... am in light. And listen to me -- your old age has come, I can see it. You are trembling, you cannot stand properly. Sooner or later death will be coming. Before death comes, meditate. Before death knocks at your door, try to know who you are.' It continues this way -- the distance is tremendous. So when I say 'distance' I don't mean the physical distance. You have come across a Buddha or a Christ...

.... If he had been standing there he would have been there only if he had lost his animal. Only then would he go to that height. Many people come to me and they ask, 'If we meditate will it be beneficial in the world?' Even if they come to meditate they are asking if it will be beneficial, profitable, in the world. 'I am passing through financial difficulties,' somebody says. 'If I meditate will it...

... always harmful. If mankind becomes more debased, if a total perversion occurs, if mankind goes completely neurotic because of its ignorance of sex, the blame will be not with those who reflect and meditate on the subject of sex, but at the door of the so-called preachers of morals and religion. They have tried to keep man encased in ignorance for thousands of years. But for these oppressive leaders...

... samadhi. A serene sacredness emanates from them. Nothing less than a wave of eternal peace will encompass you if you meditate on those statues. You will be awed. If you fear that sexuality will overwhelm you after seeing the naked statues, I beseech you, go straight to Khajuraho without further delay. Khajuraho is a unique monument on this earth, yet moralists like the late Shree Purshottamdas Tandon...

... and his colleagues were of the opinion that the walls of Khajuraho should be covered with a coat of terracotta because they believed the images made people sexual. I was astonished when I heard this! The builders of Khajuraho had an aim, and it was that if people would sit in front of the statues and meditate on them, they would be freed from lust. For thousands of years these images have been...

... objects of meditation. It sets a wonderful example for us, that over-sexed people were asked to go to the temples of Khajuraho, to meditate on statues, to lose themselves in them. Although we have often observed this same truth in ordinary human experience, we have not really been able to see it. For instance, if you are passing by and see two people quarreling on the road, you feel like stopping and...

... country. There is nothing important to be found in other temples; there is nothing scientific, no planning, no meaning in them. They are not needed at all. But the existence of the Khajuraho temples and others like them is full of meaning. Anyone whose mind is overly anxious about sex should go there and meditate. When he returns, he will be light of heart; he will be at peace. The Tantrikas tried to...

... one hand, you say, "I procrastinate, I make every effort not to meditate," and yet you want to get out of the problems that your mind is creating. And because you are not meditating, the evidence is immediately available. You say, "Then the other night I heard you say ..." You say, "Then ..." as if I have said it for the first time, just the other night! My whole life I...

... have been saying only one thing, and that is that anything you do out of unawareness will be wrong and everything that you do out of awareness is right, because awareness is right and unawareness is wrong. This has been my essential teaching and you have heard it only the other night. And at the same time you don't want to meditate. You yourself are declaring that you avoid making any effort to...

... meditate. So what do you want? How can you get out of this crap? Your whole life will become more and more a puzzle in which you will get entangled; you will forget all ways of coming back home. Now, what are you doing by creating a "triangular something" with two beautiful women? One woman is enough to make you enlightened - two women are enough to drag you back from enlightenment! Are you...

.... For the old religion the center disappears, and with a new center a new type of religion will arise - a new religious attitude. Hence, my insistence is on meditation not on prayer. Why? - because prayer needs a person, meditation needs no person there. You can meditate without there being a person to listen to you, because meditation is not prayer; it is not addressed to anyone. It is just something...

... you are doing without someone else being there. It is not a relationship. If God is dead, then prayer has become meaningless. Only meditation can become meaningful. When you pray, you pray to someone. When you meditate, you simply meditate. When you pray, prayer is dual - dualistic: you are there and someone else is there to whom the prayer is addressed. Meditation is nondualistic - ADVAITA; there...

... KIND OF PHONY, WHOSE OWN STANDPOINT IS NOT GENUINE: THEY JUST TEACH PEOPLE TO CONTROL THEIR MINDS AND SIT QUIETLY, TO SIT TO THE POINT WHERE THE BREATH CEASES. I CALL THIS LOT PITIABLE. I'M ASKING YOU TO MEDITATE IN JUST THIS WAY, BUT THOUGH I INSTRUCT YOU LIKE THIS, IT'S JUST THAT THERE'S NO OTHER CHOICE ... BEGINNERS' DISEASE. BUDDHIST DISCIPLE CH'EN, YOU HAVE REALIZED THAT PERSONAL EXISTENCE IS...

... THERE IS A KIND OF PHONY, WHOSE OWN STANDPOINT IS NOT GENUINE: THEY JUST TEACH PEOPLE TO CONTROL THEIR MINDS AND SIT QUIETLY, TO SIT TO THE POINT WHERE THE BREATH CEASES. I CALL THIS LOT, PITIABLE. And, I AM ASKING YOU TO MEDITATE IN JUST THIS WAY -- which he calls PITIABLE -- BUT THOUGH I INSTRUCT YOU LIKE THIS, IT IS JUST THAT THERE IS NO OTHER CHOICE ... Can you see the stupidity of our...

... TEACHING PEOPLE TO CONTROL THEIR MINDS, AND SIT QUIETLY. TO SIT TO THE POINT WHERE THE BREATH CEASES, I CALL THIS LOT PITIABLE. I AM ASKING YOU TO MEDITATE IN JUST THIS WAY, BUT THOUGH I INSTRUCT YOU LIKE THIS, IT IS JUST THAT THERE IS NO OTHER CHOICE ... If there is no other choice then why are you calling those poor people phony? They also don't have any other choice. So the first thing: intellectuals...

... treasures are not there, nobody keeps treasures at the door. They are hidden deep in the innermost shrine of your being. So meditate more, love more. Find moments when you are in the body and not in the head. Do something where you can be total. For example if you are dancing you have to become total. A moment comes in whirling when only whirling remains, and your head completely disappears. It is good to...

... read. If you are aware you can use that too, but use it as a means and don't make it an end. If you can come to a camp it will be good. Just be here for a few days and meditate. Just try to understand from a different dimension, not from the intellect. Intellectual understanding is as if you are thirsty and you ask for water, and I explain to you that water means H2O. You understand perfectly, there...

... matter, but he is the leader and the teacher. Those thirty children will become the substitute for the whole empire." Sigmund Freud and his company were not born yet but the son was saying something immensely significant as far as psychology is concerned. If you cannot meditate alone, your meditation in the group is false. If you cannot be silent alone, then your silence in silencing others is not...

... is very difficult. You will have to meditate, you will have to drop your ego; you will have to do this and that... a long process of discipline." The man said, "I never thought that to be a disciple is so difficult." The master said, "I cannot help it; that is the way. From eternity disciples have followed the path. I have only indicated a few spotlights." The man thought...

.... Slowly slowly you will be able to close your eyes any moment and see the sun; then you can meditate inwardly on the sun. But first begin from the outside; it is always good to begin from the outside, from the objective, and then slowly slowly move to the subjective. Once you have become capable of seeing the sun with closed eyes, once you have become capable of the visualization, then there is no need...

... to meditate on the outer sun, then the inner sun will function. Because whatsoever is outside is also inside; there is an immense correspondence between the outer and the inner. Man is a very small phenomenon, but man contains the whole universe; he is a miniature universe. Inside also there is a sun. It has to be provoked, challenged. Once it starts functioning you will see your life changing of...

... see my point? Make it so valuable that even existence withdraws, and destroys all that is being prepared for global suicide. You don't have to act! You have simply to meditate, be silent, be loving, fill the whole world with laughter. I say unto you, laughter is far more powerful than any nuclear weapon. Fill the whole universe with love. And I say unto you, a world filled with love is not going to...

... decide for war. No action is needed. I have been condemned by people who don't understand the intrinsic mysteries of life. They think that I am making people inactive, telling them to meditate, to be silent. They don't know that I am making people spontaneously active - out of love, out of beauty, out of blissfulness. That will create the greatest barrier to the destruction of the planet. You are...

... by your mind. You cannot be connected through it. One has to drop it. And one has to drop it suddenly, not gradually. When you drop it gradually, you are simply saying that you are not yet existentially convinced. When you come across a snake on the path, you don't gradually move away - you simply jump! It is an existential question. You don't philosophically meditate over it, whether jumping is...

... worldly things, of film actors and actresses and politicians - which are even worse. Don't gossip. Discuss gospel. Meditate over what Jesus has said, what Buddha has said. Tell stories of these strange visitors to the earth. Talk about these strange revolutions in consciousness. Talk about Buddha and Krishna and Mohammed and Lao Tzu and Zarathustra, and you will be immensely enriched. Create a milieu of...

... keep a balance. Because science can only give them more power of the outer world - it will not give peace. Science can give riches from the outside, but it will keep them inwardly beggars. Create a balance. Teach science, but also create an atmosphere in the schools, colleges, universities where people can meditate, pray, where people can also start growing their inner sense. Don't destroy their...

... meditator I am." Pray to God, meditate on him, in secrecy, in privacy - alone. And the other dimension is of service, of loving his creatures - the trees, the mountains, the people, the rivers. Pour your love openly to his world, and pour your love in privacy to him - and you become a Sufi. And the function of a Master is to give you these two dimensions of love. And the Perfect Master is one in...