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..., Golgotha - he was thirsty, and on the cross as blood started oozing out from his hands and feet.... The Jewish crucifixion was the most cruel way of killing a man that has been practiced anywhere. It took sometimes thirty-six to forty-eight hours for a man to die. An electric chair is far more non- violent. You simply sit in it and you are gone - just a switch. Perhaps you may not even hear the click. By...
... the time you hear the click, you are no more. Every country has its way, but the Jews had the most torturous. Death is not a torture; death may be a relief from a torturous life, but on the Jewish cross you will be praying, "Kill me, God, kill me; I cannot wait anymore" - because you are hungry and thirsty, and as the blood oozes out of your body, you feel more thirsty, more thirsty...
..., because you are losing liquid. You are still alive, and the pain is tremendous... such a slow death. It is not just death. Death can be very simple: you cut the head off the person; it's not much of a problem. It does not need forty-eight hours... forty-eight hours dying. He started asking for water. Now, this is the man who used to walk on water. This is the man who used to turn water into wine. This...
... been somebody who had not even heard a single word of Russian. That's a problem. First, to have banks is a problem because the brain cells die so quickly. But perhaps we can find some way that when a person is dying, before he dies the brain is taken out and put into an oxygen tank where enough oxygen is available, so the brain can go on functioning. He will be dreaming there in the oxygen tank...
.... So anybody who becomes a president of a country or a prime minister of a country - his only prayer is that he should die at his post.... Because lower you cannot go - that is very insulting, humiliating; higher, there is no way. You are stuck; only death can release you from the dilemma. One of the chief ministers of Madhya Pradesh was very intimate with me. I was very young, but he loved me and he...
... carrying the child. It is not an easy job. And then to give birth to the child... that is almost as if one is passing through death. Then she is involved in bringing up the child for years together - and in the past she was continually giving birth to children. What time have you left her to become a great musician, a poetess, a painter - have you given her any time? She was constantly either pregnant or...
... is going to live five years longer. If you think medically, then the husband should be five years younger than the wife so that they can die at the same time, almost at the same time. On the one hand the husband has to be four or five years older, and on the other hand the woman is not allowed to marry again, in almost all cultures and societies. It is a new development that she is being allowed...
... talking to you I feel relieved." I said, "Okay, if you feel relieved I am ready to listen." And this was the basic problem coming up again and again: "The only thing I hope is to die as chief minister. I don't want to die in retirement." I asked him, "But what is the joy of dying remaining at your post? You can relax, you can retire - you are old enough." He said...
..., "Never suggest that, because if I am without power then it is going to be a humiliation. The moment you lose power, everybody forgets you. I want to die with all the honors of a chief minister; with honors from the army, the government, the police - all the honors that are appropriate." He was the first chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, and he remained clinging to the very last. He died...
... only unreal, it is also a great act of self-deception which keeps you from attaining to real control. But still, it can serve for a few days. So this man managed - but for how long could he maintain it? The desires within him began to argue, "Are you crazy? When she was alive you were afraid, and now even after her death you go on fearing her. Do you really think she can become a ghost? Do you...
..., and you say it is you. It is the body that suffers, and you say it is you. When the body grows old, again you say that you have grown old. And when this body is on the verge of death, you say that you are on the verge of death. The mistake has begun. If only if you could see that the body is hungry and you are seeing this and knowing this; if only you could see that the body is sick, that it is old...
..., that it is on the verge of death and all this you are seeing and knowing as a witness.... You are the witness to all these happenings. The whole drama is enacted in the body, as though the body were a vast stage, and all the characters projections of the mind within that body. And you - you view it all from a distance; you are the audience! There is in you a doer-ness, by which the world is created...
... could enhance her air of martyrdom - "Just see how I tend her, comforting her in her sickness and meeting her every need!" People love suffering because it gives them the opportunity to become martyrs. This lady was not really complaining, she was advertising her virtues. Eventually, the poor crippled girl died. With her death half the woman's sorrows should have disappeared. In fact she...
... should have found much happiness in the girl's freedom from a life of suffering, and her own freedom from the cares and anxieties of looking after her. And when her husband finally ran away, this should have brought an end to all her remaining unhappiness. She often used to say to me he were to die, or leave forever, it would be a blessing. I don't want to have to see him!" But when he did run off...
... was gone. She was reduced to the stature of an ordinary woman. Now nobody sings her praises, nobody proclaims her long-suffering virtues. When I saw her last it was apparent that she would soon die, because the mechanism that kept her going is no longer there Just consider a little how, whenever you talk about your unhappinesses, you are playing the martyr behind your words. See how you find...
... same coin, two sides of the same coin. Only man can get bored and only man can laugh. These are the two specific qualities that exist in man. They are the definition of humanity. Animals are never bored. They go on doing the same routine every day, year in, year out, from birth to death - they are never bored. You cannot see boredom on their faces, because for boredom also intelligence is needed. The...
... more intelligent a person, the more bored he is in the world. Buddha became BORED with the whole nonsense that is called life. He became bored with birth, he became bored with love, he became bored with death. In the East, religion is nothing but a search to get out of this boring existence, how to get out of AWAGAMAN - this constant coming and going, this continuous birth and death. It is boring! It...
... has nothing new in it. And the idea of many lives makes it even more boring. Christians are less bored, Mohammedans are less bored, Jews are less bored, because they have only one life. You cannot be much bored in one life. Once you are born, and then you die after seventy years. In seventy years, thirty years you sleep, fifteen, twenty years you work - continuously you are working - three years you...
... every day, and you look out and there are rocks and sand, and the same pattern. Why? Boredom has been used as a technique, it is a device. In Zen, boredom is used as a device: you are bored to death, and you are not allowed to escape. You are not to go outside, you are not to entertain yourself, you are not to do, you are not to talk, you are not to read novels and detective stories. No thrill. No...
... point of transcendence. Either you go to the left, FAR left, as much as you can go; or you go to the right, far right - or, you just be in the middle, FAR in the middle, extreme middle. And there is transcendence. These three points are the points of transcendence. Either birth or death or love - these three are the transcendence points. My whole effort is not to use any extremism, but to give you a...
... your ego, but the centre of the ego remains intact. Then there is a deeper pain, deeper than love, and that is of prayer - it shatters you utterly. It is a death. When you have learnt how to love, and you have learnt that the pain that love brings is a blessing in disguise, it is beautiful, it is tremendously beautiful, then you become able and you take another step - that step is prayer. With a...
... the existence. The smallest aperture is MULADHAR -- the first center. It starts functioning because the child has to survive; he has to take food first, otherwise he will die. It is a survival measure -- but one should not live to eat. If you are just living only to eat, you are not living at all. You are simply waiting for death. And you have chosen a very small pleasure, very ordinary pleasure...
... a human being. Remember, just to look like human beings does not mean that you are a human being. Only with the fourth center starting functioning, you become a human being. Many people die as animals; they never rise above sexuality. They never come to know that there is a kind of love which is beyond opposites and which is tremendously fulfilling because there is no conflict in it. Love is...
.... And what I mean by orgasm is the experience of oneness. The ultimate happens at SAHASRAR -- the seventh chakra -- when the individual ego is completely dissolved into the cosmic whole. That is the total orgasm, the goal, the source. Christians have made the cross their symbol. As I look at the cross, I think Christians have missed its real meaning. To me, the cross is not a symbol of death, but the...
... search is how to find one, how to become indivisible, how to become individual. And remember this Christian symbol of the cross, not as a death symbol but as a meeting -- yoga symbol, marriage symbol: plus. Now the sutras: HE WHO IS MEEK AND CONTENTED, HE WHO HAS AN EQUAL VISION, WHOSE MIND IS FILLED WITH THE FULLNESS OF ACCEPTANCE AND OF REST; HE WHO HAS SEEN HIM AND TOUCHED HIM, HE IS FREED FROM ALL...
... TROUBLE. And fear will only leave you when you have touched him, when you have touched the deathless. Man is mortal: the body is mortal, the mind is mortal. As man we are going to die, so as man we can never be free of fear and trouble. Only when we recognize ourselves as gods, fear disappears and trouble disappears. People come to me every day. One of the basic problems is fear, and they say, "How...
... God. One day you were not: how can you trust that one day you will not disappear again -- how can you trust? You cannot remember yourself before birth -- how can you trust that after death you will be? The fear cannot leave. Get rid of yourself and fear disappears. TO HIM THE PERPETUAL THOUGHT OF GOD IS LIKE SANDAL PASTE SMEARED ON THE BODY, TO HIM NOTHING ELSE IS DELIGHT... And once you have...
...; In moments when you are going to die, the mind stops because there is nothing for it to work on. The mind is part of life, it is not part of death. When there is no more life ahead, mind stops; there is no work, it is unemployed immediately. And when mind stops, the inner voice comes in. It is always there, but the mind is creating so much noise that a still small voice cannot be heard. The voice...
... been married for twenty years, don't forget to keep using the same words you used when you were courting your wife - continue. Every morning say the same as you did when you were courting. Don't drop those words. Every day say, "Nobody exists like you. You are the most beautiful person in the world, and I will die without you." Dale Carnegie says that even if you don't feel it, go on saying...
... in a house. The lady of the house had three hundred sarees but she always used two - she was preserving the others for some special occasion. When will that special occasion come? As far as I know, and I have known her for fifteen years, that special occasion has not come yet. It is not going to come, because she is growing older every day; sooner or later she will die and those three hundred...
... forgot to record his words and did not think that he would die so soon, so suddenly. Disciples never think of that - that the master may disappear suddenly. Then suddenly one day Buddha said, "I am going." There was no time left and he had been speaking for forty years. When he was dead, how could his words be collected? A treasure would be lost, but what was there to do? And it is beautiful...
... had not come from beyond, there is nobody beyond, everything is within. The God is not in the skies, it is in you. He was going to die - the last decision taken by the mind. But when the mind retired, because there was now no more work, suddenly he heard the voice. This voice came from his innermost core, and the voice that comes from the innermost core is always right. Then what happened? Twice the...
...." When you are in love, love becomes like death, you feel blissful. Then immediately mind comes in and says, "Okay, this is me, this is because of me." Whenever you meditate, there are glimpses. Then the mind comes in and says, "Be happy! Look, I have done it." And immediately the contact is lost. Remember this: with mind you will always be a loser. Even if you are victorious...
.... Everything takes place, even without us. Sleep comes, so does hunger, birth happens, so does death; all these happen by themselves. But we presume all that happens by itself as motivated by us. According to Lao Tzu, the biggest delusion of Man is, that he claims himself the doer of all that happens. To become the doer of that which happens, is the biggest of ignorance. Also, Lao Tzu does not say, "Do...
.... He passes through youth without possessing it and when old age comes, he welcomes it also. He passes through life without claiming to own life. And this is why, when death comes, it finds him waiting with open arms. He claims no ownership of life, therefore death cannot snatch anything from him. Remember, only that can be snatched from you over which you have developed the attitude of ownership...
..., quick!" He took him to the river and leaving him on the shore, he went and stood exactly at the spot where he had saved him. Then he said to him, "Brother, I am standing exactly where you saved me. Is it not? Now please go away and leave me. Do not save me, it has turned out very expensive. Leave me to my fate I shall die if I have to, I shall live if fate decrees but you please go!"...
... son of God. If God does not protect his own son, whom else will He protect? And if a son of God can be put to death by ordinary men and God cannot do a thing about it, then this claim is false. The enemies of Jesus were as eagerly waiting to see what happens on the cross as his followers. If he were really the son of God, they will not be able to crucify him. His followers also eagerly awaited the...
... bona fide. His silent acceptance of death, his indifference, shows that he was no ordinary man. An ordinary man struggles. No, Jesus did not do anything, leave aside struggling. The cross was heavy and the men carrying it were old, they could hardly carry it. Jesus said, "Put the cross on my shoulder, I am as yet young." So he carried his own cross up to the hill. Then without a word, he...
..., "Without imposing habits on yourself, know that which you were before birth and which you will be after death. Seek Him who is even now present deep within you. Also, whatever method you practise, will bear effect only on the circumference. Nothing can be attempted on the centre. Whatever paint and varnish you apply, will be only the surface, the body. At the most, the effect will be on the mind...
... that makes you an idiot. The universal is the truth. Unless one is ready to die into the universal one cannot attain to truth. Truth is a death - the death of the egoistic mind - although it is also a resurrection - the resurrection into the universal. You die as a person and you are reborn as God, as a buddha, as a christ. Hence the path consists of understanding the mind and its functioning. The...
... understanding, because understanding seems to be risky, dangerous, deathlike. And, in a way, it is. To understand rightly how the mind exists is to prepare for your death. Sannyas is death; it has always been so. Hence only the few courageous people who can enter on the path - people who are so deeply in love with truth that they are ready to sacrifice themselves. Whatsoever the cost they are ready to pay for...
... accumulate so much extra food in your body that you can live on it for three months. You will go on becoming thinner and thinner, but you will not die. So it is not much of an achievement; you have simply become a cannibal, you are eating yourself, that's all. You are digesting your own blood, your own flesh. In fact, fasting should be thought of as a very violent practice, ugly. Maybe once in a while, for...
... seashore. He has become a grown-up. In fact, he has stopped growing. In fact, he has died. The day you think you know, your death has happened -- because now there will be no wonder and no joy and no surprise. Now you will live a dead life. You can enter into your grave, you will not be losing anything. Because you are not going to be surprised by anything what is the point of going on living? Commit...
... dead, I may have stopped growing.' The first disciple said, 'How finely they are growing.' He is true, a hundred per cent true. He can see into the Master. Those words have not disturbed the silence of the Master, they have not become his death -- his life is as flowing as ever. They have not become any obstruction. You are allowed to talk only when your words don't destroy your silence. When your...
... what it is.' Now this was too much for Nicodemus. Born again? That much price? To die and to be born again. It seems too much. A student is ready to pay in small coins; a disciple is ready to pay with his life. A student has an enquiry; the disciple... it is not just an enquiry. In English there is no right word for it. In Sanskrit we have a word -- MUMUKSHA. For enquiry we have another word...
... to it. When the Master says 'BECAUSE IT TURNS MY STOMACH' he is saying that people who are too brainy hit hard into his mind. They are a disturbance, they are a nuisance. 'It turns my stomach.' His head versus stomach can be given many formulations: intellect versus intuition; logic versus love; consciousness versus unconsciousness; part versus whole; doing versus happening; death versus life...
... things start happening. In logic also things start happening one by one. And if one thing happens then the other cannot happen. Just see it: if you say one thing then you cannot say the opposite -- you have prohibited it. In existence the opposites exist together. Life exists with death; love exists with hate -- there is no denying. It is not that love exists so hate cannot exist. They exist together...
.... And death versus life. In the head there accumulates death because all thoughts are dead. In the belly life pulsates. And finally having versus being. The head is a hoarder it is a miser it goes on accumulating. Its whole effort is how to have more and more. Whether it is money or knowledge does not matter whatsoever it is have. More and more of it -- have more women have more men, have more houses...
... question of my life and death. Just do it once and my whole life I can live as lazily as I want." "Now people are massaging my feet, bringing sweets, and many miracles are happening on their own; now I am not doing anything. Sick people get healthy, people who don't have children start getting many children - but this is all happening on its own, I am not doing anything. I have done my first...
... finished. He did not believe in any legal system or law or anything. He believed only in death. Why waste time? - years and years of legal battles... Just finish the person. In the democratic world this is the rule - at least in principle, although it is not followed anywhere - that not even one single innocent person should be punished, even if ninety-nine criminals have to be left. Stalin changed the...
... and it is killing everybody. As far as I am concerned, I see it as a great opportunity. People change only when they come to the very brink of death; otherwise they don't change. The politicians of the whole world, the theologians of the whole world, the religious leaders - all have brought you to the brink of death. Now the question is, either be ready to commit a global suicide or change the whole...
... transform individuals. It is a fashion; soon it will die - just a passing phase. I am not part of any movement. What I am doing is something eternal. It has been going on since the first man appeared on the earth, and it will continue to the last man. It is not a movement, it is the very core of evolution. So you are right that you don't count me as part of the new age movement. I am not. I am part of the...
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