a non-ending process.


So the second thing to remember is: go on growing. Grow in love, grow in bliss, grow in meditation. Grow in all possible ways -- in sensitivity, in awareness, in creativity.


And the third thing is to wait. Impatience is a hindrance. Make every effort to grow but wait for the right time, because nothing happens before the right time and one never knows when the right time comes. Wait for the spring, because flowers cannot be forced to come out of the trees; they come when they come. We have to learn patience.


If these three thing are fulfilled, the day when your fragrance will be released is not far away.


Let this sink deep into the heart, this is very fundamental to sannyas: once we start feeling that god cares for us, anxieties disappear, anguish dies of its own accord. The deeper we feel god's love, the more and more open we become. It is fear that makes us closed and it is love that makes us open. God's love means that the whole existence loves you: the sun, the moon, the stars, the trees, the people. From all directions love is being showered upon you.


Start seeing it, feeling it. When the sunrays fall on your face, remember it. When the lake reflects your face, remember it. When the fragrance of the flowers reaches you, remember it. Remember it as many times as possible in as many situations as possible so that slowly slowly it becomes a constant phenomenon, an undercurrent. It will give you roots in god. It will make you rooted, centred, and it will help you to dissolve the mind with all its problems, easily, with no effort.

Entering onto the path is a divine decision. It is not yours, it is god's.


There is an ancient saying: Before a man decides to seek god, god has already decided to seek him. Without his decision, our decisions are impotent. It is only when he decides, that our decisions have power, power enough to become fulfilled. When we decide it is always wavering, it is always divided. Our decision is at the most a majority decision, a parliamentary decision. But that which is in the minority may become the majority tomorrow, and that which is in the majority today may not be in the majority tomorrow. So our decisions are not reliable, they are not total.


But when god decides, in our innermost core the decision is total, the commitment is total, the involvement is irrevocable; you cannot go back. The decision is bigger than you. It possesses you, you become overwhelmed by it. And then only is true discipleship born. Without god deciding for us, our decisions are not of much value.


Remember it, that this is god's decision on your behalf, that you are simply a medium, a vehicle for his decision to be fulfilled in life. Then things will start happening with such intensity, depth, and speed, that one remains constantly in surprise at what is happening and why it is happening -- because we don't feel ourselves worthy enough and yet is happening.


Blissful effort is needed for growth. Ordinary effort won't do, it has to be blissful. The moment your effort is blissful it is almost effortless. It is effortless effort when it is blissful; when it is not blissful it is a strain. And one can enter into the world of god only in a deep, restful mood. Hence a paradox has to be fulfilled by the seeker: he has to make efforts, certainly, he has to be industrious -- there is no question about it -- but his effort has to be a very special kind of effort. It has to be effortless, there should be no strain in it, there should be no tension in it. It should be more like play than like work.


One should enjoy it, one should not do it like a duty. One should make it a joy unto itself, as if one is not concerned about the result at all. The result comes -- it comes whenever we are ripe -- so there is no need to think about it. It comes of its own accord. Existence is very fair and very just; it gives you that which you deserve. There is not even a single moment's delay. If you don't deserve it, of course, it doesn't happen. You can go on making as much effort as you can: it won't happen.


And right effort is effort which is not an effort, but joy, play, love, bliss. Then miracles start happening. We are entitled to miracles but we never fulfill the basic condition. This is the basic condition. Then miracles are as ordinary as everything else.


Sannyas is a summons: it is god calling you... And it is good that you have heard it!


People are very deaf and very blind; although they appear to have ears and eyes they don't listen, they don't hear. And god goes on calling. To hear him means a radical change in life; then you can't live the old way. Then all priorities changes that which was important before becomes very unimportant, and that which was never important before becomes very important, that which was life before is no longer life, And that which was not even in your dreams becomes your very existence.


Sannyas is a call of god. And everybody is being called! The Sufis say that if one hundred people are called, only ten hear; ninety never hear. And out of the ten only one acts, responds; nine never respond. That's why there are so few people whose existence can become a proof for god, so few people who are full of the light and the perfume of the beyond.


I want all of my sannyasins to be proofs of god -- not arguments for god but existential proofs for god.


All beauty is basically rooted in truth. Without truth, beauty is false. Unless it is part of truth it is only a dream, a fantasy, a projection.


The poet lives in dreams. His vision of beauty is not that of truth. He creates his beauty, he is inventive. The seer does not create truth. Truth cannot be created, you can only discover it -- it is already there. But the moment you discover truth great beauty explodes both within and without. The experience of truth makes you beautiful and it also transforms the whole experience into great splendour.


That is the difference between the poet and the seer: the poet dreams of beauty, the seer sees it. The poet remains far, far away; he talks about beauty but it is only about beauty. The seer talks beauty; it is not about beauty. He talks the truth. And truth is necessarily beautiful and it is necessarily good.


Meditation is a way to discover the truth. Then beauty is discovered automatically. It follows truth like a shadow.


Existence can be lived in two ways: as prose or as poetry. These are the two possible approaches. You can live it as logic; then it is prose; or you can live it as love, then it is poetry. You can live it as mathematics, then it is prose; you can live it as magic, then it is poetry. And only if one lives life as poetry can one discover god.


On the way of mathematics, logic, calculation, there is no god; and without god there is no meaning, no significance. Life becomes a burden. One lives because one has to live, one lives because it doesn't feel right to commit suicide. One lives because one cannot gather courage to commit suicide.


One drags, one does not really live. One slowly dies, because without poetry you can't have any thrill in your heart, you can't have any adventures. All is mundane, nothing is sacred. Temples disappear from your life... there are only shopping centres. Calculation is left, a bank balance is left, power and prestige, but something in the deepest core of your being remains unfulfilled, empty, life a wound which goes on becoming bigger and bigger every day. One wants to drown it in occupation, in constant worrying, in alcohol, in sex. One wants to drown the very memory of something missing. But you cannot drown it. It goes on knocking on your doors, it goes on haunting you. It is something so essential that it has to be fulfilled.


Carl Gustav Jung used to say, "In my whole life's practice I have observed that the patients who came to me after their fortieth year were not really in any need of psychological treatment. They needed some sort of religion, they needed some sort of meaning in their life." But psychology cannot provide meaning. It can provide a certain adjustment to the society, but the society itself is neurotic, so to be adjusted to it is to be neurotic -- normally neurotic. Psychology can help you to accept the drudgery of life, the routine, the dullness, but it cannot help you to transform it.


And Jung is right: his insight is right. In Eastern scriptures, forty-two is exactly the year when the need for religion arises. Just as at the age of fourteen the need for sex arises, at the age of forty-two the need for religion arises. And if it is not fulfilled one feels uprooted. It can only be fulfilled by religion... but religion is poetry, it is music, it is song, it is dance.


There is no need to argue for it. You don't argue for music: either you like it or you don't like it. Nobody can prove the beauty of music to anybody else. Either you like a rose flower or you don't like it; either it appears beautiful to you or it doesn't appear beautiful to you. And it is there that the matter ends. If it does not appear beautiful to you a rose flower loses nothing, but you are losing some great opportunity to be in communion with nature, with god.


So let poetry be your path -- and in poetry everything is included: music, dance, song, love. All that is illogical is included. All that is crazy is included and all that is sane is excluded. I teach people how to be blissfully mad!


Ordinarily man is a slave, a slave of his own unconscious instincts, a slave of his own biology, a slave of his own mind: it is a multi-dimensional slavery. The whole slavery has to be destroyed from the very roots, only then will your consciousness arise in all its beauty and glory, in all its light and fragrance. And the way discovered by all the awakened ones is meditation.


Be watchful, because by being watchful the territory of he unconscious is reduced every day. The more conscious you become, the less territory of your being is unconscious. One day, when you are one hundred per cent conscious, the unconscious disappears. And with that disappearance the slavery disappears, the biological, the physiological, the psychological -- all kinds of slavery exist in the unconscious. So by cutting the unconscious we cut the very root. And the key to self-mastery is meditation.
			

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