[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been scanned and cleaned up.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.]
[Meditation doesn't mean in the East what it means in the West, Osho began tonight.]
In the West meditation has always been thought to be synonymous with concentration. In the West meditating upon something means concentrating, focussing on something to know about it. One has to exclude all other thoughts so they don't disturb you, so there is no distraction; your full energy becomes available to the particular object you are investigating. That is the scientific meaning of meditation.
But in the East meditation means no-thought, not focussing but relaxing, not concentrating but resting. Concentration is tension and if you concentrate for a time you will feel tired, exhausted. Meditation in the eastern sense is just the opposite of the western sense.
Here it means a silent, relaxed, restful state. Nothing is excluded, all is included. The meditator simply sits, open, available. The birds sing and the wind passes through the trees and a dog starts barking -- everything is included. There is no problem because we are not trying to focus on any object; hence the question of distraction does not arise. We are simply enjoying the moment in all its multiplicity, in all its directions and dimensions, in all its simultaneity. It is a totally different vision and of tremendous importance, because the western meaning of meditation cannot go beyond science; only the eastern meaning of meditation can go beyond science
Man take you into the world of mysticism, into the world of what Dionysius calls agnosia. (Osho has been speaking on the sutras of Dionysius in the morning discourse.) You know nothing, you are simply aware of millions of things. But there is no effort to know either, there is no effort at all for anything. There is no goal, no achievement; one is simply being whatsoever one is.
In these moments of total relaxation you encounter for the first time the multi-dimensional life.
Life is experienced only through meditation, through a state of no-mind, through not-knowing.
[Meditation is awareness, when you are, with no effort to become anything other than what you are, he reiterated to Iris, the next sannyasin.]
All becoming has disappeared; you are just a being -- not knowing who you are, because knowing brings thoughts back, not knowing what, because the what brings thoughts back, not knowing why, because "why" is the door for the mind to come in -- that is an invitation for the mind.
Meditation is a state with no what, no why, no how, no questions -- a questionless state. And when there are no questions the answer is there. It does not come as a thought, it is a feeling. You feel it in the blood.
And "Iris" is a beautiful word. Literally it means the rainbow, but its mythological meaning is very significant. In Greek mythology Iris is the personification of the rainbow who carried messages across the many-coloured bridge from gods to man.
The rainbow is a bridge between the earth and heaven, between man and that which is beyond. Meditation is a bridge. Meditation connects you with the whole.
Mind is a barrier, meditation is a bridge. Mind disconnects you; it makes you an ego. Hesitation connects and the ego dissolves; the part disappears in the whole like a dewdrop slipping from the lotus leaf into the lake. It loses nothing, it gains all. It loses only its smallness, it loses being a dewdrop but it becomes the lake. It becomes infinite, it becomes the whole.
Sannyas means the dewdrop gathering the courage to slip into the lake, not clinging to the lotus leaf.
Non-clinging is sannyas, and the moment you are not clinging your small boundaries disappear, you become unbounded. And only in those moments of an unbounded state of awareness does one come to know that which is. But remember, by knowing I don't mean knowledge, by knowing I mean an intuitive feel. It is more a knowing through love than a knowing as knowledge.
[But even meditation has to be dropped one day, Osho went on to say to Veetyoga.]
One cannot attain to bliss through any method, for the simple reason that bliss is not something which can be made a goal. It is already the case, it is your intrinsic nature. Methods are useful when you are trying to create something, invent something, but methods are absolutely unnecessary when you are just trying to discover your intrinsic nature.
If you use some method the method itself will be the barrier. One has to drop all methods. That is the ultimate yoga, the ultimate method: dropping all methods, dropping all effort and just relaxing in the moment, not doing anything, allowing things to be whatsoever they are, going wherever life takes you.
Lao Tzu says, "If you can become just like a dry leaf which has fallen from the tree you will attain to the ultimate, you will know tao." "Tao" is his word for god.
What is the secret of the dead leaf? The secret is that it has no desire of its own. The wind goes to the south, the leaf goes to the south. If suddenly the wind turns to the north the leaf does not say "This is contradictory, this is inconsistent; we were going to the south, now why... all that effort is wasted. Then why in the first place didn't we start going towards the north?" It simply moves towards the north -- no question, no problem, arises.
If the wind takes it high into the clouds it does not feel superior. If it falls, if the wind leaves it on the ground, it does not feel inferior; on the ground it rests as beautifully as it sits on the cloud. North or south, east or west -- all is the same. It has no will of its own, it has dropped its will. It has become will-less. And to be totally will-less means to be surrendered to god.
Method means will, method means a certain technique to attain something. There is a goal, there is will, technique, knowledge.
My approach is that these are good things to play with -- for the beginners. One needs a few toys, but slowly slowly all those toys have to be dropped.
So keep it in mind: do all the meditations, go through all the groups, but remember that it is just preparing you for the ultimate thing where you can drop all methods and you can just relax, you can just be yourself. And then allow the whole to take you wherever it wills.
The greatest joy arises in that moment when you don't have any desire, any goal, any intention, when whatsoever happens is good. Then you are showered with thousands of blessings.
[Osho added 'veet' to Detlef's name to remind him to transcend himself.]
Detlef means a son of the people. The whole past of humanity has worshipped tradition, convention. We have worshipped the mass mind; hence the name Detlef. Names like that exist in almost all the languages. To be a son of the people was thought to be something honourable, but in fact it is not so.
To be the son of the people means to be conventional, to be traditional, to be bound to the past, to remain confined to the collective mind, never to attain individuality. One has to go beyond the past an beyond the mob, the mass, the people, only then can one attain to individuality, to freedom, only then can one be in one's own right. Otherwise one is just a number, a number among millions of numbers. One person is a Hindu, and there are millions of Hindus. He is replaceable; he will die, another Hindu will replace him. Another is a Christian -- he is replaceable; somebody is a communist -- he is replaceable. These are all numbers. But individuals cannot be replaced.
You cannot replace Jesus Christ. Christians can be replaced, remember; they are part of the mob psychology. Jesus Christ cannot be replaced; he is not the son of the people. In fact he revolted against the whole traditional mind. Without that revolt how can you understand his crucifixion.
Nobody is crucified anywhere unless the masses feel that the very ground on which they are standing is in danger. Jesus must have created so much of a stir that the people became afraid that if this man lived he would destroy the whole past. And in a way the people were right. The man was trying to destroy the whole past; he was trying to bring a new man into the world. And it is not just an accident of history that Jesus has become the dividing line between the past... That which preceded Jesus we call B.C., before Christ, and after Christ....
Jesus became the drawing line on the map of human history. Whatsoever was before Christ became irrelevant; whatsoever was after Christ became relevant. History begins with Christ in a way, before Christ is prehistory. But this remained only a symbol. He failed -- as all other Buddhas have always failed. Up to now that has been the fate of all the Buddhas.
They succeeded as far as they themselves were concerned -- they became enlightened, they attained the ultimate bliss, they realised god, -- but they failed as far as humanity is concerned. They could not give birth to the new man, it has not happened yet. But there is no need to lose hope; that which has not happened yet can happen any day. It is really going to happen some day because without its happening man will remain miserable.
And now I feel the misery is coming to such a peak, to such a culmination, that either man will commit suicide, a global suicide in a third world war, or if he wants to survive he will have to decide to bring a new birth. In fact in Jesus' time the misery was not so much. Jesus was a little earlier than his time, so was Buddha, so was Lao Tzu.
I feel that I am very close to the point where it can happen because man has never been in such despair, in such deep emptiness, as he is now. This crisis is something totally new, its intensity is new. And alternatives are very clear-cut.
In Jesus' time or Buddha's time people could survive without having a new birth, without transforming themselves and becoming totally anew; they could survive. But now they cannot survive. That is the new factor which gives me great hope.
My sannyasins can create the ground from where the ultimate jump can be possible, for which all the Buddhas have paved the way up to now. But it has not happened yet. Many times the ship was launched, but it sank. I am trying to make another effort. And this is the time when something like Noah's Ark is needed.
So remember, go beyond the people. The people are blind, the people are living in unconsciousness. Be a son of god, I am saying that only so you are not too shocked -- otherwise my feeling is be a god; why be a son? When one can be the father, why be the son? What is the need to be a son? But the West has not been able to absorb that shock.
Even Jesus used to dilute it, even this statement "I am the son of god," he had to dilute again and again by reminding people "I am also the son of man." Then people must have felt relieved: "That's okay -- once in a while he goes crazy and starts talking about being the son of god; otherwise, he is a nice fellow!"
And I am telling you don't be the son of man; no more Detlef, no more son of the people. The midway position is to be a son of god. If one is ready for that then sooner or later one can be persuaded to be yourself, god -- no need to be the son. In fact there is no question of being the son of god. Either one is unconscious -- then one is part of an unconscious humanity -- or one is conscious, then one is part of god, one is god.
[The last sannyasin Osho named Prem Samagro -- total love.]
Sannyas needs total love and nothing else. But total love includes all. Really nothing is left, all is included in it. And remember, I am not saying perfect love, I am saying total love -- and these two things are very different.
For centuries we have been taught how to perfect our love and we have failed because the whole idea was nonsense. Love cannot be perfected. To perfect it is to kill it.
And love cannot be killed because love is life, love is eternal, timeless. Love knows no death; love is the only phenomenon in human experience which transcends death. But total love is a totally different phenomenon than perfect love.
Perfect love has a certain idea and that idea has to be fulfilled. One has to go according to a certain pattern, one has many shoulds and should-not's, many commandments, and one has to slowly slowly cultivate a certain quality of perfection. But total love is non-ideological, there is no idea. All that is needed is each moment, whatsoever you are doing, do it whole-heartedly, don't hold back -- that's all. That's what I mean by totality: don't hold back.
If you are looking at a rose flower then become the look. Then just be eyes and eyes and eyes. Then look at the rose flower from your hands and your legs and your eyes and your ears and your nose. Then let your whole body, your whole being, participate in the look; don't let it be a partial phenomenon. When one hundred per cent of you becomes involved in it then it is total.
While eating, be total; while sleeping, be total -- and this is what I call loving life totally. So whatsoever you are doing or not doing... If you are not doing then be total in no -doing, because there are people who in doing nothing will feel guilty, that this is not right. They cannot even be total in non-doing. They will feel fidgety, they will feel "It is not good. I should be doing something. I should not waste time. Time is money and the empty mind the devil's worship. What am I doing? I should be doing something." And they will start doing something. Whether it is needed or not is not the point.
You can see people on their holidays -- they will start doing any kind of thing. A holiday is one of the most difficult days for the housewife because the husband is at home, he has to be looked to, to see what he is doing. The children are at home; every child has to be looked to to see what he is doing -- because everybody will be doing something or other. And the most dangerous is the husband because he may open the clock which was running perfectly well, he may open the engine of the car which was going perfectly well -- just to make it a little more perfect. And the whole thing is that he cannot sit still.
You see how ridiculous it is: for six days in the office he continuously desires and dreams of the holiday that is coming and then "I am going to rest and relax in the sun, in the wind, and forget all about the world and all the worries of it." And on the seventh day you will find him the most engaged: he is never as engaged on the six other days.
People are sleeping in their offices. In the offices there is so much work to be done but nobody is interested in doing it. Files go on piling up, files go on moving from one desk to another desk.
I have heard about one office: a man's table was always clean with no files. Everybody was puzzled how he managed it. He finished everything every day. One day a man asked "What is your secret? Look at my table -- hundreds of files. They are so many that I don't think that it will be possible to finish them all this life. How do you manage? -- every day your table is clean."
The man laughed, he said "I have a strategy: on whatsoever comes to me, on whatsoever files come to me I simply write 'Refer to Mr John.'" He said "My god! -- I am John! Why do you write 'Refer to Mr John'?" He said "I think that in this big office there is bound to be somebody of the name of John, so I simply write 'refer'; then the file moves; then I don't know where it goes and what happens to it."
In the offices people are just reading newspapers, smoking, and then there are so many coffee breaks and tea breaks. In fact there is no work break at all. Amidst all other breaks the whole day is broken. And a dream for the coming day of... And on that day you will see how crazy they go.
That's why I always wonder what happened to god on the seventh day when he didn't work. I cannot believe that a god who worked for six days and really worked hard and created so much mess would have rested on the seventh day -- unless he had taken a few strong doses of Valium. The man who is responsible for this whole mess, the universe, cannot rest on the seventh day -- that is impossible. That's why Hindus don't have that idea at all; they don't say that god created the world in six days and on the seventh day he rested.
In India before Christians came there was no Sunday holiday -- no. India has never known it because the very idea never existed. God is continuously working, even today. In fact the work goes on becoming bigger and bigger, there are more complications. But the western idea is that god worked six days and then on the seventh day he rested. I cannot believe it. A person who worked for six days cannot rest on the seventh.
Only a person like me who rests on six days can also rest on the seventh day. One needs certain practice. (much laughter) And I am total in my rest.
So if you are not doing anything, be total; if you are doing something, be total. The only question is of totality, and then you will find a tremendous love arising in you, overflowing you from all directions. And that is the most beautiful space one can be in. That is the goal of sannyas.
Osho's Commentary
[Meditation doesn't mean in the East what it means in the West, Osho began tonight.]
In the West meditation has always been thought to be synonymous with concentration. In the West meditating upon something means concentrating, focussing on something to know about it. One has to exclude all other thoughts so they don't disturb you, so there is no distraction; your full energy becomes available to the particular object you are investigating. That is the scientific meaning of meditation.
But in the East meditation means no-thought, not focussing but relaxing, not concentrating but resting. Concentration is tension and if you concentrate for a time you will feel tired, exhausted. Meditation in the eastern sense is just the opposite of the western sense.
Here it means a silent, relaxed, restful state. Nothing is excluded, all is included. The meditator simply sits, open, available. The birds sing and the wind passes through the trees and a dog starts barking -- everything is included. There is no problem because we are not trying to focus on any object; hence the question of distraction does not arise. We are simply enjoying the moment in all its multiplicity, in all its directions and dimensions, in all its simultaneity. It is a totally different vision and of tremendous importance, because the western meaning of meditation cannot go beyond science; only the eastern meaning of meditation can go beyond science
Man take you into the world of mysticism, into the world of what Dionysius calls agnosia. (Osho has been speaking on the sutras of Dionysius in the morning discourse.) You know nothing, you are simply aware of millions of things. But there is no effort to know either, there is no effort at all for anything. There is no goal, no achievement; one is simply being whatsoever one is.
In these moments of total relaxation you encounter for the first time the multi-dimensional life.
Life is experienced only through meditation, through a state of no-mind, through not-knowing.
[Meditation is awareness, when you are, with no effort to become anything other than what you are, he reiterated to Iris, the next sannyasin.]
All becoming has disappeared; you are just a being -- not knowing who you are, because knowing brings thoughts back, not knowing what, because the what brings thoughts back, not knowing why, because "why" is the door for the mind to come in -- that is an invitation for the mind.
Meditation is a state with no what, no why, no how, no questions -- a questionless state. And when there are no questions the answer is there. It does not come as a thought, it is a feeling. You feel it in the blood.
And "Iris" is a beautiful word. Literally it means the rainbow, but its mythological meaning is very significant. In Greek mythology Iris is the personification of the rainbow who carried messages across the many-coloured bridge from gods to man.
The rainbow is a bridge between the earth and heaven, between man and that which is beyond. Meditation is a bridge. Meditation connects you with the whole.
Mind is a barrier, meditation is a bridge. Mind disconnects you; it makes you an ego. Hesitation connects and the ego dissolves; the part disappears in the whole like a dewdrop slipping from the lotus leaf into the lake. It loses nothing, it gains all. It loses only its smallness, it loses being a dewdrop but it becomes the lake. It becomes infinite, it becomes the whole.
Sannyas means the dewdrop gathering the courage to slip into the lake, not clinging to the lotus leaf.
Non-clinging is sannyas, and the moment you are not clinging your small boundaries disappear, you become unbounded. And only in those moments of an unbounded state of awareness does one come to know that which is. But remember, by knowing I don't mean knowledge, by knowing I mean an intuitive feel. It is more a knowing through love than a knowing as knowledge.
[But even meditation has to be dropped one day, Osho went on to say to Veetyoga.]
One cannot attain to bliss through any method, for the simple reason that bliss is not something which can be made a goal. It is already the case, it is your intrinsic nature. Methods are useful when you are trying to create something, invent something, but methods are absolutely unnecessary when you are just trying to discover your intrinsic nature.
If you use some method the method itself will be the barrier. One has to drop all methods. That is the ultimate yoga, the ultimate method: dropping all methods, dropping all effort and just relaxing in the moment, not doing anything, allowing things to be whatsoever they are, going wherever life takes you.
Lao Tzu says, "If you can become just like a dry leaf which has fallen from the tree you will attain to the ultimate, you will know tao." "Tao" is his word for god.
What is the secret of the dead leaf? The secret is that it has no desire of its own. The wind goes to the south, the leaf goes to the south. If suddenly the wind turns to the north the leaf does not say "This is contradictory, this is inconsistent; we were going to the south, now why... all that effort is wasted. Then why in the first place didn't we start going towards the north?" It simply moves towards the north -- no question, no problem, arises.
If the wind takes it high into the clouds it does not feel superior. If it falls, if the wind leaves it on the ground, it does not feel inferior; on the ground it rests as beautifully as it sits on the cloud. North or south, east or west -- all is the same. It has no will of its own, it has dropped its will. It has become will-less. And to be totally will-less means to be surrendered to god.
Method means will, method means a certain technique to attain something. There is a goal, there is will, technique, knowledge.
My approach is that these are good things to play with -- for the beginners. One needs a few toys, but slowly slowly all those toys have to be dropped.
So keep it in mind: do all the meditations, go through all the groups, but remember that it is just preparing you for the ultimate thing where you can drop all methods and you can just relax, you can just be yourself. And then allow the whole to take you wherever it wills.
The greatest joy arises in that moment when you don't have any desire, any goal, any intention, when whatsoever happens is good. Then you are showered with thousands of blessings.
[Osho added 'veet' to Detlef's name to remind him to transcend himself.]
Detlef means a son of the people. The whole past of humanity has worshipped tradition, convention. We have worshipped the mass mind; hence the name Detlef. Names like that exist in almost all the languages. To be a son of the people was thought to be something honourable, but in fact it is not so.
To be the son of the people means to be conventional, to be traditional, to be bound to the past, to remain confined to the collective mind, never to attain individuality. One has to go beyond the past an beyond the mob, the mass, the people, only then can one attain to individuality, to freedom, only then can one be in one's own right. Otherwise one is just a number, a number among millions of numbers. One person is a Hindu, and there are millions of Hindus. He is replaceable; he will die, another Hindu will replace him. Another is a Christian -- he is replaceable; somebody is a communist -- he is replaceable. These are all numbers. But individuals cannot be replaced.
You cannot replace Jesus Christ. Christians can be replaced, remember; they are part of the mob psychology. Jesus Christ cannot be replaced; he is not the son of the people. In fact he revolted against the whole traditional mind. Without that revolt how can you understand his crucifixion.
Nobody is crucified anywhere unless the masses feel that the very ground on which they are standing is in danger. Jesus must have created so much of a stir that the people became afraid that if this man lived he would destroy the whole past. And in a way the people were right. The man was trying to destroy the whole past; he was trying to bring a new man into the world. And it is not just an accident of history that Jesus has become the dividing line between the past... That which preceded Jesus we call B.C., before Christ, and after Christ....
Jesus became the drawing line on the map of human history. Whatsoever was before Christ became irrelevant; whatsoever was after Christ became relevant. History begins with Christ in a way, before Christ is prehistory. But this remained only a symbol. He failed -- as all other Buddhas have always failed. Up to now that has been the fate of all the Buddhas.
They succeeded as far as they themselves were concerned -- they became enlightened, they attained the ultimate bliss, they realised god, -- but they failed as far as humanity is concerned. They could not give birth to the new man, it has not happened yet. But there is no need to lose hope; that which has not happened yet can happen any day. It is really going to happen some day because without its happening man will remain miserable.
And now I feel the misery is coming to such a peak, to such a culmination, that either man will commit suicide, a global suicide in a third world war, or if he wants to survive he will have to decide to bring a new birth. In fact in Jesus' time the misery was not so much. Jesus was a little earlier than his time, so was Buddha, so was Lao Tzu.
I feel that I am very close to the point where it can happen because man has never been in such despair, in such deep emptiness, as he is now. This crisis is something totally new, its intensity is new. And alternatives are very clear-cut.
In Jesus' time or Buddha's time people could survive without having a new birth, without transforming themselves and becoming totally anew; they could survive. But now they cannot survive. That is the new factor which gives me great hope.
My sannyasins can create the ground from where the ultimate jump can be possible, for which all the Buddhas have paved the way up to now. But it has not happened yet. Many times the ship was launched, but it sank. I am trying to make another effort. And this is the time when something like Noah's Ark is needed.
So remember, go beyond the people. The people are blind, the people are living in unconsciousness. Be a son of god, I am saying that only so you are not too shocked -- otherwise my feeling is be a god; why be a son? When one can be the father, why be the son? What is the need to be a son? But the West has not been able to absorb that shock.
Even Jesus used to dilute it, even this statement "I am the son of god," he had to dilute again and again by reminding people "I am also the son of man." Then people must have felt relieved: "That's okay -- once in a while he goes crazy and starts talking about being the son of god; otherwise, he is a nice fellow!"
And I am telling you don't be the son of man; no more Detlef, no more son of the people. The midway position is to be a son of god. If one is ready for that then sooner or later one can be persuaded to be yourself, god -- no need to be the son. In fact there is no question of being the son of god. Either one is unconscious -- then one is part of an unconscious humanity -- or one is conscious, then one is part of god, one is god.
[The last sannyasin Osho named Prem Samagro -- total love.]
Sannyas needs total love and nothing else. But total love includes all. Really nothing is left, all is included in it. And remember, I am not saying perfect love, I am saying total love -- and these two things are very different.
For centuries we have been taught how to perfect our love and we have failed because the whole idea was nonsense. Love cannot be perfected. To perfect it is to kill it.
And love cannot be killed because love is life, love is eternal, timeless. Love knows no death; love is the only phenomenon in human experience which transcends death. But total love is a totally different phenomenon than perfect love.
Perfect love has a certain idea and that idea has to be fulfilled. One has to go according to a certain pattern, one has many shoulds and should-not's, many commandments, and one has to slowly slowly cultivate a certain quality of perfection. But total love is non-ideological, there is no idea. All that is needed is each moment, whatsoever you are doing, do it whole-heartedly, don't hold back -- that's all. That's what I mean by totality: don't hold back.
If you are looking at a rose flower then become the look. Then just be eyes and eyes and eyes. Then look at the rose flower from your hands and your legs and your eyes and your ears and your nose. Then let your whole body, your whole being, participate in the look; don't let it be a partial phenomenon. When one hundred per cent of you becomes involved in it then it is total.
While eating, be total; while sleeping, be total -- and this is what I call loving life totally. So whatsoever you are doing or not doing... If you are not doing then be total in no -doing, because there are people who in doing nothing will feel guilty, that this is not right. They cannot even be total in non-doing. They will feel fidgety, they will feel "It is not good. I should be doing something. I should not waste time. Time is money and the empty mind the devil's worship. What am I doing? I should be doing something." And they will start doing something. Whether it is needed or not is not the point.
You can see people on their holidays -- they will start doing any kind of thing. A holiday is one of the most difficult days for the housewife because the husband is at home, he has to be looked to, to see what he is doing. The children are at home; every child has to be looked to to see what he is doing -- because everybody will be doing something or other. And the most dangerous is the husband because he may open the clock which was running perfectly well, he may open the engine of the car which was going perfectly well -- just to make it a little more perfect. And the whole thing is that he cannot sit still.
You see how ridiculous it is: for six days in the office he continuously desires and dreams of the holiday that is coming and then "I am going to rest and relax in the sun, in the wind, and forget all about the world and all the worries of it." And on the seventh day you will find him the most engaged: he is never as engaged on the six other days.
People are sleeping in their offices. In the offices there is so much work to be done but nobody is interested in doing it. Files go on piling up, files go on moving from one desk to another desk.
I have heard about one office: a man's table was always clean with no files. Everybody was puzzled how he managed it. He finished everything every day. One day a man asked "What is your secret? Look at my table -- hundreds of files. They are so many that I don't think that it will be possible to finish them all this life. How do you manage? -- every day your table is clean."
The man laughed, he said "I have a strategy: on whatsoever comes to me, on whatsoever files come to me I simply write 'Refer to Mr John.'" He said "My god! -- I am John! Why do you write 'Refer to Mr John'?" He said "I think that in this big office there is bound to be somebody of the name of John, so I simply write 'refer'; then the file moves; then I don't know where it goes and what happens to it."
In the offices people are just reading newspapers, smoking, and then there are so many coffee breaks and tea breaks. In fact there is no work break at all. Amidst all other breaks the whole day is broken. And a dream for the coming day of... And on that day you will see how crazy they go.
That's why I always wonder what happened to god on the seventh day when he didn't work. I cannot believe that a god who worked for six days and really worked hard and created so much mess would have rested on the seventh day -- unless he had taken a few strong doses of Valium. The man who is responsible for this whole mess, the universe, cannot rest on the seventh day -- that is impossible. That's why Hindus don't have that idea at all; they don't say that god created the world in six days and on the seventh day he rested.
In India before Christians came there was no Sunday holiday -- no. India has never known it because the very idea never existed. God is continuously working, even today. In fact the work goes on becoming bigger and bigger, there are more complications. But the western idea is that god worked six days and then on the seventh day he rested. I cannot believe it. A person who worked for six days cannot rest on the seventh.
Only a person like me who rests on six days can also rest on the seventh day. One needs certain practice. (much laughter) And I am total in my rest.
So if you are not doing anything, be total; if you are doing something, be total. The only question is of totality, and then you will find a tremendous love arising in you, overflowing you from all directions. And that is the most beautiful space one can be in. That is the goal of sannyas.
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