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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been copy-typed on to the computer.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.]


Man has four planes.
One is the bodily plane.
Mm? -- that is the most superficial
The material plane, the objective plane.
Millions only live on this first plane
The gross. They don't know that they have
Other possibilities inside them
Other heights inside them
They are not aware at all.


The second plane is
That of the mind, of thoughts.
A few people move into the second plane.
They become great thinkers, philosophers
Idealists, scientists
They use the faculty of their mind
The live in the mind.


The third plane is that of the heart
The world of feelings.
Even less people move to that.
Those are the poets, the painters
The sculptors, the dancers, the musicians --
The people who live in a world of feelings
Of sensitivity, not of thoughts.


And beyond these three is the fourth,
The world of consciousness, pure consciousness
Only the mystics move into it.
And that is where the sannyasins have to go.
All the other three
Have to be slowly slowly left behind
So you can move to the fourth.


Turiyo means the fourth
It means pure consciousness, your very being,
Neither the body nor the mind nor the feeling
But simple being Your pure existence, your isness.
It is called the fourth for the simple reason
That it is not advisable to give it any name.
Hence 'the fourth's it is not a name
Just a number, to keep it unlimited and open
Because any name will become a limitation.
The fourth is only an indicator.
Go beyond the three which have names --
The physical, the mental, the emotional
They have names, they have their definitions
But the fourth has no definition.
It is indefinable
Hence it is called the fourth.
But that is the goal of the mystics
Of the sannyasins
That is the goal of Christ, Buddha
Krishna, Lao Tzu
And that is the goal here.


Gautam the Buddha was called well-gone
Because he would not be coming back again,
That  was his last life.
One becomes a well-gone
Only when one becomes enlightened
Then there is no more birth, death
No more the vicious circle of birth and death
The wheel of birth and death.
One has gone beyond, to the farther shore
Beyond the beyond.
One has disappeared into the universal
One need not be born in a body again.


People are born in a body again and again
Because they have desires.
It is because of desires
That they have to come into the body
Because those desires can be fulfilled
Only through the body.
Once all desires have been seen for
What they actually are
Once their meaninglessness is understood
One withdraws oneself from all desiring
One stops desiring.
Seeing the futility of desire, seeing that
It always brings pain and  anxiety and anguish
Seeing that desire is hell
One becomes free of desire
One simply lives with no desire for the future,
Neither in this world nor in the other.
Then one becomes a well-gone.
That is the ultimate category.


Remember it -- everybody has to become a well-gone.
If one puts one's total energy into meditation
It is bound to happen, it is inevitable.


Only a man of meditation lives in freedom.
Others pretend, others believe
But the belief does not correspond to reality.
Political freedom is not real freedom
Economic freedom is also not real freedom.
They are good -- I am not against them
But one should not be satisfied with them.
The real freedom is spiritual freedom
And spiritual freedom comes only through one way,
There is no alternative way to arrive at it,
And that is creating
More and more meditative energy in yourself
Becoming more silent, alert, watchful.


Ordinarily man lives like a machine.
The meditator has to learn
Not to live as a machine
He has to de-automatise himself
He has to become something more than a machine
Something more than a computer.
And that miracle can happen.
It has happened to a few people in the past
It can happen to many more people now
Because humanity has come of age.


If in the past there could be only
A few Buddhas and a few Christs
Now there can be many more. The time is ripe
For a great explosion of consciousness.
It has never been ripe, because life is evolving
And we are coming to a climax.
If we don't attain to a radical transformation
Then this same state of evolved humanity
Will become a strain on us.
Man is no more a child
And if he continues to wear the old clothes
Which were made for children
He is bound to be in difficulty.
He will remain unnecessarily crippled
For the simple reason that the clothes are small
And he has become big.


Christianity, Hinduism, Jainism, Mohammedanism
These are all clothes
Made for another state of humanity
When man was more childish.
Now they don't fit, they are utterly out of date
It is ridiculous to see Christians and Hindus
And Mohammedans -- absolutely ridiculous!
They are not contemporaries
They are living a thousand years back
And trying to fit themselves into clothes
Which are not meant for them.
They have grown huge, they have become adults
Those clothes were right for a certain time
Now they are not right at all.


But we have become so attached
To the old, to the traditional
We love antiques so much!
That anything old seems like gold.
Anything new we are suspicious of.
That's why people are suspicious of me
Because I am saying something new
Which has never been said in this way.


The time is right to change all clothes
The time is ripe to change the whole of man
A total overhauling is needed.
And that's what sannyas is all about.


One is strong really, only when one is not.
This is one of the paradoxes of life:
The ego is never strong.
It pretends to be strong but it is very weak.
It is bound to be weak because it is false.
It has no substance to it, it is only a shadow.
How can the shadow be strong?


Man cannot be strong on his own.
He will remain weak, he will remain poor.
He can be strong only if he disappears
And gives way to god.
If he allows god to descend in him
Then he is as strong as god himself.
Then a totally different quality of strength
Arises in you, which is yours in a way
Because it is coming through you
And yet it is not yours
Because it is coming from god.
You are just a vehicle, a medium.


A sannyasin has to become a medium for god.
He has to be utterly empty so there is no hindrance
To god's energy flowing through him.
He has to remove all the rocks
So that the stream of god's energy.
Can flow through him unhindered.
Then you are strong
But there is no claim of strength on your part
There is no bragging on your part
There is no pride on your part.
You have immense intelligence available
Great insight is yours, but you remain humble.
The more the strength flows through you
The more humble you become.
The more you become aware that god
Is penetrating you, the more grateful you feel.


Through meditation one dies as an ego
And allows god to live through one.
That's my whole work heres
To help you die as an ego.
That's the only way to know god
And that's the only way to be in communion
With the whole.
And the only way to be blissful, to be peaceful.


The courageous person always leaves the known
For the unknown, each moment.
And then his life goes on widening.
Goes on becoming vast as the ocean, as the sky.
And when there are no boundaries left
When you have not only left the known
But you have even gone beyond the unknown
Into the unknowable...
That is the last ultimate step of courage:
Taking the jump, the plunge into the unknowable
Knowing perfectly well that it cannot be known
That i is impossible to know it,
Nobody has ever known it
That its very nature is unknowable
That it is intrinsically unknowable
There is no way to reduce it to the known.


But first start learning
To move from the known towards the unknown
And your life will become a great excitement
A great joy, a great surprise,
Every moment there is something new happening.
And then take the ultimate risk one days
Love from the unknown to the unknowable.


The difference is that
The unknown will become known
And the unknowable will never become the known.
That unknowable is god.


But first learn to
Move from the known to the unknown.
That is learning to swim in shallow water.
And when you have learned swimming
Then go into the ocean with no fear
With absolute fearlessness
And then your life will know what ecstasy is.
With the unknown
You will know excitement
With the unknowable
You will come to know ecstasy.


One of the most essential qualities
For a sannyasin is to be anonymous, a nobody
To forget all desire for name and fame
To live ordinarily, naturally authentically, spontaneously
Not to bother about what others say
Not to be worried about other's opinions;
Their opinions carry no value at all.
They are all asleep, fast asleep.
In sleep they go on saying something
They don't know what they are saying.
They don't mean it either; it is all gibberish.
They are blind, they see nothing.
That is the value of their opinion?
But people hanker for name and fame
They hanker to convince blind people
That 'I am beautiful.'
They hanker to convince madmen
That 'I am a great creator.'


If you understand the situation
In which humanity is and has always been
You will not be bothered about all these things.
There is no need to put any effort into it.
Just live your life
As peacefully and silently as possible
As if you are non-existent.


To live anonymously, to live like a nobody
Is the exact definition of sannyas.
It is dropping the whole ego trip.
And all trips are ego trips -- remember it.
The moment you drop the ego trip
All trips are dropped you relax
You start resting in your being
And in that very rest great joy arises
Overflooding bliss arises
Life becomes a benediction, a sacred phenomenon.


Remember only one thing:
My idea of sannyas is very simple
It has nothing esoteric about it,
It is very scientific
Nothing is hidden in it,
Everything is an open secret.
There is no ritual
But a simple process of meditation --
That is its foundation.


Not even prayer is needed, just meditation.
Prayer is not scientific
And can never be scientific.
But meditation is utterly scientific.
Just as the scientist
Watches, observes the objective phenomenon
The meditator watches the psychological phenomenon.
It is the same process: a detached watching
Unprejudiced observation, with no conclusions,
Because if you have a conclusion already
Then there is no point in watching.
Then you will manage to prove your conclusion
Then the whole process is unscientific.


The essential core of science is that
It depends not on prejudices but on experiments
Experience, on facts, observed facts.
Hence a person who is trained scientifically
Can very easily understand meditation.
It has no superstition about it
It is as simple as two plus two is four.
The only difference between science and religion
Is that science is concerned with the objective
With that which is outside. There.
And religion is concerned with who observes
With that which is inner, the subjective.


The same process of observation
Has to be turned towards your own mind.
One becomes oneself a lab, a great experiment
Of observation: one watches one's thoughts
Desires, memories, anger, greed, lust
With no a priori conclusion, with no judgement:
This is good, this is bad,.. non-judgmental
Then a miracle happens.
When you are absolutely non-judgmental,
With no prejudice, no conclusion,
When your observation is pure, simple, innocent,
That which you observe starts disappearing.


That's where science and religion
Start differing:
The more you observe in science
The more real the fact becomes.
It was not so real before observation.
You may have missed it
But now you cannot miss it, it is there.
It becomes more solid.


When you watch your mind this is the difference:
If you watch your anger it starts evaporating
It cannot exist.
Slowly slowly the whole mind ceases to be.
When there is no mind left to watch,
The watcher turns upon itself.
That is the moment of realisation
Self-realisation, samadhi.
That if the ultimate goal
Of all mystical approaches.


To know oneself is to know all.
And that is the only thing that I emphasise:
No belief, no dogma, no creed
No church, no religion.
By a simple process of inner observation
You come to realise yourself.
And the moment you know who you are
Immediately you know the essential core
Of the whole existence, of life itself
Because you are part of it.


If we can understand a single drop of water
We have understood all the water
That exists anywhere.
And each man is a dewdrop of god
If we can understand one man
And the easiest and the closest
Is your own existence.
Once the mystery is understood
Once the door is open
You know now that you are just a dewdrop
Of the same ultimate reality
That pervades the whole existence.
Then there is no death, no fear, no greed, no lust.
One lives in absolute freedom
Bliss and benediction.


So make it a point that now meditation
Has to be your constant work upon yourself.



			

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