... life-affirmative religiousness. The motto of the new commune is: This very body the Buddha, this very earth the Lotus Paradise. The new commune is going to hallow the earth, to make everything sacred. We are not going to divide existence into this world and that world: we are going to live existence in its totality. We are going to live as scientists, as poets, as mystics - all together! The...

... scientist is partial. He believes only in the body, he cannot go beyond it; his vision is very limited, shortsighted. The poet clings to another aspect of humanity, the feeling part. He can see the beauty, but his beauty is very momentary. He has no idea of the eternal. The mystic lives in the being, he lives in the deathless, timeless state. Because he lives in the deathless, timeless state he becomes...

... world. It is obviously wrong. The world exists through God! The world is God's body - there can't be any conflict! If there had been any conflict, then the world would have disappeared long ago. The world breathes, is alive, and life is God. The tree is divine because it is alive, and the rock is divine because the rock is also alive in its own way, the rock also grows. The whole existence is full of...

... treatment, he needs help. But you respect him, and because of your respect, his ego becomes puffed up; so if he was going to fast for one month, he will fast for three months. And the more he fasts, the more he tortures his body, the more respect you give to him. The new commune will not respect any masochistic tendencies. It will not respect any asceticism, it will not respect any abnormal, unnatural...

... his body, who lies down on a bed of thorns, who cripples himself. It is going to be the beginning of a new humanity. It is needed, absolutely needed. If we cannot create the new man in the coming twenty years - by the end of this century - then humanity has no future. The old man has come to the end of his tether. The old man is ready to commit a global suicide. The third world war is going to be...

... as one body, one being. Nobody will possess anything; everybody will use everything, everybody will enjoy. Everybody is going to live as comfortably, as richly, as we can manage. But nobody will possess anything. Not only will things not be possessed, but persons also will not be possessed in the new commune. If you love a woman, live with her - out of sheer love, out of sheer joy - but you don't...

... transform work into playfulness, it is going to transform life into love and laughter. Remember the motto again - to hallow the earth, to make everything sacred, to transform the ordinary, mundane things into extraordinary, spiritual things. The whole of life has to be your temple; work has to be your worship, love has to be your prayer. This very body the Buddha, this very earth the Lotus Paradise. The...

... allowing your unconscious to reveal itself to you. It is frightening. My suggestion to you is, just sit silently as much as you can find time to. Zen people sit silently at least six to eight hours per day. In the beginning it is really maddening. The mind plays so many tricks on you, tries to drive you crazy, creates imaginary fears, hallucinations. The body starts playing tricks on you...all kinds of...

... created once and for all; it is not an object. It is a growing phenomenon, it is a river flowing. Each moment it is passing through new territory. "Who is creating this life, this energy, this mind, this body, this consciousness, that I am?" His question is totally different. He is transforming religion from extroversion into introversion. The extrovert religion prays to God; the introvert...

.... It is like tea-time, and your body starts asking for tea. A little tannin is needed... or a little nicotine. This is happening to Krishna Prem! Just a few weeks ago Laxmi was after him: "Stop smoking!" He was smoking too much. And finally he stopped; with great will he forced himself and stopped. Since that time he has not been in good shape. He became ill, for weeks he remained ill, weak...

.... Now he has come out of his illness. He had to take many medicines and treatments. Now he gets angry at any slight excuse, or no excuse. Just the other day he asked me, "Beloved Master, what should I do?" I said, "Smoke! And don't listen to Laxmi again!" An old habit... now the body needs a certain quantity of nicotine; if it is not there then uneasiness is created. And there is...

... moment, with no past hanging around you, with no future projection, you are free from life and death, you are free from body and mind. You are free - simply free - you are freedom. Buddha says: And this is how I have BEATEN OUT DESIRE. AND NOW MY MIND IS FREE. THERE ARE NO FISH IN THE LAKE. THE LONG-LEGGED CRANES STAND IN THE WATER. A beautiful metaphor, very pictorial: THE LONG-LEGGED CRANES STAND IN...

... ARE NO FISH IN THE LAKE. By "fish" he means desires: My consciousness is free of desires. THE LONG-LEGGED CRANES STAND IN THE WATER. But because I am alive - I will not be coming back again into the body, but this body has its own momentum, this mind has its own momentum - it will have to finish its momentum. So the body is there, the mind is there, like long-legged cranes standing in the...

... vaginal orgasm and clitoral orgasm. Man is so poor! And the woman's orgasm is more total - her whole body becomes involved in it - man's orgasm is local. Poor man! A pretty coed had been receiving obscene phone calls from the same man for months. She was beginning to enjoy it. One night she picked up the phone and it was him again. "I am gonna come over there, throw you down on the bed, rip off...

... died. We say God has called him, that God loved him so much, that whomsoever God loves he calls earlier; that he has gone to heaven, that he has moved to the other world, that he has not died, only the body has fallen back to the earth but the soul, the soul is immortal. Have you ever heard of anybody going to hell? Everybody goes to heaven. We are so afraid of death, we try to make it as beautiful...

... long journey, because whatsoever you know will be left behind: your friends, your family, your money, your power, your prestige, all will be left behind. You will be going all alone, even your body will be left behind. You will not be able to recognize your own face, because you don't know what your original face is. You know only the bodily face, that too you know through the medium of the mirror...

.... You have not encountered your reality, you have not gone into your inner being, you have not seen yourself, you don't know who you are. All the friends gone, family, money, power, prestige, body... will you be able even to recognize that it is you? You will be simply in a chaos. Buddha asks you: WHAT WILL YOU TAKE WITH YOU? Tomorrow is death - YOU ARE LIKE THE YELLOW LEAF - next moment is death...

... purchasing even a few minutes for me." Death is so powerful, but one thing it cannot take away from you, that is meditation. If you can become rooted in your being, alert, conscious, watchful, you will see that you are not the body, and you are not the mind, and you are not the heart. You are simply the witnessing soul, and that witnessing will go with you. Then you can witness even death. That...

..., that you will be born anew, that you will become a soul, that you will not remain just a body. WHEN YOUR LIGHT SHINES WITHOUT IMPURITY OR DESIRE YOU WILL COME INTO THE BOUNDLESS COUNTRY. And as your awareness deepens, your light shines forth. We are made of the stuff called light. The whole existence is made of light. Awareness is igniting the fire within you. And once you become aflame desires will...

... and no death, and to go beyond birth and death is to go into eternity, is to be immortal. That's what nirvana is, that's what absolute freedom is. Birth is a bondage, it is a confinement, you are chained into the body. And death again leads you into another birth, it is a vicious circle. Birth leads you into death, death leads you into birth, and you go on moving in a circle. Jump out of the wheel...

... is making them aware, they are also watching. When you are hiding something, you are inviting people - it must be precious. Just throw the kohinoor diamond in the garden, and nobody will steal it. People are very watchful about wrong things, but not watchful about their inner being. Mulla Nasruddin and his family were walking to the cemetery with the body of his recently departed wife. Suddenly one...

... conditionally. The woman trusts unconditionally, her trust is forever. The man trusts intellectually. The woman trusts with her whole body, mind, soul, with her every fiber. Her trust is love not logic. Hence Buddha says, if a woman is not graceful she is missing something, that is an impurity. The absence of grace in a woman is impurity. It can be forgiven in a man, but not in a woman; and in a man...

...; but if you go on doing it more and more, thinking that more will be more helpful, then soon you will find that you are simply exhausted, dead, you cannot move. One has to watch it. There cannot be a fixed rule for everybody because everybody's body has a different quality, different energy, different quantity of energy; one has to watch oneself. If you are sleeping less than necessary then the whole...

..., or if they are not allowed to sleep they feel sleepy, they cannot be conscious, they move as if fast asleep, somnambulists. It suits Vinoba. It does not mean it is going to suit everybody. It suits him because his food is such, more sleep is not needed. He takes only curd, he almost lives on curd. Even milk needs to be digested, curd is almost digested. Milk first goes in the body and becomes curd...

... to understand life. Now she is gone, she has opened another door - the door of death, to look into: because she has gone and you will have to follow. If you have loved a person, when the person is gone you don't feel relief - and you don't cry, and you don't weep. In deep silence you accept the fact, the helplessness of it - and the love continues, because love does not end with the body, love does...

... accepted - that is the meaning of trying to change, that you say: I love you but I don't love your nose. I love you, but I don't love your face. One very fat girl said to me that only one boy loves her, and he says, I love your soul but not your body. But all lovers go on saying such things: that I love you but I don't - I CAN'T love your smoking. I hate it! But that seems a rejection. And for the lover...

... bath, the body comes first. Clean the body, because meditation is also a cleaning, a deeper cleaning of being. And if you are not cleaning the body, you will not be interested in cleaning the soul. Clean the body, that is the beginning, clean the temple, only then can you give the bath to the god - inside the shrine. Question 9: DO I DESERVE TO BE ENLIGHTENED? No, not at all. But don't be afraid and...

... magnetic force of the wrong direction has to be understood, only then can you avoid it. You can try practising anything you like and you can remain opposite to it. You can try practising anything you like and you can remain opposite to it. You can enforce a sort of stillness upon yourself: you can sit silently, you can learn a yoga posture, you can make the body still, as if it is without movement, you...

... can make the body like a statue. And by repeating a mantra or by repressing the mind continuously for a long time, you can enforce a certain stillness upon your being - but it will be the silence of the cemetery, it will not be throbbing, alive, kicking. It will be a frozen thing. You can deceive others but you cannot deceive yourself and you cannot deceive God. You have got it without any...

... is not available to outside observation, analysis, dissection. There is a rock, it has no inside; you can break it and you can see everything. If you break a rock, nothing is disturbed, nothing is destroyed. Even if it is in pieces, it is the same rock. But if you break a person, something of tremendous value immediately disappears. Now you are left with a dead body, and the dead body is not the...

... was over. Still sobbing, Goldberg, the new widower, followed his late wife's sister-in-law into the waiting limousine. As the big car passed through the cemetery gates the sister-in-law was horrified by Goldberg's hand which was slowly but passionately creeping up her leg. With her body still wracked with sobs of bereavement, she screamed, 'Goldberg, you monster, you fiend, you animal! My sister is...

... whole body - and without offending her and breaking no law. By and by you forget completely what touch is. Eyes have become monopolies - they have taken many energies from many sources. For example, the nose. Eyes are very close to the nose. The eyes have taken the whole energy from the nose. People don't smell. They have lost their smell power. Their noses are dead. A blind person smells. His...

... energy, melting, flowing, and an orgasm is opening inside you, it is there that reality has to be looked at. The man is just foolish, he is just looking at the body; the woman is more understanding, she is looking at the psyche - a higher standpoint. But still it is not religious. It is artistic, aesthetic, but still not religious. When you become religious, then the Tantra attitude arises. Then you...

.... Who is this witness? And when the energy is exploding in such a natural, spontaneous realm it is better to watch. Just be a watcher on the h i 11. Forget about you r being a man or a woman, forget about your being in the body, forget that you are a mind and just be a witness - and then you have become transcendental. Tantra is transcendental. And this dimension has to evolve in all your ordinary...

... worry about, these young people will also get over their romantic ideas, ideas of revolution, of the future of mankind." As death comes, you will shrink to a single question: What is beyond death, what is going to happen? If there is a God, then I am doomed - my whole life I denied him. If there is no God, that too is scary. Then you will become a ghost, without a body, a consciousness who wants...

... things but cannot get them, because things are material and the ghost is not material, he has no material body. This is one possibility, which is not very appealing. And ghosts have never been known to paint, or to compose poetry, music. They have never been known to dance and enjoy. Ghosts don't fall in love, for the simple reason that the ghost has lost the body, the biology, the physiology; he is...

..., no old man would like to live like that; it is better to die completely. Death should be total, not only of the body but of the soul too. That will be a great relaxation, because if you are not, who is going to worry? Just think back: when you were not born, do you remember that you were very much concerned about things - nuclear weapons, world war, Ethiopia? And do you think that before your birth...

... beyond death. So it is left up to your imagination. Of course, older people start imagining a God; otherwise they will be so helpless without the body - wandering like a cloud with no direction, no purpose. They need God. God is the need of the old man. Children don't care; they are forced to believe in God. The old man is again in a similar situation, but far more difficult and complex. A child can...

... enjoyed everything so profoundly, so deeply that I feel sorry for the whole humanity. They also eat, but they go on doing many other things in their mind while their mouth is chewing. Their mind is engaged - how can they know the taste? That's why people eat too much. That's why it is one of the biggest problems in rich countries. Women are dieting, men are dieting, doing exercises to make the body slim...

... Saturday - that is their sabbath, their holy day - all work should stop, everything should stop. On the day of sabbath nothing is to be done. Pontius Pilate took advantage of this. He said, "If it is so, then Jesus should be brought down" - he was still alive, because blood was still oozing; when a man is dead, blood does not come out of the body. "So he should be brought down, and after...

... body. Jesus died in India in Kashmir. Naturally, those six hours on the cross gave him a great lesson. And he had seen that there is no God, he had seen that there is no miracle, he had seen that: "I was just crazy proclaiming myself as the only begotten son of God." In India he lived really a long life - one hundred and twelve years, but in India he never said again, "I am the messiah...

.... Short Title: N.A. Audio Available: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. I. 63. avadhu, maya, taji na jay TELL ME, BROTHER, HOW CAN I RENOUNCE MAYA? WHEN I GAVE UP THE TYING OF RIBBONS, STILL I TIED MY GARMENT ABOUT ME. WHEN I GAVE UP TYING MY GARMENT, STILL I COVERED MY BODY IN ITS FOLDS. SO, WHEN I GIVE UP PASSION, L SEE THAT ANGER REMAINS AND WHEN I RENOUNCE ANGER, GREED IS WITH ME STILL; AND...

... WHEN GREED IS VANQUISHED, PRIDE AND VAINGLORY REMAIN; WHEN THE MIND IS DETACHED AND CASTS MAYA AWAY, STILL IT CLINGS TO THE LETTER. KABIR SAYS. "LISTEN TO ME, DEAR FRIEND! THE TRUE PATH IS RARELY FOUND." I. 83. canda jhalkai yahi ghat mahin THE MOON SHINES IN MY BODY, BUT MY BLIND EYES CANNOT SEE IT. THE MOON IS WITHIN ME, AND SO IS THE SUN. THE UNSTRUCK DRUM OF ETERNITY IS SOUNDED WITHIN...

... ME: In some other way - if not valuable ribbons, then valueless, cheap ropes - but one has to tie. WHEN I GAVE UP TYING MY GARMENT, STILL I COVERED MY BODY IN ITS FOLDS. One has to find some way or other. SO, WHEN I GIVE UP PASSION, I SEE THAT ANGER REMAINS: You try to give up passion, and you will become angry. And Kabir's insight is tremendous. That's what the whole of modern psychology says: if...

... to be added to it. Nothing else is needed to change the outside; only an inner awareness brought to every situation. This is the rarely found truth, the rarely found way. THE MOON SHINES IN MY BODY, BUT MY BLIND EYES CANNOT SEE IT. God is within you, but you are not aware. " THE MOON SHINES IN MY BODY.... " Your body is the temple. "... BUT MY BLIND EYES CANNOT SEE IT:" Don't...

... touch. For the first time you become capable of feeling. The moon shines in my body, but my blind eyes cannot see it: The moon is within me, and so is the sun. The unstruck drum of Eternity is sounded within me; but my deaf ears cannot hear it. We are deaf, blind. That is the real problem, the very crux. It is not a question of renouncing anything or escaping from anything. It is a question of...

... becoming more sensitive, more aware, more full of understanding, more of a witness. And then your witnessing starts flowing into your eyes and into your ears, into your body. So what is needed according to Kabir - and according to me also - is only one thing, and that is stop being sleepy. Don't live in a slumber-like state. Shake yourself and bring yourself to a little more awareness. Otherwise you are...

... in existence. Mahavira says, "My stomach is hungry, I watch it; a thorn pierces my foot and the foot is in pain, I watch it; the body becomes sick, a sickness has come, I watch it." Even at the time of death, Mahavira will go on watching that the body is dying. You will not be able to watch that the body is dying, you will feel that you are dying. If you have been the doer your whole...

... constantly in a blissful state, there simply will be no sexual desire. There are reasons for this. When the mind reaches a certain limit of tension due to anything, the sex center functions like a safety valve, it is a safety valve. When your anxiety increases and becomes too much, when you are not able to tolerate it and so much energy is flowing around in your body that it makes you uneasy, your body...

... provided so that if excess current is drawn into a circuit the fuse will burn out, disconnecting the flow of electricity. The fuse does not permit more than a certain amount of energy to pass through it. As soon as too much current begins to be drawn, the fuse will burn out because of the excess energy trying to flow and everything will be safe again. The body has a biological safety valve through the...

... sex center. Whenever excess energy accumulates in your body and uneasiness grows and anxiety grips you, there is a struggle within you, then it is necessary that either you become a witness and all this trouble subsides, or the second possibility is that the energy flows out of your body and you become weak. Then under the influence of that weakness all this trouble cools down - because one needs...

... bondage of the society and its clutches, then only your body will need sleep, and even in your sleep there will continue an undercurrent of awareness. Your mind will not need any sleep; there is no intrinsic necessity for it to go to sleep, it is a created necessity. When your mind is clear, untethered, free, you will have less and less need for the mind to go to sleep. And then a miracle happens: if...

... you can remain alert even while the body is asleep, you will know for the first time that you are separate from the body. The body is asleep and you are awake: how can you both be identical, how can you both be one? You will see the difference; the difference is so vast. The body belongs to the earth, you belong to the sky. The body belongs to matter, you belong to God. The body is gross, you are...

... not. The body has limits, is born and will die; you are never born and you will never die. This becomes your own experience, not a belief. Belief is fear-oriented. You would like to believe that you are immortal, but belief is just a belief, something pseudo, painted from the outside. Experience is totally different: it wells up within you, it is your own. And the moment you know, nothing can ever...

... has become so dead. You don't feel. Even you, if you come to meet a Buddha -- you don't feel much. You say he is just a man as any other. Of course the bones are the same and the skin the same and the body the same -- the boundary is the same -- but who is in the boundary, that flame? But you can feel it only if you have felt it already within yourself. Otherwise how can you feel it? You can...

... through the father and the mother, the parents -- that is the birth of the body. Another birth is attained through the Master -- that is the birth of the spirit, the soul. To be in the presence of a Buddha is to be on the way to becoming a Buddha. Nothing else is needed. If you can imbibe the presence, if you can allow the presence to work, if you can remain passive in the presence, feeding on it...

... the face that you had before you entered into the world, the original virginity. One has to move back and in. One has to come to feel the center, the essence of your being, beyond which there is no possibility to go. One has to go on eliminating: the body you are not, the body goes on changing; mind you are not, mind is always in a flux -- thoughts and thoughts and thoughts -- it is a process...

...; emotions you are not, they come and go. You are that which remains and remains and remains. The body comes and goes, the mind comes and goes. That which remains always hidden behind, that is the truth. To be that is the meaning: satya pratishthayam, one who is established in truth. "... he attains to the fruit of action without acting." Here you can understand what Lao Tzu has been saying. If...

... violent: the energy that can be released through sex is not released. In fact psychologists have found a deep association between violence and suppressed sex energy. All violent arms -- you push a knife or a dagger or a sword into somebody: it is just like sex energy penetrating the woman. The other's body becomes the woman and your arms become just phallic symbols. It may be a bullet from a machine gun...

...." Tremendous energy is gained. Not that you become a great athlete or you become a boxer, no. That energy has a totally different dimension. That energy is not to fight. That energy is not of this world. That energy is not really male; that energy is feminine. All yogis who have attained to it become more feminine. Look at Buddha: his face, the body -- the roundness of it, the softness of it...

... in a feminine way: the roundness of Buddha's body, the softness. And the marble helped tremendously; the marble gives it a feminine quality. Nietzsche criticizing Buddha and Jesus has called them "womanish." His criticism is absolutely absurd, but he has hit a right point at least in calling them womanish -- they are. When the sex energy disappears, where does it go? It does not move out...