the moment one becomes blissful one becomes simultaneously a beloved of the whole existence
the miserable remains separate from the whole misery creates a kind of boundary it creates a prison blissfulness is nothing but melting, merging disappearing in the whole misery is centered in the ego, bliss is egolessness
and the ego can never be the beloved of existence because it is a false entity the existence does not give any recognition to false entities hence the egoist suffers, he lives in hell only egolessness brings paradise to you
to be initiated into sannyas means basically, essentially initiation into egolessness bliss comes naturally and one becomes the beloved of the whole without any effort it is our birthright but we have to drop the false to be in tune with the real
the experience of bliss needs as a basic requirement courageousness and nothing else
the miserable is always a coward for the simple reason that he cannot drop even the false he clings to the false -- the ego not only that, he clings even to his misery he cannot even renounce his misery
remember a basic law: misery does not cling to you it has no interest in you -- it is your investment in misery it is your clinging with misery that keeps you imprisoned, keeps you in hell courage simply means dropping all that is ugly, all that is false and that creates unnecessary suffering yes, there is some necessary suffering also but that is a totally different phenomenon necessary suffering is that which one has to pass through if one wants to reach to the heights then one has to go uphill that is necessary suffering but it is worth it, it is a joy, in fact
people are clinging to unnecessary misery which is absolutely not needed at all it does not help your growth -- it hinders but courage is needed to drop it why is courage needed to drop it? because we have some investment in it the miserable person is getting attention through his misery sympathy through his misery compassion through his misery the more he gets people's sympathy attention, kindness, compassion the more he becomes clinging to his misery
he knows it is because of misery that he is the centre of everybody else's attention this is fulfilling his ego but on the other hand it is nursing his misery it is keeping his wound alive it does not allow the wound to heal
a simple courage is needed to drop all this because sympathy is not love compassion is not love getting attention for wrong reasons you cannot really be contented and what can attention give to you? it can simply give you a bigger ego which will be more heavy to carry -- that's all you will be burdened with it crushed under its weight
gather courage to drop all this and the moment you drop it immediately there is bliss because bliss is our nature it has not to be created, it is already there we just have to remove the hindrances
that's the whole art of sannyas removing the hindrances eliminating the obstructions the moment those rocks are no more there the river of bliss starts flowing
it starts moving towards the ocean towards the ultimate bliss of merging with the whole
bliss is always young, always fresh, always green as far as bliss is concerned it is always spring the fall never comes, the death never comes bliss is eternal life hence the longing of everyone is to search and seek bliss, to find it
everybody is trying in his own ways to find it of course, out of a hundred ways ninety-nine are wrong hence very few people attain it but this is the way life functions this is the way life gives you an opportunity to be intelligent, to be aware, to experiment to make mistakes and errors because that is the only way to learn you have to knock on ninety-nine doors before you can find the right door even those ninety-nine doors are helpful don't think of them as enemies because they help you to find the hundredth door they are all pointing towards the hundredth door
life is a trial and error experiment that's the only way to grow
to sharpen one's intelligence if there was only one door then there would be no difference between the stupid and the intelligent both would enter from the same door
the stupid is one who gets stuck in a wrong door the intelligent also knocks on the wrong door but never gets stuck there -- he goes on moving he goes on searching until he finds the right door it is a beautiful exploration a tremendously thrilling adventure
enjoy the search, rejoice in the seeking and the person who can enjoy the very search, the very pilgrimage is not far away from the right door he is bound to find it
pleasure gives you the appearance of bliss but it is not bliss -- it tricks you, it tickles you for a moment it befools you, but only for a moment and again you are back to the same state of despair
happiness also is another hallucination pleasure is physiological, happiness is psychological for example, a person taking some drug like lsd feels a certain happiness but it is not bliss
even a man like aldous huxley was deceived a very intelligent man but he believed that he had attained through Lsd the same experience as the buddha, as jesus christ, as lao tzu it is not possible through chemicals chemicals can only create a dreamworld and when their effect is lost you are back on the same earth, in the same state even in fact far more miserable than before because now you have seen a dream beautiful dream and you will miss it but this is not new not only aldous huxley is deceived it has been one of the most ancient things from the ancientmost scripture of the world, rigveda up to now, people have been deceived by drugs
in rigveda it is called soma but it is exactly something like marijuana, Lsd, pscilocybin one can feel a dreamworld, a beautiful dreamworld but it does not last and the definition of bliss is that it begins but it never ends if it ends then it is either pleasure or happiness either physiological or psychological but it has nothing to do with the spiritual the spiritual is the dimension of eternity
bliss is homeless hence it is ever green, always young, always fresh the only way to attain it is meditation the body cannot give it to you the mind cannot give it to you only the state of no-mind that's what meditation is: a state of no-mind the moment you enter into the state of no-mind in that immense silence, that profound virgin silence you have entered into bliss, into the world of bliss
samo is a word that means balance, stillness, silence it simply means coming to an inner space within you where there is no disturbance at all, no distraction where past is no more hovering over you where future is no more pulling you where only the present exists where only this moment is all in that silence, in that stillness, one hears
the Sound of one hand Clapping
the eternal music of existence and that's what bliss is to become part of that eternal silence which is also an eternal song, but a song of silence
unuttered, unexpressed a dance at the innermost shrine of your being with no movement
it is one of the most mysterious experiences a song without any words a dance without any movement a music which cannot be heard but can only be tasted, experienced
the ordinary science is concerned with everything except bliss it is concerned with the whole existence except the consciousness of the scientist itself it is a very strange phenomenon that the scientist is interested in all kinds of things except in his own consciousness -- who he is that is not his problem at all, that is not his quest the knower remains unknown to him and he goes on accumulating knowledge about everything else
vigyan means a special science special in the sense that it is concerned with the knowing of the knower itself its only concern is to know the knower who am i? is its only quest
and the moment you know who you are simultaneously you know bliss too because you are made of the stuff called bliss you consist of only one thing -- that is bliss
gautam the buddha used to say if you taste sea water from any place it is always salty if you taste your consciousness from any door, from any method, from any path you will always taste bliss
bliss takes you beyond time without bliss you remain a slave of time
time is continuously changing hence to remain in time means constantly being uprooted from one place to another place you cannot grow, it is impossible to grow in time it is just continuously replanting there is no opportunity to grow roots to be centered, to be grounded time is fleeting so fast and you have to keep pace with time you have to go on running you have to go on being more and more speedy to keep your pace with time otherwise you will be left behind
to live in time means to live a life of continuous change, movement you cannot find even a moment's rest even in your sleep you are dreaming that means even in your sleep you are running
bliss is beyond time, hence instead of a slave it makes you a god, a god of time time starts serving you ordinarily people serve time and time ultimately takes you to death it cannot take you anywhere else the grave is the goal it makes you run faster and faster and faster till you fall in your own grave then only it leaves you it goes on pushing you towards the grave
in sanskrit we have one word for both time and death -- kal for the simple reason that time means death kalesh means god of time and the moment you become a master of time you also become a master of death then time serves you, death serves you both become your servants but the whole secret lies in transcending time and it is possible, the key is there within us the key is to get out of the mind
mind is within the grip of time and death the moment you slip out of the mind you are outside time and death and to slip out of the mind takes you into the world of bliss then there is only rejoicing and eternal life
bliss is multi-dimensional it has many aspects to it one of its aspects is it is a flame, a light once the flame is lit within you all darkness disappears the darkness cannot exist with the flame and when there is no darkness within you your whole life is transformed because your whole life was dominated by darkness now it is dominated by light
darkness within whatsoever you do is going to be wrong even the right, with all good intentions is going to be wrong -- that is inevitable and one can experience it parents want to do everything right for their child of course they think they love the child but they only think deep down they are so full of darkness
love is not possible and with all the good intentions they start crippling the child, paralysing, poisoning with all their superstitions and stupidities they go on burdening the child they are trying to make the child live exactly the same life as they have lived and they have never tasted bliss yet they want the child to be just a carbon copy of themselves it is absolutely unconscious with all good intentions they are creating hell for the child their parents created hell for them and now they are doing the same to their children and the children will go on doing the same to their children that's how from generation to generation man is being poisoned from the very source the teachers are trying to do something good but all that they manage to do is stuff your mind with borrowed knowledge they themselves are not wise how can they help you to be wise? the priests are doing everything good for you and they are the greatest mischievous people in the world, not knowing at all they have destroyed the whole human past in the name of religion all kinds of crimes have been committed
murders, people have been burnt alive and not one or two, millions of people in the name of god, in the name of christianity in the name of islam, in the name of hinduism beautiful names but the reason is simple unless you have your inner light whatsoever you do is going to be wrong hence my emphasis is not to do right my emphasis is to be right then whatsoever you do is going to be right that is secondary then there is no need to be worried about it and to be right means to be full of light
bliss is a light, misery is darkness and that light is not far away you are not to travel to a star to find it you have just to go within -- it is just so close to you just a little turning, a hundred-eighty-degree turning just changing your focus from the outside and looking in is enough
once you start looking in you are bound to find the flame it is already there -- neglected, ignored once you pay attention to it, it starts burning bright your attention becomes its food its nourishment, its fuel hence meditation is nothing but the art of becoming attentive, aware, alert
our whole education is rooted in a false notion of creating the ego in the child even the psychologists go on emphasising that the ego has to be strengthened these psychologists also don't know the experience of egolessness they are as unaware as anybody else as unenlightened as anybody else and in their ignorance they think unless you have a very strong ego you will not be able to compete in life and it is a tough competition you have to be strong to give a good fight it is a struggle, the survival of the fittest so you have to be fit to survive
that's what our education is it is in fact miseducation because its whole foundation is wrong it is rooted in the idea of the ego
real education will help you to dissolve the ego to drop the very idea of conflict struggle, fight, war in fact one has to be in a deep communion with the whole -- relaxed, restful, at home to me that is religiousness and the reward is bliss and there cannot be any greater reward
dissolve the ego, let it evaporate and only then will you find a tremendous explosion of such joy that you could not have even dreamt of it before when it happens for the first time it is absolutely unbelievable, it is so vast it is so infinite that one cannot believe that one is capable of it one tries perhaps i am dreaming, perhaps i am imagining but the miracle is such that once it happens it goes on deepening
sooner or later you have to trust it sooner or later you have to come to understand that this is what you were missing this is what you were always seeking and searching unconsciously
ego is the only barrier and egolessness is the only bridge to god
one has to become a nobody, a nothingness only then bliss happens because only then there is a space enough for the infinite to become a guest in your being otherwise we are so much cluttered with all kinds of rubbish, junk, crap that the infinite cannot be a guest we cannot be a host to the divine and bliss is divine, another name for god
one can invite bliss only if one has prepared one's being and the preparation means if one has emptied oneself out completely all the ideologies have to be thrown out all the scriptures have to be burned not literally, not the scriptures on the outside they have nothing to do with you
but nothing inside should remain no ideology, no religion, no theology
one should become utterly empty of all ideas and then the miracle is bound to happen exactly at the moment you are totally empty it happens and it does not happen as if something is coming from the outside it happens exactly at the centre of your being as if something has suddenly blossomed in you it was always there as a potential; it becomes actual
we have only to create space and any limited space won't do it has to be unlimited hence i say one has to become a zero the moment the zero is there perfection happens on its own accord
bliss and wisdom are two sides of the same coin only a blissful person is wise and only a wise person is blissful they happen together
the fool cannot be blissful howsoever scholarly he is
howsoever knowledgeable he is he cannot be blissful and the blissful person howsoever uneducated he is, uninformed cannot be other than wise he cannot be otherwise
jesus is not a knowledgeable person neither is mohammed nor is kabir all the three are uneducated, absolutely uneducated not great scholars or philosophers not knowledgeable in any way just innocent people but immensely wise, absolutely wise their wisdom knows no bounds their wisdom is as vast as the whole sky their wisdom is infinite hence wisdom has to be understood what actually it is it is knowing your own being it is an experience of your own innermost core it is entering into your own centre the moment you enter your very centre the innermost shrine of your being a miracle happens you are innocent and yet you have such tremendous insight into everything it is not knowledge, it is insight your life is lived now in a wise way your each step is full of wisdom
your each word contains scriptures even your silence is a sermon
and the miracle of this blissfulness, this wisdom happens through a simple art of watching your mind
mind is knowledge if you can watch your mind in all its functions if you can watch all its knowledge you become separate from it the watcher becomes separate from the watched and that very separation is the beginning of bliss and wisdom when you are totally aware that you are not the mind you have prepared yourself for the miracle to happen it inevitably happens just we have to be ready for it
sannyas is a preparation for wisdom, for bliss for freedom, for love -- for all that is really valuable
Osho's Commentary
one becomes simultaneously
a beloved of the whole existence
the miserable remains separate from the whole
misery creates a kind of boundary
it creates a prison
blissfulness is nothing but melting, merging
disappearing in the whole
misery is centered in the ego, bliss is egolessness
and the ego can never be the beloved of existence
because it is a false entity
the existence does not give any recognition
to false entities
hence the egoist suffers, he lives in hell
only egolessness brings paradise to you
to be initiated into sannyas
means basically, essentially
initiation into egolessness
bliss comes naturally
and one becomes the beloved of the whole
without any effort
it is our birthright
but we have to drop the false
to be in tune with the real
the experience of bliss
needs as a basic requirement courageousness
and nothing else
the miserable is always a coward
for the simple reason
that he cannot drop even the false
he clings to the false -- the ego
not only that, he clings even to his misery
he cannot even renounce his misery
remember a basic law: misery does not cling to you
it has no interest in you --
it is your investment in misery
it is your clinging with misery
that keeps you imprisoned, keeps you in hell
courage simply means
dropping all that is ugly, all that is false
and that creates unnecessary suffering
yes, there is some necessary suffering also
but that is a totally different phenomenon
necessary suffering
is that which one has to pass through
if one wants to reach to the heights
then one has to go uphill
that is necessary suffering
but it is worth it, it is a joy, in fact
people are clinging to unnecessary misery
which is absolutely not needed at all
it does not help your growth -- it hinders
but courage is needed to drop it
why is courage needed to drop it?
because we have some investment in it
the miserable person is getting
attention through his misery
sympathy through his misery
compassion through his misery
the more he gets people's sympathy
attention, kindness, compassion
the more he becomes clinging to his misery
he knows it is because of misery
that he is the centre of everybody else's attention
this is fulfilling his ego
but on the other hand it is nursing his misery
it is keeping his wound alive
it does not allow the wound to heal
a simple courage is needed to drop all this
because sympathy is not love
compassion is not love
getting attention for wrong reasons
you cannot really be contented
and what can attention give to you?
it can simply give you a bigger ego
which will be more heavy to carry -- that's all
you will be burdened with it
crushed under its weight
gather courage to drop all this
and the moment you drop it
immediately there is bliss
because bliss is our nature
it has not to be created, it is already there
we just have to remove the hindrances
that's the whole art of sannyas
removing the hindrances
eliminating the obstructions
the moment those rocks are no more there
the river of bliss starts flowing
it starts moving towards the ocean
towards the ultimate bliss of merging with the whole
bliss is always young, always fresh, always green
as far as bliss is concerned it is always spring
the fall never comes, the death never comes
bliss is eternal life
hence the longing of everyone
is to search and seek bliss, to find it
everybody is trying in his own ways to find it
of course, out of a hundred ways
ninety-nine are wrong
hence very few people attain it
but this is the way life functions
this is the way life gives you an opportunity
to be intelligent, to be aware, to experiment
to make mistakes and errors
because that is the only way to learn
you have to knock on ninety-nine doors
before you can find the right door
even those ninety-nine doors are helpful
don't think of them as enemies
because they help you to find the hundredth door
they are all pointing towards the hundredth door
life is a trial and error experiment
that's the only way to grow
to sharpen one's intelligence
if there was only one door
then there would be no difference
between the stupid and the intelligent
both would enter from the same door
the stupid is one who gets stuck in a wrong door
the intelligent also knocks on the wrong door
but never gets stuck there -- he goes on moving
he goes on searching until he finds the right door
it is a beautiful exploration
a tremendously thrilling adventure
enjoy the search, rejoice in the seeking
and the person who can enjoy
the very search, the very pilgrimage
is not far away from the right door
he is bound to find it
pleasure gives you the appearance of bliss
but it is not bliss -- it tricks you, it tickles you
for a moment it befools you, but only for a moment
and again you are back to the same state of despair
happiness also is another hallucination
pleasure is physiological, happiness is psychological
for example, a person taking some drug like lsd
feels a certain happiness but it is not bliss
even a man like aldous huxley was deceived
a very intelligent man but he believed
that he had attained through Lsd
the same experience
as the buddha, as jesus christ, as lao tzu
it is not possible through chemicals
chemicals can only create a dreamworld
and when their effect is lost you are back
on the same earth, in the same state
even in fact far more miserable than before
because now you have seen a dream
beautiful dream
and you will miss it
but this is not new
not only aldous huxley is deceived
it has been one of the most ancient things
from the ancientmost scripture of the world, rigveda
up to now, people have been deceived by drugs
in rigveda it is called soma
but it is exactly something like
marijuana, Lsd, pscilocybin
one can feel a dreamworld,
a beautiful dreamworld but it does not last
and the definition of bliss
is that it begins but it never ends
if it ends then it is either pleasure or happiness
either physiological or psychological
but it has nothing to do with the spiritual
the spiritual is the dimension of eternity
bliss is homeless
hence it is ever green, always young, always fresh
the only way to attain it is meditation
the body cannot give it to you
the mind cannot give it to you
only the state of no-mind
that's what meditation is: a state of no-mind
the moment you enter into the state of no-mind
in that immense silence, that profound virgin silence
you have entered into bliss, into the world of bliss
samo is a word that means balance, stillness, silence
it simply means coming to an inner space within you
where there is no disturbance at all, no distraction
where past is no more hovering over you
where future is no more pulling you
where only the present exists
where only this moment is all
in that silence, in that stillness, one hears
the Sound
of one hand
Clapping
the eternal music of existence
and that's what bliss is
to become part of that eternal silence
which is also an eternal song, but a song of silence
unuttered, unexpressed
a dance at the innermost shrine of your being
with no movement
it is one of the most mysterious experiences
a song without any words
a dance without any movement
a music which cannot be heard
but can only be tasted, experienced
the ordinary science
is concerned with everything except bliss
it is concerned with the whole existence
except the consciousness of the scientist itself
it is a very strange phenomenon that the scientist
is interested in all kinds of things
except in his own consciousness -- who he is
that is not his problem at all, that is not his quest
the knower remains unknown to him
and he goes on accumulating knowledge
about everything else
vigyan means a special science
special in the sense that it is concerned with
the knowing of the knower itself
its only concern is to know the knower
who am i? is its only quest
and the moment you know who you are
simultaneously you know bliss too
because you are made of the stuff called bliss
you consist of only one thing -- that is bliss
gautam the buddha used to say
if you taste sea water from any place
it is always salty
if you taste your consciousness
from any door, from any method, from any path
you will always taste bliss
bliss takes you beyond time
without bliss you remain a slave of time
time is continuously changing
hence to remain in time
means constantly being uprooted
from one place to another place
you cannot grow, it is impossible to grow in time
it is just continuously replanting
there is no opportunity to grow roots
to be centered, to be grounded
time is fleeting so fast
and you have to keep pace with time
you have to go on running
you have to go on being more and more speedy
to keep your pace with time
otherwise you will be left behind
to live in time means
to live a life of continuous change, movement
you cannot find even a moment's rest
even in your sleep you are dreaming
that means even in your sleep you are running
bliss is beyond time, hence instead of a slave
it makes you a god, a god of time
time starts serving you
ordinarily people serve time
and time ultimately takes you to death
it cannot take you anywhere else
the grave is the goal
it makes you run faster and faster and faster
till you fall in your own grave
then only it leaves you
it goes on pushing you towards the grave
in sanskrit we have one word for both
time and death -- kal
for the simple reason that time means death
kalesh means god of time
and the moment you become a master of time
you also become a master of death
then time serves you, death serves you
both become your servants
but the whole secret lies in transcending time
and it is possible, the key is there within us
the key is to get out of the mind
mind is within the grip of time and death
the moment you slip out of the mind
you are outside time and death
and to slip out of the mind
takes you into the world of bliss
then there is only rejoicing and eternal life
bliss is multi-dimensional
it has many aspects to it
one of its aspects is it is a flame, a light
once the flame is lit within you
all darkness disappears
the darkness cannot exist with the flame
and when there is no darkness within you
your whole life is transformed
because your whole life was dominated by darkness
now it is dominated by light
darkness within
whatsoever you do is going to be wrong
even the right, with all good intentions
is going to be wrong -- that is inevitable
and one can experience it
parents want to do everything right for their child
of course they think they love the child
but they only think
deep down they are so full of darkness
love is not possible
and with all the good intentions
they start crippling the child, paralysing, poisoning
with all their superstitions and stupidities
they go on burdening the child
they are trying to make the child live
exactly the same life as they have lived
and they have never tasted bliss
yet they want the child
to be just a carbon copy of themselves
it is absolutely unconscious
with all good intentions
they are creating hell for the child
their parents created hell for them
and now they are doing the same to their children
and the children will go on doing the same
to their children
that's how from generation to generation
man is being poisoned from the very source
the teachers are trying to do something good
but all that they manage to do
is stuff your mind with borrowed knowledge
they themselves are not wise
how can they help you to be wise?
the priests are doing everything good for you
and they are the greatest mischievous people
in the world, not knowing at all
they have destroyed the whole human past
in the name of religion
all kinds of crimes have been committed
murders, people have been burnt alive
and not one or two, millions of people
in the name of god, in the name of christianity
in the name of islam, in the name of hinduism
beautiful names but the reason is simple
unless you have your inner light
whatsoever you do is going to be wrong
hence my emphasis is not to do right
my emphasis is to be right
then whatsoever you do is going to be right
that is secondary
then there is no need to be worried about it
and to be right means to be full of light
bliss is a light, misery is darkness
and that light is not far away
you are not to travel to a star to find it
you have just to go within -- it is just so close to you
just a little turning, a hundred-eighty-degree turning
just changing your focus from the outside
and looking in is enough
once you start looking in
you are bound to find the flame
it is already there -- neglected, ignored
once you pay attention to it, it starts burning bright
your attention becomes its food
its nourishment, its fuel
hence meditation is nothing but the art
of becoming attentive, aware, alert
our whole education is rooted in a false notion
of creating the ego in the child
even the psychologists go on emphasising
that the ego has to be strengthened
these psychologists also don't know
the experience of egolessness
they are as unaware as anybody else
as unenlightened as anybody else
and in their ignorance
they think unless you have a very strong ego
you will not be able to compete in life
and it is a tough competition
you have to be strong to give a good fight
it is a struggle, the survival of the fittest
so you have to be fit to survive
that's what our education is
it is in fact miseducation
because its whole foundation is wrong
it is rooted in the idea of the ego
real education will help you to dissolve the ego
to drop the very idea of conflict
struggle, fight, war
in fact one has to be in a deep communion
with the whole -- relaxed, restful, at home
to me that is religiousness
and the reward is bliss
and there cannot be any greater reward
dissolve the ego, let it evaporate
and only then will you find a tremendous explosion
of such joy
that you could not have even dreamt of it before
when it happens for the first time
it is absolutely unbelievable, it is so vast
it is so infinite that one cannot believe
that one is capable of it
one tries
perhaps i am dreaming, perhaps i am imagining
but the miracle is such that once it happens
it goes on deepening
sooner or later you have to trust it
sooner or later you have to come to understand
that this is what you were missing
this is what
you were always seeking and searching
unconsciously
ego is the only barrier
and egolessness is the only bridge to god
one has to become a nobody, a nothingness
only then bliss happens
because only then there is a space enough
for the infinite to become a guest in your being
otherwise we are so much cluttered
with all kinds of rubbish, junk, crap
that the infinite cannot be a guest
we cannot be a host to the divine
and bliss is divine, another name for god
one can invite bliss
only if one has prepared one's being
and the preparation means
if one has emptied oneself out completely
all the ideologies have to be thrown out
all the scriptures have to be burned
not literally, not the scriptures on the outside
they have nothing to do with you
but nothing inside should remain
no ideology, no religion, no theology
one should become utterly empty of all ideas
and then the miracle is bound to happen
exactly at the moment you are totally empty
it happens
and it does not happen
as if something is coming from the outside
it happens exactly at the centre of your being
as if something has suddenly blossomed in you
it was always there as a potential; it becomes actual
we have only to create space
and any limited space won't do
it has to be unlimited
hence i say one has to become a zero
the moment the zero is there
perfection happens on its own accord
bliss and wisdom are two sides of the same coin
only a blissful person is wise
and only a wise person is blissful
they happen together
the fool cannot be blissful
howsoever scholarly he is
howsoever knowledgeable he is
he cannot be blissful
and the blissful person
howsoever uneducated he is, uninformed
cannot be other than wise
he cannot be otherwise
jesus is not a knowledgeable person
neither is mohammed nor is kabir
all the three are uneducated, absolutely uneducated
not great scholars or philosophers
not knowledgeable in any way
just innocent people
but immensely wise, absolutely wise
their wisdom knows no bounds
their wisdom is as vast as the whole sky
their wisdom is infinite
hence wisdom has to be understood
what actually it is
it is knowing your own being
it is an experience of your own innermost core
it is entering into your own centre
the moment you enter your very centre
the innermost shrine of your being
a miracle happens
you are innocent and yet
you have such tremendous insight into everything
it is not knowledge, it is insight
your life is lived now in a wise way
your each step is full of wisdom
your each word contains scriptures
even your silence is a sermon
and the miracle of this blissfulness, this wisdom
happens through a simple art
of watching your mind
mind is knowledge
if you can watch your mind in all its functions
if you can watch all its knowledge
you become separate from it
the watcher becomes separate from the watched
and that very separation
is the beginning of bliss and wisdom
when you are totally aware that you are not the mind
you have prepared yourself
for the miracle to happen
it inevitably happens
just we have to be ready for it
sannyas is a preparation for wisdom, for bliss
for freedom, for love -- for all that is really valuable