... of the third day, the doctors said that they could not do anything more and that within four to six hours he would die, or if he lived, he would be mad - which would be worse than death - because as time passed the delicate veins and cells of his brain were disintegrating. But Cayce suddenly started speaking even though he was in a coma. The doctors couldn't believe it: Cayce's body was unconscious...

... whenever such a misfortune overwhelms a civilization, whenever it loses its connection with past knowledge, the intellectuals drift away from it because they don't like to look foolish. The illiterate try to preserve the symbols and follow the rituals, and so the symbols and rituals will continue for some time and then die a natural death. But sometimes it happens that some valuable things are preserved...

... happened, he parked his car in such a place so that Ramanujan could see its number plate. When Hardy went into Ramanujan's room, he told Hardy that his number plate was unique: it had four special aspects to it. After that, Ramanujan died. Hardy took six months to understand what Ramanujan meant, but he could only discover three of the four aspects. On his death he left a will that research work on that...

... number should continue, to find out the fourth aspect. Because Ramanujan had said there was a fourth, there had to be. Twenty-two years after Hardy's death, the fourth was discovered. Ramanujan was right. Whenever he began to look into any mathematical problem something began to happen in the middle space between his two eyebrows. Both his eyeballs turned upwards, centering on that middle space. In...

..., but he was speaking. He said that he had fallen from a tree, that his backbone was injured, and that was why he was unconscious. He also said that if he was not treated within six hours, his brain would be affected and he would die. He suggested some herbal medicine which he should be given to drink and said that he then should recover within twelve hours. The names of the herbs which he requested...

... through childhood and youth and then become old and die. The insights of Yoga have been gained over a period of twenty thousand years; historically, the calculations for a period of twenty thousand years are fairly clear.If you want to study the youth of one man, you need to study that of ten, because what is true for one man may not be true for all men. The study of a single person and a single event...

... die at all, but the disciples said that they were not worried about their own deaths, that they were interested only in knowing how the dead could be made alive. Finally Jesus became tired of them and he showed them the method. Immediately all three left him to search for a dead body somewhere, to try out the mantra before they forgot something or made some mistake. Unfortunately, in the first...

... no need to destroy its buildings, its cinemas, its theaters or its hotels. If just the five most famous universities were destroyed, the whole Western culture would disappear. Western culture does not reside in its cinemas, hotels or night clubs - it makes no difference if they continue - but if the most eminent universities were destroyed, Western civilization would slowly die and become lost. The...

... left, a very subtle rhythm, but you find yourself as if you are not. Only in deep love can one move into it. Love is like death: you die as far as your material image is concerned, you die as far as you think you are a body; you die as a body and you evolve as energy, vital energy. And when the wife and the husband, or the lovers, or the partners, start vibrating in a rhythm, their beats of their...

... or he is not dead. Half-alive means he is not dead. When you love a person, do you love ten percent, twenty percent, thirty percent? Either you love or you don't love. Is there any possibility of dividing your love? There is no possibility. Love, life, death, they all happen suddenly. When a child is born, he is either born or not born. And the same is true about enlightenment, because that is the...

... ultimate birth, ultimate death, ultimate life, ultimate love - everything comes to its ultimate peak in enlightenment. It is a sudden thing. Tantra says: Don't focus your attention on the acts, focus your attention on the person who has done the acts. Yoga focuses on the acts. Tantra focuses on the person, on the consciousness, on you. If you are ignorant, tantra says you are bound to commit sin. Even if...

... where it comes. Out of the poison of your ignorance, life cannot come, only death. Out of your darkness, only darkness is born. And that seems to be absolutely natural. So what to do? Should we try to change the acts? Should we try to become more moral, virtuous, respectable? Or should we try to change the being? The being can be changed. There is no need to wait for it for infinite lives. If you have...

... - pulsating, but no more substantial. And your beloved also pulsates. And by and by, if they love each other and they surrender to each other, they surrender to this moment of pulsation, of vibration, of being energy, and they are not scared.... Because it is death- like when the body loses boundaries, when the body becomes like a vaporous thing, when the body evaporates substantially and only energy is...

... trust. Unless you trust so much that you can surrender completely, it cannot happen. All bliss, all moments of bliss, happen only when you surrender. Even death becomes beautiful if you can surrender to it, then what to say about life? If you surrender, of course, life is the greatest blessing, it is a benediction. You are missing the ultimate gift because you cannot trust. If you want to learn...

...? - because I would like to die bowing down in that direction." And he died bowing down in the direction where Buddha was. When the energy is received, when the final benediction comes from the master - the emancipation is at hand - one has to say goodbye. In Zen, when a disciple comes to a master in Japan, he brings his mat. He unrolls his mat before the master, sits on the mat, listens to the master...

... investments, knowledge is not going to be dropped. And then, habits die hard. And the habit of knowledge is the ancientmost habit that man has carried; it is the most dangerous habit. Smoking or drinking or gambling are nothing. This is the most dangerous habit because it prevents you from seeing, it prevents you from coming into deep contact with reality. It is the greatest barrier: the China Wall. But...

... habits die hard, remember it, and it is the longest, the ancientmost, habit. An old gambler was talking to his son as he lay dying. 'Son, promise me you'll never touch a card. Above all, never play blackjack. It's a game that will cost you a fortune, waste your time, ruin your health and cause you untold moments of anguish and pain. Do you promise me, here on my dying bed, with the merciful angel of...

... death hovering about and Almighty God as a witness, that you will never play blackjack, that you will never touch playing cards?' 'Yes, Father' muttered the pious son. 'And remember' shouted the old gambler 'if you must play, always be sure to take the bank!' Old habit: a gambler is a gambler. What he is saying does not matter much, deep inside he is the old gambler. All this great sermon against...

...' Hymie said sleepily. 'Go back to sleep, stupid.' Just then a man sprang from inside a closet. 'There is too' he declared. 'Now apologise to the lady.' A gentleman is a gentleman - even if he becomes a burglar.... Just then a man sprang from inside a closet. 'There is too' he declared. 'Now apologise to the lady.' Habits die hard. They continue deep down. Up in Dartmouth, an English professor suddenly...

... somebody becomes frightened and goes away from the oasis, then only one thing is certain - he was not thirsty. He may be thinking about the oasis, it may have been a curiosity, but it was not thirst. He is not the man for me, or the woman. This is no kaaba for idiots to circle nor a mosque for the impolite to clamour in This is a temple of total ruin. Unless you are ready to die, it is better you should...

... not be here, because only through your death is resurrection. Unless you are ready to be reborn, don't waste my time. This is a temple of total ruin. Inside are the drunk, from pre-eternity to the judgement day, gone from themselves. Only those who are ready to drop their egos and selves, their judgements, their rationality, their intellects, only those who are ready to cut their heads will be able...

... little bit about God, religion; for those who come in search of theories and knowledge, or in search of morality and character. No, I am not for them. It 'is a temple of total ruin', but only when you die totally are you born as a new being, as a new man, as a new energy. Unburdened from the past, discontinuous with the past, you become as fresh as dewdrops in the morning, and only then you know what...

... are already too late. And their religion is not true, cannot be true, because it has not come out of understanding, it has come out of fear. Now death is approaching.... When a man becomes religious because of life, then it is true religion. When a man becomes religious because of death. it is an untrue religion. Here you will find young people. Even if you find old people you will find them very...

... want to solve the mystery of life, not the fear of death. These people are here not in search of any God, they are here in search of their own being. They are here to know what truth is; not a truth of the scriptures, but something existential that they feel in love, that they feel in happiness, that they feel in sadness, that they can touch, that they can live, go into, feel, enjoy, dance about...

... AND DEATH, RICHES AND POVERTY, OTHER MEN AND PIGS, MYSELF AND OTHER MEN; I DWELL IN MY OWN HOUSE AS THOUGH LODGING IN AN INN, AND LOOK AT MY OWN NEIGHBOURHOOD AS THOUGH IT WERE A FOREIGN AND BARBAROUS COUNTRY. 'HAVING ALL THESE AILMENTS, TITLES AND REWARDS CANNOT INDUCE ME, PUNISHMENTS AND FINES CANNOT AWE ME, PROSPERITY AND DECLINE, BENEFIT AND HARM CANNOT CHANGE ME, JOY AND SORROW CANNOT INFLUENCE...

... your inner monkey completely disappears, utterly disappears. To be a man means to be a no-mind. The constant chattering of the mind inside, the inner talk, the monologue, continues day and night, year in, year out, from birth to death. Whatsoever you are doing is irrelevant, it continues deep inside you. That chattering is the only thing that is irreligious, the only sin, the original sin. Once that...

... will be disappearing so you will feel yourself going mad, falling apart dying. Death will be your experience or madness will be your experience. You will think that this is a curse that has happened to you. The blessing will look like a curse because you cannot yet see it as a blessing, your eyes are not trained or it. You can only see the curse, you can only see the negative part of it. This is what...

... perspective, your own clarity. It is just like an umbilical cord. The child lives through the mother in the womb for nine months and if you cut the umbilical cord he will die He lives through it. That is the only link. In exactly the same way, if you love the Master, a subtle silver cord arises between you and the Master - a very invisible phenomenon to others but very visible to the disciple. He can almost...

... SYMPTOMS OF YOUR ILLNESS.' 'I DO NOT THINK IT AN HONOUR IF THE WHOLE DISTRICT PRAISES ME NOR A DISGRACE IF THE WHOLE STATE REVILES ME; I HAVE NO JOY WHEN I WIN, NO ANXIETY WHEN I LOSE; I LOOK IN THE SAME WAY AT LIFE AND DEATH, RICHES AND POVERTY, OTHER MEN AND PIGS, MYSELF AND OTHER MEN; I DWELL IN MY OWN HOUSE AS THOUGH LODGING IN AN INN, AND LOOK AT MY OWN NEIGHBOURHOOD AS THOUGH IT WERE A FOREIGN AND...

... is different. The mind of man converts everything into two. The energy that you call light and darkness is one but you call it by two names: darkness and light. The energy that you call life and death is one but you call it by two names: life and death. The energy that you call hate and love is one but you call it by two names: hate and love. You are Tukaram's wife. This whole human world exists in...

... the ego. Third: I LOOK IN THE SAME WAY AT LIFE AND DEATH, RICHES AND POVERTY. Equanimity is born. When ego is gone and ego shadows are gone, SAMYAKTAVA equanimity, is left. You start looking at things but you don't think this is bad and this is good, this should be and this should not be. All is good or all is bad. All is alike. That is the equal eye, equanimity, what in India we call SAMYAK-DRISHTI...

... - the eye which sees everything as equal, the eye which sees the small as the big and the big as the small, the worthless as valuable and the valuable as worthless, the eye which sees gold and the mud as the same. Life and death, riches and poverty, all look the same to this man - and he is very much disturbed. What is happening to him? Has he lost interest in life or has he become dead somewhere in...

...; when you are free of all distinctions and you start living in a world which is one energy, nothing lower, nothing higher; when Devil and God lose their definition, embrace each other, fall in love, make love to each other; when life and death meet and become one; when the whole world is one - in that state you are free. But first the freedom will look as if you have gone utterly mad. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE...

... gross, that body is subtle. This body will have to die, that body knows no death. This body is part of time, that body is part of eternity. When this second body is born - and it can be born only when you have learned how to inhale and exhale light... Just as you are inhaling and exhaling breath, when you have learned how to inhale and exhale light - the second body, the body of light... This is the...

...? And this should not only be curiosity. Philosophy is out.of curiosity. Religion is a very sincere, authentic search; it is inquiry. And there is a great difference between curiosity and inquiry. Curiosity is childish, just a little itching in the head. You would like to scratch and then you feel satisfied. Philosophy is that scratching; religion is a life-and-death matter. In philosophy you never...

... become involved, you remain aloof. You play with the toys, but it is not a question of life and death. You accumulate knowledge, but you never practise it. I have heard... Once upon a time there lived an eminent Confucian scholar. He was a gentleman of nearly eighty, and was said to have no equal in learning and understanding. Then a rumour arose that far away a new doctrine had sprung up that was even...

... noise, but there will be no music. There will be much calculation, but there will be no celebration. And there will be much running and rushing hither and thither but no arrival. Between birth and death you will live in a kind of constant tension but you will not know the beauty, the benediction of life and existence, because you will not even have known the beauty and benediction of your inner being...

... this constant extroversion. You see this, you see that, you are continuously seeing without ever returning the energy to the seer. In the day you see the world, in the night you see dreams, but you go on remaining constantly attached to objects. This is dissipating energy. By the time a man is thirty he is almost finished; then he is a black hole. People die nearabout thirty, although they are buried...

... nearabout seventy - that is another matter - but they die nearabout thirty. And I see a grain of truth in the hippie idea: don't believe a man above thirty. There is a grain of truth in it, because it is very rare to find a man beyond thirty who is alive. People become black holes, spent, utterly exhausted. They go on dragging somehow; they live without being alive, as if just the momentum of the past...

... and dark symbolize man/woman, light/heavy, grace/ gravitation, life/death, movement/rest. All these things are represented by light and dark. In short, if the energy can move in a circle, slowly slowly you will not know who you are - whether a man or a woman. Extroversion is the principle of yang, introversion is the principle of yin. Man is naturally extrovert, woman is naturally introvert. Even...

... only exhales: he will not be able to live, his body will die. Or think of the person who only inhales: he will also die. And that's exactly what has happened to your soul. Your soul is dead, because either you exhale light or you inhale light; you have not yet learned that exhalation and inhalation have to become a circle, one process. Exhale deeply and inhale deeply. Just as breath is necessary for...

... because now you don't depend. Your happiness simply is your own, you don't borrow it from anybody. Nobody can take it away, not even death. Remember, death only separates you from others, it never separates you from yourself. Death seems so frightening because it will snatch you away from others - the wife will not be any more with the husband, the mother will not be any more with the children. Death...

... only separates you from others. It cannot separate you from yourself; there is no way to separate you from yourself. Once you have learned how to be with yourself then death is meaningless, then death does not exist. You become deathless. Then death cannot take anything away from you. That which death can take away from you, you have surrendered on your own accord. That's what meditation is - to...

... surrender the non-essential, that which death can take away from you. That which death is going to do, a meditator does on his own accord, voluntarily. Knowing it well - that this will be taken away - he surrenders it. It is immensely beautiful to be alone. There is nothing to be compared with it. Its beauty is the ultimate beauty, its grandeur is the ultimate grandeur, its power is the ultimate power...

... disappeared. Then you had another body in your youth - that has gone. The vigor, the vitality, the youth, the beauty - everything has disappeared. You had a different type of mind - too ambitious, too desirous, too egoistic. Now all that is a story of the past. Now death is coming; you can hear the sound of its coming closer every day. You can feel that every day the distance is becoming smaller and smaller...

... died. Nobody has been able to kill time. Time kills everybody. Each moment - time brings death. In India we have the same word for both: time we call KAL; and for death we also have the same name, KAL... because time brings death. Time is death. Each moment, you are slipping into death. Each moment, death is coming closer and closer and closer. All clocks are in the service of death. The whole of...

... time is serving death. And it is a rare opportunity to be a human being, and it is very easy to lose it. Buddha reminds us. The second thing he says: EVEN IF ONE BE BORN A MAN, IT IS ONE'S RARE FORTUNE TO BE PERFECT IN ALL THE SIX SENSES. There are people who may be born as men, but are blind, or deaf, or dumb, or mentally retarded. Then too it is impossible - Nobody has ever heard of any mentally...

... your own possible Buddhahood. That's what faith is... but it is not enough. Then you have to work hard to make it real. The seed has to fall into the earth, die into the earth, be born as a sprout. And a thousand and one difficulties have to be crossed: winds are there, thunder is there, animals are there, and the new sprout is very fragile, very weak - with infinite potentiality to become strong...

... am fighting with every Rajneeshee too. Don't get institutionalized. Don't become an organization; remain an organism. Whatsoever I have said is absolutely true, and you can see the organization and the guns as evidence of it. And when I am going to die, who cares what happens? Please at least let me die peacefully. Mr. Romano Giachetti EPOCA Magazine, Italy Q: BHAGWAN, I LIVE IN NEW YORK, BUT I AM...

... that gives them their dignity back. Communism has nothing to do with God, heaven, hell. Communism is an economic theory. In fact, this should not interfere with religion. Religion is not their domain, but Karl Marx is their Holy Bible because he said there is no God, there is no consciousness even. What consciousness we have is only a by- product. The moment we die, the consciousness is finished...

... BACK TO THE IDEA THAT YOU HAVE SAID YOU ARE THE RICH MAN'S GURU. I AM WONDERING, THOUGH. YOU KNOW OF SUFFERING ON THIS EARTH AND STARVING PEOPLE IN AFRICA. DO YOU HURT WITH THE KNOWLEDGE THAT OTHER PEOPLE SUFFER SO AND DIE FROM STARVATION, OR HAVE TO SLEEP ON STREETS AND THINGS LIKE THIS? A: I know, and I know also why they are suffering there. They are suffering there because of your priests and...

... they have become accustomed to listening to them for centuries. The Hindu shankaracharya, the Mohammedan caliph, the Christian pope, howsoever they may be different in small, meaningless matters, are absolutely together in that people should continue to produce more and more people. Then this world is going to die, naturally. My few Rolls Royces -- which are not mine, I just use them -- I can give to...

... a way of nature to establish harmony. It is in fact absolutely true that service to the poor has been the basic cause of poverty remaining for centuries. You go on throwing a few crumbs off your table, and those poor people go on hoping for more, and your priests go on telling them, "Just wait a little. After death you are going to be in paradise." And in paradise, even a camel can pass...

..., may turn communist, but they cannot become Rajneeshees, because the poor people have hopes with the Catholics -- yes, after life, after death -- they have hopes with the communists in this life. Of course it is a big bargain, but they are certainly impressed by those things. What I am saying just goes above their heads for a simple reason: you cannot ask everybody why they do not understand Mozart's...

...: That's great. Shoot me before all these media people. I would not like to die in a dark dismal room lying on a bed. Shoot me! This is the right moment. I have done everything that I wanted to do, I have experienced everything that is possible to human consciousness. There is nothing to lose. Shoot me this moment. Gather courage, don't be afraid. I will tell my guards not to prevent you. My guards are...

... is the responsibility of Christians from Jesus to Pope the Polack. All Christians are responsible for it because they have been teaching that all that is beautiful is beyond death. Jesus was doing the same as Reverend Jim Jones, they belong to the same category. Jim Jones was only repeating Jesus. Jesus was saying, "You are all going to be with me, and soon I will come back and take all of you...

... say -- and I will always have much more to say. Even on my deathbed, or in the chair being assassinated, I will still be saying something. I will not die silently. And I enjoy talking to my people. I enjoy their response. And, of course, I am a showman. Everybody is, they just don't have the guts to say it. Ma Prem Isabel Press Relations Bureau, Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, USA Q: BELOVED BHAGWAN, I'M NOT...

... here?" God answered him with a small voice, "I am tired, Rabbi. I am tired to death." God is tired of man's inhumanity to man. God is tired of man's immense stupidity. God is tired of man's unawareness. Only man seems somehow to be a misfit. The whole existence goes on harmoniously; the whole existence is a dance. Man is out of step. And the reason is that only man is free to be out of...

... the total, to the whole; you pour your life into the whole. So if you really want God to be alive, you have to say yes. Man has killed God -- almost killed him -- by saying no, continuously saying no. I love this story. The rabbi asked, "Lord God, what art thou doing here?" God answered him with a small voice, "I am tired, Rabbi. I am tired to death." Yes. God is tired. In fact...

..., God cannot die. God can die in YOUR life. There are millions of people in whose lives God is dead, in whose lives God has disappeared. That is the meaning when I say God is dead. Look into people's eyes and you will not find God alive there. And where else can God be alive? Millions and millions of hearts are completely empty of God. That's what I mean when I say God is dead. God lives in a Jesus...

... sannyas is all about: an effort to allow God to live in you, an effort to become a shrine of the divine. Look into your own being and search there. You will be fortunate if you can find in a dark corner of your being somewhere God sitting, tired -- tired to death. You will have to revive him. You will have to breathe for him, live for him. You will have to surrender your life for the whole. A religious...

..., you are shocked. You have never thought that they would ever die. Although many times you have wished that they should die -- an unconscious wish -- because they are heavy on you, because their very presence is a restriction. Have you watched, whenever you go to talk to your father you start stuttering, perspiring, you become nervous? Because he reminds you again that you are helpless, a small child...

..., and he is a powerful man. Have you watched, when you go to your mother it is so difficult to communicate? It is so difficult to say anything. It becomes so difficult to talk to a mother, to sit and chitchat is almost impossible. What to say? She is puzzled and you are also puzzled. Both are embarrassed. So deep down sometimes you have thought, "They should die, so I should be free of them."...

...; And when the father and mother die, suddenly you feel you are a child no more. But when Zen people say it, they mean something else. They are not talking about the father and mother on the outside. They are talking about the inside. When the father and mother in the inside die, you become mature, you become free. And remember, if you are free from your father and mother in the unconscious, you will...

...: N.A. Beloved Mukta, Love. To me meditation means: be playful and transcend all seriousness. See: life is not serious. Look around: 'existence is notserious.' Only disease is serious. And of course, DEATH. And the exploiters of death: The Priests! Life is playful andfestive and, therefore,purposeless. It is not going anywhere - because there is nowhere to go. It is always Here and Here. It is always...