Chapter #6 Eighty Four Thousand Poems #6

[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been copy-typed on to the computer.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 can function in two ways.
Either he can function as a thinking machine
Just like a computer...
That's what our schools, colleges and universities
Are preparing people for:
To function as skilful, efficient computers.
But then they destroy your soul.
You become commodities in the marketplace.
Your life becomes a drag.
You can't experience beauty
You can't experience ecstasy
You can't experience love.
No computer will ever be able to feel love
Or to experience beauty or attain to ecstasy.

The computer can do everything
That Albert Einstein can do
But the computer cannot become enlightened.
It cannot do that which only a Buddha can do.

Humanity is dying, and dying so slowly
That we are not even becoming aware of it.
The death is happening
Through a very slow poisoning.
Man is transformed more and more into a biocomputer.

Sannyas is a rebellion
Against this whole nonsense.
My effort here is to bring to your notice
That the heart is your real centre.
Don't neglect it, don't be indifferent to it.
Use the mind but don't be used by the mind.
Use the mind as a beautiful machine:
As a car, as a computer, as a friend
As an air conditioner... but not more than that!

Remain rooted in the heart
Function from the heart.
Let feelings be decisive.
Howsoever illogical they appear, let them be decisive
And your life will have a dance of its own
A beauty of its own, a bliss of its own
A benediction of its own.

Ordinarily people only think, they don't feel.
Even when they say that they are feeling
They are only thinking that they are feeling.
The mind has possessed everybody so totally that
It has not left any space
For the heart to function.
The mind is a dictator:
It has pushed the heart completely
Out of existence.
And the heart is your real treasure.

God cannot be thought, god can only be felt.
Love cannot be thought, love can only be felt.
All that is significant
All that makes life meaningful
Can only be felt.
And we have stopped the heart from functioning.
That is our misery, the root cause of our misery.

My sannyasins have to change
This whole structure, the whole gestalt:
Think less, feel more.
Slowly slowly let the heart be the master
And the mind, the servant -- that's its right place.
It is good as a servant but very bad as a master.

The heart is always true.
The heart is never untrue
And the head is never true.
The head lives in lies, it lives on lies.
It exists in all kinds of falsehoods.

The heart is authentic, it is sincere.
It is simple, it is not cunning.
It is tremendously intelligent but not cunning.
It simply reflects that which is.
That's its beauty and its truth.

God is never known through the head.
Anything that has any value
Is never known through the head.
Love, beauty, god
They are all known through the heart.
The heart is the gateless gate to reality.

Move from the head to the heart.

We are all hung up in the head.
That is our only problem, the only one problem
And there is only one solution:
Get down from the head into the heart
And all problems disappear.
They are created by the head.
And suddenly everything is so clear
And so transparent that one is surprised
How one was continuously inventing problems.

Mysteries remain but problems disappear.
Mysteries abound but problems evaporate.
And mysteries are beautiful.
They are not to be solved
They have to be lived.

Love is the only nourishment for the soul.
Without love the soul remains weak.
Just as without food the body will be weak
Love is food for the soul.
The ore you love, the stronger becomes your spirit.
And the beauty of the strength that love brings
Is that it is non-egoistic.

One can be strong, but if one becomes egoistic
Then the whole point is missed.
Egoistic strength is self-destructive
Because ego is your enemy.
Making it stronger is cutting your own throat.
It is digging a ditch
Into which you are going to fall.
But when your spirit becomes stronger
Through love a miracle happens:
Ego cannot function with love.

The first requirement of love is egolessness
So the ego is cut from the very root.
And when the spirit is strong without ego
And overflowing with love, you have arrived home.
God is no more a far-away phenomenon
He is as close as your own breathing.
That's why Jesus says god is love.

Loneliness is a negative state
It is the negative aspect:
You are missing the other
You are feeling empty
You are hankering for the other
You are longing for the other.
You are nothing but a longing and a waiting
Hence loneliness is misery.
But aloneness is joy, it is the positive aspect.
You are not missing anybody,
You are feeling your own presence.
You are so full of your own presence that
There is no question of missing anybody at all.

Very few people know what aloneness is.
Millions know what loneliness is.
That is very ordinary
As common as the common cold.
Everybody suffers from loneliness.
But only a Jesus or a Buddha or a Lao Tzu

reach to the highest peak of aloneness.

The same difference exists between
Solitariness and solitude.
Solitariness is ugly, solitude is beautiful.
Solitariness is dark and dismal
Solitude is full of light and joy and bliss.

Unless one is absolutely present, alert and aware
One will not know what aloneness or solitude are.
The only way to know them is meditation.
Meditation is the method to transform
Your loneliness into aloneness.
And that is the greatest miracle
That can happen to anybody:
Darkness becomes luminous
Emptiness becomes fulfilment.

To be in total rest is to be in prayer.
Prayer has not to be done.
It is not an activity, it is absolute rest.
One can be in prayer but one cannot do prayer.

Learn to relax.
The more relaxed you are, the closer you are
To your innermost core
Because all activity is on the circumference.
The centre of the cyclone.
And it is at the centre
That one realises oneself
And one also discovers god.

Every human being brings a truth into the world.
Every human being is a messenger of god,
Not only Jesus Christ or Buddha or Zarathustra.
They know they are.
Others don't know that they are.

But the moment you are born
You bring a truth in your being.
And unless that truth is expressed
You will not feel contented.
Unless you deliver the message to the world
You will feel a deep is comfort because
You are not fulfilling your duty towards god.

You have to sing the song of your heart.
You have to dance your dance.
You have to be utterly individual,
Not an imitation, not a carbon copy.
You have to bring out your original face. The moment you are able to reveal
Your original face to the world
Your life is fulfilled.
Tremendous joy arises out of it.

The moon
Is one of the most significant metaphors.
It represents cool energy.

The sun is very hot, feverishly hot; it can burn.
The moon is very soothing.
The sun is passion, mad passion.
The moon is compassion.
The moon represents Buddha energy
The energy of an enlightened one.

One has to move from the sun to the moon.
We are all born with sun energy
Because we are born out of passion.
We have to transform passion into compassion.
We have to bring this heated, feverish state
Of our being to a calm and quiet and cool space.
That's the whole endeavour of sannyas.

Sannyas is a process of surrendering the will
Because the will
Is nothing but an expression of the ego.
And unless you surrender your will
You can't allow god's will
To function through you.
When you surrender your will
When you drop it totally
Then god's will
Can start functioning through you.
You become a vehicle.

That's what Jesus means when he says
'Thy kingdom come, thy will be done':
Not mine but thine, not I but thou.

That's the difference between
An ordinary person and a religious person:
The ordinary person is full of I and I and I.
And the religious person
Is full of thou, thou, thou.
Only a little difference on the surface but deep down
There is the biggest difference
As big as one can imagine.

Remember it: the will has to be dropped.

It is difficult because we have been trained
To cling to our will, to enforce it
To strengthen it.
And there are stupid people around the world
Who go on teaching how to increase your will-power.
There are thousands of books in existence
Which sell in millions, teaching people
How will-power can be increased
And how you can succeed in everything
Through the will-power.

It is will-power that brings man
To utter frustration, to utter failure.

Man has to be absolutely empty of his own power.
That power trip has to be dropped.
When you are empty
And you can say 'Thy will be done'
You have entered into a new path
A new style of life.
That's what sannyas is all about.

A song of joy
Is exactly the definition of sannyas,
Nothing more, nothing less.
It is precisely the definition: a song of joy.

Sannyas is not renunciation
It is not against life, it is all for life.
I don't divide the ordinary life
From the spiritual life.
They are one, they are inseparably one.
To separate them is to create a split humanity
A schizophrenic humanity.

Life is a unity, an organic unity, indivisible.
Nothing is higher and nothing is lower.
There is no hierarchy.
Everything exists simultaneously
On the same plane.
So nothing has to be renounced
Nothing has to be rejected.
Of course everything has to be transformed
And transformed through love
Transformed through bliss, transformed through joy.

If you can bring dance to your life
You are a sannyasin.
There is no need to think of god
There is no need to go to the churches
And the temples.
If you can bring dance to your life
If each moment of your life can become a melody
If it can become a rhythmic experience
Then god is bound to come to you.

Everything is a gift.
We have not earned it, we don't even deserve it.

Seeing a beautiful sunset
Have you ever pondered over the matter:
Do you deserve it?
Listening to a distant call of the cuckoo
Have you ever thought: do you deserve it?
Or the wind passing through the pine trees
Or the river dancing towards the ocean
And the sky full of stars...
What have we done
To have this beautiful universe?

We have not paid for it, we are not worthy of it.
It is out of this experience-
That we don't deserve it
Yet it has been given to us-
That religious consciousness arises
Gratitude arises.
One starts feeling tremendously grateful
To the unknown hands, the invisible hands
that have created this beautiful,
This tremendously, unbelievably
Beautiful existence.
In that gratitude one is religious,
Not by being a Christian or a Hindu
Or a Mohammedan
But just by being grateful.

Learn the art of being grateful.
And there are so many situations
Millions of them.
Every moment you come across something or other
Which can make you feel immensely grateful.
But we have forgotten the language of gratefulness.
Our minds go on complaining and complaining
Asking for more.

The religious person has no complaint
But only gratitude.
He does not ask for more.
He simply bows down to the unknown energy
That has given so much already...
And we had not asked for it.
It has been given out of god's abundance.
His overflowing delight is the cause of creation.
It is out of his blissfulness, his playfulness
That existence has arisen.

Remember:
If you can start feeling more and more grateful
You will be transformed by that gratefulness.
That is the secret formula of inner change
Of a radical change.

One needs to be industrious
One needs to accept challenges which provoke one
For the upward journey.
It is hard, it is dangerous
But it brings out the best in you.
It creates integrity
Ultimately it creates a soul in you.

Georges Gurdjieff used to say
That everybody is not born with a soul.
He is right. Everybody is born only with
The possibility of a soul;
Very few actually attain it.
To actualize your being means tremendous effort.
One has to put one's total energies to the task
Only then...
One has to risk all, only then...
But then life blooms, flowers.
It becomes a joy, a fulfilment, a contentment
A blessing.

Osho asks Gogo, a young German: What is the meaning of your name? Are you a go-go boy?

Gogo: IT WAS THE FIRST WORD I SAID WHEN I WAS A BABY. MY PARENTS GAVE ME THE NAME.

Osho: No, it is beautiful -- it sounds good!
In fact this is the best German name I have come across! It has some poetry in it, some music in it, some laughter in it otherwise German names are so serious: Wolfgang... And in every name there is something concerned with war, battle... It is good -- be a go-go boy!...
Now you have to make it a point
To be constantly blissful.
That is the meaning of anand.
Life should be a dance, a song, a celebration.
And come back -- this is your home!

Man is homeless in this world unless he finds god.
Man is homeless unless he becomes enlightened
Because only in ultimate awakening
Is there shelter.
Otherwise we go on passing
From one caravanserai to another
From one life to another.
It is a long, long weary pilgrimage
Utterly futile, meaningless;
We almost go on in circles
Reaching nowhere, finding nothing;
Always hoping, dreaming
But ultimately
There is only frustration in the hands.

The home certainly exists
But only very few people have found it up to now.
And the few who have found
Have found it in the most unexpected place:
They have found it within themselves.
That's why we remain homeless.