... dance or die. And that's what is not happening in the world - religion is not dancing, hence it has died. Religion is creeping and crawling; it has forgotten how to fly. Religion has become dogma. Dogma is death; it is a corpse. To be flowing and alive and flying, religion has to exist as an experience - not as a theory, not as theology, but as meditation; not as a philosophy about God but as a...

... you can weep to your heart's content Right now, see this great experiment that is happening to me. I am very intrigued by the idea of death - whether I am really going to die or not. Don't miss this opportunity. Just sit around me and watch.' A Master teaches through his life and also teaches through his death. A Master uses every opportunity - even his own death he will use to teach his disciples...

... destructive. The moment you possess something alive, you kill it, because the moment something becomes a property it is no more alive. Possess a tree, and it is no more alive. Possess a woman or a man, and you have killed them. Possess anything, and death is the outcome, because only death can be possessed. Life is freedom. It remains basically free. You cannot possess it, you cannot put it into the bank...

... discovers serves death; it is no more serving life. Ninety percent of scientific effort goes on war. Science is losing face. Unless religion starts dancing, even science will no longer have any future. Science will need some release of energy from religion to support it. And if religion can be alive again and science becomes a part, a shadow of religion, then only can it be free of the politician and his...

... more wonderful than ever I dreamed.' And of the third tree they said, 'Let's make it into a cross.' But the tree said, 'I don't want to be a cross - a thing of shame on which men die. I want to stand on a hill-top and point people to heaven.' But they turned the tree into a cross and Jesus was nailed to that cross. And all down the years, men have looked to that cross, and it has pointed them to God...

...! There is a great beyond challenging you. And only that man is truly a man who accepts the challenge of the beyond. All others are only men in name, in form, but not really men. Be a man! Accept the challenge of the unknown, of the beyond. Let it become a great dream in your being. That which you appear to be is only a seed. The seed has to fall into the soil, and has to die, and has to become a tree...

... was courageous enough to die. Man's ego is nothing but a seed. It is very protective. People ask me, 'If ego is such a barrier towards God, then why in the first place does ego exist? If mind is such a barrier to God, then why does mind exist at all?' It exists to protect you, just as the hard shell of the seed exists to protect the potential. The potential is very soft; it will be destroyed if the...

... hard shell is not around it. The hard shell is not the enemy. The hard shell will be the enemy only if the spring has come, and the soil has been found, and the seed rejects death. If the hard shell says, 'Now, I will go on protecting you, even against the spring. I will protect you against this soil,' then there is going to be trouble. That's where the problem arises. The ego in itself is not a...

... problem. The child needs it, otherwise the child will be very unprotected. He will not know how to survive in this world of struggle. He will not know how to protect himself against so many hazards. He is so soft, tender, he will die before he becomes a Buddha. The ego helps him. The ego is a kind of armour, and so is the mind - it protects him. It is not your enemy. It is the enemy only when the moment...

... has come and you are ready to move into meditation - you have found a Master, you have found a method and you are ready - but the mind says, 'No, I cannot die. Just think of all the blessings that I have showered upon you. Just think of all the benefits that I have given you. Just think of all that I have done for you! Feel grateful, and don't try to destroy me.' Then the problem arises: then the...

... passing through drops of water hanging in the clouds. Those hanging drops function as prisms, and the sunrays passing through them are immediately split into seven colours . Your energy moves through your two eyes and the whole world becomes dual. Then you see day and night as opposite, life and death as opposite, love and hate as opposite, matter and consciousness as opposite. Your two eyes make all...

... two eyes become one, you have entered the kingdom of God.' You know immortality, because now you know life and death are not opposite but two wings of the same bird. Death does not destroy life but helps it to renew itself again. Death is not the enemy but the friend. It simply helps life to change its garments because they have become rotten; they have been used and they cannot be used anymore. It...

... disappears. And when you see the whole existence without any conflict, certainly, great joy arises. There is no death. Death one sees only from the outside. You see somebody else dying, you have never seen yourself dying. Nobody has ever seen himself dying. When Socrates was given poison, he was very enchanted. His disciples were crying and weeping, and he said, 'Don't weep. Soon I will be gone, and then...

... disciple but an enemy. He does not understand Socrates at all, and what he proposes is absolutely against Socrates. Socrates is a mystic. His philosophy is just a method of inquiry - and a very penetrating inquiry. He will not even leave death aside; he inquired into death. To the very last moment he was true to his method of inquiry. Death one sees only from the outside: you see other people dying. But...

..., you have made the world a little more beautiful, when you have enhanced its joy, then you are a sannyasin. And to know this way, your inner life, will help you to know that you are deathless, because once you know who you are in your utter capacity, when your inner torch is burning from both ends together, at the optimum, then you will know there is no death. And at the optimum your third-eye centre...

... starts functioning - and only at the optimum. So don't live life as a drag. Don't live it as if it is a burden, a duty to be fulfilled, make it a dance, let it be a celebration. IMMORTALITY IS CONTAINED IN THIS AND ALSO THE OVERCOMING OF THE WORLD. If you can allow your flame of life to reach the third eye, you will see there is no death. And you will suddenly see that you are no more attached to the...

... only inside, it is also on the outside. It is not confined to you. Remember, darkness is individual, light is universal Death is individual, life is universal. Misery is individual, bliss is universal. For misery to exist, you have to exist - you have to exist as separate. And for bliss to come into existence, you have to become part of the whole, in harmony with the whole. THE LIGHT IS NOT IN THE...

..., unentangled, without any bondage. And then there will be no death, no birth. You will be an eternal flowering of light in this infinite existence. Only fifteen minutes? Yes, only fifteen minutes can do the miracle. But people are not even ready to give fifteen minutes to quietness, to silence. I have heard... When Ignatius Loyola heard the news that an unfriendly man had been elected Pope, he was asked what...

... because there are no wild winds blowing. One feels protected although the protection is false, because death will come and will drag you into the beyond. Buddha says: Before death comes and drags you into the beyond, go on your own. A Zen monk was going to die. He was very old, ninety years old. Suddenly he opened his eyes and he said, "Where are my shoes?" And the disciple said, "Where...

... which consists of time: being born, getting married, living, then old age, then death. Days go on flicking by, just like numbers on a gasoline pump. But this is not life; this is just the very periphery. Have you observed that if you look inside, time exists not? If you look outside there is time, but if you look inside there is no time. Have you not felt it sometimes, sitting silently with closed...

... eyes - that inside you have not aged at all? Inside you remain the same as when you were a child, or as when you were young. Inside nothing has changed: the face is wrinkled by age, the hairs have gone gray, death is approaching - this is all from the outside. If you look in the mirror then of course there are signs that much time has passed, that very little is left, that sooner or later you will be...

..., dancing in the breeze, and joyous. Only joy can take you to the other shore. If you are not joyous, your very sadness will function like a rock around your neck and will drown you. People are not drowned by anything else but their own sadness and pessimistic outlooks. Life has to be joyous; then life becomes spiritual. If your church is sad, then that church exists for death, not for life. A church, a...

...... no more uncles left." It cannot happen every day; uncles cannot die.... Your joyousness, if it is caused, is bound to turn into unhappiness sooner or later. It is on the way already; watch out. If you have a cause to be happy you are already getting into unhappiness - because the cause will disappear. Only uncaused joyousness can be yours; and then nobody can take it away. Only saints and...

... never achieve to any peaks, then they never achieve to what Maslow calls 'actualization'. They remain just possibilities. It is as if a seed has chosen to hide in the house and is not ready to go into the adventure of falling into the soil. It is dangerous, because the seed will have to die. It is dangerous, because the seed does not know what will happen when he has disappeared. No seed has ever...

... are you going? Have you gone crazy? You are dying, and the physician has said that there is no more possibility; a few minutes more." He said, "That's why I'm asking for my shoes: I would like to go to the cemetery, because I don't want to be dragged. I will walk on my own and I will meet death there. I don't want to be dragged. And you know me - I have never leaned on anybody else. This...

... will be very ugly, that four persons will be carrying me. No." He walked to the cemetery. Not only that, he dug his own grave, lay down in it, and died. This is what Buddha means by DURANGAMA: such courage to accept the unknown, such courage to go on your own and welcome the beyond. Then death is transformed, then death is no longer death. Such a courageous man never dies; death is defeated...

.... Such a courageous man goes beyond death. For one who goes on his own to the beyond, the beyond is never like death. Then the beyond becomes a welcome. If you welcome the beyond, the beyond welcomes you; the beyond always goes on echoing you. The eighth is ACHALA: centering, grounding, immovability. And Buddha says one should learn to be centered, unmoving, grounded. Whatsoever happens, one should...

... on happening, but they are happening outside; nothing penetrates to your center. If you are there, then nothing makes any difference. Life comes, death comes, success, failure, praise and insult, and pain and pleasure - they come and go. They all pass away, but the witnessing center always remains. The ninth is SADHUMATI: intelligence, awareness, mindfulness. Buddha is very much in favor of...

...;Put me down for two." Two corpses were laid out in the same room at the funeral home. One night when everybody left, one corpse sat up and asked the other, "What did you die from?" "Cigarettes," he answered. "I just smoked too many cigarettes." "What kind did you smoke?" "Raleighs," he answered. "At least, did you save the coupons?"...

... different. In fact, there are no two similar persons in the world, so how can your questions be similar? You ask your question, and forget what I have said to the other." And then many times people become puzzled, because they see that I can contradict myself. Just the other night one person asked about fear: "I am afraid." I talked to him about death because I could see why he was afraid...

.... Death was in his eyes, death was around him, he was shadowed by death. I talked much about death rather than about fear, and he understood it. I said to him, "Accept death and fear will disappear." The next person said, "Now there is no need to ask. I have also fear in me and you have answered." I looked at the person; his fear had no relationship with death at all. His fear was...

... fear of loneliness; it was a totally different dimension of fear. And I said, "Forget all that I have said to the other person. It was not your question and it was not answered for you. Tell me about YOUR fear." And by and by it became clear that his fear had nothing to do with death. His fear was fear of being left alone; fear that maybe his aloneness would always remain there. The first...

... was afraid of death, the second was afraid about whether love would happen or not. His fear was concerned with love - whether he would remain always alone, or would somebody be there who would love him? And would he be able to love? Would there be a possibility that he would be together with somebody and this constant wound of loneliness would disappear? He was not worried about death, he was...

... worried about life. His fear was not concerned with death, his fear was concerned with life and relationship and communication and communion, love. They were totally different, but they both used the word 'fear'. And when I give different answers to different people, naturally you can collect all the answers and you will see: "This man is mad!" They will be contradictory. They are bound to be...

... deathless. then no meditation is needed. Then live that experience, then act out of that experience, and the doors of eternal life are open for you. Much is being missed because of fear. We are too attached to the body and we go on creating more and more fear because of that attachment. The body is going to die, the body is part of death, the body is death -- but you are beyond the body. You are not the...

....' 'THERE IS ONE THING,' SAID THE GUARD. 'WHEN I WAS A CHILD I THOUGHT THAT A SAMURAI SHOULD NEVER BE AFRAID OF DEATH, SO I GRAPPLED WITH THE PROBLEM, AND NOW THE THOUGHT OF DEATH HAS CEASED TO WORRY ME.' 'THAT'S IT!' EXCLAIMED THE TEACHER. 'THE ULTIMATE SECRETS OF SWORDSMANSHIP LIE IN BEING RELEASED FROM THE THOUGHT OF DEATH. YOU NEED NO TECHNICAL TRAINING, YOU ARE ALREADY A MASTER.' THE ocean is not...

.... Let me repeat it. He says, 'I was thinking, dear, that if anything happened to either of us, I would like to spend the rest of my life in Paris.' He wants the wife to die although he is not saying it clearly. But he has said it. We continuously broadcast, in many ways. Just a few days ago, President Ford gave a party in honor of the Egyptian ambassador to the States. But then when he was giving the...

... were alive -- but you were not. A great mathematician, Herr Gauss, was keeping vigil while his wife lay ill upstairs. And as time passed, he found himself beginning to ponder a deep problem in mathematics. People have grooves in their mind and they move in the same grooves again and again. A mathematician has a certain track. The wife is going to die, the doctors have said that this is going to be...

... insider and gone beyond morality, dualism -- good and bad. sin and virtue, life and death, beautiful and ugly -- once you have gone beyond the dualisms of mind, you attain to the judging eye. This is the paradox: all judgment has to be left, then you attain to the judging eye. Then it never fails. You simply know it is so, and there is no alternative to it. It is not a choice on your part, it is not a...

... become simply your nature. '...BUT I AM SURE THAT YOU ARE THE MASTER OF SOMETHING... Maybe you aren't a Master of swordsmanship, but you are a Master '...SO TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF.' 'THERE IS ONE THING,' SAID THE GUARD. 'WHEN I WAS A CHILD I THOUGHT THAT A SAMURAI SHOULD NEVER BE AFRAID OF DEATH, SO GRAPPLED WITH THE PROBLEM. AND NOW THE THOUGHT OF DEATH HAS CEASED TO WORRY ME.' But that is what the...

... whole of religion is all about. If death no longer bothers you, you have become a Master. If you have tasted something of the deathless, something of your innermost nature -- you have known something of the eternal. To know the deathless is the whole business of life. Life is an opportunity to know the deathless. '...AND NOW THE THOUGHT OF DEATH HAS CEASED TO WORRY ME. 'THAT'S IT!' EXCLAIMED THE...

... TEACHER. 'THE ULTIMATE SECRETS OF SWORDSMANSHIP LIE IN BEING RE/EASED FROM THE THOUGHT OF DEATH. YOU NEED NO TECHNICAL TRAINING, YOU ARE ALREADY A MASTER.' When you are fighting with a sword, if you are afraid of death, thinking will continue. Now let me tell you one basic truth: thinking is out of fear. All thinking is out of fear. The more you become afraid, the more you think. Whenever there is no...

... been in love with someone, fear disappears and thinking stops. With fear, thinking continues. The more you are afraid, the more you have to think -- because by thinking you will create security; by thinking, you will create a citadel around you; by thinking you will manage, or try to manage, how to fight. A swordsman, if he is afraid of death, cannot be a real swordsman because the fear will make him...

... come that close.' The old man started laughing and he said, 'If you tremble so much with fear, how can you become an archer? Fear must disappear totally, with no trace left behind.' The young man said, 'But how can it be? I am afraid of death.' The old man said, 'Drop the idea of death. Find someone who can teach you what a deathless life is and you will become the greatest archer -- never before...

....' Fear creates trembling; fear creates thinking. Thinking is a sort of inner trembling. When one becomes unwavering, the flame of consciousness remains there, undistracted, untrembling. 'THAT'S IT!' EXCLAIMED THE TEACHER. 'THE ULTIMATE SECRETS OF SWORDSMANSHIP ARE IN BEING RELEASED FROM THE THOUGHT OF DEATH. YOU NEED NO TECHNICAL TRAINING, YOU ARE ALREADY A MASTER.' But he was not aware of his own...

... your fear. So whenever fear comes to you, don't suppress it, don't repress it, don't avoid it, don't get occupied in something so that you can forget about it. No! When fear comes, watch it. Be face to face with it. Encounter it. Look deep into it. Gaze into the valley of fear. Of course you will perspire, and you will tremble, and it will be like a death, and you will have to live it many times. But...

... by and by, the more your eyes become clear, the more your awareness becomes alert, the more your focus is there on the fear, the fear will disappear Like a mist. And once fear disappears, sometimes, even for only a moment, suddenly you are deathless. There is no death. Death is the greatest illusion there is, the greatest myth -- a lie. For even a single moment, if you can see that you are...

... body; you are the bodiless. Remember it. Realize it. Awaken yourself to this truth -- that you are beyond the body. You are the witness, the seer. Then death disappears and fear disappears, and there arises the tremendously glorious life -- what Jesus calls 'life abundant,' or 'the kingdom of God.' The kingdom of God is within you. Generated by PreciseInfo ™ ...

... happen any moment. And they will be mad. One who moves into the third, aware, goes beyond madness. Then, there is the fourth layer. If you pass the third, only then can you enter the fourth. If you have faced chaos, if you have faced the anarchy of the inner world, then you become capable of entering the fourth. The fourth is the death level, the death plane. After the chaos one has to face death - the...

..., suddenly a feeling of death overtakes them. People are even found to utter - particularly women, when they are in deep orgasm and their whole body is vibrating with an unknown rhythm, is filled with vital energy, has become a dance, women all over the world have been known to utter words like: I am dying! Kill me completely! In indian treatises on sex it is said: Never keep a parrot or a mynah bird in...

... deep into orgasm it gives a very very shaking experience, tremendously shaking, shocking; it is death. He will never be the same again. So man has learnt a local orgasm, just at the genitals, his whole body is not involved. And for centuries women have completely forgotten that they can have orgasm. It is only just two decades before that we again have rediscovered that woman has a capacity of orgasm...

... been taught to her that it is only man who enjoys sex, not woman; that it is not womanly to enjoy it. Why this suppression? And why all over the world has sex been suppressed so deeply? Sex is similar to death, that is the reason. And all cultures suppress two things: sex and death. And they are so similar that you can almost say they are two aspects of the same coin. And they have to be, because it...

... is through sex that life is born; it must be through sex that the life disappears again. The original source must be the end of the circle also. Through sex the wave of life arises - it must subside into sex again. So sex IS life and sex IS death. The same happens in meditation. You move into such a deep tuning, turning in, that suddenly you pass the third layer of chaos. You are dying! And if you...

... become afraid, then there will be a block. In people who have become afraid of meditation, and then make all sorts of rationalizations not to do it, a block exists. But if you remain alert and allow death, you become deathless. You know death happening all around, and you are not dying. DYING and yet not dying. DYING UTTERLY - and yet utterly alive! That is the most beautiful experience a man can have...

... him food he will eat, if you don't give him food he will sit without eating for days. He will live a dead life. He is at the fourth stage, but missed. From the third stage a Master becomes an absolute necessity. At the fourth, without a Master it is almost impossible. Dying is easy on your part, but who will give you rebirth? Who will pull you out of that death experience which is so shocking and...

.... Empty. The cross will be there within him, but the resurrection has not happened. If one remains alert - and it is very difficult to be alert when death is happening; but with a Master working slowly it is possible. If you fall asleep, the Master functions as an alarm He makes you alert and awake. He gives you a shock, makes you mindful, and if you can become mindful, aware, while death is happening...

... energy that one can become an epicurean. That is where Epicurus and Buddha become separate. Epicuruses, CHARWAKAS in India, and other hedonists of the world, who have really penetrated to the fifth core of life, have come to know what life is - and they have become identified with life: Eat, drink, be merry, has become their credo, because they don't know anything beyond life. Life is beyond death. You...

... they would have become Christs. Just A step more. At the last moment they got identified with life. And remember, to be identified with death is difficult because who wants to be identified with death? It is very easy to be identified with life because everybody wants to have eternal life. Life and life and life! The person who turns at this moment to become an Epicurus, who becomes identified with...

.... You can call it the soul, the Self, or whatsoever you want to call it. He has only the one layer of life, and then by and by as the child grows he becomes aware of death. He sees people dying, flowers falling, he sees suddenly a bird dead, or the dog died - he becomes aware of death. When he sees things and looks around he starts feeling that life has to end some day. Then immediately he is...

... accumulating another layer - that is the layer of death; he is becoming afraid of death. That is the second layer that a child attains to. Then, as he grows, there are many SHOULDS and SHOULD NOTS: you should do this and you should not do that; he is not allowed total chaotic freedom, he is to be disciplined, forced - and he is a chaos, total freedom, he would like to have no rules in the world. But that...

... falling into place everything coming together, everything becoming a symphony, the divisions dissolving, unity arising. WHO PRETENDS TO KNOW WHAT HE DOES NOT KNOW IS SICKMINDED. And knowing is possible only when you transcend life and death, not before it. How can you know if you have not even attained to your innermost being? What else can you know if you don't know yourself? Hence the insistence of...

... SICKMINDEDNESS AS SICKMINDEDNESS IS NOT SICKMINDED. THE SAGE IS NOT SICKMINDED. Why? Because he is simply alert, watchful. He remembers himself. He is not identified at any layer of the personality. He is not the formalities, he is not the role and game playing, he is not the chaos, he is not the death, he is not the life. He is the very transcendence of all. BECAUSE HE RECOGNIZES SICKMINDEDNESS AS...

..., who are you to force him to move deep? There is no point! You move yourself! And if somebody is willing to move with you to the fourth, the death level, if somebody is really in love with you, and wants an utterly intimate relationship, only then - drop the third, move to the fourth; move to the fifth. From fifth to sixth - the transcendental, you have to move a.one. Up to the fifth a Master can be...

... marry you, otherwise I am going to do a fast unto death, here, just by your side. Either marry me or I will die." The man looked here and there, but it was silent and in the middle of the night there is nobody. He rolled up his bed and not only escaped from that place, he escaped from the town for a few days, because who knows, that woman might find him and catch hold of him.... He himself had...

...." A man who can say, "Death is now the only thing that I don't know - life I have known," will be enthusiastic about death, will be eager to meet it, would like to have a plunge into it. And this is the paradox of life: One who is ready to die, never dies. One who is himself ready to jump into death, for him death disappears. Death is only for cowards. Death is only for those who have...

..., suggested a simple method: do what Gandhi did. The man said, "What am I supposed to do?" The Gandhian said, "You simply go with your bed, spread the bed before the palace of that rich man and go on a fast. Say that unless you are married to the girl you are not going to break your fast - a fast unto death. And I will collect people; don't be worried." The idea was appealing, and soon...

... the man was lying there with signboards all around and flags and decked, "With our love...." "Fast unto death for love." Nobody had ever heard of such a great lover before - and so religious too; not threatening anybody, simply killing himself. Now, you cannot take action against any person... and particularly in India. All the Gandhians were in support because of course it is a...

... give in, otherwise that man will die on your floor and you are condemned forever. And nobody is going to marry your daughter either, remember, because a murder is on you, on your daughter: you killed a poor man."' So finally he thought it was better to ask some Gandhian, an old Gandhian. The Gandhian said, "It is very simple - just use a Gandhian technique against a Gandhian technique. I...

... know a prostitute uglier than that man, very old, just on the verge of death, suffering from leprosy. Just for a little money she will be ready...." The rich man could not understand; he asked, "What do you mean? What will that prostitute do?" He said, "She will do everything. We have to give some money to her and tonight she will also come with her bed, lie down by the side of...

... the man and say, 'I will die if you don't marry me.' And by the morning the man will be gone - don't be worried. Just seeing that woman will be enough! He will never come back to your house." And that's what happened. The man did not even wait for the morning; the moment he saw the woman coming he asked, "What is the matter? What are you doing here?" She said, "I am going to...

... the very last breath. There is no need for old age. Old age simply can be wiped out, just as sickness can be wiped out. Man can grow up to youth, and then he can remain young for a hundred years, two hundred years; three hundred years is very easily possible. Right now it can be done, but it is not being done, because nobody is interested in life. All governments are interested in death. All...

... years. In fact scientists say, "We don't see any reason why man should have to die, because if he can manage for seventy years on an automatic renewal system, all that is needed is that his genes be reprogrammed." That is genetic engineering. If your father lived to seventy, and your grandfather lived up to seventy, you can be quite certain that you cannot live more than that. Maybe you will...

... lives to come. It is concerned with future generations, it can wait. But if you die there is no question of waiting; first you have to be preserved. So Jainism has cut the food of the Jaina monk in such a way that he has simply destroyed his whole life energy, the whole system. He lives - that means he breathes - and he dies. He never experiences any joy, he cannot even smile. There is nothing left in...

... sharper, your awareness becomes keener. And a perfectly fulfilled man is one who explores both the outer and the inner, and who, at the moment of death, can have a smile on his face: he lived totally, he is happy that he lived totally, he burned his life's candle from both ends together. When you can burn your candle from both ends together, why be miserly and burn just one end? When you can enjoy...

... double the light and two flames together, enjoy it - because enjoyment is not simply enjoyment. Every joy is growth and brings you closer to blissfulness, to ecstasy. And unless you have attained to a state of ecstasy where you can say, "I have arrived, I am fulfilled.... The purpose of existence in me is completed. If now death comes, it is welcome. Now that is the only thing that I don't know...

... not lived, who have really remained dead their whole lives. Death is not for the living. The more alive you are, the farther away is death. If you are totally living, there is no death: Death exists not. Then there is only life, life eternal. Generated by PreciseInfo ™ ...

... depth. But to know that depth one has to go into that depth, one has to dive deep. The materialist standpoint makes life absolutely empty of meaning. Then whether you live or you commit suicide makes no difference, because life and death are just the same. Life is nothing but a way of dying. You are going to die; how you die does not matter, when you die does not matter. How long you live and then die...

...: Yes Video Available: No Length: 87 mins THE MILK OF THE LIONESS IS SEEN AT ITS BEST WHEN STORED IN A GOLDEN CUP. WORSHIPPING PROSPERS IN A PROPER CONTAINER. THE LOVER WHO WHOLLY LOVES, CAN REACH REALITY, COMPREHENDING THE UNATTAINABLE MAN. THE SECRETS OF DEATH ARE REVEALED TO HIM WHILE HE IS FULLY ALIVE. WHAT DOES HE CARE FOR OTHER SHORES OF LIFE...? Humanity is split. The very human mind is split...

... the most of it. Death is going to destroy utterly, nothing will survive, so don't be bothered about the other shore. Don't think in terms of goals. Don't think that God, truth, liberation, MOKSHA, NIRVANA have to be achieved. These are all just illusions; they don't exist -- empty, dreams of the human mind. They are not substantial, so squeeze out of the moment whatsoever you can. But there is no...

... illusion, MAYA, so don't waste your time in anything that keeps you on this shore. Don't be happy on this shore, because if you are happy on this shore, how will you be able to leave it? Become sad, become serious. This shore is the shore of sorrow. This shore is not the shore of life, but death. This shore is nothing but accumulated sin, so be sad that you are here, be indifferent to whatsoever this...

... out of it. You are not contacting Him. Contact Him alone, because it is not a performance. You are not to prove anything to anybody, you are just to open your heart. The Bauls say, As you wonder, sitting alone, the time approaches for death. Heedless of all, O my insane heart, you have travelled eight million times the painful ways of life to death, to find the measured land, the body of the man...

... can bear no more the burden of water. O Master of my life, open your eyes. Show me your kindness and hold me as I die. Passions like bandits raided my boat and went off with the spoils. They cut the mooring rope and left me adrift. The Master says: Wash away the stains of your heart and your boat will thrive in tranquility. Just the stains on your heart have to be washed away. The heart just has to...

.... Will the day ever dawn when the treasured man of my heart will become my own? Though not cast in any shape, the man is evidenced in the ways of love. Those who are absorbed by the flavours of feelings and are wholly living with the knowledge of death have won their foes -- pride and envy, lust and anger, ignorance and greed. If your life, flowing with life, longs for the man, the man will come with...

... on singing, praying. Their song is so true, their prayer is so penetrating. How it is possible without God? Yes, God is evidenced in the ways of love. THE LOVER WHO WHOLLY LOVES, CAN REACH REALITY, COMPREHENDING THE UNATTAINABLE MAN. The emphasis is on wholly, totally, utterly, completely. Immediately, when you are total you are ready, the golden cup is ready. THE SECRETS OF DEATH ARE REVEALED TO...

... HIM WHILE HE IS FULLY ALIVE. WHAT DOES HE CARE FOR THE OTHER SHORES OF LIFE...? "The secrets of death are revealed to him while he is fully alive"...and the lover knows what death is. The lover knows that death is not. Only the lover knows that death is the most false thing in existence. Why? How does the lover come to know that death is not? - - because the lover has already died in his...

... that it is becoming a sacrifice and not a surrender, then you are not surrendered at all. Then anything will look like sacrifice. A lover knows nothing of sacrifice. When you are surrendered, you are dead as far as your ego is concerned. Then whatsoever happens, you not only accept it, you accept in deep gratitude. The lover knows the secrets of death, because he has moved into death already through...

... his love. There are two deaths: one that happens at the end of your life, and the other that can happen between death and birth -- the death of love, lovedeath. One who dies in love never dies again. Then all deaths are finished for him. He's already resurrected. He has come to know that only the ego dies. If you drop the ego then you are deathless. THE SECRETS OF DEATH ARE REVEALED TO HIM WHILE HE...

... - he has become more accepting. A great suchness has descended upon him, and that is significant - more significant than life, more significant than death. He will die one day, but now I am not worried about his death. He knows now how to die, he has learned the knack of it. Death will not be just an end but a great beginning for him. He will not be drowned by death; he will ride on it, he will go...

..., he may live a few more years, he may live long. But whether he lives or not is no longer of any importance. The important thing has happened. If he lives he will live with a cool heart; if he dies he will die with a cool heart. He has learned the lesson. Rejoice with him! Learn from him - because everybody has to encounter his death sooner or later. And one can never be certain: you may be...

... that! And Prem Chinmaya is faring well: he is going very steadily in his consciousness. The body is weak, but the spirit is not weak. The flesh is weak, but the spirit is very strong. In fact, his illness has been a great blessing to him. He has learned more from his sickness than from anything else. He has become more and more silent, accepting, unfearing. Even if death comes now he will be able to...

.... Eight years ago when he had come to me, the thing that was more disturbing was not the illness but his fear of death. All these eight years he has lived with death... it can happen any moment. But slowly slowly, as his meditation has deepened, as his love has deepened, as he has understood more and more that death is part of life - you cannot deny it, and in denying it you will be denying life itself...

... a question: How does Chinmaya go on pulling himself? The reason is, he is no longer interested in pulling, that's why he goes on pulling himself. If death comes this moment, he will accept it. Because of this, death has become irrelevant. He has become absolutely free of the anxiety. It is anxiety that kills more; it is deep down anxiety that becomes destructive. Because he is no longer in anguish...

... perfectly healthy, and tomorrow death may take you away. So health is no guarantee. In fact, it happens more often that a perfectly healthy person dies more quickly than an ill person. Because the healthy person has no way of coping with illness, any illness can prove fatal. But a person who has lived long with illness becomes adjusted to it, he can cope with it; he knows the ways of death. The healthy...

... person knows nothing, so it often happens that the healthy person will die with the first stroke and the unhealthy person may live long. His body has become seasoned, has become more tolerant of diseases. But remember, that is not the point at all. Whether Chinmaya lives a few years or not has no meaning anymore. If he lives, good; if he goes, he can go with joy in his heart, because his life has not...

.... They will know more but they will not be more. Unless you become committed, unless you become involved, unless you risk all that you have, you will remain concerned only with the words. The deeper your commitment, the greater is the possibility of moving towards the depths, because to move towards the depths is possible only when you are ready to die - die as an ego, die as a person. And that's...

... phenomenon has disappeared from the world, and man has become too much worldly, too much interested in trivia, in the superficial, in the meaningless. Even if he goes to God, he goes for meaningless things. He does not go for inner transformation, he does not go to die and to be reborn. You are here to die and to be reborn. Much is happening... much more is going to happen. As you become more and more...

... disappeared. By the marrying age there are one hundred girls to one hundred boys. Nature also gives birth to fifteen more boys knowing perfectly well that fifteen are going to die sooner or later. So by the time the boys and girls come to the marriageable age, the proportion will be the same. Unmarried women are more at ease with themselves. If politically and economically they were not prevented, they...

... cowards die one thousand deaths and the really courageous man knows no death, not even once. The body will die but his passion will not. His love will be there, his poetry will go on, transcending death. His song will float beyond death. He will defeat death. You have come at the right time: something is going to happen! Good! [A sannyasin asks about his work in the ashram: I get into conflicts with a...

...; and that is everybody's destiny. If we don't attain to it, we live in hell. We live a life which is worse than death and we don't know exactly what life is. Start searching for those blissful moments. They are still there in the unconscious; deep in the recesses of your being the memory is carried. When one enters into meditation those moments start surfacing. That surfacing is known as satori, as...

... is love, it is life; it is danger - it is death too. The master has to be all: life and death, day and night, summer and winter, all... Lovely and ferocious, delicate as a flower and hard like a rock. These polarities have to meet in the master because only between these polarities will the disciple grow. So a good indication, mm? nothing is wrong in it. That's how things are; you are understanding...

... fear aside. One has to put one thing aside: either love or fear, that is the choice. And the choice is exactly whether to be or not to be: with love you are, with fear you are not. With fear is death, with love is life. Choose love. With fear you have chosen death and you are already dead. Choose love and you have chosen immortality; love never dies, love knows no death. That's why they say that...

...: you can do it, anybody can; you start feeling afraid of yourself. If it can happen to [him], why not to you? Just a moment before he was as perfectly normal as you are and now the whole world will call him abnormal, mad. [Osho recounts how, after William James visited a mental asylum and saw one of his friends as an inmate there, he never really recovered; for the next twenty years until his death...

... has made you helpless even in that way: you cannot even fight. When we love a person he becomes part of our being. That's exactly what love is: becoming parts of each other, becoming members of each other. So when a person dies, a part of you dies with him. It is not simply a suicide of [him]; it is a partial death of [you] too. He has taken a part of you, the part that he has put inside you, that...

... had become involved with you; he has taken that away. Now there is a blank, a hole; it hurts. So when you go back to the flat it hurts more because everything reminds you of it. If death is natural then one can accept it; because what could poor [man] have done? One can forgive a natural death, mm? because he would have simply died; what could he have done about it? But he has committed suicide: he...

... has done it to you. He has taken part of your being, he has destroyed you partially. He has not only committed suicide: he has murdered you. Just see that murdered part, and then there is rage. And the third thing: when you love a person, death reveals the fact that you never loved enough. You could have loved but now there is no opportunity. And you never loved enough; nobody ever loves enough...

... but they don't do anything else either; their life is blank. They don't contribute anything to existence. They come, they exist - they vegetate rather - and then they die. Never be afraid. Take risks and listen to the heart. Even if sometimes it says to do mad things, do them! Only then will you live a life of thrill. Prem means love, samira means breeze - a love breeze. Love comes like a breeze: it...

.... Length: N.A. BELOVED OSHO, SEE THE TATHAGATA EVERYWHERE. WHERE DO WE COME FROM AT BIRTH? WERE DO WE GO AT DEATH? IF YOU KNOW WHERE WE COME FROM AND WHERE WE GO, THEN YOU CAN BE CALLED A STUDENT OF BUDDHA. WHO IS IT WHO KNOWS OF BIRTH AND DEATH? AND WHO IS IT WHO EXPERIENCES BIRTH AND DEATH? AGAIN: WHO IS IT WHO DOESN'T KNOW WHERE WE COME FROM AND WHERE WE GO? WHO IS IT WHO SUDDENLY REALIZES WHERE HE...

... COMES FROM AND WHERE HE GOES TO? AND WHO IS IT WHO, CONTEMPLATING THESE WORDS, BLINKS HIS EYES UNABLE TO UNDERSTAND, HIS BELLY CHURNING UP AND DOWN, AS IF A MASS OF FIRE WERE PLACED IN HIS HEART? IF YOU WANT TO KNOW, JUST APPREHEND HIM AT THE POINT WHERE HE CAN'T UNDERSTAND. IF YOU CAN RECOGNIZE HIM THEN, YOU'LL KNOW THAT BIRTH AND DEATH SURELY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH HIM. WHENEVER YOU'RE READING THE...

... absolutely certain, the coming and going. If it becomes something like a thirst in the very fibers of your being, if every cell within you becomes a question mark, then this meditation works. WHERE DO WE COME FROM AT BIRTH? WHERE DO WE GO AT DEATH? IF YOU KNOW WHERE WE COME FROM AND WHERE WE GO, THEN YOU CAN BE CALLED A DISCIPLE OF THE BUDDHA. I will not use the word student; it is too ordinary and has...

... he is coming and to where he is going and who this fellow is who is traveling. He has recognized him. He is dying with great joy. At his death he was suffering very much, but he died laughing, smiling. The body suffered, and the mind knew that the body was suffering, but because he had understood the innermost core of his being, it did not matter at all. He knew now that his life source is eternal...

.... This meditation which Ta Hui is mentioning is one of the oldest. He is just using a wrong word: 'student'. He should use the word 'disciple'. The student simply remains concerned with words, theories, philosophies. The disciple is more involved; he wants to know with his own eyes, he wants to experience with his own heart. AND WHO IS IT WHO KNOWS OF BIRTH AND DEATH? That is the central point in the...

... meditation. Birth and death are simply devices, because neither birth is true nor death is true. We have been before birth, so how can birth be true? And we will be after death, so how can death be true? Only one thing is true: the consciousness that comes with you through birth and goes with you through death -- perhaps birth is a door, and death too! Perhaps they are the same door, just your direction is...

... is to pull? WHO IS IT WHO KNOWS OF BIRTH AND DEATH AND WHO IS IT WHO EXPERIENCES BIRTH AND DEATH? AGAIN: WHO IS IT WHO DOES NOT KNOW WHERE WE COME FROM AND WHERE WE GO? It is the same being. Awakened it knows, asleep it does not know. WHO IS IT WHO SUDDENLY REALIZES WHERE HE COMES FROM AND WHERE HE GOES TO? Here he comes very close to the reality of enlightenment, because enlightenment is always...

..., which go on becoming more and more of a burden to you. By the time of your death you will be burdened with mountains of unsolved problems. The man who created that jigsaw puzzle had some insight. Ta Hui is saying, "The moment the mind cannot understand something, naturally it goes beyond it. It stops, not knowing what to do! This is a great point, because you can apprehend something that is...

... a glimpse is a great beginning. You have got the seed, now it can grow. Just give it the right soil and as soon as the spring comes you will have flowers dancing in the air, you will have flowers dancing within your being. IF YOU CAN RECOGNIZE HIM THEN, YOU WILL KNOW THAT BIRTH AND DEATH SURELY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH HIM. If you can have just a glimpse of yourself you will know you have never...

... been born and you have never died. Yes, birth and death have been happening around you but not to you. The body was dying, the mind was dying; the body was being born, the mind was being born again, but you have remained eternally the same. WHENEVER YOU ARE READING THE SCRIPTURES OR THE STORIES OF THE ANCIENT WORTHIES ENTERING THE PATH, WHEN YOUR MIND DOES NOT UNDERSTAND CLEARLY, AND IT SEEMS...

... own, and started changing the whole character of the world drama. And then, just in the middle, one day you die, and by your death you again change: your wife may get married to somebody else now, your children will not be the same as you wished them to be - the whole story is going to be different. Life is like an ocean - wild. Waves upon waves come and go and nobody knows. And that's the beauty of...

..., death cannot destroy anything. If you postpone, then death destroys. For example: you love somebody but you say,'I will love tomorrow,' and that's what you go on saying. You go on imagining tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, You go on postponing: you fight today, you will love tomorrow. You are angry here-now, you will love tomorrow. You go on postponing. Then one day suddenly death comes, and it is always...

... sudden. It gives no hint that it is coming. The foot sounds are never heard, the footsteps can never he guessed. It always comes suddenly, catches you unawares, and the friend is gone, the lover is gone, the beloved is gone; the mother, the father, the brother is gone. Then there is mourning because death destroys tomorrow, and you were depending on tomorrow. Now there will be no tomorrow. Now you...

... cannot postpone, and the person is gone. Now you feel a deep repentance; out of that repentance mourning arises. You are not weeping for the friend who is gone, you are weeping for yourself, for the wasted opportunity. If you really love, and love here-now, death cannot take anything from you. I say to you: death may even become an opportunity, an opening, a new door. You loved the friend when he was...

... visible, and you loved him so deeply that you started feeling, through your love, the invisibleness of him. Then death takes the body. Now in that gross element, body is no more there to hinder. Now love can flow totally. You may even feel thankful to death. You were already discovering the spiritual dimension of your beloved, lover, friend, and now death has taken the last obstacle. Now you can see...

... through and through. Death has given you an opportunity to see whether you really loved or not, because if love's eyes cannot penetrate that much so that you can see that which is not body, that which is beyond matter, that which is invisible, then it is not love. Then those eyes may be of something else, but not of love. Love always reveals the God in the other; that's the definition of love. If it...

... can enjoy yourself now, then there will be no mourning, ever. I am not saying that you will not become sad when a friend departs, but there will be no mourning.,And that sadness will have a beauty of its own, a depth, a silence that always comes when you encounter death. That sadness will be very meditative. It will reveal something within you that life could not reveal. Life remains superficial...

...; just like laughter, it remains superficial. Death is very deep, like sadness. But sadness is not mourning, sadness has its own delight; sadness is not sorrow, sadness is simply depth. Sadness means that thinking has stopped. How can you think in front of death? Thinking may be useful in life. Life may need your thinking because cunningness, cleverness is needed; but what is the point of thinking in...

... front of death? If you are sad that simply means that suddenly, the thinking has stopped; the death has been a shock - you are stripped to your very depth. You cannot laugh, but there is a subtle delight in it, a silence, a sacred silence. The vulgarity of life is gone, and death has opened a new door; the door of the beyond. You will feel thankful towards death, but this is possible only if you live...

....'Yesterday I heard that my friend had died, yet as I wept I found myself giving thanks for the sweetness of life. Is there a place for mourning?' Don't feel guilty. In fact, this is how it should be. If you have loved the friend you will feel deep thankfulness; not any complaint against death but just a gratefulness for life, for its sweetness. The very possibility is almost impossible: that one exists...

..., things become bitter: one mourns, one complains, one loses the capacity for thankfulness. Prayer disappears and then you live an angry life or a sorrowful life - that simply means that you have missed. Nobody else is responsible, only you; ONLY YOU, nobody else is responsible. The responsibility is totally yours because you are free to choose - to die, or to commit a slow suicide. As I see it, millions...

... have never had - just a mechanical thing: the fear of losing a repetitive efficiency, the fear of losing your old pattern. It may be comfortable and convenient, but it is not alive. There is nothing like death, because death is the most comfortable state of being, convenient. In a grave you will be perfectly comfortable and convenient, and there is no trouble. Life always creates new troubles. Those...

... want him to be a Christian. What has Christianity done to the world? - it is an ugly dis-ease. You will not like him to be a Mohammedan. What has Mohammedanism done to the world? - it has been just violence. You will not like him to be a Hindu because what has Hinduism done? - it is just a fossilized death: stale, dead for centuries, a corpse; it stinks. No, if you love your child you will make him...