... - their roles are determined beforehand. A dog cannot be anything other than a dog. He will simply live as a dog and die as a dog. Man can be many things. Man is born only as an opening with a thousand alternatives available. That is the dignity of man and the danger too, because he can choose the wrong, he can choose the right. But the freedom to choose implies also the freedom to choose the wrong...

...; contemplate on the joys. Don't think that there is only death; think of the eternal beauty of life. Then a great transformation happens: if you go on looking and seeing the silver lining in the dark black clouds, slowly slowly even the dark black cloud is no more dark and no more black; you start befriending it, because the silver lining is possible only because of it. Then even death is no more the enemy...

.... Then death makes life possible. How can it be the enemy? Then thorns are not ugly. They protect the flowers; they are soldiers on guard. The same tree nourishes the flowers and the thorns; there is a deep unity. Once you start going deeper into the positive aspect of life you will be surprised to see that the negative starts disappearing into the positive. And one day the whole of life is beautiful...

... intensified. One has to put all one's energy into this desire so that it becomes a flame, so it is not just a lukewarm longing but a matter of life and death. The moment the intensity is total, the thing happens. Nothing else is needed - just the totality of the longing is enough. You become afire, and that fire burns all that is unessential in you, and the essence surfaces in its absolute purity. Generated...

... many things. To become young, you will have to become old; if you want to be born, you will have to die. If you consider death bad, then do not be born at all. If you consider old age bad, then do not be young at all because to be young means that you are now on the way to being old. Life moves in circles. Nothing is bad. A rich youth leads to a rich old age and a rich birth leads to a rich death...

.... Religion is a flowering. Whenever a society reaches a point of leisure, art, meditation, religion flowers. Religion is the last flowering. But every flower is a sign that now the tree will die. Question: CAN RELIGION OR MEDITATION HELP ONE TO BE MORE ECONOMICALLY WELL OFF? CAN IT MAKE A POOR COUNTRY RICH? No, it cannot. It is not an economic movement; it is a religious movement. It has a specific...

... restlessness to develop, to grow, to transcend. If everyone is equally placed, the society becomes stagnant. Then there is no motivation, there is no stimulation to work, to grow, to transcend. The motivation comes through inequality. By and by, Soviet Russia will become capitalistic. It will have to. Otherwise it will die from stagnation. To me, a capitalist society is a natural phenomenon. A socialist...

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.... For twenty-five years, one third of life, we teach people ambition. How you can be first, how you can leave others behind. No matter what price you have to pay, even if life itself is lost in this race, but keep racing ahead... If you're going to die, get ahead, then die. Don't lag behind. Consider Jesus' statement: Blessed are those who are last, as they will be first in my kingdom of god; and...

... more veiled the border of death is pulling on life I take each step shaking, staggering one moment a man child's laugh then holding back, each eye deceiving O life! Fill me with such delight today! that I disperse sweet silvery laughter. Fill my heart so much with love today that I become a laughing lamp! O blossoming earth flowers don't lift the dark veil from your buds yet, I laugh with the smiling...

...-Rama printed on it. Let him be, leave the devotee." But the cat will not leave him. The cat knows, "Go on repeating Rama-Rama, wear your sheet, what difference does it make? It is all false." The cat will not leave him alone. THE CAT ATE THE KNOWLEDGEABLE, CONTEMPLATIVE PARROT... A cat will eat up even a well-read parrot, the same way death will eat you up. Death will come like a cat...

... and you are a well read parrot, not more than that. You will be eaten up, death will not leave you alone. ... THICK TOME STILL HIS HAND. And when the cat attacks, when death grabs your neck you will have only a thick book in your hand. Completely false ... THICK TOME STILL IN HIS HAND. Nothing else will remain, all will be forgotten. All study and contemplation will become useless. When death...

... attacks only what you know will work. One who knows will look at death and laugh. Mansoor laughed loudly. People asked, "We are killing you, why are you laughing?" Mansoor said, "I am laughing because the one you are killing is not me. And what I am you cannot even touch - killing is out of the question." Krishna has said, weapons cannot pierce it, fire cannot burn it. Mansoor said...

... filled! And without being filled, how will I be peaceful? How will I be blissful?" The birth of virah is from this desire for fulfillment. Pain rose to my lips, but could not speak. Its wings are cut, the bird has fallen from sky to earth, The wound festers inside, still I have brought nothing to soothe it. You tell me, does the pain of death become a blessing? Or is it just unfulfilled longing...

... you can be victorious. Be non-violent so that you can push others down. If a man sits down in front of your house and goes on a fast, saying he will die if you do not do as he says, do you think it is non-violence? If you don't listen to me I will kill myself. This is violence, it is a direct threat. It is blackmail. This man is giving a clear threat that he will kill himself. He is trying to put...

... was failing, finally Ambedkar had to yield. Ambedkar agreed, don't give a separate vote. And the Gandhian historians write: a victory for non-violence! This is very strange: who is the non-violent one in this? Ambedkar is non-violent. Seeing that Gandhi would die, he dropped his insistence. Gandhi is the violent one in this. He forced Ambedkar with this threat of killing himself. Understand it. If...

... hunger, does not fill your stomach. Really it is because of this glimpse that hunger arises for the first time. You experience that such a thing is possible. The union of a woman and a man in very deep love is only momentary. But in that moment a window opens. Through that window time is destroyed, death is destroyed, distances are destroyed. The feeling of I and you is destroyed. For a moment! But in...

...Death is Divine...

... part of life. Somebody dies and you feel sad. It is not a problem because the person cannot be revived. One has to accept that death is part of life, and sadness by and by disappears. People remain sad for long if they cannot accept the fact of death, if they go on saying, 'No, how can he die? It was not the right time for him to die.' They are trying to deny the facticity of death. In their minds...

... they are still thinking as if the person is still alive, or at least should be alive. They cannot accept that death has happened. Then they have not accepted the problem. So there are problems which can be solved; you will become aware of them within seven days. If the problem is such that it cannot be solved, then too you will become aware that this has to be accepted but the problem disappears...

... take away. Love conquers time and death both; love makes you immortal. In the moment of love one can easily die with no complaint on the lips. In the moment of love one is unafraid of anything; even death creates no tremor. The lover can die laughingly... because he has loved! Life has been such a boon, such a blessing, and death cannot take anything away - he has tasted something of the eternal. The...

... something or other - money, power, name, fame, anything. But nothing can ever fill it. It remains empty. It goes on asking for more and more and more. It cannot be filled by anything else, because it is meant to be filled only by love. Only a loving person is a full person, overflowing. Love gives richness, and a richness that is inexhaustible, a richness that is eternal, a richness that even death cannot...

... the knots? You know how to be without her, and you will be able to be without her. The fear that things may change tomorrow... Somebody may die, you may go bankrupt, your job may be taken away. There are a thousand and one things which may change. You are burdened with fears and fears, and none of them are valid -- because yesterday also you were full of all these fears, unnecessarily. Things may...

... awareness. That will be the beginning of the end of the mind. That will be the death of the mind. But for you there is no fear. The death of the mind will be your rebirth, your beginning to really live. You should be happy, you should rejoice in the death of the mind, because nothing can be a greater freedom. Nothing else can give you wings to fly into the sky; nothing else can make the whole sky yours...

... awareness. The greatest discovery in life, the most precious treasure, is of awareness. Without it you are bound to be in darkness, full of fears. And you will go on creating new fears -- there is no end to it. You will live in fear, you will die in fear, and you will never be able to taste something of freedom. And it was all the time your potential; any moment you could have claimed it, but you never...

... DIFFERENT. WHAT HAPPENED? Death, if it happens with enlightenment, is a tremendous experience. On the one hand the man dies; on the other hand he achieves the totality of life. When I touched my father's seventh chakra, just on the top of the head, those who were perceptive, silent, meditative, may have experienced something strange happening. According to the centuries-old science of inner reality, a...

... man's life energy is released from the center, the chakra, at which he was living. Most people die from the lowest chakra, the sex center. There are seven chakras in the body from where life can go out of the body. The last is on top of the head, and unless you are enlightened life cannot go out from that chakra. When I touched my father's seventh chakra, it was still warm. Life had left it, but it...

... women into their temples to worship. He can go on preparing them - that does not matter unless temples call them to be priests, unless people start calling them for marriages, childbirth, death. That's why nobody is bothering about him. But his answer shows a great fallacy that Hindus have carried for thousands of years - that Sanskrit is the language of God, the only language he understands and the...

... going out of the chimneys as smoke in the sky? What security is there? There has never been any security. Death can come any moment, and it always comes without any notice, without any warning. Still, we go on living with the idea of security, and whenever the idea of being a rebel, a rebellious spirit, arises, immediately we think of security. But you don't have any security! The rebel understands it...

... nothing to lose but everything to gain. Question 2: BELOVED MASTER, WHAT IS THE SECRET OF A TRUE REBEL THAT ALLOWS HIM TO DESTROY THE OLD STRUCTURES, STAND UP AGAINST THE WHOLE WORLD, AND STILL REMAIN NON- SERIOUS? Samvedo, the secret is not much of a secret. It is an open secret... the true rebel has an understanding of the momentariness of life, of the certainty of death; hence nothing can make him...

... afraid, nothing can make him compromise. In such a momentary life one is absolutely able to live without any compromise, and when death is certain, there is no need for compromise at all. Because life is so short, the rebel can do whatever he is capable of with his total being, whatever he enjoys to create and whatever needs to be destroyed for that creation to happen. He is not destructive; even if he...

... has to destroy it is always in the service of creation. And still he remains... because he is not a reactionary, he has no complaint against anybody; he remains playful, because all creativity is playfulness. He is non-serious, because seriousness is also part of the old man. The new man, the rebel, has a tremendous sense of humor. He can laugh in the face of death. While living, while fighting...

.... There is nothing to be serious about. The late, unlamented, Adolph Hitler was at one time troubled by unusual dreams. He sent for his dream interpreter, who told him the forecast that he would die on a Jewish holiday. "But which one?" asked the apprehensive Fuhrer. "Any day you die will be a Jewish holiday," was the answer. Just look around life. It is so ridiculous, so humorous...

... come to say goodbye to me. She escaped like a thief, a murderer. She has degraded, in my eyes, the status of womanhood. She could do anything. She deserted her husband when he was seriously ill, and began a love affair with another sannyasin. This was a great shock to her husband and may have caused his death. She then married an American and, without divorcing him, or even telling him that she was...

... is; otherwise, how can I take it on myself? Those twenty people have not yet known anything, so rather than sending them to prison, I would prefer myself to be hanged. And they have committed enough crimes, enough for a death sentence for one single man. That will help the commune. That will help those people. But instead of doing that, Sheela is lying to the press - which is not going to help...

... those twenty people have still to realize themselves; they have not even found the blessed state in which I am - now no death can destroy it. So I am the right person to be hanged for all their crimes. I would like them to confess, and I would like you to forgive them, because love knows infinite forgiveness. Question 2: BELOVED MASTER, HOW IS IT THAT ALTHOUGH I FEEL SO SERENE AND IN HARMONY WHEN I AM...

... WITNESSING, I STILL SPEND MOST OF MY TIME IN A DAZE? I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY I CONTINUE TO SLEEP, WHEN THE RARE MOMENTS THAT I SURFACE ARE SO EXQUISITE. Just old habit. Old habits die hard, but they do die. Don't be worried! Question 3: BELOVED MASTER, YOU SAID AT A PRESS CONFERENCE THAT IF THE AUTHORITIES DON'T ACT, WE WILL TAKE MATTERS INTO OUR OWN HANDS, AND BRING THEM BACK HERE. THIS WILL PRESUMABLY...

... than love, because death can never be more powerful than life. Guns can never be more powerful than laughter. So if they want to destroy us they need not take unnecessary trouble and go in circles, give immunity to the criminals and force the innocent to be punished - there is no need. You can have a beautiful Hiroshima here, you can just drop a hydrogen bomb. And that will be something, because you...

... don't have what Japan has: a Nagasaki, a Hiroshima - America is missing. You can also brag then, that you also have a Hiroshima. But this Hiroshima will be totally different. People will be dancing, laughing, loving, and they will welcome death. There will be no despair, no anguish, no fear. Try it. That will become a precedent for the whole world. Our laughter, our dance, our song, our music, will...

... atheists exist? They were secondary, they were simply a reaction. When there are no religions and nobody is saying there is God, what is the point of disbelieving in God? You will look a little silly. With the death of theism, atheism will die automatically. That means it was only a shadow, it was not a reality in itself. A reaction is a shadow. When I say there is no God, I am not saying that I...

..., friends you can choose without much consideration, but enemies have to be chosen with great consideration, because they are going to change your character. The rebel has no enemy. He simply has a vision that the old is finished. It need not be fought against, it is dying itself. Fighting with it is to give it life. Just ignore it. It is already on the deathbed; it will die of its own accord. Don't give...

... mess. They go on round and round in circles: the same misery, the same anguish, the same suffering - and they know sooner or later is the end. They have not been able to live, they have not been able to love, they have not been able to laugh - and death knocks on their doors. Most of the people realize only when death comes: "My God! So I was ALIVE!" - because there was nothing alive in...

... cannot be optimistic. And you all believe in religions which are pessimistic. Do you think worshipping a cross is optimistic? It is worshipping death. And people are carrying crosses around their necks. Even if you make the crosses of gold, it does not matter - a cross is a cross. Listen to your holy scriptures. They condemn you continuously, they say that you are sinners, that you are still burdened...

... decided of my own accord. I have loved my freedom, and my eyes are without any dark film. Hence, I am helpless: I cannot be pessimistic. Even in this world which is almost insane, I am optimistic, because I cannot conceive that the forces of life can be defeated by the forces of death. I cannot conceive that truth can be conquered by lies. It is such a deep certainty in me that I know the birth of the...

.... I will not take such trouble to reach your mother. Otherwise it will become difficult for my sannyasins to die. And just as a symbol I have made samadhis for the sannyasins who have died - so you remember that I am not going to protect you! When death comes, it is perfectly good. Let it come. I may even help death rather than you. Because death will relieve you of all pain and all stupidities and...

... forever. The day she dies, your whole love, your trust in me, will simply disappear because I allowed your mother to die, because I did not give her the healing energy. That's why I want my hands from the very beginning to be completely clean. I don't accept praise because I know behind every praise there is the possibility of condemnation. I am condemned already too much all over the world. At least...

... all diseases ... and particularly the fear of death! Once you are dead, you are no more afraid - even of death - and you will rest in your grave for eternity. So why should I prevent you? But if you go and say these things to somebody else, he will be immensely happy. These are the people who go on creating wrong concepts in people's minds. My thing is very clear: I am available; if you trust me you...