... are complementaries. Without the night there cannot be any day, and without the day there cannot exist any night. So they cannot be opposites; they are deep down one. Life and death appear as opposites because YOU are divided. Otherwise life becomes death, death becomes life. You are born, and that very day you have started to die. And the moment you die a new life has come into being. It is a...

...: whatsoever death disproves is disproved, whatsoever death approves is approved. Whatsoever can go beyond death, whatsoever is more powerful than death, is the reality. The real cannot die; the unreal dies a thousand and one deaths. AT THE MOMENT OF INNER ENLIGHTENMENT THERE IS A GOING BEYOND APPEARANCE AND EMPTINESS - ONLY WHEN THE INNER ENLIGHTENMENT HAPPENS, when you are filled with the inner light...

... circle - the YIN and YANG circle of the Chinese. That circle has to be remembered again and again. It is one of the most basic symbols ever discovered. No other symbol can be compared to it - the cross, the swastika, the AUM - no, no comparison with the Chinese YIN and YANG, because YIN and YANG comprehends the whole oppositeness of existence: the dark night and the bright day, life and death, love and...

... death, and happiness is impossible to feel if there is no unhappiness. How will you feel healthy if you have never known illness? You may be healthy but you cannot feel it. To be healthy is possible without illness but the mind cannot check it, the mind cannot know it. You have to fall ill. For the mind, to be a saint one needs to be a sinner first, and to be healthy you have to be ill, and to be in...

... life and you will be afraid of death. Then you will cling to love and you will be afraid of hate. Then you will cling to the good and you will be afraid of the bad. Then you will cling to God and you will be afraid of the Devil. Life is one. God, Devil - one. There is no division where God ends and where Devil begins; there cannot be. In life, Ram and Ravan are one, but for the mind they are the...

...? Why live at all? If there is no meaning and you are moving in a rut... every day you get up, go to work, earn a little money, sleep in the night, dream, again in the morning... the wheel goes on moving and you reach nowhere. In the end is death. So why wait? Why not commit suicide? Why not destroy this meaningless thing? And why be so much worried and so much burdened and so much in anxiety and...

... reality is ageless; it has never been born and it is not going to die. Once you are centered in this eternal, non-changing, unmoving absolute, then your quality changes. Then you can look, then you have become a mirror. In that mirror the reality is mirrored. But first you have to become a mirror. You are waving, shaking so much you cannot mirror anything - you distort. Mind distorts the reality and...

... yourself, and this whole time you are living in a dream. If you miss the source you miss all. You may attain in the outside world many things, but in the end you will find you have not attained anything. You have missed the one which carries all meaning. Dying, you may be dying a very rich man, but you will die a poor man inside, a beggar. Dying, you may be very powerful, you may be a great president of...

... a country, or a prime minister, but deep down you will know that you are impotent. Death will prove that your power was just an appearance; your power is powerless, helpless before death. Only that is power which goes beyond death - all else is impotence. You may believe in it for a.time, but death will bring the truth to you. Always remember that death is coming, and death is the criterion...

..., and somebody a child - because of the body? because of the form that is changing constantly? Those who have known, they say the reality is immovable, immoving, it cannot move. The clothes go on changing. Ramakrishna died. Just before his death, when the doctor said, "Now he cannot survive," Ramakrishna's wife, Sharda, started crying. And these are Ramakrisna's last words: he said, "...

...;Don't cry, because I am not going to die. What the doctors are saying applies only to the clothes." He died of cancer, and Ramakrishna said, "As far as I know there is no cancer in me. The cancer applies only to the clothes. So remember, when doctors say that I am dead don't believe them, believe me - I will live." And Sharda was the only widow in India, in the whole history of India...

... your ornaments, particularly the bangles. Break them! You are a widow. And she would laugh and say, "Should I believe you or Ramakrishna? Because HE said, 'Only clothes are going to die, not I.' And I was married to him, not to his clothes. So should I listen to you or should I listen to Ramakrishna?" She listened to Ramakrishna and she remained married to the very last. And she lived in...

... are going to die, not I" - transformed her into a holy woman. She became, in her own right, an enlightened person. THE CHANGES THAT APPEAR TO OCCUR IN THE EMPTY WORLD WE CALL REAL ONLY BECAUSE OF OUR IGNORANCE. DO NOT SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH; ONLY CEASE TO HOLD OPINIONS. This is a BEEJA mantra - a very very deep message: DO NOT SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH; ONLY CEASE TO HOLD OPINIONS. HOW CAN YOU SEARCH...

... can do. No need for nine digits or ten digits - but you cannot work with only one. Dualists say the existence is impossible with one, even a river needs two banks to flow. Man and woman are needed to give birth to a child; life and death are needed as the two banks for the life to flow between. One will be so monotonous - how can life come out of one? They go on saying two. And those who say one...

... aloud. The doctor is standing dejected, crestfallen. For him, it is a professional defeat. He could not save this man. The reporter is ready with his pen and diary, to note down the time of death and then to hasten to the Press-Office. The painter is standing and thinking and observing. Only one thing is happening in that room. One man is about to die, but it is not the same thing for the wife, the...

... individual was on the point of death in his house. The wife is beating her breast and weeping aloud. A doctor is standing near the bed. That man is a respectable and a famous person. A press reporter is standing there - ready to send the news of his death to the paper. Along with the reporter a painter is also there. He wants to see a person dying. He wants to draw a painting of death. The wife is weeping...

... doctor, the reporter and the painter. Four different things are taking place. To the wife, it is not simply the dying of somebody - she herself is dying, for the wife this is not any scene which is happening outside. It is pertaining to her very life. Now she can never be the same again. Something of hers will die - perish, forever, in which no new sprouts will perhaps ever come out. She is completely...

... in-one-with this scene. To the doctor, there is no death - feeling within to him somebody is dying. But he is sorry because he could not succeed in saving him. To the wife, something is dying in her heart, to the doctor, some action of dying is going on in his brain. He is thinking if some other medicines had been given, the patient would have been saved. Have I made an error in his diagnosis. What...

... should I do if another patient suffering from this very disease is on his death-bed. The doctor's heart is not at all affected by the death of the patient, but much activity is going on in his brain. There is not that much activity in the reporter's brain. He is frequently consulting his watch to note down the time of death and then to inform the office. There is nothing else going on in his brain. He...

... is just waiting for death. For the painter whether the man is dying or not dying has no relation at all. He is studying the darkness covering the face of that man. He is expecting to observe the last flickering light of life which will be seen at the moment of death on the face of that man. He is seeing the oncoming darkness in the room. He is observing the shadow of death which has gripped that...

... room from all the four sides. To him the event of death of a person is a play of colours. He is examining colours, as he wants to draw a painting of death. He is totally an outsider, he has no other concern in this event. It does not make any difference to him whether this man dies, it makes no difference to him if that wife dies or that doctor dies or that reporter dies. He is engrossed in catching...

... the beauty of the colours of death, he has no relation whatsoever with death. There is only one situation but it has four different mental attitudes. There could be even four thousand. Life is the same for a person of mundane existence as well as for a sannyasi but mental attitudes are different. The sannyasi is trying to look at life from different view points different angles of vision. The mental...

... to hear the music. Deer of the forest stopped moving, birds became silent, and they surrounded him. After the death of Moses, shepherds who had heard the music of that divine flute kept it under a tree and began to worship it. It was a bamboo flute. Only a generation or two had lapsed when people began to say, 'what is there in this simple bamboo flute? There should be something worth more to it to...

... one side, the button is pressed, on the other side sex is excited. You get a push and the result is anger. Somebody praised us and immediately we get a swollen head. There is an interesting joke about Bertrand Russell. It is said, the words, 'Oh God' came out from his mouth at the time of his death. A priest was standing near the bed. He was very surprised. He was afraid to come there because...

... Bertrand Russell did not believe in God, so it was not possible to ask Russell to pray or confess. He was standing there in a nervous condition, but when he heard the words 'Oh God' from Russell's mouth at the time of death, he got a little bold, and asked him, 'Do you believe in God?' Then Bertrand Russell opened his eyes and asked the priest who he was. He replied that he was a priest, and was afraid...

... anything without thinking about it. I do not know if God exists or not, I do not know if there is soul or not. At the most I can use 'If' in my statement. 'If God is there, please forgive this Bertrand Russell if Bertrand Russell is there.' This man is not showing any reaction even towards death. He makes a response even towards death. He is not nervous even at the moment of his death. I have a friend...

... was very nervous and that I should go and see him. I went there. His eyes were closed and he was repeating Rama, Rama. I shook him and asked 'What ar you doing' He opened his eyes and said, 'I don't know. When I felt death was approaching, my mind said, let Krishnamurti go and then it was out of my control. Then 'Rama' began to come out my mouth. I am now uttering that word, it is coming out by...

... great statement full of consciousness. Indeed a very great conscious statement. A person who uses 'If' even in relation to the Soul, who uses 'If' even in relation to God at the time of his death, gives a positive suggestion of himself being a man of consciousness. He is not nervous. He is not afraid of death. He is standing there completely prepared along with death. This is response. If you remember...

... fear is coming from your false ego, because the more conscious you become, the less is the possibility for the ego to exist. That's why you are feeling that something is dying in you. This happens only to the fortunate ones, because anything that can die in you, is not you. Your life source is eternal and knows no death. You can take it as a criterion, that whatever is dying, deserves dying. It was...

... false and you were unnecessarily identified with it. With its death you will realize your reality and that reality never dies - it is always there. Your question is, "I am feeling closer and closer to you as my lover and my friend." You will have to come a little closer, so that even the friend and the lover disappear. These are distant relationships, however intimate, but there is a...

... be able to see the point that ego can die and not only do you still remain alive, you become more alive. These are the mysteries of life... when the friend disappears, it is not that the enemy appears. When the friend disappears, then you will find the first taste of true friendliness. When love disappears, you will find that now love is no more a relationship, but your very being. You are love. So...

... known about yourself will be gone, and all that will come, you have never even dreamt about it! But that is your essential self. That's why you are feeling "... and after that, I feel as if something is dying." Don't hold onto it. That which is dying, help it to die - the quicker, the better. And when something dies, don't carry the corpse with you, because your attachment has been with it...

... for so long, that even though it is dead, you would not like to depart from it. But unless depart from it, the barrier will not be broken between you and your reality. It is an thin barrier, but very strong. So rejoice that something is dying, and remember that you are not to collect corpses. Many things will die; don't be a collector of antiques. You have a much more beautiful future, much more...

... see what is making it stick." Don't be an Irishman. Be a little more intelligent. And intelligence always brings with it awareness, clarity. You can see yourself that the dead which is dead, was something false - that you have been taught to be false. Now that you are moving towards the real, the unreal has to fade away. The unreal cannot encounter the real; the real is the death of the unreal...

.... And there is much more which you will have to see dying - but remember you have never died before. Death is the greatest lie in existence; it is the most fictitious thing. The real life always continues in different forms and ultimately, when you realize it, it moves into the formless. It becomes universal and that is the most blessed and the most ecstatic moment: you have found the very meaning of...

... spirit, more ugly in its behavior than it is now. These are the people: Socrates, Mansoor and Jesus, who have raised the human consciousness by sacrificing themselves. They knew perfectly well that to say the truth was inviting death, but death does not matter to the man of truth. He knows there is no death - the body dies, but your consciousness remains always. So drop this whole idea because this is...

... in Athens, but stop teaching your truth. If you promise that you will not teach the truth, then there is no need for me to kill an innocent man." Socrates said, "This is not acceptable. For what should I be living if I cannot teach the truth? Then death is better, far better." Unwillingly, in spite of himself, the chief justice had to give him the death sentence, death by poison. Do...

... you think Socrates was not intelligent? Alternatives were offered: He could have moved out of Athens - but truth knows no compromise. He could have stopped teaching, he was already very old. But when you are pregnant with truth, you cannot stop teaching. You have to say it to those who are blind, who are deaf, and who are living in all kinds of lies. He preferred to die. He said to the chief justice...

..., "Remember, I am choosing death in favor of truth. And because of this death, whatever I have been teaching will remain for centuries. Even the names of your judges, and you, will be forgotten. Nobody will know this crowd who is shouting to kill me, but my death will make it a guarantee that even after my death, my words will go on improving human consciousness." But the people who are living...

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... there is unhappiness. What is the difference?" There is some attachment to an enemy as well as to a friend. If your enemy dies, then too something breaks within, a place falls empty within. Many times the death of an enemy creates a bigger emptiness in you than the death of a friend because there was an attachment to the enemy also. It was inverted attachment; you were related with his presence...

... children where this kind of fantasy can still happen. Whatsoever anyone did to the king, the king would not die unless the parrot was killed. His soul was hidden in the parrot. As long as the parrot did not die, the king would not die. This is not only a story - it indicates that our souls are also imprisoned somewhere else, encased in something else. It may be that your soul is not imprisoned in a...

... sixtieth floor of the buildings. What happened to these people? What happening took place that suddenly there was no other option left for them but to die? Their souls were imprisoned in their safes. When the safe died, they died. This jumping... nothing else had happened, the whole world was unchanged, just some digits in the bank's ledgers had disappeared. Digits! In somebody's name there had been a...

... somewhere else. Now this being somewhere else can be of many types. One person thinks that his body is his soul; then this person is also somewhere else. Tomorrow he will start becoming old; then he will be in pain, he will feel miserable because his body is waning away, becoming wrinkled, ugly, sick and aged. Such a person will feel himself dead before his actual death because the young body in which he...

... die, it is only the parrots that die. Wherever else you put your souls, those things slip away, they die. Hence the person starts feeling himself as good as dead. The soul is immortal, but we attach it to mortal things. Those mortal things are bound to disintegrate - if not today, tomorrow. That is their very nature. When those things disintegrate you will have an illusion that you have died. This...

..., not through accumulation of information but by the death of the 'I'. WHEN THE DISSOLVED DESIRES DO NOT ARISE BACK AGAIN, THIS IS THE LIMIT OF RELAXEDNESS, AND SUCH A STHITPRAGYA, A SEEKER STABLE IN WISDOM, EVER REMAINS IN BLISS. WHEN THE DISSOLVED DESIRES DO NOT ARISE BACK AGAIN.... Many a time the desires dissolve, but they are just suspended for a while and return again and again. One day it feels...

.... Such a seeker, such a sannyasin, ever attains to bliss. All dualities are created by the mind: happiness and unhappiness, peace and peacelessness, good and bad, birth and death. The moment mind recedes, there is nonduality, bliss. There is no opposite word for bliss; it is beyond duality. And the seeker who is beyond duality ever attains to bliss. We have a great problem: our problem is that we want...

... - only then will you gather some courage. But that very thing, the arousal of the desire, is the root cause of all the troubles in the first place. Buddha had made a unique experiment. In his time also the conditions were the same as they have become today. They always become like this. Whenever people like Buddha or Mahavira are born in this world a sort of shadow-period follows their death for...

... something to achieve is necessary, a future, some time is necessary. And all these had vanished. Buddha went to sleep that night as if he were a person that has died while alive. He was alive, yet death had happened. In the morning around 5 a.m. his eyes opened. Buddha has said, "I did not open my eyes." What would he do by opening the eyes? There remained nothing to be seen, nor anything to be...

... while living. In India there is the concept of two types of liberation. One type of liberated one is a jivanamukta, one who is free while living. The other liberated one is the one who is liberated at the time of his death. Both types of liberation do happen. A person goes on searching and searching his whole life - and then, just as I talked of with Buddha, he seeks and seeks and is one day tired of...

... the seeking, and it happens. Sometimes it so happens that a person seeks his whole life - not just six years like Buddha but his whole life - and does not get tired. He goes on seeking and seeking, and it is only when his death arrives that he realizes that all the seeking has been futile and he has attained nothing - and thus in the moment of death all his search relaxes. If just prior to death all...

... the seeking relaxes and all the plans stop and no future remains, then what happened to Buddha under the Bodhi tree - the same happens under the tree of death. Then death and liberation happen simultaneously; because death can relax one very deeply. If all your searching has gone in vain, if it has become your firm experience that all searching is useless, that you have not attained anything...

... anywhere - neither in the worldly life nor in the spiritual endeavor - nothing has been achieved.... Only then if this becomes absolutely clear to you and there remains no demand of any kind for the future that you still want to achieve something, only then, when not even the feeling remains that if you do not die now and you live for a few more days that you may do something further, but instead you...

... accept the approaching death.... If everything is futile, man accepts death. Just as Buddha slept that night - not even the question remained about what he would do next morning. Similarly, if someone dies to the future at the moment of death without thinking "Now I am dying and certain things have remained incomplete.... There was something to be completed but could not be completed; should I get...

... a couple of more days I may complete it..." When no such feelings remain and the death descends naturally, the way evening descends and man goes to sleep, then such a death also becomes liberation. Such a person is called the liberated one. But this happening sometimes takes place during life and the person survives even after liberation. This survival depends on other factors. When you are...

... born, your body has a certain in-built span of years - seventy years, eighty years. Now if this happening of liberation takes place at the age of forty years, the body is bound to complete those remaining forty years. You may have died at the age of forty, but the body will die only after completing eighty years. You as an ego are no more at the age of forty years, but the body will last for forty...

... was wound up to run seven days and then you went to some jungle, got lost, fell down and died; but your wristwatch will continue to work for seven more days. Your watch was wound for seven days and your death makes no difference to it; it goes on running for seven days - tick, tick, tick.... Your body is a machine. You may attain to the ultimate awakening today, you may have died today, but your...

... that everybody is going to die. The child has shown that you are ready to die any moment - even a young boy can disappear into death, so what about you? All these things are revealed in that fresh, silent, cool death. Life is warm, death is cool. But death is as much alive as life. And the master says, 'You see, I have kept nothing from you - not even this.' And a great realization, a great awakening...

... it. Not only multi-dimensional, existence is paradoxical. Day and night are together there - but when we see, we see day as separate, night as separate. Life and death are together there - but when we see, we see life as separate, death as separate. In fact we see them as enemies. They are not enemies - life moves into death, death moves into life. They are like valleys and mountains - TOGETHER...

... separate; yes and no are two aspects of the same energy. That's why language is dualistic - it creates a kind of schizophrenia in human consciousness, it creates a split. And existence is non-dual, existence is one. There is no split at all. It is very difficult for you to think that death is nothing but your life, the culmination of your life. You have been taught for centuries that death is the enemy...

... - avoid, escape, protect yourself, defend yourself against it. It is not; it is the background of your life. If your life is lightning, then death is the dark cloud. Without the dark cloud the lightning will lose much - it will not shine any more. If your life is like stars twinkling in the night, then death is like the dark night, moonless night. The stars are there in the day too, but you cannot see...

... go into rest; you go into deep rest. Death is rest for life. And out of death you will be born again and again. And out of life, death will happen again and again. They are together, a rhythm. That's why language cannot express the one, the non-dual, ADVAITA - it cannot express it. Language is logical - has to be. If it is not logical, if it is illogical, it will be again meaningless. Gurdjieff was...

... mathematician, God is very asymmetrical. And then do you know what the master did? He went out, asked many gardeners to come out of the garden. They had thrown all the dry leaves outside the garden, and he said, 'Bring these leaves back.' A garden without dry leaves is a dead garden. Dry leaves have to be there, they are part of it. As life cannot be without death, how can green leaves be without dry leaves...

... the East we know far deeper, we have an intuitive feeling for the whole. yes, the creator has to be the destroyer too - otherwise there will not be any death, there will be only life. And there will be no hate, there will be only love. And there will be no sadness, there will be always happiness. It is not so. Everything born dies. So this whole existence is born one day, and one day dies. Only in...

... man like Rinzai offers to throw a man, it cannot be meaningless. A man like Rinzai knows what he is doing; a man like Rinzai is perfectly aware of the situation. There are people who can become alert only when death faces them - otherwise they are never alert. There are people who will wake only when death is standing just in front of them. For me, it was unfortunate that the other two interceded...

... breakthrough?' The master lifted the lid of the coffin and said, 'You see, I have kept nothing from you - not even this.' A great master. Opened the lid of the coffin and said, 'Come on! You see?' The dead body of the son. Death - so young, so fresh. Death so alive. Because when a child dies, death is very young and very fresh. Very radiant. You can see death in the child's face more than you will ever be...

... able to see it in an old man. When an old man dies, death is also old. When a young child dies, death is very young and fresh like a flower. The master opens the lid and says, 'You see, I have kept nothing from you, not even this! I have talked about life, I have helped you to see life. Now see death too. Not even this - I have not kept anything hidden from you. No, everything is revealed. Life you...

... know - now see death too.' 'It is so, it is so,' replied the monk, as pain revealed what had so long been hidden from him. What has been hidden? What has pain revealed? What did this master do by opening the coffin and showing the man his own dead child? What has he done? The man was angry; he was ready to kill or be killed. He was in a rage, he was mad, he was waving a naked sword. He must have been...

... very much attached to the child; the child must have been his very life. He is not in his senses. But the cool face of death brings him back to his senses, and he can see his attachment. And he can see that he is not worried about the child and the child's death - he is worried about his own attachment, about his own possessiveness. He is worried basically about his own death. The child has shown...

... gone. But Zen is a very strange way of approaching the truth. KYUHO, STROKING THE DEAD MONK'S BACK, SAID, "YOU COULD PASS AWAY SITTING UP STRAIGHT, BUT YOU COULD NEVER DREAM OF OUR LATE TEACHER'S MEANING." This is going to be very hard. He has proved that he can empty himself - so much so that he can die out of his own will. As the incense burns and the smoke cloud moves away, he will be...

... anything, you have simply to relax into it. You don't have to die, you have simply to be aware that emptiness is your innermost reality." That's why although Kyuho seems to be hard on the poor fellow who has died, he is right: the man who has died must have had a great willpower. I have told you about Nansen.... Before he was going to die, he informed all his disciples to come to partake in the...

... ceremony of his death. He had thousands of disciples and he asked them, "Now please, anybody - suggest to me some original way of dying. I don't want to be in any way orthodox - I have never been in my life. Why should I be orthodox in dying if I have not been in living?" The disciples looked at each other. Nobody had heard about an original death; death is death. Still, one suggested, "I...

... have heard about a monk dying sitting, crosslegged, in a lotus posture." Nansen said, "Stupid! So many have done that; it is nothing new. Just try to find something new. You are my disciples and you cannot do even this much for me? - to find an original way of dying? Do you want me to die like everybody else, lying on the bed?" The bed certainly is a very dangerous place. Ninety-nine...

... point nine percent of people die there... so beware! When the light is put off, simply get out of the bed - it is the most dangerous place. Be somewhere else: in the bathroom, on the floor, on the roof... anywhere, but avoid the bed. Nansen said, "I am not going to die in the ordinary way." Somebody suggested, "Then you can die standing up." Nansen said, "That seems to be a...

... little better, but still it is not unique, because I have heard about one Zen master dying standing." That gave a clue to a disciple; he said, "That gives me an idea. Why don't you try it? Die standing on your head!" He said, "This is great!" - And he stood on his head and died. Now the disciples were at a loss what to do, because there exists no ritual for a man who has died...

... hit to Nansen and told him, "Your whole life you have been mischievous; at least in your death behave!" So Nansen jumped up, lay down on the bed, smiled - and died. The disciples could not believe it, whether he is still dead... because first he had deceived them by standing on his head. "We would have burned him alive. Now it is better to wait for two or three days and see if he is...

... really dead." Nansen opened his eye and said, "I am really dead! There is no need to wait. When I am saying it who are you to dispute it. Is it my death or yours?" They said, "Certainly it is your death." So he said, "Can I close my eyes?" They said, "It is up to you." He closed his eyes and the disciples had to burn him, feeling very much worried - perhaps...

... rebirth after death; he is talking about rebirth before death. Unless this life is used to grow another kind of life the fragrance remains hidden. The flower never grows, the spring never comes, and life remains empty, hollow, meaningless. Sannyas is a process of helping you to be reborn; it is a rebirthing. But remember, rebirthing is possible only if first you are ready to die. The seed has to die...

... first, then the plant starts growing; the death of the seed is the birth of the plant. The death of the ego is the beginning of the soul. Die as you have been up to now so that I can help you to be reborn as God means you to be. Sannyas is both a death and a resurrection. It is a cross: on one side you die, on the other side you are resurrected. That is the whole meaning of Jesus' crucifixion; it is a...

...-actualization. The child is only a seed, but the misery is that millions are born as seeds and die as seeds. Growth never happens to them. They think that to be born is enough. They take life for granted - which is utterly erroneous. Life has yet to happen. What you think right now is life is only an opportunity for real life to be; hence Jesus says, "Unless you are born again ,N He is not talking about...

... parable. The parable says... I call it a parable; I don't call it history, because history cannot contain such great truths. Only parables, only myths, can contain great truths like this. The death of Jesus is the death of the ego. The death of Jesus is the birth of Christ, and between these two, three days pass. Those three days are very very symbolic; that means that there are three stages of rebirth...

... - people who are afraid, frightened, of life, of death, of everything. Their god is nothing but a creation of their fear, a consolation, something to hang onto, somebody to depend upon. They can't stand on their own; they need crutches. All their religions and all their religious rituals are nothing but crutches, and those crutches keep them crippled. The real temple is in the heart, but only daring...

... own inner temple. It is like death, but fortunate are those who can gather that much courage, because they are the only ones who know what real life is. Be one of those courageous ones, those fortunate ones. [A sannyasin has a pain in her hips. Osho had previously suggested she see a doctor about it. Now she says it did not help, and she feels she should do something herself about it, but she...

.... And nobody knows when the last moment is going to happen. We live in a kind of prison where everybody is sentenced to die and everybody is waiting for his date, that's all. This world is like a prison and everybody is sentenced to die, everybody is waiting for his death to come. It is just a question of the date. But once it is decided that death is going to happen, how can you live? How can you...

... were before your birth and you will be after your death. But one has to recognize that element in oneself, and the best way to recognize it is to go on dropping the past. As fast as it becomes the past, die to it, don't accumulate it. If it becomes accumulated around you it does not allow you to see yourself. Too much accumulated past functions like a barrier. Hence the change of the name. It helps...

... goes on circulating and taking in its flow all the dead parts. If the blood circulation stops you will die; physically you will die immediately. The same is the case with the inner world, the soul: love is its circulation. It keeps it alive, young, pure; love is the holiest quality. To be loving is all that is needed, required of a religious person. Nothing else is needed: if one is loving, all is...

... later the body is going to die. -In sannyas your soul is born. And if you really work sincerely to remember yourself, something is bound to happen which will never die, which will be deathless. So the really worthwhile is that which gives you a life which is immortal. Sannyas is a search for immortality, deathlessness, eternity. The whole problem of the mind is the problem of time. Time is very short...

...... so many things to do, and death is always imminent. It does not give you space enough to be; it does not allow you freedom to move at your own pace. It hangs over your head like a naked sword from a thin thread. It can fall any moment and your head will be cut off. How can you be at ease? How can you relax? How can you avoid anxiety, anguish? It is just hanging there; any moment the next breath may...

... not come back. Because of this constant presence of death man remains in constant fear and trembling. Because of that trembling he cannot do anything. To do something significant one needs to be calm and quiet and at ease. But death will not leave you alone even for a single moment; it is always surrounding you. It is like an octopus, reaching towards you from everywhere. You are always in its grip...

... within them. Even death remains unacquainted with the one whose death happens. This statement is a little strange: "The death remains a stranger of the one who dies! Nothing dies when one dies." When death happens, who actually dies? Nobody. Body does not die, because it has always been dead. There is no question of its dying. The one who is hidden within the body is eternally immortal. There...

.... DEATH IS ITS BODY, IT DWELLS WITHIN DEATH, BUT DEATH DOES NOT KNOW IT. IT IS THE INNERMOST SELF OF ALL THESE ELEMENTS, ITS SINS ARE ALL DESTROYED, AND IT IS THE ONE DIVINE GOD NARAYANA - THE SUSTAINER OF ALL HUMAN BEINGS. THE BODY, THE SENSES, ETCETERA, ARE NON-SOUL MATTER, AND THE FEELING OF 'I- MYNESS' OVER THEM IS ADHYAS - ILLUSION. THEREFORE, AN INTELLIGENT PERSON SHOULD DROP THIS ILLUSION THROUGH...

... is no question of its dying either. Only the relationship breaks. In death the relationship between the dead and the immortal breaks. But death itself, even after coming so close, remains ignorant of the one that is immortal. How many times have we died, and yet we have not come to know so far that within us is the one which is immortal. The very situation of this non-acquaintance is that even in...

... coming close we are unable to look inwards; our seeing continues to focus itself outwards. See a man lying on his deathbed: he still goes on looking outwards. Even now he does not feel like looking within. Death is pulling and dragging him from the body, but he still clings to the body - clings more forcefully, more than ever before. This is why old people become ugly and the young look beautiful. If...

... we look at it deeply, the reason for this is not the body alone. The young person does not cling to the body, he is still confident of it. The old person begins to cling to the body; and because of that clinging, all sorts of ugliness is born. The old person begins to be afraid: here comes death... now comes death... death is close by. The more the old person is afraid of death, the more strongly...

... he clings to life. And the more strongly the person clings to life, the more ugly he becomes. How lovely children look! They simply do not cling at all. They have no idea that death exists. Look at the birds and the animals: however old they become, they look the same. I am talking of those animals and those birds who are not yet spoiled through the company of man. A man just spoils everything. So...

..., it appears very strange that in the jungle the birds and the animals do not appear to become old. The kind of old age that catches man does not seem to catch birds and animals. They remain like children. In some deep sense they are not aware at all that death will be coming, therefore there is no clinging to the body. The freshness that is in children is because life is natural, there is no fear of...

... death. It becomes difficult in old age, death becomes clearer. Life is an effort now, the old man lives by effort. Every inch of the journey he is conscious of death now. That creates an uncertainty; tension grows within him and anxiety and anguish catch hold of him permanently - and that turns the mind ugly. Even death does not come to know the immortal hiding within the body. The only reason for...

... nature. That is God, that is soul. The end part of the sutra explains this: DEATH IS ITS BODY, IT DWELLS WITHIN DEATH, BUT DEATH DOES NOT KNOW IT. IT IS THE INNERMOST SELF OF ALL THESE ELEMENTS, ITS SINS ARE ALL DESTROYED, AND IT IS THE ONE DIVINE GOD NARAYANA. THE BODY, THE SENSES, ETCETERA, ARE ALL NON-SOUL MATTER, AND THE FEELING OF 'I-MYNESS' OVER THEM IS ADHYAS - ILLUSION. THEREFORE, AN...

... aloneness there is fear. When a challenge like love or sannyas or samadhi or God provokes you, you feel as if death is coming close by. It is a sort of death. YoU will have to die to the past, to the old; only then can you be reborn to the new. Fear grips you. You say, 'I will have to think.' That's what that young man said: 'I will have to think. I will have to wait.' Thinking can never lead you into the...

...: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. The first question: Question 1: WHY DO I SEEM TO FEEL MORE AFRAID OF LIFE THAN OF DEATH? DEATH IS UNKNOWN. You cannot be really afraid of that with which you are not at all acquainted. Fear is a relationship - you have to know something to be afraid of it. Nobody really is afraid of death. And whenever somebody says 'I am afraid of death' he is simply saying...

... that he is afraid to lose life. Death is absolutely unknown. So everybody is afraid of life - it is life that is the problem, not death. It is life that gives you anguish and nights without sleep. And what is the fear of life? There are many fears but they can be reduced to a few basic fears. One is that life is slipping by and you have not lived yet. That's the panic, basic panic - that life is...

... going out of your hands, every moment you have less and less life. And you have not lived yet. Great fear arises: are you going to miss? Will you be able to make it this time? And who knows? There may be no other time. Life may not happen again - who knows? This seems to be the only life, and every day it is turning into a wasteland. Hence the fear. Secondly, it is life that ultimately brings death...

.... Death is the crescendo of life, the finishing touch. If you are afraid of death, that too is basically fear of life - that life will bring death one day. That the trees will be there and the flowers will be there and the spring will come and the grass will be green and you will not be here. And while you are here you are not much here either. And sooner or later, grass will be growing on your grave...

.... And you will not be able to walk on it. And while you can walk on it and enjoy the feel of it and the dewdrops and the coolness and the sunlit morning, you are not enjoying it. Because you cannot enjoy, that's why you are afraid of life. And life is turning into death, the unknown. The known is always disappearing into the unknown. The light is always disappearing into darkness. So life will take...

... you one day to the door of death. But why are you not living? What hinders you from living? You have conditions, that's what is hindering. You have conditions - that 'If THIS happens, only then will I be happy. ' And life is not going to oblige you. You have to surrender to life. Your conditions don't allow you the surrender; you have to drop conditions. You have to say, 'Whatsoever happens, I am...

..., naturally you are afraid of life. YOU SAY: WHY DO I SEEM TO FEEL MORE AFRAID OF LIFE THAN OF DEATH? Then there is one thing more: Life requires more than death will ever require. Life requires a willing surrender. Death does not care for you. It simply comes, without any notification even. It simply comes and takes you away, it drags you You are not asked, your cooperation is not asked. Death pays no...

... HAVING LITTLE TO DO WITH HIM, IT SEEMS ENTIRELY MY OWN JOURNEY. FEELING NOURISHED AND MUCH POWER IN MY BEING. The question is from Anand Amrita. Love IS nourishment. Love is exactly like food to the soul. Food is nourishment for the body, love is nourishment for the soul. Without for you will die physically, without love you will die spiritually - in fact you will not even be horn. The body needs food...

... will disappear. And one day there is flowering, but you are not. That is the day, the moment, of liberation. The fifth question: Question 5: I WANT TO COMMIT SUICIDE. Then first take sannyas. And you may not need to commit suicide, because sannyas is the greatest suicide possible. And why should one want to commit suicide? Death is coming on its own - why are you in such a hurry? Death will come, it...

... pneumonia, and die too. So why don't you just go home quietly and put your head in the gas oven?' Please don't create any trouble here. And don't talk about it, because there are many people who would like the idea - you may convert a few people. I have heard: A man was walking across Waterloo Bridge late one night when he noticed another man on the parapet about to throw himself over. He rushed up to the...