..., his next birth will be perfectly aware. If you can die in this life fully aware, not becoming unconscious when you die; you remain perfectly conscious, you see every phase of death, you hear every step and you remain perfectly aware that the body is dying; the mind is disappearing and you remain perfectly aware; then suddenly you see that you are not in the body and consciousness has left the body...

... am saying about my own birth. And if you really want to know, then prepare yourself to be more and more aware so that when you die this time, you die in full awareness. Then you will automatically be born with full awareness. If you die unconsciously, you are born unconsciously. Whatsoever happens in death will happen in birth because death is nothing but death on this side -- on that side it is...

... not for me. This war seems to be too much of a sin.' Krishna went on insisting, 'You don't bother. Nobody dies because the soul is eternal. Only the body dies, but the body is already dead, so don't be too disturbed. It is all like a dream, and even if you don't kill those people, they will die. In fact, their moment of death has come and you are just to help. You are not killing them; through you...

... create millions of difficulties, but how long can you do this? I am here to push you somehow into the abyss, where you die and the Buddha is born. The problem is always in finding the one. Once the one is there the basic fulfillment, the basic requirement is fulfilled. Then many become immediately possible. And if many are there, then thousands become possible. The first works like a spark, and a small...

... tiger, because it was difficult to catch hold of him. He escaped -- he tried, he cried, he screamed. He was afraid, he was shivering with fear. All the goats escaped and he was also trying to escape with them, but the old tiger got hold of him and pulled him towards the lake. He would not go. He resisted just the way that you are doing with me. He tried his best not to go. He was scared to death...

... born and to die, these are the two greatest sufferings. That carries more meaning than any Laings or any Freuds can ever carry. But Freud's view coincides with this, and this is my own experience also. The nine months in the mother's womb are the most comfortable. Of course, a few episodes happen but they are exceptions. Otherwise, those nine months are without any news, because news is always bad...

... uprooted, thrown out. The pain is very great. If you can trust me, I say that the pain is greater than death. Death is number two, birth is number one. And it should be so because birth makes death possible. In fact, the suffering that starts with birth ends with death. Birth is the beginning of suffering, death is the end. Birth has to be more painful - - it is! And after nine months of total rest...

... birth. It is the same door. If you enter the door consciously, you will get out of the door consciously. Death is this side of the door, birth is that side of the door. The fifth question: RECENTLY THE WEST HAS DEVISED MANY TECHNIQUES TO RETURN TO THE SOURCE. THESE TECHNIQUES ALL SEEM TO HAVE ONE THING IN COMMON: THEY ADMIT THAT AN INDIVIDUAL CANNOT AUTHENTICALLY RETURN TO THESE TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCES...

... people die who are frightened. It is the fear which kills. Only those die who are egoists. Death is always of the ego. Only those die who have not known life. Those who have known life even a little do not die. Then the god of death stops talking about you. He who has understood the song of the divine even a little does not die. Then you may not remain as you are but your innermost being will always be...

... Available: N.A. Length: N.A. [NOTE: This is a translation from the Hindi series BHAJ GOVINDAM, literally: Singing the Song of the Divine. This version is the final edit pending publication, and is for research only.] ONE WHO HAS READ EVEN A LITTLE OF THE GITA, HAS DRUNK EVEN ONE DROP OF GANGES WATER AND HAS WORSHIPPED GOD EVEN A LITTLE, YAMA, THE GOD OF DEATH, CANNOT DESTROY HIM. OH GOD, PROTECT ME FROM...

... THIS TROUBLESOME WORLD WHERE ONE HAS TO BE BORN AGAIN AND AGAIN, DIE AGAIN AND AGAIN, AND FALL INTO THE WOMB OF A MOTHER AGAIN AND AGAIN, AND TAKE ME TO THE OTHER SHORE. HE WHO HAS MADE HIS ROBE OUT OF THE RAGS FROM THE ROADSIDE, WHOSE PATH IS FREE OF THE THOUGHT OF SIN AND VIRTUE, WHO IS ENGROSSED IN YOGA, SUCH A YOGI SOMETIMES PLAYS LIKE A CHILD AND SOMETIMES LIKE A MADMAN. WHO ARE YOU? WHO AM I...

... within them. These sentences of Shankara are very important. ONE WHO HAS READ EVEN A LITTLE OF THE GITA - take note of "a little" - ONE WHO HAS READ EVEN A LITTLE OF THE GITA, HAS DRUNK EVEN ONE DROP OF GANGES WATER AND HAS WORSHIPPED GOD A LITTLE, YAMA, THE GOD OF DEATH, CANNOT DESTROY HIM. You have read the Gita many times. This country has been reading the Gita for thousands of years...

...; people have memorized it. Every person is full of the Gita and yet there is no liberation for him. He can only see death. And Shankara is saying that death disappears for the one who has read even a little of the Gita - who has tasted the divine even a little, drunk even a drop of Ganges water. And you have taken a bath in the Ganges! ... WHO HAS DRUNK EVEN ONE DROP OF GANGES WATER AND HAS WORSHIPPED...

... calculating in life. Even their prayer is calculating and clever; they cannot be simple even while praying. If you get an opportunity you can pick God's pocket! Perhaps that is why he hides himself and is afraid to face you! Innocence in itself is a prayer. AND HAS WORSHIPPED GOD EVEN A LITTLE, YAMA, THE GOD OF DEATH, CANNOT DESTROY HIM. He who has tasted prayer even a little goes beyond death. Only those...

.... The mind, with which you have been thinking, may not remain; the body, through which you have enjoyed, may not remain; but your innermost self, where you have experienced trust, cannot be destroyed. Trust is eternal, because trust is your ultimate, the last, the innermost. Death has never entered there and can never enter. There you are eternal, ancient. There you yourself are the divine. Whoever...

... not." It is not necessary to say, "You are." Whoever has said, "I am not," that very moment he has known that "Only you are." The divine appears as soon as the I disappears. This I is the only obstacle. Then, THE GOD OF DEATH CANNOT DESTROY HIM.... Therefore, OH IDIOT! ALWAYS SING THE SONG OF THE THE DIVINE! OH GOD, PROTECT ME FROM THIS TROUBLESOME WORLD WHERE ONE...

... HAS TO BE BORN AGAIN AND AGAIN, DIE AGAIN AND AGAIN, AND FALL INTO THE WOMB OF A MOTHER AGAIN AND AGAIN. Man is helpless, and nothing can be done by the resolution of man, because whatsoever you will do will be less than you. The divine is vast, much bigger than you. He is in you, he peeps through you, but is much greater than you. It is like the ocean being in a drop of water. If you taste the drop...

... this ego the song of the divine cannot be born in you, you cannot pray and you cannot worship. The divine cannot come into you while you are full of yourself. Come down from your throne, make some space and invite him. OH GOD, PROTECT ME FROM THIS TROUBLESOME WORLD WHERE ONE HAS TO BE BORN AGAIN AND AGAIN, DIE AGAIN AND AGAIN AND FALL INTO THE WOMB OF A MOTHER AGAIN AND AGAIN. Whoever has understood...

... always the same evening, the same morning, the same anger, the same greed, the same attachment, the same birth, the same death - it is just repetition. There must definitely be a very deep-rooted idiocy in us - that is why we are not awakened from our sleep - otherwise we would have seen that we go on repeating the same things again and again. If we did not attain anything by doing them so many times...

..., then it is certain that we will never attain anything by repeating them innumerable times. We have to get out of this vicious circle. That is why in the East, and especially in India, this great desire was born of getting out of the circle of birth and death. This kind of desire was not born anywhere else in the world. In the West the religions like Islam, Christianity and Judaism are not inspired by...

.... Nobody else is ready for death, everybody is caught unprepared; you can prepare. And the preparation is, go deeper into meditation, reach to the point where death can never reach. And then let death come, you don't die, you simply go on moving into new forms. So only in a commune, intelligent, loving, understanding.... Every sannyasin has gone through the tests. In the cities people are resisting. Even...

.... He remains alive, aware. Death is happening, he is there. When Socrates was given poison, he had gathered all his disciples. One of the disciples asked, "Before you leave us, please tell us whether the soul survives or not." Socrates said, "Again you are asking the same stupid question. Let me die and see! I will die fully aware. Only two are the possibilities: either I am gone...

.... WE SAW YOUR FORECAST A YEAR AND A HALF A GO, IN MARCH OF 1984, AT A TIME WHEN YOU SAID THAT TWO-THIRDS OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION WOULD EVENTUALLY DIE OF THE DISEASE. I'M CURIOUS WHERE THAT NUMBER CAME FROM, AND WHY YOU BELIEVE THIS IS TRUE. A:* I am not a astrologer or a prophet. It is just simple arithmetic, the way AIDS is spreading, no adequate efforts are being made to prevent it. On the...

... made intercourse with the apes. It is well-known in remote corners of the world -- in jungles, in mountains - - when people cannot get anybody else, they make love to the animals. And this is not something new, it is coming from the Old Testament. A whole city called Sodom became interested into animals, that's why the name sodomy. Q:* YOU SAID THAT TWO-THIRDS OF THE POPULATION WILL DIE OF AIDS. WHO...

... pleasant as possible. We can teach them meditations, we can help them to be silent -- to prepare for death. In fact, I am telling to these sannyasins that "Take it as an opportunity. Perhaps in your whole life you may not have got an opportunity of two years remaining in silence. And death comes unknown to others; to you it is coming with a notice. It is perfectly useful, because you can prepare...

... a commune, it is a differently, totally situation. All over the world we have communes, and we are making the commune the model for everything. Any city can follow up on the same ground rules. The basic thing is that the AIDS patient should not be condemned, that there should be special shelters, nursing homes, better than any other, for these people who are living under the shadow of death. And...

... intelligence to understand that we are very close on a global death. Some way or other this beautiful earth is going to be destroyed, unless something very drastic is done. Q:* DO YOU SEE ANY POSSIBILITY THAT THAT DRASTIC CHANGE WILL COME? A:* I don't see any possibility, but I will make every effort. It is hoping against hope, but I will still hope. I don't see that anything can be done, because all these...

... NOW. THERE IS MORE INSIDE*. YOUR GOAL IS BEYOND THIS... (Interruption about changing tapes) A:* Change. Just don't change the sex, you can go on changing the tape. I don't have any goal. We live moment to moment, and when tomorrow comes, we will live tomorrow. Naturally, we will be expanding -- that is the nature of life. Death is shrinking, life is expanding. So if we are free to expand, we will...

... SANNYASINS TO LEAD HUMANITY OUT OF ALL OF THIS THROUGH THE COMMUNES, AND THAT WOULD BE THE GOAL OF RAJNEESHPURAM AND THE OTHERS? A:* No, it is not the goal. The goal is to become for the whole humanity a new type of school of training, a model for the future. But it depends on them. If they don't want to come, we are not going to send missionaries to convince them. If they want to die, they are perfectly...

..., while you are awake you will be able to meditate, there is no problem. And the man who can meditate in sleep will be able to meditate while dying, because the same is the process. Just as in sleep you slowly slowly go deeper inside you, the body is left far away, relaxed, the mind slows down, the thoughts go on disappearing -- exactly the same happens in death. A man who knows meditation, never dies...

..., finished with the body finishing, and there is nobody left to be aware, or the body will be dying and I will be moving into some other form. But before death, how can I say? I am so excited." And the man who is preparing the poison is delaying, because he loves Socrates - - everybody loved the man, even the man who is going to give him poison is delaying. Socrates says, "This is not right. It...

... live a little longer." Socrates says, "I have lived long enough, and I have lived so totally that I don't think I have left anything unlived. My life is complete, so don't waste time. I am excited to experience death. I want to see death." And that is exactly the situation of every meditator: he wants to see death too. And seeing it means you are separate from it, you are something...

... itself, die. Modern man has become incapable of love because he has become incapable of death. He cannot die to anything. He clings to life; he cannot die to anything. In old English, three or four hundred years ago, this was a usual expression. The lover would say to the beloved, "I want to die in you." This was a love expression. It is beautiful! "I want to die in you." Love is a...

... death - a death of the ego. Only then is your real self born, and modern man is very, very afraid of death. In every way, surrender is death, love is death, and life also is a continuous death. If you are afraid, you will miss life itself. Be ready to die every moment. Die to the past, die to the future, and die in the present moment. Don't cling and don't resist. Don't make any effort for life, and...

... day? Getting out of the bed and doing the same thing, and again falling asleep and the next day the same pattern: why? You have done it so far, and what has happened? And you will do it unless death comes and relieves of you of your body. So what is the use? Love gives meaning. It is not that through love any result comes into being or any goal - no! Through love every moment becomes of value in...

... you will have abundant life. Life will happen to you if you are ready to die. This looks paradoxical, but this is the law. Jesus says that one who is ready to lose will gain, and one who clings will lose everything. The second question: Question 2: "YOU SAID LAST NIGHT THAT THE PERIPHERY IS ALWAYS CHANGING, WHEREAS THE INNERMOST CENTER IS ETERNALLY UNMOVING. TO REALIZE THE CENTER IS IT...

... to someone else and you are just the witness - then death also can happen and you will be just a witness. Alexander was returning from India. Some friends had requested him to bring back a sannyasin from India. They said, "When you come with conquered possessions, don't forget: bring a sannyasin also. We want to see what a sannyasin is - what type of a man renounces the world. We want to know...

... I have become a witness. So when this head will fall down on the earth, you will see it falling down and I will also see it falling down. But you cannot cut me; you cannot even touch me. So don't waste time, you can cut! Raise your sword and cut my head." Alexander couldn't kill that man. It was impossible because it was useless. The man was so beyond death, it was impossible to kill him. You...

... not an anxiety for them - they simply live it; and then, as simply as they live, they simply die. Animals don't have any death consciousness. In fact, they are neither aware of life, nor of death, so the question of suicide doesn't arise. They are not conscious at all; they live in the deepest sleep of the unconscious. Only man can commit suicide. That means that only man can do something about life...

... THE RAIN TO GIZAN'S ROOM. BEFORE HE HAD A CHANCE TO SPEAK, THE MASTER CRIED: "BRAVO! - YOU'VE FINALLY HAD YOUR DAY." Man is the only animal who can think of, try to, or actually commit suicide. Suicide is very special. It is human. Animals live, they die, but they cannot commit suicide. They live, but there are not any problems, life doesn't create any "angst", anguish. Life is...

... or death; it means that only man can stand against life. This possibility is there because man is conscious. But remember, the problems of life, the anxiety, the tension, the anguish, or the final decision to commit suicide, do not come out of consciousness - they come out of a fragmentary consciousness. This has to be understood deeply. A Buddha is also conscious, but he cannot commit suicide...

...? And why are you beating your head? Just by beating your head on the door you will not die. So, listen to me, come with me. We can go to the river; there is a beautiful point where I have always meditated. If ever I am to commit suicide, this is the place. You come with me, this is a good chance." Because I was not saying anything against suicide, he calmed down. He was not hitting his head. He...

... looked at me, he was very puzzled. I took his hand, brought him home. He said: "When are we going?" But he was a little afraid; now that I was ready I was dangerous. So I said: "This is a full-moon night and there is no hurry. When one wants to die, one should choose an auspicious moment. So we will go in the middle of the night, then the full moon will be just there and I can say good...

... angry and said: "Are you my friend or my enemy? It seems you want to kill me." I said: "I'm not making any judgment on my own. If you want to die, I am a friend, I have to cooperate and help. If you don't want to die, that's your decision, so you tell me. I am neutral. The car is ready, I will drive you to the spot; the night is beautiful and the moon has come up. Now it is up to you...

...." He said: "Take me to my home. I am not going to die. And who are you to force me to die?" I was not forcing anybody - just a delayed moment and one comes to one's senses. But this is not that type of suicide. I must tell you, by the way, that there is only one religion in the world which allows suicide - Jainism. It is rare; only Mahavir allows suicide. He says that if you can die...

... very silently, without any emotionality about it, it is beautiful, nothing is wrong with it. But it has to be done over a very long time, otherwise you never know. So you have to stop taking food, that's all. It takes almost three months for a person to die without food. For three months the body goes on and on, using its reservoirs, energy, and food and everything. One goes on becoming more and...

... skinnier, the flesh disappears, then only the skeleton remains. Nearly three months it takes. So Mahavir says that if you want to die, and if this suicide is going to be a religious dropping out, then don't do it in a hurry. Do it simply, because you have three months to think, and you can go back, nobody is forcing you. And there have been many people who have done it that way in the past: many people...

... have dropped out of existence after not taking food for three months - simply meditating, lying down. Then that suicide is more beautiful than your ordinary life because they are not really killing themselves, they are moving to another realm. This Koshu moved slowly, there was no hurry. In fact, when life doesn't mean anything to you, death also doesn't mean anything to you. When life is useless...

..., death is also useless, because death is nothing but the culmination of life. Death means so much to you because life means so much to you. It is always in the same proportion. If life is very, very meaningful to you, you will be afraid of death. When life is meaningless, of course death is also meaningless. There is no hurry. He came to the railing, HE WENT TO THE RAILING AND SLOWLY LIFTED HIS LEG...

.... When you are not, you are, and you are for the first time. If Abraham Maslow had experienced the ultimate state of flowering he would never have called it self-actualization; he would have called it "no-self actualization." You are born as a self, as an ego. This is the seed and the seed has to disappear before the sprout can start growing. The seed has to die in the soil; then and only...

.... Through analyzing the seed you will not reach any conclusion. But if you let the seed fall down into the right soil, if you allow the seed to die and disappear, out of that nothingness something immensely beautiful arises, something impossible happens. Leaves come, branches come, a big tree grows. Such a small seed contains such a big tree! Now hundreds of people can sit under its shade, hundreds of...

...; Diogenes said, "Then go, don't stop - but death will stop you in the middle. It always stops everybody in the middle, and then you cannot do anything. Then you will remember me. And your victories won't help you at all. When death knocks on the door, a slave, a poor man, a great king, a world conqueror, all are the same - they are all equal in the eyes of death. Death cannot knock at my door,"...

...; Diogenes said. "Listen, and look into my eyes. I have conquered death. That is a real victory because I have come to know my real being which is deathless. I have come to experience my consciousness which was before I was born and which will be there after I am gone. I am eternal." And the day Alexander died he remembered Diogenes - with bitter tears, of course, because Diogenes was right: his...

... blooming, then there is anxiety; if you don't own it then you just enjoy. The master enjoys existence but he owns nothing; because he owns nothing he misses nothing. HE IS NOT AFRAID. There is nothing to lose, why should he be afraid? HE DOES NOT TREMBLE. Soren Kierkegaard says that every man is trembling inside, there is a constant trembling - and he is right. The fear of death keeps you constantly...

... trembling. You may keep yourself occupied in a thousand and one things and you may forget about your inner trembling, but it is there. Soren Kierkegaard is one of the most important thinkers of the Western hemisphere. What he is saying he must be saying from his own personal experience; he was very much afraid of death. He was afraid only of two things: death and money. He never earned anything. His...

... trembling. And then death... and death is certainly related to money. People who are very much afraid of death start accumulating money as a protection - as if money can protect! People who are not afraid of death don't care much about money; they use money, but they don't care. And one strange thing happened: Soren Kierkegaard died on the road the day he withdrew the last amount of money from the bank...

... no death. Knowing himself he has transcended death. He has no fear of the future because he lives in the present. He is not possessive; hence nothing can be taken away from him. NOTHING BINDS HIM. HE IS INFINITELY FREE. Because he is nonpossessive, NOTHING BINDS HIM. He is freedom, absolute freedom. SO CUT THROUGH THE STRAP AND THE THONG AND THE ROPE. LOOSEN THE FASTENINGS. UNBOLT THE DOORS OF...

... downcast eyes and a sad look on his face. "Bad news," he said. "Pat fell into a vat of whiskey and drowned this afternoon." Mrs. Rafferty and the children burst into anguished tears, but she managed to stammer, "Oh Jesus, did he suffer? Was it a painful death?" Mick coughed reverently and took off his hat. "No, mam," he said, "I don't think so. He got out...

... twice for a piss!" Be awake. Just see what you are doing, just see what your life consists of. Is there any awareness or is it just an unconscious play of unconscious forces? Are you just a victim of forces you are not aware of - either from where they come or what they are doing to you? Are you going to die in this way? THE MASTER ENDURES INSULTS AND ILL TREATMENT WITHOUT REACTING. The master...

... God; it is useless. He gives you the right way to experience godliness. You are gods. Just the seed has to die, the self has to die, and you will start growing. That growth is divine. Religion is the process of inner growth, the process of actualizing the potential, the process of being reborn. Unless you are born again you cannot enter into the kingdom of God. Enough for today. Generated by...

... officer to come and check me. There seems to be something very wrong. Everybody is able to recognize it." And then I entered the office where he was resting on the sofa, almost ready to die. I said, "Wait!" And I told the peon on the way, "don't call anybody, for the car or for the doctor. There is no need. I will take care." I said, "There is no need to die right now. One...

... day you will have to die, but just take a few minutes' time. You just look at these notes ... what you said to your wife." He said, "You are a strange student, you would have killed me. Just another two persons more ... And if they had said, 'You have died,' I would have believed it." I said, "This is just in answer to our controversy." If people go on saying something to...

... woman. She said, "Shut up! I am talking to your mother directly!" Michelangelo has written, "I could not believe it. I had offered, but she simply refused. She said, 'Shut up!' In the darkness she could not even see." All these religions are trying to humiliate humanity. Their whole business and exploitation and oppression depend on you, your fear, your greed, your death, your...

... disease. If you start feeling yourself divine and can enjoy not only life but death too, with the same dance, what will be the purpose of the priests? And there are millions of them all over the world, just living like parasites. They may be Hindu, they may be Mohammedan, they may be Christian, they may belong to any religion, but priesthood is the ancientmost profession of parasites. If you enter into...

... emphatic about the tortures of hell, that you will be burned in an eternal fire; and yet you will not die - that solace they cannot give. You will be pulled out and put in the oven again, this side burned and that side burned ... there are cases on record that many women used to faint just listening to these preachers. The whole idea was so ferocious, that you will never die and always in and out of the...

... no possibility of escaping, Morarji agreed. They took him to the first section, and what he saw he could not believe: people were being beaten, blood was flowing. Death is impossible in hell, remember. That point you have always to remember: death is impossible, only torture. You cannot commit suicide. In hell that is not possible. You cannot escape, there is no exit. Seeing that bloody place...

... pulled to the other side. Soon you start feeling that you are going to break up somewhere in between. That's why I say it is absolutely certain that in hell they have very primitive traction mechanisms - you don't die there. And my feeling is that the people who say they are cured are not really cured. It is my own experience. You have to say it, otherwise they are ready to give you more traction...

.... Either you die or you say that you are cured - you don't have any other alternative. Religion has been living on fear. And it has been creating disciplines like fasting - torture yourself in every possible way. The more you torture, the more God is happy with you. It is a strange argument, why does my being tortured make God happy? Is he a sadist? Is he mad, or what? My fasting makes him happy. I am...

... - that it is better to die than to live in a city where everybody is behaving like Buddha. But still I insist that you are a buddha. I am not saying to you that you have to behave like Buddha; you have to be spontaneously yourself. And honestly and totally being yourself is what buddha- nature means. Before we again enter into our buddha-nature, a little laughter will be alright. Before risking, it is...

... always good to laugh, because you may die when I say die. If you are really total, you will die. Then Nivedano can go on hitting his drum ... you will not come back. But you come back so quickly that I suspect you don't die. You try hard, that I know, and everybody is managing to get in the right comfortable position. That is not allowed. When you are dying, die! That does not mean, "Now what...

... comfortable position ..." Others will take care when you are finished. But you know perfectly well that it is only a rehearsal, the real drama has not started yet, and there is no hurry. Anyway you can die tomorrow. Zabriski takes Gorgeous Gloria out on a date. They are sitting in a quiet corner of the bar, sipping martinis, when Zabriski leans over and whispers in Gloria's ear, "What would you...

... artificially, don't be a hypocrite. Just be natural and you are a buddha. So gather your consciousness more deeply, to crystallize it. Nivedano ... (Drumbeat) Rest ... relax ... really die. don't be worried what happens afterwards. The world will continue ... you don't be worried, just die. As the body is lying dead, you can enter into yourself more easily. Unidentified with the body you can see the open sky...

... are not doing any betrayal. It is perfectly right. Just as we accept life, we should accept death. Anything that is born is bound to die. We accept it about people, but we don't accept it about religions - that's where we go wrong. When there is a Jesus walking, alive, a religion grows around him like a foliage growing around a tree - green leaves, flowers, fruits - because the tree has roots.Jesus...

.... There are many implications in it. Each implication has to be deeply pondered over. First, have you ever loved a woman? Have you ever fallen in love with a woman? If you have ever fallen in love with a woman, have you thought before falling in love that every woman dies one day? All the women have died before; this woman will also die. Why you are falling in love with a person who is going to die...

...? Prevent yourself. Stop yourself. In fact, have you ever thought that you yourself will be dying one day? Then why go on living? When one has to die, what is the point of living at all? Die right now. Why go on living in a corpse? Because this body will become a corpse one day. It may be sooner or later burned or buried, so why take care of it? Why look in the mirror in the morning? Why clean it? Why...

... arise everywhere. Yes, every religion sooner or later will die - that is the nature of things. That is simply the way of Tao, nothing is wrong about it. When your wife dies, it is not that you did something wrong by loving her while she was alive; it was perfectly right to love her while she was alive. And now it is perfectly right not to go on keeping her dead body in the house, otherwise it will...

... is rooted in God, hence the tree is alive. Enjoy the beauty of the tree, enjoy the fragrance of the tree. Lie down in its shade while it is hot. Eat its juicy fruits. Don't be worried that one day this tree will die and there will be no more green leaves, no more flowers will come, spring will not have any meaning to it - don't be bothered with that! That is natural. But about religions we have...

..., "What is the point of joining into the dance? Sooner or later this man will die, this dance will die. Sooner or later there will be only a silly institution, a crazy ideology, a fanatic religion. Why participate in it?" You would have been wrong. In fact, we have to learn how to live religions while there is a Jesus, a Buddha, a Krishna, a Zarathustra. And we have also to learn when...

.... Now physicists will agree more with the Hindu idea than with the Christian trinity. They have discovered black holes, and black holes are nothing but the possibility from where things disappear into nothingness. And now they are discovering white holes - the other aspect of the black hole - from where things appear out of nothing. Shiva is the god of destruction, god of death, but even a god of...

... death is created, projected by human mind, and human mind is after all human. You can create beautiful philosophy but something of you is bound to be projected in it. Shiva's wife, Parvati, died. Now he is the god of destruction, death, but he could not accept the death of Parvati. You see the human element? He took the dead body of his wife, carried her on his shoulders for twelve years around the...

... place was born. So there are twelve most sacred places in India. Those places are just graveyards of parts of Parvati. Unless the whole dead body disappeared... Shiva carried her in search of somebody who can do a miracle and revive her. Man does not want to believe in death, hence he creates all kinds of stories about miracles. When Buddha dies his religion dies; it is bound to be so. He was the soul...

... of it. Now you can carry the ritual. And remember always, it is the MAN that matters, not the method - never the method, but the man - as far as religion is concerned. In science it is totally different: the method matters, not the man. Edison may die, that does not matter, but whatsoever methods he has discovered will go on working. They are still working. Einstein has died, but his methods will...

... - and everything dies, remember, sooner or later - the moment it dies accept the death. Then don't try to hide it then don't try to keep the dead body, then don't try to worship it. Then free the people and tell them to go and find living Masters somewhere else. Because the earth is never without few living Masters. God's compassion is such that somewhere or other there is always a living Master, and...

... if you are real seeker you will find him. But you are trying to simply convince yourself that, what is the point? Sooner or later it will become an institution as if you are going to live forever. What I am creating will die, and you will live forever... You will also die; and one thing I can tell you: this phenomenon that is being created here is certainly going to live longer than you, so why you...

... absolutely necessary. Not that I am afraid of death, but I would like a comfortable, luxurious death. Not carrying the cross on my own shoulders, not even on your shoulders - the cross will be carried on a Rolls Royce limousine. I am not a prophet either. I don't know what is going to happen in the next moment. I don't know even what I am going to say in the next moment. The future does not exist for me...

... death to come. Everything he promises is after death. You can see the strategy. Nobody comes back and says what there is after death. You can see the strategy. You can befool people: just keep them drugged about the future life after death. And those poor people, of course, wanted to live blissfully. They had failed here; now comes this man - a carpenter, Joseph's son - and gives them a great hope, a...

...;God's WILL!... the war has to happen whether you participate or not. By not participating you will fall in the eyes of God. The war will happen." His actual words are, "You see these millions of warriors on both the sides gathered, alive? In fact, they are just waiting to die. They are dead, you are not killing them. You cannot do anything on your own; you are just a puppet in the hands of...

... death. Any religion which is concerned too much about death is fundamentally wrong. And all the religions are death-oriented. Hence I say, all these messiahs, prophets, incarnations of God are simply clever, cunning politicians. They have destroyed humanity, they have poisoned you in every possible way. Whatsoever you enjoy is a sin, and whatsoever you suffer is virtue. Look at their logic! They have...

.... The day humanity is completely finished with these exploiters in the name of religion, this very earth can become a paradise. There is no need to wait for death. What has death to do with paradise? Paradise is the way you live. Paradise has something to do with life, not with death. If you don't listen to these people, just simple reasoning will show you that this much population on the earth is...

... in your past life you committed great sins. It seems to be a very delayed result. The cause was in some past life far away, and the effect comes now. You put your hand in the fire and wait for the next life for it to get burned! Cause and effect are connected; the cause is nothing but unmanifested effect. You cannot put them so far apart, and you cannot put death in between than. But Hindus have...

... become so frustrated that they don't want to live - for what? For Ronald Reagan to become the president? For Ethiopia, so that thousands will die every day? For India, which goes on producing children? The Indian woman is continuously pregnant. Half of India is starving; soon it will be a second Ethiopia, far bigger. If you cannot manage Ethiopia, it is impossible to manage India. And the same is going...

... Baba," then at the moment of death.... Of course, a Hindu wife is not supposed to say her husband's name. She cannot, that is thought to be disrespectful - just the male chauvinistic mind. The man can call her by her name, but the woman cannot call her husband by his name. So perhaps... there was no time to figure out what to say; Bhole Baba came in handy. But even the wife started laughing...

..., thinking that this was really hilarious. "My whole life I have been telling you and other boys who are your friends... who you have been telling that whenever they pass the door, they should knock and enquire, 'Is Bhole Baba inside?'" The death became a laughter. But back home, my father said, "I am not going to take you to another death, another cremation - not with me, at least. What you...

... have done is not right." I said, "Everybody laughed - even the wife who was crying, started laughing. You should all be grateful to me that I made even death nonserious, fun, a joke." If my people go on being nonserious, laughing, dancing, singing, not finding any reason for it - life is enough reason for it - we can make the whole world aflame with laughter. Nuclear weapons can be...

... questions that can be asked, but you will have to understand some deeper implications, which you may not be aware of. The politicians and the priests have a vested interest in keeping the people of the world unaware of the future. The reason is very simple: if the people are aware of the future and the darkness ahead, the death that is coming every moment closer, there is going to be a tremendous upheaval...

... simultaneously. For centuries in the East the priesthood has been convincing people that it is your past evil acts which have made you poor. All you need to do is to remain contented with your poverty, with your sickness, with your death. This is a test of your trust. And if you can pass through this fire test, in the next life, after death, you will be rewarded enormously. This is the reason that in the East...

... be no need for abortions." Seeing the whole world growing in population and poverty, these priests go on teaching that children are produced by God, and that to prevent more births by any scientific method is against religion. I cannot think that these people are intelligent. They want to turn the whole earth into an Ethiopia. Millions of people will die by the end of this century without any...

... nuclear weapons being used. Almost half of the earth will die out of starvation. And when fifty percent of the people are dying in the streets and you cannot do anything to help - no medicine, no food, you cannot even arrange for their bodies to be carried to the graveyard or to the funeral pyre - the people who are left alive will be in a far more miserable condition than those who are dead. The dead...

..., because population is power. They are not worried about the death that is coming closer every moment. Politicians are interested in having more and more powerful weapons, because without nuclear weapons they are not going to be historical heroes. Even poor countries who need food are trying to make atomic plants, nuclear plants. It seems to be an utterly insane state of affairs. Your question has raised...

... many things: nuclear weapons, the most dangerous disease that man has ever encountered, AIDS. But you are not aware that the disease AIDS is created by your religions. You will be surprised and shocked. AIDS is the most dangerous disease ever because it has no cure. And scientists are coming to an agreement that there is no possibility of finding a cure. This is not a disease, but a slow death. Once...

... you have got it, at the most you can live for two years. Mostly you will not live more than six months; your death is certain. And the disease is really ugly, because even your family will reject you. Your wife will reject you, your husband will reject you, your children will close the doors to you. Your parents will say, "Forgive us. Don't come this way." Your friends will turn into...

... solved. Enlightenment means a man who is constantly in the same state of silence, peace and contentment whatsoever happens on the outside, success or failure, pain or pleasure, life or death. Enlightenment means a man who has experienced something that you are also capable of, but you have not tried it. He is full of light, full of joy, full of ecstasy, twenty-four hours a day. He is almost a drunkard...

... doing?' I said, 'I am trying to make love.' She said, 'But you have made love twice in the night!' I said, 'It seems I am losing my memory...' "I am in a real mess. You are talking about stupid things - peeping in the bathroom, not being able to press your wife's hand. Just think of me, I have lost my memory." Even at the time of death, sexual repression is such that people go on thinking...

... change. Just as fourteen is the time when you become ripe for sexual experience, able to produce children, at the age of forty-two you start a new phase of your life. At fourteen you were entering into the world of living. At forty-two you are entering into the world of death. Just as at fourteen life needed reproduction, at forty-two life needs not sexuality but meditation. And if you have lived your...

... significant, something more valuable, has to be experienced. You have loved, you have seen the reality of the world, experienced all kinds of relationships - now is the time to know yourself, to be yourself, because death will be coming soon. Before death you have to be ready to meet it. The last story.... A king dreamed in the night that a big, very ferocious shadow was standing in front of him. He asked...

..., "Who are you and what is the purpose of your coming into my dream?" The shadow said, "I am your death, and I am coming tomorrow evening at sunset. Remember, at the time of sunset meet me at the right place." And before he could ask, "Where is the right place?" - not that he was going to be at the right place, he wanted to know so that he could avoid the right place - the...

... idea that you could run so fast. You risked everything, as if you understood my problem that death is close and you have to risk all your energy. I am thankful to you." At that very time the sun was setting, and suddenly he became aware of a hand on his shoulder. He looked back. The old shadow that he had seen in the dream was standing there and said, "I have also to thank your horse...

..., because without him I was worried how you were going to manage to reach the right place at the right time. But you managed. The whole credit goes to your horse." Whether death is a few hours away, or a few days or few years, it makes no difference. Just as one prepares for life, one has to prepare for death too. And the preparation for death I call religiousness. The art of religiousness is the art...

... of preparing for death and dying in such a way that nothing dies - only the body is left behind and you move into eternity. Okay? Generated by PreciseInfo ™ ...