... trust in him in death. We celebrated with him, now we are ready to die with him.' They all escaped. The day Jesus was crucified there was nobody. Only one disciple was lurking behind the crowd - even he said thrice 'I am not a disciple of Jesus.' When he was brought down from the cross only three women were there to take him down. A prostitute was there - Mary Magdalene was there - but where were the...

.... Otherwise, to be afraid of death is ridiculous - because you cannot die; you in your innermost core cannot die. You only go on changing houses, from one body to another. You have lived in many bodies, you have passed through many bodies. When Buddha became enlightened, the first thing he said to nature was this - he looked at the sky and said 'Now you will not need to create another house for me.' Strange...

..., 'STUDENT, TELL ME, WHAT IS GOD? HE IS THE BREATH INSIDE THE BREATH.' WHAT HAS DEATH AND A THICK BODY DANCES BEFORE WHAT HAS NO THICK BODY AND NO DEATH. THE TRUMPET SAYS, 'I AM YOU.' THE SPIRITUAL MASTER ARRIVES AND BOWS DOWN TO THE BEGINNING STUDENT. TRY TO LIVE TO SEE THIS! EVOLUTION has a logic in it. One thing leads to another, rung by rung, step by step. There is a kind of inevitability. Evolution is...

..., now there is no more go - if you take another step you will die. Facing you is an abysmal depth, you will be lost for ever.' Logic will say, reason will say, mind will say, 'Halt! Stop! Go back! Find another way towards achievement. This is not the way, this way has ended.' But life is that which leaps. Logic is that which says 'Stop!' And life is that which leaps. That life is religion. And unless...

... flying in the sky he is the sky. When alive he is life, when dead he is death. He does not cling, he does not hoard, he is not worried, he feels no responsibility. He is not: that's what Jesus means. If you want to know God you will have to disappear as you are. That's what I mean by 'The Revolution': you will have to disappear as you are. You will have to become innocent - so much so that there is no...

.... He said 'What do you mean?' I said 'They could not protect him. They could not die for him, they could not stand for him, they could not be witnesses to the world.' Just think - a few hundred disciples, if they were ready to die with him on the cross, it would have been a totally different world. They would have been a proof. They would have said 'We trusted this man. We trusted in him in life, we...

... do yoga exercise, you can be a vegetarian - good, but nothing to do with God as such. And if you think this is enough, more than enough, all that one can do, then you are stuck. Then you will not move, then there will be no revolution in your life - you will live in misery and you will die in misery. And God was so close by. And just a touch, just one experience, one glimpse, would have transformed...

... experience makes you alert of God - and God is not a person but the experience of life itself. WHAT HAS DEATH AND A THICK BODY DANCES BEFORE WHAT HAS NO THICK BODY AND NO DEATH. In this experience you will see that there are two things within you: the deathless and the mortal. The body is mortal, full of death. And inside the body there is a transcendence which is deathless. WHAT HAS DEATH AND A THICK BODY...

...... The gross body, the physical body, is mortal. This mortal body goes on dancing before something which has no death and no thick body, no gross body. Inside you there is a witness, an eternal witness - before that eternal witness all dance continues. The body goes on dancing in a thousand and one ways: the dance when you were a child, and the dance when you were young and in love and in passion, and...

.... That is your consciousness - call it God, call it the soul, or call it whatsoever you feel like. This innermost core of your existence is God. HE IS THE BREATH INSIDE THE BREATH. WHAT HAS DEATH AND A THICK BODY DANCES BEFORE WHAT HAS NO THICK BODY AND NO DEATH. THIS IS YOUR REAL LIFE. You are too much attached with the body, identified with the body, that's why you are so much afraid of death...

... words. To whom was he talking? He was just saying to nature in general, at large: 'You will not have to trouble yourself again, you will not need to make a body for me. I have understood who I am.' In that understanding, one is freed from the body of death. In that moment... THE TRUMPET SAYS, 'I AM YOU.' In that moment the whole existence, God, says to you: I am you. THE SPIRITUAL MASTER ARRIVES AND...

... slaves, they throw their chains, they get out of all prisons. They dance in the streets, they dance under the stars, they participate in God's dance. They are not afraid of death, so they cannot be reduced to slaves. The fear of death is the root cause that you can be converted into a slave. Without fear, who can reduce you to a slave? A fearless man cannot be reduced to a slave, so society tries in...

... every way to make you afraid. The society does not want you to know that you are life eternal. It does not want you to know that death is illusory, that it doesn't happen really, that it only appears to happen - that death is utterly false, that it is a lie. The society does not want it, the society wants you to live in illusions. The truth is too much. 'The choice is ours: to dance with the quick, or...

... to join the procession of the dead.' But the society is the procession of the dead. Corpses - walking around, moving around, manipulating each other, bossing each other about. The choice is ours. Remember: if you respect life you should not allow any death to settle in you, you should not allow any fear to settle in you. And you should not compromise - there is no need. But 'The way of the dead...

...? HE IS IN THE BREATH INSIDE THE BREATH.' WHAT HAS DEATH AND A THICK BODY DANCES BEFORE WHAT HAS NO THICK BODY AND NO DEATH. THE TRUMPET SAYS, 'I AM YOU.' ITI ITI. THE SPIRITUAL MASTER ARRIVES AND BOWS DOWN TO THE BEGINNING STUDENT. TRY TO LIVE TO SEE THIS! ITI ITI. Generated by PreciseInfo ™ ...

... any other catastrophe in the future. The very possibility of such a thing can simply be dropped if man changes his ways of thinking. And when death confronts you, just to think about it is one thing; but when death is directly in front of you, you may choose anything rather than to die. It happened to one of my friends when I was a student in the university. I had friends very rarely because my...

... others-came and they all persuaded me not to kill myself: 'Wait. You can find a better woman, or perhaps she may change her mind. Don't be in a hurry. This is stupid. If this girl does not want... the world is full of so many beautiful girls, we will find a better girl for you.' They all tried that I should not die. You are the only person who is making every arrangement for my death." I said...

... said, "Changed my mind? There are millions of women I can find." I said, "But you were going to die. What happened to that?" He said, "You understand perfectly well. And you knew that this was going to happen, because when death is really actually in front of you, then one is willing to do anything. I don't want to die, and I will forget that girl forever." And he got...

... I was absolutely serious and I would arrange everything, he said, "No, no need to arrange." And I said, "Then why are you saying that you are miserable, and the wife...?" He said, "No, I will not talk to you again. You forgive me again. That time you forgave me; once more.... I am perfectly happy. I don't want to die." Death is something that you may enjoy the idea of...

... and you are trembling. The moment you know us completely, you will simply die of shock. We can raise the whole world and its intelligentsia against the American government. We can raise all the American intellectuals, fair and democratic American people, American justice, judges, Supreme Court -- and your Constitution happens to be on our side. So be careful. If you want peace, then learn how to be...

... one wait? When Mahavira's son-in-law betrayed him, Mahavira was eighty. His son-in-law was sixty; he had waited enough, and the old man went on living. At sixty, he simply felt that it was never going to happen. "Perhaps I may die before him -- and he seems to be strong enough, he may outlive me and the others. There is no time. We have to revolt against him." This may not have been a...

... has life. It is a tremendous decision, and I don't think that people will want to destroy all life. That is where we can make a space for transformation. If they don't want to die, if they don't want life to disappear, then the only way is that mankind has to change its ways, its lifestyle, its thinking patterns, because these are the things -- the thinking patterns, the ideologies, the religions...

... it is a very right time also because man could prefer to be transformed rather than to die. They have written against me on the walls: "It is better to be dead than to be red" -- but they have not thought about it. If it comes really to choose to be dead or to be red, I don't think even Oregonian idiots will choose to be dead. If it comes really to a decision, they will say, "Okay...

..., so we will die too. Red is at least alive! Dead we don't want to be." Nobody wants to be dead. So the time is good because the choice is such that we cannot be defeated, we can only be victorious. We just have to put the alternative correctly. Make the alternative as loud as possible. Shout it from every rooftop that there is an alternative which can avoid this catastrophe and which can avoid...

... friend, and just opposite his house -- so he came to see me. I said, "Don't be worried, I am coming. And you simply drop the idea... there is no problem." I went there and I told him, "If you want to die, then why are you making such a fuss? Do you really want to die?" He said, "Yes!" Then I said, "Please come out. I have brought the car. You come with me, and we will...

... go home. This is a full moon night and we will go to the marble rocks, which is the best place in the world to die. You jump and I say goodbye, and I will return. This is a beautiful night and you cannot find a better place." He said, "This is something! I am dying and you are thinking of the place and the beauty and the full moon." But I said, "Don't make so much fuss. I am...

... showing you the best way. If you cannot live beautifully, at least you can die beautifully. And who knows... because we will be sleeping and we will go in the middle of night, and you will be in my home, perhaps the girl will see you -- and I will inform her that this is the procedure how we are going to dispose of you completely -- and perhaps she may change her mind." He said, "That seems to...

... be logical, so I am coming." He came with me. I informed the girl and the family, and I told them, "You don't be worried." I told him that the best time would be between two and four in the night. "You are going to die, I am still going to live, so why waste the whole night? We will go at four o'clock. You take the jump and I can see you off and have a good morning bath back...

... home." He looked at me with suspicion. He said, "I used to think you were my friend." I said, "That's what I am doing -- a friend in need is a friend indeed. You want to die, I am trying to make it as beautiful as possible. What else do you want? Anything else... you just say." He said, "I am not saying that. All the people -- the neighbors, my father's friends, and...

..., "This is my approach: if I am your friend, I will do whatever you feel like doing. If you want to die, I will not interfere in your freedom. I will help as far as I can. So we will go to sleep and we will put the alarm for four o'clock." And at four o'clock when the alarm went off, I reached to the clock and his hand was already putting it off. I said, "What are you doing? You are...

... putting the alarm off." He said, "Yes, I am putting the alarm off, and I don't want to die. The whole night I could not sleep -- and you are so insistent. I used to think that I am crazy; it seems you are crazy. A friend? -- you took the car to the garage, filled the whole tank, checked the tires that nothing goes wrong. You seem to be strange." I said, 'But according to the decision...

...... now it is four o'clock. I don't want to be caught by the police, so you just get up and we go. And we have to finish the whole thing before the sun rises and anybody comes to know. I have to be out of the place and far away, because I don't want to be caught. I have still to live." He said, "You forgive me, I don't want to die at all." I said, "What changed your mind?" He...

... properties and lands, and I am much too burdened. And I think many times of that night. Perhaps you were right." I said, "I am still ready, although I don't live here. I will have to borrow somebody's car, and.... But a friend in need is a friend indeed. I will do it!" He said, "You are something. I have six children to look after!" As death again became a reality, and seeing that...

.... You may sometimes enjoy the idea of committing suicide. everybody -- almost everybody -- once in a while enjoys the idea. But that is only an idea. If it actually becomes a reality, you will change your mind immediately. For the first time death has become a reality for the whole of humanity, so it is a wrong time in that sense. It is a very critical, tragic phase; but because death has become so...

... real, so close, so tangible, man may be persuaded to change his ways, his thinking, his ideologies; to drop his nations and religions if he wants to survive. That's why I say it is a right time. We can put the alternative: Either be ready for global suicide, or be ready for global transformation. And I don't think anybody is going to choose death. The alternative just has to be made clear. And that...

... eye is part of the subtle body, the sukshma sharir. When you die your physical body dies, but your sukshma sharir, your subtle body, moves with you; it takes another birth. Unless the subtle body dies, you can never be freed from the circle of birth- death, rebirth-redeath. The circle moves on. The third eye belongs to the subtle body. When the energy is moving through the physical body, you are...

... going to die. At the most, we can talk about probabilities. We can say perhaps he will die, and this statement will be conditional: "If such and such remains the case, he may die; if something can be done he may not die." Medical diagnosis cannot yet be certain about death. Why? So much development and yet so much uncertainty about death! Really, medical science is trying to deduce death, to...

... infer death, through physical symptoms, and death is a subtle phenomenon, not physical. It is an invisible phenomenon of a different dimension. But with the third eye functioning, you suddenly feel that a man is going to die. How do you feel it? Death has an impact. If the man is going to die, then death has already cast its shadow there, and that shadow can be felt with the third eye at any time...

.... When a child is born, those who have had much deep practice using the third eye can see the time of his death that very moment. But then the shadow is very subtle. When a person is going to die in six months, then anyone whose third eye functions a little can see the death six months before it comes. The shadow darkens. Really, around you a dark shadow settles down and that can be felt, but not with...

.... It is already there. The eye is there; the world, the subtle world, is already there. Both are there, but not revealed. Once you function in that dimension, many things become apparent to you. For example, if a person is going to die, if your third eye is functioning you will become immediately aware that he is going to die. No physical analysis, no physical diagnosis can say that certainly he is...

... skull, stop. Open your eyes and move them as much as you can. Immediately the sensation will drop, the energy will have moved through the eyes. And unless I say something to you do not proceed, because sometimes it has happened that the skull is broken. Nothing is wrong even if it happens. Even if one dies in it nothing is wrong, because one has achieved something which is beyond death. But just to be...

... or the lion. If the lion is less magnetic and the hunter can bring his total energy to his eyes... And it is easy, he can do this, because when death is there one can do anything. When death is there the hunter can put his total energy at stake. If the hunter can look directly into the eyes of the lion and forget everything and just look, if he can just become the look, then the whole energy will...

... whosoever comes around him will become a slave. He is not doing anything; he is not trying to dominate anyone, but he knows this will happen. His last dying words were, "Be a lamp unto yourself." He was dying, and Ananda asked him, just a day before his actual death, "When you will be no more, what shall we do?" He said, "It is good that I shall be no more. Then you can be your...

... that he remained for thirty years with Junnaid. Then the last day came, and he went to Junnaid and said to him, "Now communicate your secret." Junnaid said, "I will give it to you on one condition: that you will keep it a secret. You are not to tell it to anyone. This secret must die with you, unknown." The man said, "Why have you wasted my whole life? Thirty years I was...

... in a dark room. Open your eyes, look at the darkness, then close them and feel the darkness. Again open your eyes, feel the darkness; close your eyes, feel it inside. Darkness is deeply relaxing. Darkness is outside and inside you; everything is dead - dark and dead. Both are related. That is why we paint death as black, dark. All over the world death is painted as black, and people fear darkness...

.... While doing this method, feel darkness, love darkness, and feel inside that you are going to die. Darkness is all around, and you are dying. The eyes will stop. You will feel that they cannot move: they will have stopped. In that stopping, suddenly the energy will go up and start hammering the third eye. When it starts hammering, you will hear it, you will feel it. A warmth will come, a fire will flow...

... - the fear, the trembling. Whatsoever you do, you are helpless. Nothing can be done - death is going to be there. And that goes on and on inside in the conscious and unconscious mind. Sometimes it erupts in the conscious - you become afraid of death. You push it down, and then it continues in the unconscious. Every moment you are afraid of death, of the end. Mind is going to die, you are not going to...

... die - but you don't know yourself. You know something which is just a created thing: it has a beginning, it is going to have an end. That which begins must end. If you can find within your being something which never begins, which simply is, which cannot end, then the fear of death disappears. And when the fear of death disappears, love flows through you, not before it. How can you love when there...

... is going to be death? You can cling to someone, but you cannot love. You can use someone, but you cannot love. You can exploit someone, but you cannot love. Love is not possible if fear is there. Fear is the poison. Love cannot flower with fear deep inside. Everyone is going to die. Everyone is standing in a queue waiting for his time. How can you love? Everything seems nonsense. Love appears...

... GRASPING, BEYOND NOT BEING - YOU. Then you happen to yourself. For the first time you will become aware of the one who has been perceiving, who has been grasping, who has been knowing. But this subject is always hidden in objects. You know certain things but you never know the knower. The knower is lost in knowledge. I see you, then I see someone else, and this procession goes on. From birth to death I...

... long heaviness, and deep down everyone is waiting for death, in order to be delivered from life. Death seems to be the only hope. Why is this happening? Life can be infinite bliss. Why is this so boring? You are not grounded in it. You are uprooted; uprooted, and living at the minimum. And life really happens when you live at the maximum. This sutra will give you a maximum of existence. Thought can...

..., of cosmic force; an infinite ocean around you, and you are just a wave in it. The wave has a beginning and an end - the ocean has none. And once you know that you are not the wave but the ocean, all misery has disappeared. What is deep down in your misery? - deep down there is death. You are afraid of some end which is going to be there. It is absolutely certain; nothing is so certain as death...

... nonsense if death is there, because death will destroy everything. Even love is not eternal. Whatsoever you do for your beloved, for your lover, you cannot do anything because you cannot avoid death - it is just waiting behind everything. You can forget it, you can create a facade, and you can go on believing that it is not going to be there, but your belief is just superficial - deep down you know it is...

... going to be there. And if death is there, then life is meaningless. You can create artificial meanings, but they won't help much. Temporarily, for some moments, they can help, and again the reality erupts and the meaning is lost. You can just deceive yourself continuously, that's all - unless you come to know something which is beginningless and endless, which is beyond death. Once you come to know it...

..., then love is possible, because then there is no death. Love is possible. Buddha loves you, Jesus loves you, but that love is absolutely unknown to you. That love has come because fear has disappeared, and your love is just a mechanism to avoid fear. So whenever you love, you feel fearless. Someone gives you strength. And this is a mutual phenomenon: you give strength to someone and someone gives...

... strength to you. Both are weak, and both are seeking someone, and then two weak persons meet and they help each other to be strong - this is just wonderful! How does it happen? It is just a make-believe. You feel that someone is there behind you, with you, but you know no one can be with you in death. And if someone cannot be with you in death, how can he or she be with you in life? Then it is just...

... postponing, just avoiding death. And because you are afraid, you need someone to make you fearless. It is said, somewhere Emerson has written, that even the greatest warrior is a coward before his wife. Even a Napoleon is a coward, because the wife knows that he needs her strength, he needs her in order to be himself. He depends on her. When he comes back from the war, from the fighting, he is trembling...

..., afraid. He rests in her, he relaxes in her. She consoles him; he becomes just like a child. Every husband is a child before the wife. And the wife? - she depends on the husband. She lives through him. She cannot live without him;he is her life. This is a mutual deception. Both are afraid - death is there. They both try to love each other and forget death. Lovers become, or appear to be, fearless...

.... Lovers even sometimes can face death very fearlessly, but that is just appearance. Our love is part of fear - just to escape from it. Real love happens when there is no fear - when death has disappeared, when you know you never begin and you are never going to end. Don't think it. You can think it, because of the fear. You can think, 'Yes, I know I am not going to end, there is no death, the soul is...

... life is not life. If it really were life how could it end in death? Life and death are two contradictory things so how then can death be the fulfillment of life? Death is the end of birth, not of life. And because death comes at the end don't think it only starts at the end. It is present in birth itself. It starts the very day one is born. After birth we die every moment. When this process of dying...

... world is full of the dead, full of the living dead, and the majority of people die without ever having lived. They are worn out trying to defend themselves against death and they never come to know who is within, immortal, beyond death. Question 6: THE SIXTH QUESTION: I GATHER FROM YOUR WORDS THAT I AM DEAD. WHAT SHOULD I DO TO BECOME ALIVE? My friend, if you think so only because of my words it is of...

... has been completed we call it death. What was in birth as a seed appears at the end in its fully-ripened form. Therefore nothing after death is for sure, but death is for certain. It is certain because it arrives with birth itself. Birth is just another name for death; it is the seed of death. Let this be carefully understood. You begin dying the day you are born. That is why I say that life as we...

... know it is not life but a long process of slow, gradual dying. Because we are familiar with this gradual dying and not with life, we are always busy trying to save ourselves form it. All our plans and activities are aimed at some sort of security and self-defense. And what are we doing? Aren't we busy defending ourselves against death all the time? Men also become religious for the same reason, in...

... defense. It is because of this that they take to religion when they sense death drawing near. For the most part, the religion of old men is of this type. I do not call this real religiousness. It is just an aspect of the fear of death. It is the last safety-measure. Real religiousness does not come out of fear but out of the experience of life. We should be aware that whatever we know at present is...

... nothing but death - and this knowledge of death leads to immortality. The body dies; it is dying each moment. By watching the body, by waking up to an awareness of this mortal vessel we begin to experience that which is not the body. To know that which is not the body, to know the soul, is to know life in its reality because the soul was never born and therefore it never dies. The truth existed before...

... your birth and it will continue to exist even after your death. This is life. Life is not a span between birth and death - on the contrary, birth and death are just so many incidents that take place during its course. During meditation, when the mind is quiet and empty, something that is different and apart from the body can be seen. It cannot be seen when the mind is restless just as one cannot look...

... limited to the body and nothing more. This identification with the body, this illusion of being one with the body does not allow us to know our real selves, and we look upon the gradual process of dying that is taking place over a period of time as life. This is the same kind of mistake you would make if you looked upon the construction and destruction of your house as your own birth and death. This...

... darkness disappears with the advent of mental peace. The illusion created by this mental unrest is dispelled by tranquility. What was hidden by the waves is revealed by wavelessness. And then for the first time we know the inhabitant of this body. As soon as we know him, death stops being anything more than casting off of old clothes, and birth, a putting on a new ones. And then there is a being who...

... one's watchful consciousness they become lifeless and die. Our delusion, our non-observation of them is their existence. They are like insects who live only in darkness. As soon as there is light they die away. I also want to tell you that how other people see me is of no consequence. How I see myself is the important thing. But we are in the habit of seeing ourselves through other people's eyes and...

... in sleep. All your activities are in sleep. But you can always awaken from this sleep. This is the difference between sleep and death. You can awaken from the former but not from the latter. No matter how deep your sleep, there is always the possibility of awakening. Sleep has this potentiality hidden within it. If you come face-to-face with yourself many illusions will be shattered, just as a man...

... philosophy. The fact that the soul is pure is neither a theory nor a principle, it is a direct realization. And any discussion about it is useless. It is just like creating an illusion in the mind of a sick man that his sickness does not exist. If the sick man accepts this as gospel, the result won't be recovery but certain death. Those who know do not discuss realization. They talk about the sadhana, the...

.... Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. [A sannyasin says: I've got piles. I want to die sometimes... Sometimes I'm so high and singing, and all of a sudden, zoom! I would welcome death.] It is alright, but you are not finished yet! Death is perfectly alright, there is nothing wrong in it, but right now you are not finished. So the very idea of death will make you unnecessarily gloomy. You are asking for a...

... clinging with life. That too is wrong because when death has come, you have to go... and you have to go dancing. If you are asking for death, even thinking about it, then you are alive and clinging to the idea of death. It is the same in the reverse direction. Somebody is dying and goes on clinging to life, does not want to die. Somebody is alive and wants to die. That is non-acceptance. Accept...

... premature death. So these things are not to be asked. They are to be left to existence. When they happen, they happen. That's when you accept - whenever it happens, it is a great rest. And when your body is completely spent, death is the only thing needed. Then it happens; then you move into another body. You may become a tree or a bird or a tiger or something, and you go on moving. The existence gives...

... you a new body when the old is spent. Nothing is wrong in death. Death is beautiful, but never ask for it, because when you ask for it the quality of death changes towards suicide. Then it is no more a natural death. You may not commit suicide, but the very asking makes you suicidal. When alive, be alive; when dead, be dead. But don't overlap things. There are people who are dying and who go on...

.... Respect and treat them as friends, as guests, not enemies. Just drop that concept of fighting with them. That antagonism has to be dropped. Pain is there, I know. Suffering is there, I know. Suffer, and just accept. Don't ask for death. When it comes, it comes. One should simply go on enjoying whatsoever comes on the way. Non-asking will give you a state of non-desire. Not complaining will make you more...

... even if you ask for death, you are asking for a better life. You say this life is worthless, these piles and this age, and the body is becoming old so now take it away. You are simply saying that you would like those things not to be there or that you don't want to be with these things. But either way you are showing a discontent. Just accept that whatsoever is, is, and by and by you will see things...

... convincing you that you are dead, you are by and by convincing me that who knows? - I may have died! Perhaps I am dreaming that I am alive." What proof have you that you are not dreaming? Death is the criterion in the tradition of Zen. How a man dies proves whether he has lived or not. Only a living man can die; you cannot afford to die if you have not lived. I have heard about a great scholar. He...

... became aware that he was alive only when he was dead. Then suddenly he realized, "My God! I used to be alive, and I never took any notice of it." Particularly in Zen, the masters show the highest peaks of consciousness. Death is the criterion. If you can die gracefully, blissfully, almost dancingly, that proves that you have lived, and you have lived so deeply that you know that death is only...

... the last of Isan's life. This sutra ends exactly at the time Isan dies. The death of a person indicates how he has lived, whether he has lived at all or not. You may be believing that you are living, but don't be so certain. Every madman in all the madhouses in the world believes absolutely that he is not mad. He wonders why people consider him to be mad. Slowly slowly he comes to the conclusion...

... anything. Isan succeeded in bringing him home. I am reminded of a great emperor who dreamed one night that a great black shadow was standing before him. With trembling hands and throbbing heart, he asked, "Who are you?" The shadow said, "That we will discuss later on. I have come to inform you that tomorrow evening as the sun will be setting you will die." And the shadow disappeared...

..., and with the shadow the sleep also disappeared. The king was perspiring. He called the attendant. In the middle of the night all the astrologers, palmists, prophets were called to interpret the dream: What does it mean? They started looking in their great scriptures, "Is there any precedent?" There was no precedent at all, because death never informs anybody; it just comes without even...

... hand on his shoulder. He looked behind him and saw the same black shadow. The black shadow said to the horse, "I was also worried whether you would be able to come this great a distance or not, because the emperor is destined to die in this mango grove. I never inform people, there is no need. The need arose because the distance was so great, and there was no reason for him to leave the palace...

... go in. No horse is needed, you don't have to move a single inch outside. Just go in and there is no death. Death exists only for those who live their lives in the outside world. To those who have known their innermost core, death is just a shadow. It has no solidity, no substance, no reality." But Isan continued to teach Kyozan for over forty years. Enlightenment can happen in this very moment...

... exists on Mount Kuei where after his enlightenment he established his monastery. Certainly he must have been enlightened; his death shows it. ON FEBRUARY 20TH, 853, HE WENT THROUGH A RITUAL ABLUTION, SEATED HIMSELF IN THE MEDITATION POSTURE AND, SMILING, DIED AT THE AGE OF EIGHTY-THREE. HIS STUPA WAS ERECTED ON MOUNT KUEI, HOME OF HIS MONASTERY. THE EMPEROR GAVE HIM THE POSTHUMOUS TITLE TA YUAN (GREAT...

.... Anybody who realizes the fact of his being a buddha becomes the flower that blossoms once in thousands of years. And even if the body of the buddha dies, the fragrance remains. Those who have the right sensitivity can smell even this moment Gautam Buddha or Bodhidharma. It is not a question of time. Buddhahood is such an experience... in the body the buddha will die, but in the spirit he will float...

... continuing to tell jokes to you, one thing is certain: I may die, but Gurudayal Singh is not going to die. He will still wait. At the end of the Sunday school class, the teacher, Miss Holynose, turns to the kids and says, "Now, how many of you children would like to go to heaven?" Everybody shoots up their hand, except for one little girl. "Come on, Sally," says Miss Holynose. "...

... never been there before. Your aura has always been so clear, just like a bright sun, but now I see a little shadow. It cannot be death." He laughed and said, "Yes, the shadow is there, and it is not death, that too is true. My concern is, I am waiting for a man so that I can hand over my responsibility for you to him. I am worried because he has not come yet. If I die it will be impossible...

... for you to be able to find him." I said, "If I really need somebody, I will find him. But I don't need anybody. You relax before death comes. I don't want to be the cause of this shadow. You should die as brilliantly radiant as you have lived." He said, "It is not possible. But I know the man will come - I am worrying unnecessarily. He is a man of his word; he has promised to...

... joined us together into something which is unbreakable. That very day Pagal Baba died. But Masto did not stay, although I told him that death was very close. He said, "For me now, you are the one. Whenever I need to, I will come to you. He is going to die anyway; in fact, to tell you the truth, he should have died three days ago. He has been hanging around just for you, so that he could introduce...

... Available: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. Pagal Baba, in his last days was always a little bit worried. I could see it, although he had not said anything, nor had anybody else mentioned it. Perhaps nobody else was even aware that he was worried. It was certainly not about his illness, old age, or his oncoming death; those were absolutely immaterial to the man. One night, when I was alone with him...

... reach me before I die." I asked him, "How does he know when you are going to die?" He laughed and said, "That is why I want you to be introduced to him. You are very young and I would like someone like me just to be around you." He said, "In fact, this is an old convention, that if a child is ever going to become awakened, then at least three awakened people should...

... recognize him at an early age." I said, "Baba, this is all nonsense. Nobody can prevent me from awakening." He said, "I know, but I am an old, conventional man, so please, particularly at the time of my death, don't say anything against convention." I said, "Okay, for your sake I will keep absolutely silent. I will not say anything, because whatsoever I say is somehow going...

.... He touched the feet of Pagal Baba, who then said, "This is my last day, and Masto" - that was the way he used to call him - "I was waiting for you, and getting a little worried." Masto replied, "Why? Death is nothing to you." Baba replied, "Of course death is nothing to me, but look behind you. That boy means much to me; perhaps he will be able to do what I wanted...

... spread all over the ground. Again and again I told him, "Masta Baba, it is enough." He said, "Unless you call me Masto, I will not leave your feet." Now, "Masto" is a term used only by an older man to a child. How could I call him Masto? But there was no way out. I had to. Even Pagal Baba said, "Don't wait, call him Masto, so that I can die without any shadow around...

..., asked, "Then why are you crying? Be happy if he is going to become a lotus." The old man said, "I am crying because I will not be present at that moment." Yes, even Buddhas cry at particular moments. Particularly at a moment like that one - seeing a child who is going to become a Buddha and knowing that one is going to die before it happens, is certainly hard. It is almost like a...

... dark night: you can see, the birds have started singing, the sun will be rising soon; there is even a little light on the horizon already - and you have to die without seeing another morning. Certainly, the old man who cried and touched Buddha's feet was right. I know from my own experience. These three people are the most important that I have ever met, and I don't think I am going to meet anybody...

... perfectly, the only person he never said it to was my Nani. It was such an absolutely clear exception that I had to ask him, "Why do you never tell my Nani 'Protect him'?" He said, "There is no need: she will protect you even if she had to die for you. She would even fight with me. I can trust her. She is the only one in your family I don't need to say anything to about your protection...

..., but you will have to lose something; you will have to pay for it. There is nothing in existence available without payment. If you want to know yourself, you will have to drop all false identities. They are your investments, they are your power, they are your prestige, they are your religion, they are your qualifications. It is difficult to drop them; it feels like death. Certainly meditation is a...

... death, a death of all that is false in you. And only then, that which is not false is experienced. That experience is resurrection -- a new life, the birth of a new man. Question 2: BELOVED OSHO, I AM MOST AWARE OF A BIG FEAR OR GUILT IN ME WHEN I SIT WITH YOU, AND I AM LONGING SO MUCH TO BE TOTALLY OPEN TO YOU. RECENTLY I COULD FEEL THE SERPENT ROLLED UP IN THE BOTTOM OF ME, SLEEPING, AND THE DOOR...

..., THE THIRD CHAKRA STILL CLOSED. MY HEART WANTS TO FLY WITH YOU. IS THERE ANYTHING I CAN DO? Sambodhi Amrita, what is fear? There are fears and fears; I am not talking about them. I am talking about the most fundamental fear -- all other fears are faraway echoes of the basic fear -- and that fear is of death. Life is surrounded by death. You see every day somebody dying -- something dying; something...

... that was alive a moment before is dead. Each death reminds you of your own death. It is impossible to forget your own death; every moment there is a reminder. So the first thing to be understood is that the only possibility of getting rid of fear is to get rid of death. And you can get rid of death, because death is only an idea, not a reality. You have only seen other people dying; have you ever...

... heartbeat, the blood circulating and keeping the body warm? If this is life, it is not worth the game. If only my breathing is my life, what is the point of going on breathing? Life must be something more. To be of any value life must have something of eternity in it; it must be something beyond death. And you can know it, because it exists within you. Life exists within you -- death is only an experience...

... the cloud of death disappears and there is all sunshine -- tremendous life, abundant life, life full of song and full of dance. So the first thing, Amrita, is to get rid of death. All fears will disappear. You don't have to work on each single fear; otherwise it will take lives and still you will not be able to get rid of them. You say, "I am most aware of a big fear...." Everybody is more...

... or less aware of the big fear, but the fear is absolutely rootless, baseless. And you say "... or guilt in me, when I sit with You." The fear is natural, because death is known by everybody around. Guilt is not natural; it is created by religions. They have made every man guilty -- guilty of a thousand and one things, so burdened with guilt that they cannot sing, they cannot dance, they...

... so many flowers.... One of the Sufi mystics has a small poem about it: "I had waited long for the spring -- it came. And it came so abundantly, with so many flowers, that there was not a place left where I could make a nest for myself." Life gives abundantly; you just have to be a recipient. But never wait for any reward. Three men die on the same day and go to heaven. One by one they are...

... something about his death. To me, birth and death have no significance at all. There are many ways to die, and the best way is to be killed - at least you are not responsible! The worst is to die in your bed and ninety-nine percent of people choose to die in their beds. Beware of the bed, because that is the MOST dangerous place in the world! All the accidents happen there: birth happens there, love...

... happens there, death happens there. If you can simply renounce the bed you are enlightened! He died a good death - somebody killed him. One has to die anyway; when one HAS to die one should choose a good way. I don't think he chose it and I don't think the person who killed him chose it either. People are living - all people are living - in utter unconsciousness. A patient lying on the operating table...

... disciples became enlightened before he left the world. He didn't die unhappily, he died fulfilled - fulfilled he was because he was enlightened and also fulfilled as a Master. Krishnamurti is fulfilled as an enlightened man but is very much frustrated as a Master, and as his death is coming closer and closer and he is becoming older he is becoming more and more annoyed - annoyed because nothing is...

... FOR SURE. YES IS SURRENDER AND YOU GOT TO LET IT GROW..." THIS SONG WAS WRITTEN BY JOHN LENNON ABOUT TEN YEARS AGO. NOW HE IS DEAD. LENNON WAS VERY MUCH IN LOVE WITH YOU, EVEN THOUGH HE DECLARED THAT HE WAS NOT READY TO BECOME A DISCIPLE. I CAN FEEL THIS CONNECTION MYSELF. I REALLY WOULD LIKE YOU TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT HIS DEATH. Swatantra Sarjano, WORDS HAVE THEIR OWN MAGIC, and the poets, the...

... started screaming, "I don't want to be cut open! You'll kill me! I don't want to die!" The surgeon tried to calm the patient. "Just take it easy, sir," he said. "Look at my long white beard. I've done thousands of operations and nothing has ever gone wrong." "Oh, doctor, you're right! I know I can trust you!" replied the patient. When the patient awoke after the...

... operation, he looked around and saw the same white beard and said, "Oh, thank you, doctor! You are a saint!" "It's okay, son, you don't have to thank me. I am not your doctor - my name is St. Peter!" So what can I say about his death? It is perfectly okay! Everything is okay. Just... if he had really come here he would have died a totally different kind of death. He would have died...

...? OR DOES HAPPINESS REQUIRE A CERTAIN RESONANCE AND RESPONSE FROM OTHERS OR FROM GOD? EVEN JESUS CHRIST DID NOT DIE HAPPILY, AS IT IS WRITTEN IN MATTHEW, CHAPTER 22: "AT THE NINTH HOUR, JESUS CRIED LOUDLY, 'LORD, LORD, WHY HAVE YOU LEFT ME?' " Holger, LOVE HAS NOTHING TO DO with what others do with you. Love is not a response to a certain positive situation. You are born with love - love is...

... change it. Even if somebody ki]ls me I will die loving him. You say: SUPPOSE YOU HAD EXPERIENCED ONLY NEGATIVE REACTIONS FROM OTHERS AND HAD RECEIVED NO LOVE IN YOUR LIFE, WOULD YOU STILL BE SUCH A LOVING, HAPPY MAN? Yes, I would be still the same. Whatsoever I am is not dependent on anybody else, it is my independence. It is the way I love to be, I enjoy to be; it has nothing to do with others. What...

... to me. Now you will see me surrounded by so many loving people, but they have come to me because a certain magnetic love is in existence here; they are pulled by it. They are ready to do anything. I never ASK them to do anything for me, but they are ready to do anything. They will be ready to die for me, although I would not like ANYBODY to die for me. All that I would like is for them to LIVE for...

... me. Love cannot ask anyone to die, love can only ask: live in celebration! But I have experienced and I go on experiencing all kinds of negativities. Millions of people would like me to be destroyed immediately, but that does not make any difference to my love. Love is something eternal, it is not temporal. It has nothing to do with time, nothing to do with others. You say: DOES HAPPINESS REQUIRE A...

... happened to Jesus Christ. You say: EVEN JESUS CHRIST DID NOT DIE HAPPILY, AS IT IS WRITTEN IN MATTHEW... "AT THE NINTH HOUR, JESUS CRIED LOUDLY, 'LORD, LORD, WHY HAVE YOU LEFT ME?'" According to me, up to this moment when Jesus cries to God, "Why have you forsaken me?" he is only Jesus not Christ. He became Christ only in the last moment. That's why Christianity has been a dead...