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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been scanned and cleaned up.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.]


[Osho gave a very special interpretation of the word 'anand', bliss, tonight. Not only does it mean bliss, it means bliss that is not dependent on any cause. In fact that is the nature of true bliss -- joy for no reason at all. If your joy is triggered off by something external to you it creates a subtle bondage, Osho pointed out to Gianpiero, an architect from Italy.]


The very spirit of man is against dependence; it longs for freedom. And the greatest freedom is freedom from motive .


So simply rejoice for no reason, for no motive -- joy for joy's sake. That's exactly the meaning of anand. That has to be the meaning of my sannyasin's lives.


Your name, Gianpiero, s tremendously meaningful. The first part comes from Hebrew, John; John means god's gracious gift The second part comes from Peter. It is from the Greek; it means strong in spirit. And between these two is the third, most significant meaning. Because John was one of the most beloved disciples of Jesus the third meaning is the beloved disciple.


One can only be a disciple if one starts feeling all the gifts of god. Disciplehood begins in gratitude and it ends in the birth of a strong spirit, of an integrated soul.


If one can rejoice for no reason at all then many more gifts will be coming of their own accord because god loves those who are cheerful, who are always in a spirit of dance.


In almost all the mythologies of the world the angels in heaven do nothing ,! but dance and sing with their harps. So that is all that goes on in heaven -- dance and song. If you start rejoicing something of heaven starts penetrating you. Soon you will hear the harp of the angels, soon you will hear the inner music. And with that hearing one begins the journey. Then the direction of that music becomes your direction; then you start moving towards the source of that music. That's how one reaches god.
All that is needed is a blissful heart.

[And a blissful heart is a prayerful heart, Osho went on to say.]


The sad person is incapable of praying. He can complain but he cannot pray. From where will he find prayer? Prayer means gratitude. For what will he feel gratitude? -- he is so sad. He can pray for something but to pray for something is to miss the whole point. Prayer has to be desireless.


Prayer is not asking for something, for some favour; prayer is just to give thanks for all the favours that have already come your way, for all the blessings that have been showered on you. Prayer is just bowing down to existence in deep gratitude, gratefulness. There is no need even to say thank you, because words cannot contain that gratitude. All words are so mundane.


In fact, in the East, particularly in India, no child can say thank you to his mother, or thank you to his father. To the western mind it looks a little unmannerly; the children should be taught to say thank you. But in India it would be very unmannerly for the child to say thank you to the mother because the gratitude is so much and the word is so mundane. is there, that gratitude is there, but unexpressed.


When love is really great you cannot even say I love you, because in that very saying you will feel you have profaned something sacred; you have brought something heavenly into the muddy world of words, the clumsy world of words. You will feel a certain sense of doing a basic wrong. One can only be silent. Whenever there are things bigger than words, greater than words, higher than words, one can only be silent.


Ludwig Wittgenstein is right when he says "That which cannot be said should not be said." is one of the most intelligent persons of this age.


Yes there are things which cannot be said and should not be said. Prayer is one of those things. But your blissfulness will show it; there is no need to say anything.


One who is surrendered to god need not say anything, the very surrender will transform his life. All that is needed on the part of the seeker is to drop the ego because ego is the only cause of all our misery and sadness.


Ego is the only wall between us and god. And it is not made of very substantial bricks either; it is just an idea, just hot air. Just a pinprick and the balloon can burst. It does not need much work; it only needs intelligence, a little understanding, and seeing the whole stupidity of it one can put aside the ego -- because it has never brought you anything except hell.


Just watch and see what the ego brings misery and misery and misery... Then simply stop going on ego trips, drop the whole game, root and all, and immediately one is surrendered and great joy arises.


It is not that one is joyous, but one is joy. And that is the ultimate goal of sannyas, not just to be joyous but to be joy itself.


[Then Osho told the third sannyasin that her way too, was via the bridge of bliss.]


Life has many divine aspects: love, meditation, bliss, freedom and many more. But bliss is the most important of all for the simple reason that if you can enter the world of bliss -- which is easier than entering the world of love because love needs the other, and if you cannot manage it alone it will be more difficult to manage it with somebody else. Where there are two persons there are not only two persons -- it is already a crowd, because each person brings his own crowd, his own problems, his own ego. If one cannot be blissful alone one cannot be blissful together with someone else. So love is a little more complex than bliss.


Bliss is more simple, obviously, because in bliss only you are involved, alone; in love the other party is there. And the two wheels of the cart don't always fit, there is no necessity that they do. In fact sometimes it happens that one wheel is of a cart, another is of a motorbike. And wheels are wheels: the cart wheel falls in love with a motorbike and wants to (laughter) ... and then the whole journey is always on the rocks. It is as if the boat is being dragged from one rock to another rock. The boat is never launched, it cannot be launched.


It is very rare to find two persons who fit with each other; something remains conflicting. Hence love is more difficult way to enter, it is a more complex phenomenon. One can enter into god from love, but why unnecessarily choose the hard way?


Truth is even more difficult because it is more abstract. When the word "truth" is heard no bell rings in your heart. But when you hear the word "bliss" many bells start ringing in your heart. Even with the words "rejoice", "joy", the heart starts feeling something. It is more natural, more spontaneous to human beings to seek bliss rather than truth; truth is so abstract.


Maybe once in a while a person is really interested in truth. My own experience is that the people who are interested in truth are interested only because for thousands of years it has been said that if you attain truth you will attain bliss Their real interest is bliss, not truth.


Just think: if it was said for thousands of years that if you attain to truth you will be miserable, then I don't think there would be anybody who would try to attain to truth. Maybe, once in a while a crazy person, just trying to do the outlandish...


Bliss is a natural longing. Truth may be a longing in a few people of philosophical bent, otherwise it is a far-away thing.


My suggestion to my sannyasins is that when it is possible to enter from the natural, the spontaneous, from that for which a longing already exists, it is better. So let bliss be your door. It leads to the divine, all doors lead to the divine. They all lead to the same experience, the only question is from which door to enter. And remember, doors are not important; what is important is the experience that happens when you have entered. And the temple of god has many doors because there are many kinds of people in the world. And each person needs a door that fits his nature.


There are people who are interested in freedom. If they are interested in freedom they cannot enter from the door of love because love immediately brings a kind of bondage. The person who is in love with freedom cannot be in love with love because then he will have to compromise.


For you my suggestion is to choose the door of bliss. Although it is the most easy very few people have ever managed to enter it for the simple reason that they cannot drop their habit of being miserable.


People cling to misery as if that is the very kingdom of god. My own experience of working with thousands of people is that people cling to misery as they cling to nothing else. They will not cling to money, they will not cling to power, they will not even cling to their very life, but to the very last they will cling to all kinds of habits which bring misery and nothing else. Somehow they can't see the relationship between their clinging to misery and the existence of misery.


Your very clinging helps the misery to exist; the moment you uncling the misery disappears. There must be some deep investment for people to cling to misery. Many things are there. One is that through misery they have been able to dominate people. When you are miserable you become powerful in a certain way.


The miserable wife reduces the husband to a henpecked husband because the husband, seeing the whole nonsense, starts compromising. In living with a miserable woman it is better to compromise and listen to her and follow her. And the woman is learning one lesson, a great lesson, to cling to the misery, that is your very source of power.


Misery brings sympathy and people are in so much need of being loved that they forget sympathy is not love. They think something is better than nothing. It looks at least a little bit like love, a little bit like caring -- the other cares for you. They are ready to be miserable if people care and sympathise with them.


And this world is a very strange worlds if you are blissful nobody will sympathise with you; in fact everybody will be antagonistic to you, jealous of you. You will start turning people into enemies for the simple reason that you are blissful -- they cannot tolerate it. But if you are miserable they are perfectly happy with you because they also can show their sympathy. And you are lower than them; the person who sympathises is higher and the person who gets the sympathy is lower. They enjoy sympathising, you enjoy being sympathised with, and misery persists.


And then slowly slowly habits become deep-rooted and uprooting them is like dying; it is as if your whole identity disappears. Hence the door of bliss is the easiest door yet very few people have entered from that door. They will avoid it.


I always feel both things together whenever I see a miserable persons I feel compassion for the person and I also feel that the person is a little ridiculous. I want to laugh at the person because he is clinging to the misery. I feel sorry that he is miserable but I don't feel like sympathising because that's how his misery has been strengthened.


So watch how you go on helping anything that creates misery. Withdraw all your energies from misery and the same energies will start flowering into many many roses of bliss. And once you know the secret art of bliss you know the very secret that transforms life, you know the key to the world of miracles.


But meditation is the bridge for Brigitte, Osho said to the student from Germany who followed next.


Meditation is the bridge between earth and heaven, between the human and the divine. Mind is a wall that divides you from the whole and meditation is a bridge that connects you; hence meditation simply means a state of no-mind, what Dionysius calls agnosia -- a state of not-knowing.


Mind means knowledge, meditation means not-knowing. It is not ignorance. Ignorance is also part of mind; the less informed person is called ignorant, the more informed person is called knowledgeable. The difference is of degree , because you cannot find an ignorant person who really knows nothing; even the most ignorant knows something. He is not a great scholar but he knows something and sometimes what he knows may not be known to the great scholar at all.


I have heard about a great scholar, a rabbi. He went into a garden and he was standing by the side of a tree and he said "What a beautiful apple tree. If the tree could say something, I wonder what it would say." The gardener was listening; he said "It would have said 'Sir, I am not an apple tree, I am a mango tree!"


Now, the rabbi may be a great scholar, he may know everything about the Judaic law and religion and everything and he may be able to sermonise on the Ten Commandments and the Old Testament. The gardener knows very little, but he knows that this is not an apple tree, this is a mango tree -- don't be foolish' He is ignorant in the sense that he knows less. The degree between the ignorant and the knowledgeable can be many, the distance can be big, but qualitatively there is no change. Hence agnosis is not ignorance, no-mind is not ignorance -- it is innocence.


One simply knows that one knows nothing. One has simply put all ignorance and knowledge aside, by the road, one is looking at existence without any kind of knowledge, less or more. One is neither ignorant nor knowledgeable; one is simply not either of them. That is meditation.


The ignorant person has to renounce his ignorance and the knowledgeable person has to renounce his knowledge then both come to agnosia, then both reach a different dimension, the dimension of no-mind. And that becomes the bridge. Suddenly you are not a separate entity, you are part of the whole. And to be part of the whole is to know ecstasy for the first time, to know love for the first time. It is to really know what it is all about for the first time.'


[Then turning to Marc from Switzerland, Osho began, This is your name: Swami Antar Marco. Antar means inner. Marco means a great warrior. Don't fight with anybody else. I will teach you how to fight with yourself. It is just boxing in the air, (laughter) it is a joy, because nobody is defeated, nobody is ever victorious and the game continues!]


The real thing is not victory over others, the real thing is victory over oneself. And there are many enemies inside. The greatest of them is the ego. And then there are many disciples of the egos greed, ambition, the desire to dominate, to possess, to be famous, to leave some imprint on the pages of history. There are thousands of desires. They are all branches of the ego, leaves of the ego. If you cut the ego then the whole tree falls down.


Many people try to get free of anger, free of greed, free of this and free of that, but they are all bound to fail because they are not getting to the very source of it all.


Unless one completely cuts the ego from the roots all these things are bound to continue, they cannot be dropped. They are shadows of the ego; if you kill the ego then all the shadows disappear automatically.


And that's who is called the great warrior -- one who has been able to kill the ego completely, totally, mercilessly. It is not a murder, there is no bloodshed, because the ego is just an idea, and a false idea at that, something pseudo that does not exist at all. But we believe in it and our belief gives it life, gives it existence, nourishes it. The moment we withdraw our belief the ego disappears -- and that is the moment of victory, inner victory.


Once the greatest enlightened master in India was Mahavira. Mahavira means the great warrior; it means exactly what Marco means. It was not his real name, his real name was Vardhaman. Vardhaman means prosperity, growing prosperity every day.


The day he was born -- his parents were kings and they had conquered a new kingdom -- just that day his father had conquered a new kingdom, he had a new victory; hence he gave the name Vardhaman to the child -- one who brings more prosperity to you, more richness, more power. But the day Mahavira became enlightened his disciples decided to call him Mahavira, the great warrior; they dropped his old name.


And what was his inner victory? -- he was no more, he was just a pure silence, infinite silence, abysmal silence. He disappeared! And in that very moment when one disappears, the ultimate happens: you become divine.


So be a warrior of the inner world. And there is something to conquer, something worth conquering -- the kingdom of god.
How long will you be here?
Four days.


That will not be enough! For four days you can fight with others, for four days you can try fighting with others -- that will doS Next time come for a longer period. Good.y
			

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