... happy when it is dark, because with nothing to see outside you can turn in. We have associated darkness with all kinds of wrong things: the devil is dark, death is dark, everything that is somehow frightening we have associated with the dark. It is utterly wrong: there is no devil and there is no death. Only God is - even in the form of devil is the divine, and even in death only God comes. Remember...

... positive. It is just like the negative pole in electricity: without the negative pole there would be no positive pole; electricity would not be possible. You have been thinking about darkness - that it is not - not because you know that it is not, but because you are afraid of it. Out of fear also sometimes we deny. There are many people who will say, "There is no death," just because they are...

... afraid of death. They would like death not to be. That is their wish. They would like darkness not to be, so they start thinking it is not: "Why are you afraid? - it is not at all." This is a way of consoling oneself. I also say that darkness does not exist, but not in the same way as you are saying. First drop your fear of darkness; it is there. First drop your fear of death; it is there...

.... First drop your fear of the devil; it is there. And then you will come to know that darkness does not exist the way that light exists. It is absence of light, hence it has no existence of its own; so is the devil just absence of God, and so is death just absence of life. But those understandings will happen to you only when fear has been completely uprooted, not before it. If you start philosophizing...

... for the first time what bliss is. But ordinarily things are very upside-down: the master is asleep, and the castle without the master functions mechanically. It is bound to function mechanically, it is a robot. It goes on performing its work, the daily routine, from birth to death, attaining nothing, reaching nowhere. That is not within its capacity. It is not meant for it; hence we cannot condemn...

... NEITHER DIES NOR GROWS OLD. And if this happens then you will know neither when you became old nor when death came. This does not mean you will not become old. The body will become old, but you will not become old. The body will die, you have become immortal. There are two names that are commonly used for for Gorakh. One name is Gorakh Gopalam - the cowherd boy: he always remains fresh, remains young...

..., ONLY THE SANYAMI, THE BALANCED ONE TRANSCENDS. If you eat you will die, if you don't eat you will also die. Death is going to happen. Only one will not die, the one who has attained centering, has attained crystallization, has attained sanyam. These are the three sutras of sanyam: BALANCED ASANA, BALANCED FOOD, BALANCED SLEEP Then there is no death. Then the experience of the eternal. ALWAYS RESIDE...

.... Remember, don't be frightened when samadhi flowers. It happens here everyday. When some sannyasin experiences samadhi for the first time he becomes frightened. The fear is this, that the breath stops. He feels as if he is dying. But this is not death, this is the beginning of a new life. DIE, O YOGI, DIE! DIE, SWEET IS DYING. DIE THAT DEATH GORAKH DIED AND SAW. This is the beginning of that death, after...

... which is the highest life. Die! Die a death like Gorakh died. And when he died he saw. And what he saw is everlasting, it is immortal. Enough for today? Generated by PreciseInfo ™ ...

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... drop so quickly. You know that habits are dropped only with great difficulty. Now if the man who has sixty years practice in the habit of misery - continuously, day and night, morning and evening, awake and asleep he is seeing only this one dream, how to become prime minister - if after sixty years he becomes prime minister - if he becomes, the possibility is very slight, most people will die and...

... there. I will reside in that village, in the end I want to die in that village. If I cannot live there then at least I want to die there." That old man said, "You are welcome. You will find the people of this village even more loving than the people of that village." A man was sitting there listening to all this. First he heard what the horse rider said and the old man's answer. Then he...

... from your being disappears, the distance from god will also disappear. Then being is god. Then you become one color. Then you are non-dual. Rahim the beloved be praised, both colors die into red when turmeric renounces yellow, lime renounces white. Become one... Rahim the beloved be praised then you can praise the beloved. Then two colors can become one. ... both colors die into red They were two...

... will die as a geologist. He became one of the world's renowned geologists. 'He went for devotional singing, but ended up ginning cotton!' What are you? When I read this I remembered an accident in my life. When I went to be admitted to college I forgot to bring a pen. So I waited to get a pen from someone. A young man was standing there with his pen, filling out his form, but he was thinking long and...

... sleep - not a doctor, not an engineer, not a professor. You are that which you will be even after death. You are being. This is your nature, your inner nature. NATH SAYS, KEEP YOUR SOUL, DON'T INSIT ON DEBATE. Stay with your being and don't fall into meaningless argument about whether there is a soul or not. If it is, then how is it: is it red or black or yellow or green? Don't get into meaningless...

.... They have not died yet, but they say the soul will die. Some say no, the soul is immortal, it will die but it will still exist. The soul is eternal. They too have not yet died, the debate goes on. What dispute are you getting into? - the soul IS within you. Whether it dies or not is in the future. At least become acquainted with what is right now. Seek a little, search a little. If it is not you will...

...Death is Divine...

... created by his own faith and destroyed by his own. My feet had nothing to do with it they can do nothing. It is not at all a miracle. If a dead man comes to life, even then it is no miracle. Some day in the near future we shall unfold the mystery of his death and coming back to life. If illness can be mental, cannot death also be mental? It is absolutely possible. Death can be mental. Not all die of a...

... impossible for it to see death in life. Death seems just the opposite of life. It has no relationship with life's reasoning. It looks as if death is the end of life, the enemy of life. It looks as if death is outside of life, an assault on life. It is really not so. Death is not a happening outside of life. It happens within life. It is a part of life. Death is the completion of life. Life and death are...

... like the in-going breath and the outgoing breath. The same breath that goes in, comes out. The breath that goes in at birth, comes out at death. Life and death are one in Existence. But when the mind begins to think, it can accept the apposite but not the inapposite. From the rational point of view, life and death become two separate happenings. But Existence accepts the irrational also. It accepts...

..., there will be no darkness also. To explain more simply: If we remove heat altogether from the world, the intellect will say, only cold will remain. The fact is, what we know as cold is a part of heat. Therefore, if heat disappears, cold will also simultaneously disappear. If we banish death completely, life also will end. Existence is together with the opposites. The mind throws out the opposite. The...

... intellect is a very small thing. Existence is very vast. It is beyond the mind to understand that the opposites are one and the same; that life and death are the same, that love and hate, darkness and light, hell and heaven are one and the same. The intellect cannot visualize happiness and sorrow as two names of the same thing. How can it understand for it says, happiness is quite different from sorrow...

... Mystery'. That which is the same in birth and death, that which is the same in light and darkness, we call Rahasya. Now the line that follows is very wonderful. This very conglomeration of names we call Rahasya. Where the density of the Mystery is highest, there lies the subtle and wonderful opening to its entrance. Where the density of the mystery is highest - density of Rahasya! What can this mean? We...

... become the trustees of knowledge. The more intelligent our children become, the more will the Mystery fade away. Then a moment may come, which will be the most suicidal moment for man. When a culture becomes so filled with knowledge that no secret of the mystery remains, then there is no other remedy save death. Why? Because we can live only with wonder, not with ego. We, the so-called egoists also...

... live in Rahasya alone. It is impossible to live with complete ego; only death is possible; suicide is possible. If we come to know that we know all, then nothing is left to be known except death! This is why as we look back in time, we find man more filled with savour towards life. There were less suicides in days gone by. It is interesting to note that uneducated societies do not commit suicide. An...

... intense ego is required for suicide which they do not possess. A very dense and solid 'I' is required to die - an ego so strong that it denies all the mystery of life and enters into self destruction. A very strong quality of conceit is required to end one's life. That is why the older the society, the less educated and primeval, there is almost no incidence of suicide. The adivasis do not know of self...

... wall, and it is even more. We do not feel the weight of air as its pressure is distributed equally all over our body. There is otherwise, the pressure of thousands of pounds of air on us. If this pressure is distributed in any other way, we would die of the weight of atmosphere. When there is a strong wind, you feel it is the wind behind you that pushes you in front. It is not so. The wind behind...

... physical illness, intellectuals die often of mental illness. If you are thoroughly convinced that you are dying, you are dying, then you will die. Your physical mechanism is absolutely alright and can still work. Only your consciousness within has contracted. The hand of Jesus can loosen the contraction of the consciousness. It is not a miracle. The magnetic power of the hand of Jesus can bring up the...

... becomes visible in the babe and death in birth. The whole tree becomes visible in the seed, together with all the flowers that are yet to bloom. Then we see all that happening which is yet to happen. What has already happened, also seems to be present and what is still to happen, is also present. The Past and the Future are finished and only 'the Moment' remains. All existence stands in the eternity of...

... D further ahead. Now if the wall were to break, I would see all A,B,C,D simultaneously. Then this would be a miracle. If I can see the birth of creation and its death, its annihilation simultaneously, it is a miracle. Lao Tzu says when a person enters into Rahasya with all intensity, he finds the door of the subtle and finally the door to wonder and miracles open. Then he sees the world coming...

.... God has given you eternal life. But that eternal life you can find only when you put off your shoes. Put off your personality. Drop all PERSONAS all masks. Let all masks disappear. It will be painful because you have become identified with those masks; you think they are your faces. It is going to be almost a very painful process of death; and not only once - you will have to die many times, because...

... IT STOPS; IF IT IS FACED WITH DEATH IT BECOMES SAD; IF IT SEES SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL IT IS DAZZLED. BUT THE HEAVENLY HEART IN THE HEAD, WHEN WOULD IT HAVE MOVED IN THE LEAST? DOST THOU ASK: CAN THE HEAVENLY HEART NOT MOVE? THEN I ANSWER: HOW COULD THE TRUE THOUGHT IN THE SQUARE MOVE! THE LOWER HEART MOVES LIKE A STRONG, POWERFUL COMMANDER, WHO DESPISES THE HEAVENLY RULER BECAUSE OF HIS WEAKNESS, AND...

... and to nobody else.' Life is an occasion to prepare for death and the beyond. If you don't prepare for death and for the beyond you are a fool; you are missing a great opportunity. Life is only an opportunity. This life that you know is not real life, it is only an opportunity to attain to real life. The real life is just hidden somewhere in this life, but it has to be provoked, it has to be...

... disappears, you are again wild, again an animal. And man can fall below the animals, because when he falls there is nothing to stop him. Man can rise above the angels, but it rarely happens because to rise above the angels is an uphill task, arduous. One has to work for it. It needs hard work, it needs guts, courage, to explore the unknown. Millions of people are born and die, but they never live. Their...

.... The real saint is not concerned with others at all. He knows who he is. Even if the whole world says that he is not a saint, that doesn't matter. His understanding is inner. His encounter is directly with himself. His experience is immediate and existential. He knows his essence. And to know one's essence is the first step in knowing God, in becoming immortal, in going beyond death. Henri Bergson...

... the life nor the death that you know, it is transcendental. It is beyond all kinds of dualities. It is God. ONLY THE PRIMAL SPIRIT AND THE TRUE NATURE OVERCOME TIME AND SPACE. When you are in the primal spirit you are in your true nature. When you are in your personality you are untrue, you are just a plastic phenomenon. Watch, and you will be surprised how many things are plastic in you. You smile...

... each time a face falls you will find a death has happened. But again new life will be released in you, fresher, deeper, more vibrant. When all the faces disappear and the essence is left alone, you have transcended all duality, even the duality of time and space. When you enter deep meditation, when you enter your essential being, there is no space and no time. You cannot say where you are - all...

... again Buddha is asked, 'Why should one try to be nothing? That would be a death, ultimate death.' And Buddha says, 'Yes, it is an ultimate death. But it is beautiful.' And the questioners ask, 'But to whom is it beautiful - because there is nobody?' And Buddha says, 'There is only beauty, beatitude, and nobody to experience it.' Naturally the human mind says, 'But then what is the point? If I am not...

... Tibet it dropped the negative language. Indian Buddhism, the original Buddhism, was absolutely negative. Under the influence of Buddha thousands were transformed, but you cannot find a man like Buddha every day. The impact of Buddha was such that people were even ready to die and become nothing. That was because of Buddha, otherwise there is no enchantment, no charm in being nothing. But Buddha's...

... PRIMAL SPIRIT AND THE TRUE NATURE OVERCOME TIME AND SPACE. And unless you overcome time and space you will not overcome death. Death exists in time, and death exists in space. Unless you overcome time and space you will not overcome mind and body. Try to understand. Body corresponds to space and mind corresponds to time. Mind is a time phenomenon and body is a space phenomenon. Body exists somewhere...

... death; all polar opposites disappear. THE PRIMAL SPIRIT IS BEYOND THE POLAR DIFFERENCES. And that's why I insist again and again that you don't get attached to any polarity. You have been taught to become attached to some polarity. Your so-called religions have been teaching you: either be worldly or renounce and go to the monasteries. I say remain in the world and don't be of it, otherwise you will...

... will be surprised: that is not the beginning either. Then you have to move into the womb. In the East we have tried it. We have a very very deep-going method called PRATI PRASAV - going back, going back. Mahavir used it, Buddha used it - they went through the womb. And then again you have to go through death, because before the womb you died, and then the whole life again... layer upon layer. It is...

... present moment. One thief is the past, the other thief is the future. And Jesus represents the present moment - closest to God, closest to essence. One thief mocked Jesus - the past always mocks you, he condemned Jesus - the past always condemns you. The other thief asked Jesus about the future, 'What will happen after death? will I be able to see you in heaven?' One is past, the other is future, and...

..., just ready to die and disappear from the body and the mind. He hesitates a little bit - everybody hesitates. When you come to the present, you will see eternity facing you - no past, no future, but eternity - a totally different dimension. Past, present, future are horizontal; eternity is vertical. Again, to me, the cross is the symbol of these two lines crossing. A cross is made of two lines: one...

... hesitation shows that he was human. His hesitation shows that he belonged to us - he was son of man. He cried to God, 'Have you forsaken me? What are you doing to me? Have you abandoned me? Are you no more with me? I am disappearing and I don't see your hands protecting me.' The dewdrop is falling in the ocean. 'Where are you? I am falling into a deep nothingness. Death has arrived, and I had always hoped...

... that in death you would be there waiting and you would embrace me, you would take me in your fold, you would be warm and loving. But where are you? Have you forsaken me? Have you abandoned me? I don't see you anywhere.' In fact, there is no God to be seen. God is not a person, God is a positive name for this absolute nothingness. But Jesus has lived with the Jewish idea of God as a person, hence this...

... DEATH IT BECOMES SAD; IF IT SEES SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL IT IS DAZZLED. BUT THE HEAVENLY HEART IN THE HEAD - that is, in the third-eye centre - WHEN WOULD IT HAVE MOVED IN THE LEAST? DOST THOU ASK: CAN THE HEAVENLY HEART NOT MOVE? THEN I ANSWER: HOW COULD THE TRUE THOUGHT IN THE SQUARE INCH MOVE! This physical heart is constantly dependent on the outside world. It is affected by the outside world, it is...

... into new prisons, because it moves outward and downward. It dissipates you, it only brings your death closer and closer. If the same energy starts moving upwards, it brings a new life, life in abundance. It becomes the Elixir of Life. Just as the mud can become a lotus - the mud contains the lotus, the seed of it - so your sexual energy contains the seed of the Golden Flower. But THE ENERGY has to...

... you concerned about my death? How can I die? I am no more. Death is possible only to the ego. Yes, the body will disappear but I cannot disappear. Raman Maharshi was dying and a disciple started crying. Raman opened his eyes and said, 'What is the matter? Why are you crying?' And the disciple said, 'Bhagwan, you are leaving us. It is unbearable.' And although in great pain - because he was suffering...

... in your mind. If you reject it, it looks like death; if you accept it, the same thing becomes the very source of life. Only through meditation will you be able to allow others to come close to you. Only through meditation, when you have started feeling your inner emptiness as joy, as celebration, as song, when your inner emptiness no longer freaks you out, when your inner emptiness no longer...

... die alone? The whole existence should die.' A child is born and you can ask, 'This child is born but the whole existence is not born with him. It has been there already. So how is it possible?' Just watch the ocean. Go and sit on the shore and watch the ocean. One wave arises, but it does not make all the waves arise. One wave disappears, but it does not mean that the other waves disappear. But...

... very expectation you sow the seeds of frustration. In your very desire to be, you create death. In your very desire for that 'I am' you create an enmity with existence. See. Go in. Watch. Try to find out where it is. Nobody has ever been able to find it. Buddha went in and could not find it. He came out and said to people, 'There is no self.' And from that moment there was no misery - because he was...

... your wounds. But then it will be helpful because then a change has started, a transformation has started. Don't listen to me as if you are listening to poetry or music. Listen to me as one would listen to death. Listen to me as one would listen to transformation. I bring you a message of trans-formation, not a drug to soothe you. I don't bring a tranquilliser to you. So when my words hurt you it is...

... disciple. If you listen from the head you will go on missing me, if you listen from the heart then there is no way to miss me. Then you have arrived. The last question: Question 6: WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU DIE? STAY TOGETHER AND RUN THE RISK THAT THE MOVEMENT WILL TURN INTO A STALE SORT OF RELIGION, OR DISSOLVE AND BE OPEN FOR THE CALL OF ANOTHER LIVING MASTER? The question is from Swami Anand Adi. First...

..., have you heard my call yet? The living Master is confronting you - have you heard my call yet? And if you cannot hear my call, what hope is there that you will hear some other living Master's call? The very idea shows that you are missing me - otherwise who bothers about death? If you have heard me, there is no death. If you have heard me at all, in that very hearing death has disappeared. Why are...

... from throat cancer it was very difficult even to speak - Raman laughed. And he said, 'But where can I go? I will be as much here as I am right now. Where can I go? You tell me. There is nowhere to go. There is NOWHERE to go.' The same I say to you, Adi. How can I die? The one who could die has already gone, and the one who cannot die is here con-fronting you. But it seems you are missing me. Because...

... you are missing you think, 'What will happen to me when Osho is gone?' Rather than being concerned with that, be concerned right now with what is happening to you when Osho is here. That should be the concern. When I am here and you are here then let there be a meeting, let there be a dissolution, let there be a communion. What nonsense you are asking - what to do when I die. Do something while I am...

..., 'Osho, die soon so I can find another living Master.' That's what your question really means. If you want, I can do that. Just for your sake I can die so you will be free to find another Master. But you are free right now. Have I to die to make you free? You are free. If you do not feel any contact with me, then who is holding you here?- Don't deceive yourself. You are absolutely free. I am nobody's...

... bondage. I am here to liberate you, not to create a prison for you. If you cannot make a heart-to-heart contact with me, then escape from here. This place is not for you. Your question is very clear. It says: WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU DIE? STAY TOGETHER AND RUN THE RISK THAT THE MOVEMENT WILL TURN INTO A STALE SORT OF RELIGION, OR DISSOLVE AND BE OPEN FOR THE CALL OF ANOTHER LIVING MASTER? If you have heard...

.... They are the dead people. It is good if they find some new Master - because with the old they missed. They should find a new Master. So I cannot make a categorical statement about what you are to do when I am gone. For those who have contacted me I will never be gone and for those who have not contacted me I am already gone. They should leave right now. They should not wait for my death. Yes, after...

... death they have to leave - but I am saying they should leave right now. Don't waste your time. It depends on you whether my religion will remain alive or not when I am gone. It depends on you. To a few it will be dead... to them it is dead now. To a few it will remain alive... to them it is alive now and it will be alive forever. So each one has to decide for himself. If when I am gone you feel that I...

... no future to bother about. And he is not in any way afraid. He lives so totally, how can he be afraid? The fear comes because you live fragmentarily. You have not lived at all, that's why the fear. Just try to understand the point. A man is afraid of death - why? Do you know that death is bad? How can you know unless you die? Do you know that death is going to be worse than life? How can you know...

...! If you don't think at all how can you become a devil's workshop? The devil cannot enter a hollowness, he will be afraid of death - because to enter into emptiness is to die. He can enter you only if there are many thoughts - then he can hide in the crowd, then he can also become a thought in you. An empty mind is God's mind - it is no-mind. Become hollow, sit as a hollow bamboo. Move as a...

...? It may be better than life. Why are you afraid of death without knowing? How can one be afraid of the unknown? It seems to be impossible. You can be afraid only of the known. How can you be afraid of the unknown, the unfamiliar that you don't know at all? No, you are not afraid of death. You have wrongly placed your fear in death. You are really afraid of death because you have not been able to...

... live - the fear is concerned with the unlived life. You are afraid that you have not been able to live, love, and death is coming near, which will finish everything. You will be no more, and you have not been able to love. You are like a tree which has not flowered and the woodcutter is coming. The tree feels afraid, not knowing what is going to happen. The fear is not coming from death, the fear is...

... coming from something which has not happened. The tree knows well that the fruits have not come, the flowers have not come, it has not bloomed. The tree has not known the spring yet; it has not danced with the winds, it has not loved, it has not lived. This unlived life creates fear... and the woodcutter is coming. And the woodcutter will come and there will be no future. Death means no future. Past is...

... gone, and no future - and the present is so narrow. Fear takes over, you tremble. Fear is always of the unlived. If you live totally you are unafraid of anything. If death comes to me right now I am ready. I have lived. Everything is complete, nothing is incomplete. Death cannot destroy. If something were incomplete then I would like death to wait a little, but everything is complete. I have taken my...

... bath this morning, I have talked to you, whatsoever was to happen has happened. I am completely ready. If death comes I am ready, I will not even look back once because there is nothing to look at, everything is complete. Whenever anything is complete you are free of it. A life really lived - one becomes free of it. A life not lived - you can never be free of it. You can go to the caves, to the...

..., nightmares which scare you to death. Dreams arise out of nothing and they look so real. They look so authentically real, but when your eyes open in the morning you cannot find them anywhere. From where did they come? From where did they arise? And now where have they gone? You never think about the phenomenon of the dream. If it can happen in the night, why not in the day? One of the disciples of Lao Tzu...

... suffer. And that is the meaning of meditation: to become hollow, to be empty inside. Not even a thought flutters - no content, just space. Suddenly all misery has disappeared, because misery exists in thoughts; death has disappeared because death exists in thoughts; the past has disappeared because the whole burden is carried through thoughts; ambition disappears because how can you be ambitious...

... hills, you will find two things: peaks - full of rocks, filled, and valleys - empty. The spirit of the valley is the spirit of emptiness. Peaks come and go; valleys remain - you cannot destroy nothingness. Something can always be destroyed. If you are something you will have to be born and die again and again. If you are nothing then how can you be destroyed? How can you be created? You simply...

..., she does not hanker for the moon. And every woman thinks what foolishness it is: Why are you going to the moon? You ask the wives of the astronauts, they simply cannot believe it. Why? Why move in danger and death unnecessarily? What is wrong in being here? Man is a vagabond, a gypsy. If the world were left to man there would be no houses, only tents at the most. And he would be moving and moving...

... of future - it is already past. The day you became a sannyasin, you died - you died to your old identity. The day you became a sannyasin, you were reborn. Something new has come into being. It is just an old idea that you are carrying; now there is no question of fear: you cannot die because you have died - it has already happened. Sannyas is a death and a resurrection. Death of all that you have...

... been, and resurrection of all that you ARE but you have never been. Death to the past, and an opening for the present. Death to all that you have called your identity - name, form... and entering into a world, nameless, formless. It has already happened! Sannyas MEANS death, but resurrection is possible only when death has happened. If you cling to yourself, resurrection is impossible. Sannyas is a...

... cross. And to those who are outsiders it will look only like a cross, only like a death. They cannot see the resurrection, because the resurrection will happen in the innermost recesses of your being. It will not be visible to outside spectators. to onlookers. It will be visible only to those who are participants in it. There are things which can be seen by observers; all those things are superficial...

..., peripheral. And there are things which can be seen only by participants - they are real things, because they pertain to the very core of your being. It is just an old idea that is hovering around you - forget all about it! You cannot die any more, because it has ALREADY happened. And if you forget that old idea, it will disappear. If you don't cling to that idea, don't go on giving energy to it, it will...

... disappear. Sometimes it takes a long time to understand what has happened to you. When you take sannyas, or when you go deep into meditation, when you enter into any mystery school, death happens. Death is the first rite, the first process: the preparation. But it is possible your conscious mind has not heard about it yet. first it happens at the deep core of your being. And you have gone so far away from...

... disappearing and the new appearing... but you will not be aware of it. You are fortunate if you can even hear a few whisperings from the unconscious. It will take time, years. But it has already happened, Bhagavato. A criminal was sentenced to death by chopping off his head. They got the best executioner for him. On the appointed day, when everything was ready and the poor delinquent stood there before a...

... before death comes you will have arrived home - before death takes possession of you, truth HAS to happen! Make it such an intense longing that every fiber of your being starts pulsating with it, that even while you are asleep, the longing goes on moving as an undercurrent. Whatsoever you are doing, all doing has to become peripheral, and a constant search for truth and a constant thirst for truth has...

... fallen on your chest, it is crushing you to death. Out of fear you awake... and all that you find is nothing - your own hands resting on your chest. But the weight of your hands triggered imagination in you: it became a rock, and you started feeling very very frightened. And because of the fear, you are awakened... and now you laugh. Ask the Buddhas, ask the awakened ones, and they say there is no...

... in bed. This was more of a calamity than the two broken legs. When I saw him, he started crying. I had never seen that man cry - he is a strong man, a very strong man, almost a man of steel, and has seen all kinds of things in his life, is a very seasoned man. I asked him, "You, and crying - what is the matter with you?" He said, "Just bless me so that I can die. I don't want to live...

... any more - three months just in bed! Can you imagine? This is torture. Just three days have passed and it feels almost as if for three years I have been in bed. You know me," he said, "I cannot rest. Just bless me so that I can die soon! I don't want to live any more. These three months and then the doctors say I will remain crippled my whole life - so what is the point?" I said to...

... blessing! Just close your eyes and I will teach you a meditation. And I bless you to die, because if you want to die then perfectly good. But my blessing may work, may not work, so meanwhile you meditate." He understood the point: "There is nothing to do... so why not meditate?" A simple meditation I told him: "You simply go in, look at the body from the inside, say 'It is not me...

..." is said by a wave! You see the stupidity. MY PROFESSOR SAYS, 'NATURE IS STUPID, OTHERWISE IT WOULD NOT OPPOSE ITSELF BY PUTTING ONE PART AGAINST THE OTHER..." That's how intelligence functions, by putting one part against the other. Intelligence is a dialectical process, otherwise nothing will exist. If there is no death, there will be no birth either - death has to oppose birth. But this...

... and positive in it. Can he make electricity exist without this opposition of the negative and the positive? And he thinks nature is stupid? That is the only way! Can a river exist without two banks? It is impossible for the river to exist without two banks - those two banks oppose each other and create the space for the river to flow between. Life needs polar opposites: summer/winter, birth/death...

... guarantee me that I will not die tomorrow or the day after tomorrow? Can you give me a guarantee that I will die only after I have found the answer?" He said, "I cannot guarantee that, because death is not in my hands, nor is life in my hands." "Then," I said, "You should not suggest to me any postponement. I want the answer now. If you know, then say that you know and give...

...," is to commit a crime. And the thing becomes still funnier. If you are caught committing suicide, then you will be sentenced to death! We are living with such intelligent people all around - the great law-makers, constitution makers. That's exactly what this man was going to do - die. Now, what is the need of all this hullabaloo? - catching hold of him, then for months keeping him in prison...

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... not make any difference - or he may be a beggar, but they both are immensely concerned about why they are here, for what? Is it just accidental, or is there some destiny to it? This question remains unanswered, hence the boredom. You cannot find contentment, blissfulness or meaning in anything. You see every day passing by and you know that death is coming closer, closer, closer, and life is not...

... different meanings. The child is not yet capable, not strong enough to open his hands. Physiologically they are not actually fists, it is because the child simply cannot open his hands. Physiologically that is the explanation, that he cannot open his hands yet. He needs a little strength, then he can open his hands. And the dying man - his whole body becomes relaxed. Death is the ultimate relaxant. For...

... wasting time. Those who have time, they can waste itI don't have much time." Since the day my maternal grandfather died, death became a constant companion to me. I was only seven years old when he died. He died on my lap. My maternal grandfather and my maternal grandmother used to live in a faraway village and I used to live with them. They had no other child than my mother. My mother was very...

... some hospital," We took him in a bullock cart, because there was no other way. Those sixteen miles looked like thousands of miles, because he was dying. I could see his pulse was slowing down, he was becoming unable to open his eyes; he started breathing in a very strange way, he stopped speaking. I saw death coming closer and closer. He was in my lap because my grandmother was in so much misery...

... continuously watching in every possible way to see whether the man was still alive or gone, and I saw him slowly, slowly, slowly drowning. By the time we reached my father's place he was dead. After that, death became a constant companion to me. That day I also died, because one thing became certain, that whether you live seven years or seventyyears - he was seventy years - what does it matter, you have to...

... die. My grandfather was a rare man. I could not conceive him telling a lie, breaking a promise, even judging somebody as bad. I remember one night.... In the village there was no police station, no police, nothing. My grandfather was the richest man in the village. I used to sleep with him in his bed. One night a thief entered the house. My grandfather saw the thief crossing the fencing and entering...

..., and they wanted to put something down as mortgage, he never accepted it. He said, "I don't know - tomorrow I may die, then who will give you this mortgage back? You take the money. If you can manage to give it back, good. If you cannot manage, nothing to be worried about - I have enough." He never took those people's signatures as proof that they had taken money. I told him, "You...

..., simply died. What was the meaning of his life? That became a tortuous question to me - what was the meaning? What had he attained? For seventy years he lived the life of a good man; but what was the point of it all? It simply ended... not even a trace was left behind. His death made me immensely serious. I was serious even before his death. By the age of four I started thinking of problems that people...

... What have you been doing for your whole life? At the moment of death you will have only ignorance in your hands and nothing else. And these are vital questions - I am not asking you any trivia. "You go to the temple. I ask you why you go to the temple - have you found anything in the temple? You have been going your whole life, and you try to persuade me to come along with you to the temple...

...." The temple was made by him. One day he accepted that the truth is "Because I have made the temple. If even I don't go there, then who is going to go there? But before you I accept it, that it is futile. I have been going there my whole life and I have not gained anything." Then I said, "Try something else. Don't die with the question - die with the answer." But he died with...

..., there is no woman, just nobody is meant for you. You are born alone, and you have to accept your aloneness. The sooner you do, the better. But aloneness is boredom, because there is no entertainment, nothing interesting. Yes, for twenty- one years I was bored to death. Not only was I bored, I was boring everybody whom I could catch hold of. My father would immediately start looking into his books... I...

...... and a court trial with the advocates fighting each other like cats and dogs, the great magistrate sitting seriously deciding. And after that the man is sentenced to death When the man, the poor man, was doing it himself without any expense to the government, to the nation, to anybody, that was crime! Why is suicide a crime? From a very early age I have been thinking: Why is suicide a crime? It is a...

... hoping that you will forget, but it doesn't seem to happen." I said, "Now you tell me the truth: Do you have any answers? - because now you are almost beyond eighty; death is not far away. Do you have the answers?" He said, "I don't have any answers. I have been deceiving myself by deceiving others. People believed in me, and because so many people believed in me I started believing...

... for some imaginary idea. The idea can be democracy, the idea can be communism, the idea can be fascism, the idea can be Christianity, the idea can be Hinduism; it does not matter. But something far away .... All along the way you have to go on sacrificing that which is real for something unreal; and in the end comes death, no goal. Because of this situation - that you have been told to sacrifice...

... whole question will go through a revolution. You will ask, How can I live more totally? How can I drown myself utterly in life? - because life is the goal of everything; hence there can be no goal for life. But you are starved, and except for death there seems to be nothing; life is slipping out of your hands and death is coming closer every moment. You cannot dodge death. I am reminded of a story, a...

... very famous Sufi story. A king dreamed that a black shadow appeared - even in his dream he freaked out! He said, "Who are you and what is the purpose of being in my dream?" The shadow said, "I am your death, and tomorrow at sunset we have to meet. I just came to inform you, because you are a busy man. Ordinarily I don't go to inform people, but you are a king, you are very special, a...

... tried many times to close his eyes and find the shadow to ask, "Where is the place where I am supposed to meet you?" Not that he wanted to meet death; he wanted to know the place so he could avoid it. But in this whole world, where was that place? But you cannot continue a dream - this is the difficulty. Once it is broken, however hard you close your eyes, you cannot continue the same dream...

.... Now it was not going to be possible for death to find him. To rest for the night he went into a garden. He was thanking his horse, because the horse had done really a miraculous job. The whole day he had been running so fast - even the king had never seen him run so fast. He didn't wait to drink water, he didn't wait even for a single moment's rest ... as if he understood the urgency. The king was...

... horse; I should thank the horse. This is the place where I was waiting, and I was wondering whether your horse was going to make it or not. But he did make it. You have really the rarest horse in the world! You have come to the right point at the right time." Whatever you are doing you will reach at the right time in the right place to meet death. Your life is not life because you are not living...

.... So why do you call it life? At least be clear about the meaning of words. Why do you call it life? You are not living, you are simply dying - you have been dying since you were born. Since that moment you have not been doing anything but dying ... coming closer and closer to the right place, to the right moment, to meet your death. Your life is nothing but a slow death. And who has done this to you...

...? - all your benefactors, the do-gooders, your prophets, your messiahs, your incarnations of God. These are the people who have changed your life into a slow death, and they have been very clever in doing it. A very simple strategy has been used: they say your life is a punishment. Christians say you are born in original sin. Now, how can you have life? - you are just a sinner. Hence the only way to get...

... to die - the sooner the better." But Gandhi was very insistent. He said, "One gets accustomed. If people get accustomed to smoking cigarettes, cigars .... Certainly for the first time when you smoke it is not a pleasant experience. People start drinking all kinds of things - coffee for the first time is not something fantastic. So don't be worried: in three weeks I will train you - you...

... then you are less rebellious, more obedient, more conventional, more traditional - you are not a danger. It helps the priest if you are less alive - for the same reasons. If you are really alive then you are a danger to everybody, everybody who tries to exploit you, everybody who is a parasite on you. You are going to fight tooth and nail. You would rather die than live like a slave, because even...

... death for a fully alive person is not death; it is the culmination of life. Even dying he goes on living intensely and totally. He is not afraid of death, he is not afraid of anything. That is what makes all the vested interests afraid of the living person. They have found a very subtle strategy, and the strategy is to give you a goal for your life, that you have to become somebody. You are already...

..., and in that single moment you will be able to know life in its eternity. Then the hunger for living, and living forever, will not be there. Tasting life in a single moment makes you aware that life is eternal. There is no need to desire it, it is already eternal. Death is only an episode which happens many times - perhaps millions of times - but life continues. Death is only a changeover from one...

..., remember one thing: don't interfere in anybody's life and don't let anybody interfere in your life either. This is what makes you my sannyasin. Live, and let others live - fully. Help, share, and the desire to live forever will disappear. Then this death will be your last episode, then there will be no more coming back to the body. Then you are free of all imprisonment - and that freedom is life in its...

... where your body stops living is not very big; it is only twelve degrees. If ninety-eight degrees is your natural temperature, at a hundred and ten you are gone. The distance is not very great; death is always close at hand. Perspiring, you prevent your body getting hotter, because the heat starts functioning on the water that you are releasing, starts evaporating it. It gets involved in some other...

... as possible, and when you throw the air out.... Your need for oxygen is constant. You are not aware of it, but your need for oxygen is constant. You are not only taking oxygen from your nose, you are taking it from every small hole in your skin, all over the body. If your whole body is painted so thickly that all the holes are closed and only your nose is left open, you will die within three hours...

... would have been such a great event. Buddha walked for forty years, passed through forests thousands of times; the whole country must have been agog, that this man... but no Jaina sources even mention it, no Hindu sources even mention it. Buddhist sources cannot be believed. They were written by Buddhists, and that too after Buddha's death. Three hundred years had passed when the first congregation met...

... training. It is the same as you do with dogs, with cats, and in the circus they do with all other animals. Your so-called religions have been doing the same with you. They have made the whole of humanity into a circus... all kinds of things. The motivation is that you will become superhuman. And the superman does not die. Once you get beyond your humanity... which, according to the Christians, is sin; to...

... valuable than to be harmonious, in accord with the whole. My ninth request.... All the religions are agreed upon one point - that real life begins after death. This life is only a rehearsal, not the real drama. The real drama will happen after death. Here, you are only preparing for the drama. So sacrifice everything to get ready for the drama that is going to happen after death. They teach sacrifice...

.... Sacrifice love, sacrifice life, sacrifice joy, sacrifice everything. The more you sacrifice, the more you will be capable of participating in the drama, the great drama, after death. They have tried to focus your mind on life after death. One man was asking me - I was in Calcutta, and he was one of the richest men of India, Sahu Shanti Prasad; he had the greatest palace in Calcutta. We were walking in his...

... always wanted to ask you what happens after death." I said, "Are you alive or not?" He said, "What kind of question is this? I am alive." I said, "You are alive. Do you know what life is?" He said, "That I cannot answer. Honestly, I don't know." I said, "When you are alive, even then you don't know what life is. How can you know death when you are not...

... dead yet? So wait. While you are alive, try to know life; and soon you will be dead, then in your grave contemplate about death. Nobody will be bothering you. But why are you concerned what happens after death? Why are you not concerned what happens before death? That should be the real concern. When death comes we will face it, we will see it, we will see what it is. I am not dead so how can I say...

...? You will have to ask somebody who is dead what happens. I am alive. I can tell you what life is, and I can tell you how to know what life is." "But," he said, "all the religious teachers I go to listen to talk about death; nobody talks about life." They are not interested in life, in fact; they want you all not to be interested in life. Their business depends on your...

... interest in death. And about death, the most beautiful thing is that you can create any kind of fiction and nobody can argue against it. Neither you can prove it, nor can anybody disprove it. And if you are a believer, then of course all your scriptures are in support of the priest, the monk, the rabbi, and he can quote those scriptures. I would like you to remember: Live, and try to know what life is...

.... Don't be bothered about death, heaven and hell, and this goddammed God. You simply remain with the life that is dancing in you, breathing in you, alive in you. You have to come closer to yourself to know it. Perhaps you are standing too far away from yourself. Your concerns have taken you far away. You have to come back home. So remember that while you are alive it is so precious - don't miss a single...

....... There is no motivation as in Jainism. Their motivation is that if you are vegetarian you will go to heaven; if you are not you will fall into hell. My people are vegetarian not for any motivation. They are not going to cash in on it somewhere after death. They are not putting it in their bank balance in the other life. It is just that if you respect life, you will start finding it difficult even to...