... Available: N.A. Length: N.A. THE DARKNESS OF NIGHT IS COMING ALONG FAST, AND THE SHADOWS OF LOVE CLOSE IN THE BODY AND THE MIND. OPEN THE WINDOW TO THE WEST, AND DISAPPEAR INTO THE AIR INSIDE YOU. NEAR YOUR BREASTBONE THERE IS AN OPEN FLOWER. DRINK THE HONEY THAT IS ALL AROUND THAT FLOWER. WAVES ARE COMING IN: THERE IS SO MUCH MAGNIFICENCE NEAR THE OCEAN. LISTEN: SOUND OF IMMENSE SEASHELLS! SOUND OF BELLS...

... THE ECSTATIC JUST BECAUSE THE BODY IS ROTTEN - THAT IS ALL FANTASY. WHAT IS FOUND NOW IS FOUND THEN. IF YOU FIND NOTHING NOW, YOU WILL SIMPLY END UP WITH AN APARTMENT IN THE CITY OF DEATH. AND IF YOU MAKE LOVE WITH THE DIVINE NOW, IN THE NEXT LIFE YOU WILL HAVE THE FACE OF SATISFIED DESIRE. THEN PLUNGE INTO THE TRUTH, FIND OUT WHO THE TEACHER IS, BELIEVE IN THE GREAT SOUND! KABIR SAYS THIS: 'WHEN...

... death. This is one of the greatest problems each single individual has to decide. Don't die an ordinary death - reluctant, fighting, angry, in rage, clinging, greedy for life. Die lovingly. Only then will you be able to understand these sutras of Kabir - they are of immense value and of immense splendor. THE DARKNESS OF NIGHT IS COMING ALONG FAST, AND THE SHADOWS OF LOVE CLOSE IN THE BODY AND THE MIND...

.... A very strange statement. TINVIR SANZ KA GAHIRA AVAI CHHAVAI PREM TAN-MAN MEN. THE night is coming fast, the night is becoming darker and darker, all light is disappearing. Life is being drowned by death, death is coming like a flood - CHHAVAI PREM TAN-MAN MEN. But Kabir says: I am surprised that my body and mind are both so full of love. And death is coming - it should not be so. Ordinarily it is...

... far away, very distant. If it is going to happen it is so far away, there is no need to worry about it. As you grow old, love becomes difficult because death is coming closer in many ways. Your hairs are turning Grey, your face is getting wrinkles, your body is becoming weak, you are losing something every day. And whatsoever you lose cannot be reclaimed again. You are dying. As you become old, love...

... a natural drug that your body secretes; it is chemical. The old man starts thinking - as his juices start getting drier and drier, as he starts becoming a desert, he also becomes very wise and he starts thinking that love is foolish and stupid. Only young people are so foolish that they can think of love - otherwise what is the point? He can't see any beauty anywhere any longer. He starts seeing...

... statement is strange and of immense value. He says: THE DARKNESS OF NIGHT IS COMING ALONG FAST, AND THE SHADOWS OF LOVE CLOSE IN THE BODY AND THE MIND. CHHAVAI PREM TAN-MAN MEN. 'My body and mind are becoming over flooded with love.' This is how one should die. If death destroys your love then you have not known real love; then you were really in delusion - that love was not true love. Then you have not...

... into God, what to say about life? It naturally transforms life into great ecstasy. One should learn how to live and how to die. This is the way to die - full of love, full of prayer, ready to go on that adventure called death. The body will be going; you as a separate phenomenon will disappear into the whole. But that is the hankering of love - love WANTS to disappear, love wants to die, love wants...

... creative person is never an over-eater. And when somebody comes to me and says 'How to stop eating? How to stop? - because now the body is becoming ugly, it is gathering too much fat: what to do about it?' - my suggestion is that unless you become creative you cannot stop it. Dieting won't help; sooner or later you will start eating again with revenge. Unless your energies become creative you will remain...

... THAT FLOWER. WAVES ARE COMING IN... If you allow these two things - if you allow this paradox, if you allow this absurdity of death and love both throbbing in you, dancing in you hand in hand - then, then you will experience... WAVES ARE COMING IN. The original is far better: LAHAR LEHU YA TAN MAN MEN - 'Let the divine flood this, THIS body.' This very body the Buddha. You need not go anywhere else...

...; you need not have any heavenly body, you need not become an angel. In this very body, in this very ordinary body, the extraordinary happens. Just allow love and death together, and waves start coming in, waves from the beyond. LAHAR LEHU YE TAN MAN MEN. And this very body becomes a dance, a vibration, a streaming energy, a pulsation. Then it breathes in the divine, then it beats in the divine. Then...

... this very body is transformed. Then: This very body the Buddha. WAVES ARE COMING IN: THERE IS SO MUCH MAGNIFICENCE NEAR THE OCEAN. If you allow death and love to happen together, for the first time you will come close to the infinity of existence, to the ocean-like vastness of existence. And waves will come and drown you. And in that drowning you will find yourself. In that disappearing you will...

... the good person is never a do-gooder. The good person is one whom good follows just like his shadow. He does not intend to do it, he has no intention to serve anybody, but his life becomes a service. It comes effortlessly. WHAT YOU CALL 'SALVATION' BELONGS TO THE TIME BEFORE DEATH. Because the body is the occasion to experience, the mind is the occasion to experience. These are opportunities, gifts...

... opportunities - of the body, of the mind, of the soul. Death will take two dimensions away from you - your life will be one-dimensional, of the soul only. This three- dimensional school of life is the greatest possibility to know, to understand, to be. THE IDEA THAT THE SOUL WILL JOIN WITH THE ECSTATIC JUST BECAUSE THE BODY IS ROTTEN - THAT IS ALL FANTASY. WHAT IS FOUND NOW IS FOUND THEN. ABAHUU MILA TO...

... philosopher, must have been thinking too much, must not have cared about the body - and Farid was killing him, murdering him. But only for one minute, and the weak and thin man threw Farid away. He tried so hard to come up that Farid could not hold him any longer. Then they faced each other. The man could not understand. He said 'It is my own fault that I followed you; I should have been a little more...

... whole being, it permeated every cell of my body. It was not a thought.' Far id said 'That you have understood. When you desire God so passionately, you will know - not before that.' God is not a philosophical theory, it is an experience of intense passion. Kabir says: 'WHEN THE GUEST IS BEING SEARCHED FOR, IT IS THE INTENSITY OF THE LONGING FOR THE GUEST THAT DOES ALL THE WORK.' Nothing else is needed...

... Gordon's body. With this handicap Gordon found it difficult to have any fun or play with other children, and it interfered even more with his life when he grew up. So he decided to go to a doctor and get rid of the monkey. The first doctor he went to said 'Well, if you will lie still and don't give me any back talk, maybe we can do something.' So, week after week, Gordon lay still while the doctor tried...

... suffer, but it is incapable of creating suffering for others. Love and you will be loved by God, love and you will be loved by the whole existence. [Conquer, but through the heart] Victory can either be of the body or of the mind or of the heart. The victory through the body is the lowest: it is animalistic, it is violent, it is ugly. The victory through the mind is a little better than the victory...

... through the body, but not much better, only a little more sophisticated. The animal is decorated but remains the animal. In the body it is naked, in the mind it is camouflaged. The victory through the mind is human, and man is nothing but animal camouflaged, animal dressed up, polished, educated, with a mask, but if you scratch a little bit, you will find the animal coming up; it can surface any moment...

.... The third victory is the real victory; the victory through the heart - it is divine. The animal has completely ceased to exist. The body is far away and the mind too is left behind - one is simply pure love. And the way of love is totally different from the way of the body-mind. The body and the mind, both are aggressive; they enforce victory on others. Love is passive; rather than enforcing victory...

... on others, it surrenders. Its ways are strange; through surrender it becomes victorious. Love is so confident of its victory that it can surrender. The body and the mind are not so confident - they know that if they surrender there is no possibility of being victorious. Then the other will dominate them. They can't trust themselves, the trust is lacking. But the heart is so trustful, so overflowing...

...: N.A. Audio Available: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. [NOTE: This is a translation of the Hindi series ADHYATMA UPANISHAD. This version is the final edit pending publication.] ONE WHO HAS ATTAINED ONENESS WITH BRAHMA, THE ABSOLUTE REALITY, WHILE LIVING, WILL REMAIN SO EVEN AFTER LEAVING THE BODY. THEREFORE, O INNOCENT ONE! BECOMING AWAKENED BE VOID OF ALL CHOICE IN DUALITY. WHEN ONE SEES THE...

... how can truth, the divine, liberation be achieved while still being in the body, in life, in the world. However, what cannot be attained during life cannot be attained ever. Life is an opportunity to achieve, whether you spend it in collecting pebbles or in attaining to the divine. Life is a completely neutral opportunity. Life does not tell you what to achieve. If you collect pebbles, accumulate...

... doing anything in death. Doing means life, so whatsoever is to be done, it has to be done during life. In this sutra some beautiful words have been used. ONE WHO HAS ATTAINED ONENESS WITH BRAHMA, THE ABSOLUTE REALITY, WHILE LIVING, WILL REMAIN SO EVEN AFTER LEAVING THE BODY. Only the one who has known his self during his lifetime will remain as Brahma, the ultimate one, when his body drops. Someone...

... who has known his whole life that he is the body, he will become unconscious while dying - he will go totally unconscious. Very few people die consciously. Death happens in a kind of sleep, in an unconscious state. You are not conscious while dying, otherwise you would be able to remember your previous death. Whatever happens in unconsciousness does not remain in the memory. That is why people do...

... deepest sleep: it is very difficult to remain aware in it. You will die unconscious. And in that unconsciousness, whoever is reciting the gayatri mantra, whoever is chanting "Rama, Rama," you will know nothing of it. And this unconsciousness is actually necessary. Only those people are freed from this unconsciousness who become free from their identification with the body. Why? If a surgeon is...

... unconscious, and then does the surgery. Your body is cut, but then you do not know. And because you do not know, you do not feel the pain. Understand this properly. Pain is not experienced because of pain, it is experienced because of knowing. When the surgeon is operating the pain is there, but the only difference is that you do not know it. The surgeon will cut you open and take out unwanted things, but...

... cutting away a limb or two, but death has to cut away and separate your body from you. You cannot be kept conscious in such a big operation, therefore death has forever used the natural anaesthesia. As soon as death approaches you fall unconscious. In that unconsciousness, the world's biggest surgery happens, the separation of your body from your soul. But a person can die without becoming unconscious...

.... Nature allows a person to die consciously who has come to know that he is not the body. Why? Because then, when the body is being cut off, he does not identify with the body. He goes on watching from a distance - he can watch from a distance because he knows that something else is being cut: "I am not being cut, I am watching it, I am only a witness." Whenever such a realization becomes...

... he has become one with Brahma, the ultimate reality. But first one has to know this in the consciousness hidden within one's own body. Then one day this outer pot also breaks and the inner sky merges with the vast sky. One who dies consciously passes through wonderful experiences. Death does not feel like an enemy to him. Death feels like a friend to him. Death feels like a great union with the...

..., that integrity which is uniform. That is known as kaivalya. If you know that one while living, then at death, on the dropping of the body, the oneness with Brahma, the absolute reality, is experienced. THEREFORE, O INNOCENT ONE! BECOMING AWAKENED BE VOID OF ALL CHOICE IN DUALITY. How shall we be able to know the one? The process is: be void of all vikalpa, all choice in duality. This word vikalpa is...

... my own. I have given up claims." The day one gives up claims the choiceless awakening happens. That day there remains no bondage for you in this world. Even if the whole world becomes a shackle and tightens itself around your body like an octopus, there will be no bondage, because you accept that too, it is okay. If someone puts chains on my hands, remember the chains are not a bond because...

... other is no longer there, only I am, everything is my own extension. Because the day I come to know my own consciousness, I also come to know that your consciousness is not separate from mine. As long as I know only my body you are separate from me, because my body is separate and your body is separate. Understand it this way. There is an earthen lamp burning, there is another silver lamp burning, and...

... too is me. Then the one who is begging on the street is also me and the emperor sitting on the throne is also me. Once the experience of the inner flame has begun forms become meaningless; then body, matter, become meaningless, only the flame becomes meaningful. One more interesting thing is that whether the lamp is made of clay or gold, there is no difference in the flame. Does an earthen lamp have...

... an earthen flame? or a gold lamp a gold flame? No, there is no difference - the flame is a flame, the same everywhere. The body makes no difference to the flame. It is the same flame shining in the most ignorant as in Buddha. But Buddha knows it and the ignorant do not. And what really is the difference in knowing? Buddha has stopped bothering about the outer form of the lamp and has discovered the...

... inner flame; the ignorant person is still influenced by the outer form - in the clay, silver or gold body - and has not yet been able to know the flame within. But the flame is there. It is 'I' spread out in all - such a realization is adhyatma, spirituality. There are two or three important things to be mentioned. The very first day I asked you to remain cheerful, joyful, happy and laughing; to laugh...

... are obstructing you - in the movements of your body, in the expression - remove your clothes; then nakedness will be helpful. But there might be some fools, in fact there are... some fools cling to clothing, and some fools start clinging to nudity. They think that now that they are standing naked nothing else remains to be done. So I see some one or two persons, who do not do any steps of the...

... meditation either, just standing naked - and they think this is enough. Nothing is going to happen by just becoming naked. And I have no emphasis on nakedness. Both the emphases are the same. Some people think that if you remove all the clothes from your body, your life is finished; and some think that if you remove all your clothes, you attain everything - their minds also attach great value to clothing...

... you are naked without your clothes or you are naked within your clothes? When I permit you to take off your clothes, it means if and when, during meditation, you feel the usefulness of removing clothes, when your body energy awakens, when your bio-energy awakens due to the deep hammering from your breathing and you feel that clothes are hindering you in any way, only then take off your clothes...

..., otherwise there is no sense in doing so. And there is no need at all to take off your clothes in the afternoon kirtan, nor is there any need to do so in the meditation at night. And if anybody persists during afternoon kirtan or the night-time meditation we will have him removed from the campus. In the morning meditation it has a scientific basis. When there is deep breathing and the body energy starts...

... arising vigorously, the clothing may create a hindrance. Then it is fine to remove your clothes. And then during the second step of this meditation, where I am telling you to drop all kinds of suppression and not to refrain from anything your body-mind feels like doing, then if it feels like taking off the clothing, do so. But there is no need in the kirtan or in the night meditation. Do not make nudity...

...: N.A. Length: N.A. [Note: This is a translation from the Hindi series Shiva Sutra, which is in the process of being edited. It is for research only.] OM! I BOW DOWN TO LORD SHIVA - THE ONE WHO IS SELF-LUMINOUS, DELIGHTING IN HIS OWN BEING. AND NOW, THE BEGINNING OF THE SHIVA SUTRA. CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE ATMAN, THE SOUL; KNOWLEDGE IS BONDAGE. THE BODY IS THE UNION OF RAMAN, NATURE AND RAMAN, THE EGO...

... escapes him. It is like one attacks a woman passing by. One may become successful in raping her, one may even have her body in one's control, but one can never have her soul; one will never be able to win her love. So those who approach God aggressively are the rapists. They may bring the physical body of God under their control; they may dissect and analyze nature manifesting all around, they may...

... discover some of its secrets, but the discovery will be as trivial as someone attacking and raping a woman. The man may succeed in securing the woman's body, but such an achievement is not worth a straw because he won't be able to even touch her soul. And if the soul has remained untouched, the possibility of love that is hidden within her, the hidden seed of her love can never sprout. Her love can never...

... in different bottles and label them accordingly. But he won't be able to say, "Here is a bottle which contains the beauty once present in the flower," because the beauty will have disappeared already. By making an assault on the flower, you will only come upon its body, not the soul. This is the reason why science doesn't believe in the soul - how can it? Even after making so much effort...

... tapascharya, the real spiritual practice. It does not mean standing under the hot sun. Except man, all other animals and birds live under the sun - none of them is on the way to moksha. Also, spiritual practice does not mean abstaining from food, going on fast; as it is, half of the world is starving to death. Fasting does not lead anyone to moksha. Nothing will come out of tormenting, torturing the body...

.... Hearing the same thing you forget that it is subject to doubt, that it needs to be thought over. Hearing that there is a soul brings you great satisfaction. You know pretty well that the body will die; it gives you much courage when you are told the soul won't die. You find great solace hearing, "The soul will never die; that fire can't burn in, the weapons can't pierce it, death can't cause any...

... understand this a little. You have received your body from your parents. You have nothing in your body that is actually yours. One half of it is a contribution from your father, and the other half from your mother. Then the body is made of the food you eat every day. And further, the body contains the five elements - the air, the fire, and so on. You can't claim any of these as yours. But your...

... consciousness consists of neither of these elements, nor have you obtained it from your parents. Whatsoever you know, you have learned it from your schools and universities, you have heard it from your scriptures, you have obtained it from your gurus. But all of that is a part of your body, nor of your soul. Your soul is that which you have obtained from no one. So your true nature consists of that which you...

... have received from no body - neither from your mother, nor father, society, guru, or scripture. Until you have discovered that pure element which is innately yours, you won't be able to realize your true being. So knowledge is the bondage because it doesn't allow you to reach up to your true nature, your true being. It is the knowledge that has divided mankind. You call yourself a Hindu, or a...

... Mohammedan. Have you ever thought why you are a Hindu or a Mohammedan? What is the difference between a Hindu and a Mohammedan really? Can a physician ever find out on the basis of a blood test whether the blood belongs to a Hindu or a Mohammedan? Can anyone determine whether a particular bone has been taken from the body of a Hindu or a Mohammedan? There is no way. You won't know anything by investigating...

... will grow inside deeper and deeper. And the pus will spread throughout within the body. Shiva says: KNOWLEDGE IS BONDAGE. Any knowledge - whether learned from somebody or borrowed from somewhere - the knowledge is the cause of bondage. Hence, drop all that which you have acquired from others. Go in search of that which you have received from no one. Set out in search of the face that is authentically...

... yours. There is a spring of consciousness hidden within you, which no one has given to you. It is your very own nature, your own treasure, your very soul. The third sutra is: YONIVARGAHA KALASHARIRAM Yoni means the nature. That's why we call the woman, or the female element, prakriti or nature. The woman gives birth to the body, she represents prakriti. And kala means the will to do. There is only one...

... art, and that is: the art of entering this world. And this comes through the will to do, to be a doer. Your body is made of two things: your will to do, your ego, and the physical form you have received from the prakriti, the nature. If the will to do is present within you, then the nature will go on providing you with an appropriate body. This is how you have been born again and again. Sometimes...

... were a bird." it will not be long before you become a bird. You see dogs mating, and if that moment a thought arises in you, "What freedom! What happiness!" - soon you will become a dog. Whatever desire you keep within you, it becomes a seed. The nature only gives birth to the body. You are the artist, you are your own creator. So the meaning of kala is: you have fashioned your own...

... body. No one else gives you the body - it is your very desire that gives it a form. Has it ever occurred to you that the last thought before your falling asleep at night becomes the first thought on waking up in the morning? All night long, while you remain asleep, the thought stays within you in a seed form. And so, that which is the last thing at night becomes first in the morning. At the moment of...

..., man or a woman - it is all a result of your actions. You are the architect of your life. Don't blame on your stars - you'll be simply fooling yourself. This way you are dumping the responsibility on to someone else. No need to say God has sent you - don't dump the responsibility on God. That's just a strategy to avoid your own responsibility. You alone are the cause for being imprisoned in this body...

.... One who understands perfectly that he himself is responsible for being in this world, a transformation takes place in his life. Shiva is saying: the body is a product of nature and your will to do. The nature is merely the source, the womb. Your ego functions like a seed in it. Your will to do this or that, to achieve this or that, to become this or that - acts like a seed. And the moment the art of...

... your doing meets the womb of nature, a body is formed. Therefore, buddhas say: "Give up all desires, only then will you be liberated.: If you desired for heaven, you will become an angel, but that won't be liberation either. Because as long as desires persist, there can never be any liberation. All desires lead to the formation of bodies. So as long as you have not attained to desirelessness, as...

... long as you have not renounced desires completely, you will go on taking births and wandering in different bodies. And howsoever different the forms of the body may be, their basic condition is always the same. The ills of the body are the same, regardless whether it's a bird's body or man's. There is no difference in their miseries, because the fundamental misery is only one: the soul becoming...

... confined in the body, the entering of the soul into the prison of body. A prison after all is a prison; it makes no difference whether its walls are circular or angular no matter what you think. A friend of mine is a drawing teacher. He was sentenced to prison for three years. When he came out I asked him how his stay was. He said, "Everything was alright except the corners of my prison cell were...

.... Whether the body is that of a bird or a man does not make much difference. The fact is, you are imprisoned - and that's the misery. You got tied down - and that's the pain. Desire binds. The desire is the rope that binds us. And remember, except you, no one else is responsible for it. The fourth sutra is: UDYAMA IS BHAIRAVA. Udyama means the spiritual endeavor by which you attempt to come out of this...

... is almost half of the journey. Spiritual endeavor is bhairava. It will take time for you to attain it; it will be a while before you reach the destination. But as soon have begun the effort and the seed is sown: "Let me get out of this prison and be free of this body, let me be relieved of all desires, let me not sow more seeds and increase my involvement in this world, let me not desire more...

... circuit of your energy becomes complete, total - not broken in pieces, but whole - that very moment the world ceases to exist for you. You become God. You become bhairava. You become free. Then there is no bondage for you - no body, no samsara. So remember, you have to apply your total energy. If you will bring into effect your whole energy in this meditation camp, if you did not meditate superficially...

... insights into things I had never seen before.] You look good... very positive energy. Once you feel something inside, not only the mind changes, but the body has a different vibe, mm? One is more flowing, more relaxed, more at home. One feels blessed. Life doesn't look like a problem... it looks more like a play, a mystery play (a chuckle), mm? Good. [Another group member says: I feel alone... and just...

... good, but confused. I don't know what is happening. Things are changing around inside me.... Sometimes I feel frightened, sometimes it's floating.] Mm, it is natural. Whenever you feel frightened, just relax. Accept the fact that fear is there, but don't do anything about it. Neglect it; don't pay any attention to it. Watch the body. There should not be any tension in it. If tension doesn't exist in...

... the body, the fear disappears automatically. Fear makes a certain tense state in the body, to get rooted in it. If the body is relaxed, fear is bound to disappear. A relaxed person cannot be scared. You cannot frighten a relaxed person. Even if fear comes, it will come like a wave... it will not get roots. And fear coming and going like waves and you remaining untouched by it, is beautiful. When it...

... gets rooted in you and starts growing in you, then it becomes a growth, a canceric growth. Then it cripples your inner organism. So whenever you feel frightened, the one thing to look at is that the body should not be tense. Lie down on the floor and relax... relaxation is the antidote for fear... and it will come and go. You simply watch. That watching should not be of interest - indifferent. One...

... just accepts that it's okay. The day is hot - what can you do? The body is perspiring... one has to pass through it. The evening is coming close, and a cool breeze will be blowing.... So just watch it and be relaxed. Once you have the knack of it, and you will have it soon - that if you are relaxed, fear cannot get attached to you, that it comes and goes and leaves you unscarred - then you have the...

.... Change will give you vitality... more aliveness, zest, energy. Then you will not be like a pond - closed from everywhere, not moving. You will become like a river flowing towards the unknown, and towards the ocean where the river becomes lost. [The sannyasin asks: I have one more thing... my parents - can you do something for them ? Especially my mother, because her body is very ill. I would like to...

... serious about it. mm? People can go crazy. and then they lose all their identity - then they don't know who they are. So don't do it too much. Just relax. and enjoy it. When you feel it is becoming like a strain, too heavy, forget all about it. Jerk your body and dance, or run around the house, or do something with the body so that you can get out of the mind, mm? Good. [The groupleader, Amitabh, says...

... nothing is wrong in the night. Nothing is wrong in the dark... it is life-giving. When you go to a peak, your whole energy is in an excited turmoil - beautiful, but excited; beautiful, but feverish. Because there is so much excitement that you cannot contain it, rest will be needed. And the greater the peak, the deeper rest will be needed. So the natural flow, the body, is being perfectly natural. Your...

.... If you listen to the body, if you listen to the energy, they never lie. It is the mind which goes on commanding impossible things, in fact stupid things. And when the energy and the body cannot follow, it seems a problem. So next time you just enjoy it. Once you accept the rest, soon your energy will be revitalised. This is my observation - that even a few minutes of total acceptance of the valley...

... found Kyozan, the road came to an end. Then he remained with Kyozan, and became enlightened. He established a new monastery in the mountains. And the night that death was going to come to him, he asked his disciples to wait, "because in the middle of the night I am going to leave my body." This has been a Zen tradition, that at the last moment disciples ask the master whatever is the most...

... prominent question in their mind, because the master will not be available any more. Ryusen said, "IF YOU USE UP THE MIND OF THE THREE WORLDS, THAT IS NIRVANA." SAYING THIS HE SAT IN THE PROPER MANNER - that is the lotus posture - AND PASSED AWAY. What does he mean? According to Gautam Buddha - and confirmed by all the awakened ones - we are divided into three parts: the body, the mind, the...

... being. And every part has its own mind. Even the body has its own mind. Without the body having its own mind you will not be able to live a single moment, because so much work is going on inside you. Blood is circulating, food is being transformed into its basic elements, and different parts of the body need different kinds of nourishment. The blood is continuously running, distributing... for example...

..., if your mind does not get oxygen for six minutes, it will die, and you will die with it. And the wisdom of the body is independent, because you have to sleep too. In sleep you may forget breathing. In fact, even awake you cannot remember your breathing. If you can remember your breathing for one minute, you are on the right path. You will be surprised that you cannot remember even for one minute...

... continuously without being distracted. All kinds of distractions are there: bananas... you cannot resist being distracted. The mind has its own mind too. That's why it is not needed in the body. If surgery is needed, your whole brain can be taken out and put in the proper conditions where it gets the necessary nourishment. It is amazing that you will not know that it has been taken out of the body, and you...

... could continue to work. We have wasted so many minds. The day is not far away when great minds will be saved for the progress of science, for the progress of consciousness. When the dying master said, "IF YOU USE UP THE MIND OF THE THREE WORLDS, THAT IS NIRVANA... If you can create a synchronicity between your mind, your being and the body, you have come to your fulfillment. Now there is no more...

.... I am leaving this body in the middle of the night; otherwise in the morning as the news spreads so many people will come to prevent me, out of their love, out of their respect. So I am leaving this body like a thief. Remember my words as the last words of one who knows." Now the sutra: OUR BELOVED MASTER, WHEN HE WAS WITH KYOZAN, RYUSEN WAS THE MONK IN CHARGE OF FOOD. ONE DAY A STRANGE MONK...

.... "And nowadays, all the young 'Caesars' have a different slogan - 'Vidi, Vici, Veni' - 'I saw, I conquered, I came!'" Nivedano... (Drumbeat) (Gibberish) Nivedano... (Drumbeat) Be silent. Close your eyes, and feel your body to be completely frozen. Now look inwards with your total consciousness, your whole life energy, and with an urgency as if it is your last moment of life. You have to reach...

... lotuses, utterly silent. Just witness all this, because witnessing is your only nature. Everything is added to you; witnessing is your eternity. To make it clear, Nivedano... (Drumbeat) Relax, and remain a witness. The body is there, the mind is there, but you are neither. You are just a witness. A pure witness without any flaw is the goal of all the buddhas. Melt, melt. For the first time know your...

... - only God is true.' That is another extreme, another excess - and excess is always untrue. The balance is what truth is. So there is no need to deny the earth element. There is no need to deny the body. The only thing to be done is to accept the sky also... to become more available to God... to become a way for God to descend to earth. The moment you have become an opening there is tremendous...

... rejoicing, because the earth flowers in your body and God flowers in your being and both meet - and that meeting is orgasmic. That is the whole philosophy of Tantra - that deep inside you the man and woman can meet; deep inside you the darkness and light can meet. And in that meeting something new evolves - that which is beyond both, that which is within and yet beyond. That's what I feel - you are too...

.... Now don't neglect it - listen to the message. People come to me, and the more I observe their problems, the more I see that those are not problems. Out of one hundred problems, ninety percent are just their body, their mind shouting, 'Do something!' because they are being neglected. It is just as if a person sits without eating anything. How long can he sit? Sooner or later the stomach will start...

... whenever you can come, come back! [A sannyasin says: I'm going back to Bombay tomorrow. I just wanted to ask you about my meditation. I've been doing the Gourishankar followed by a hot and cold bath as you told me to do. I feel to do meditation but I have this problem that my whole body starts throbbing. If I don't meditate, the whole Bombay scene and work gets too heavy for me. And I don 't seem to be...

... able to sleep very well.] Drop Gourishankar. Start another meditation. And many times meditations have to be changed, because the body, the mind, go on changing. So sometimes one meditation helps, sometimes another. One has to be very much aware, otherwise one can get attached to meditation too. When something becomes uneasy, there is no need to carry on with it. Never be a masochist; don't torture...

... no change will be needed. Then something will fit absolutely - not only with your mind, with your body, but with your soul. Now it is a very complicated thing. Sometimes something fits with the soul, does not fit with the body. Sometimes something fits with the mind, does not fit with the soul. It is complicated because there are three layers of your being. If it were a question of one layer, there...

... would be no problem - one thing would fit. But there are three demands and on different levels and different planes. So it may be fitting your mind - as I see, it fits with your mind, so you feel good and Bombay does not bother you. But it doesn't fit with your body so the body starts getting into trouble. Then again if the body is in trouble, the mind will be in trouble. So you choose one thing to...

... avoid one problem; another problem arises out of your choice. So change it. Start one simple meditation. [Osho said that he could do the meditation sitting in a chair, or in whatsoever position was comfortable; comfort should be the prime consideration, otherwise trouble is created for the body. Lights should be dim so there is no tension for the eyes and breathing should be left completely to fall...

... into its own natural rhythm. Our breathing is affected by many different emotions through the course of a day - sadness, anger, happiness. In this meditation it should be just natural - not particularly with an effort to be deep. Each day there will be a slight variance as one may not have slept so well or something may be happening in the body which affects the rhythm.] Within three, four minutes...

... you will feel that the body has relaxed; the breathing has come into a rhythm. Then with each outgoing breath, simply say, 'Osho' inside; not very loudly - just a whisper, but inside so that you can hear it. When the breath comes in, just wait. When the breath goes out, you call, and when the breath comes out, allow me to come in. Don't do anything - simply wait; so your work is only when the breath...

... Archive Code: N.A. Short Title: N.A. Audio Available: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. BELOVED OSHO, ONCE, A MONK ASKED JOSHU, "WHAT IS THE BODY WITHOUT ILLNESS?" JOSHU SAID, "THE BODY MADE OF THE FOUR ELEMENTS AND FIVE SKANDHAS." ON ANOTHER OCCASION, UMMON ASKED A MONK, "WHAT ARE YOU?" HE REPLIED, "I'M THE HEAD OF THE INFIRMARY." "YOU DON'T MEAN TO...

... JOSHU, "WHAT IS THE BODY WITHOUT ILLNESS?" JOSHU SAID, "THE BODY MADE OF THE FOUR ELEMENTS AND FIVE SKANDHAS." The questioner was asking, "Is there anything in the body that is without illness?" - because as far as the body is concerned, it is full of illnesses, and then old age and finally death. Joshu's answer was very subtle. He is saying that the body is made of...

... know how to die. But knowing how to die is not enough, anybody can commit suicide. There are simple ways of leaving the body. Even without poison there have been methods in Yoga, in Tantra, in Zen, by which you can stop your heart and your breathing. This may be a miracle to some, but it is not the way of an intelligent man, it is not the way of the buddha. First you have to learn to live rightly...

... going out, Mulla Nasruddin took his blanket, covered himself, for it was a cold night, and followed the thief. The thief looked back, and said, "What are you doing?" He said, "Nothing, we are moving house. You have carried everything, now what am I supposed to do? I am coming along." A man of enlightenment simply moves house. When the body becomes too old and it is no longer a joy...

.... They are not committing suicide, they simply see that this body needs rest, that this body has done its work. This life has ripened its fruits, this life has experienced all that was available, and now it is time to go on a pilgrimage. They call it 'cloud pilgrimage' - moving just like a cloud, without creating any disturbance, without direction, knowing not where they are going, just enjoying the...

... going itself. A haiku reads: IF YOU DO NOT BELIEVE, LOOK AT SEPTEMBER, LOOK AT OCTOBER; HOW THE YELLOW LEAVES FALL, AND FILL MOUNTAIN AND RIVER. A man of awakening just drops like a dry leaf when the time comes. There is no grudge, no clinging, no desire to go on living in this body, but an absolute trust that life will continue. But this is possible only if you enter yourself and experience the...

... prayer, the only worship. When you settle down in your center, your heart is beating in tune with the universe. This is the very meaning of life. To get deeper, Nivedano ... (Drumbeat) Relax, let go, die. Don't be worried. Let the body go on breathing, it will take care of itself, it knows its way. Concentrate your consciousness inwards. In this silent moment you become buddhas. Every day you become...

... the tree. That's why I say it is a parable: it is too good to be true. He relaxed so utterly because there was nothing else to do but to wait. He relaxed with the tree, and slowly, slowly they started merging with each other. The tree became his nourishment; they were no longer separate, they became one. Branches grew out of his body. He was no longer hiding under the foliage; the foliage was on his...

... body -- beautiful leaves and beautiful, fragrant flowers. Laila could not recognize him. But the whole tree was saying only one thing, "Laila... Laila!" She was getting mad, and asking, "Where are you hiding?" And the tree said, "I am not hiding. Waiting so long, doing nothing, and just being relaxed, I have become one with the tree. You came a little late. "What was...

... have come into the world, and all the animals are naked, why should man hide his wild body behind clothes? And the strange insight was that it is not weather, cold or heat, that has prompted man to use clothes -- because if all the animals can exist without clothes, there is no reason. And your face is naked, but it becomes immune. That's how the whole animal world lives. Small birds are more...

... powerful than you: they are immune to cold and to heat. They don't need any clothes. Why did man need clothes? Not to protect his body but to hide it, because he is the only animal who has not been natural, and his body has become ugly. Now, Diogenes has a strange insight. I agree with him, that clothes help you immensely to hide your body. Man has lost his natural beauty, agility, and that's why he had...

... to discover clothes. It is very strange: if your naked body is brought before you, or just a photograph of your naked body is brought before you, you will not be able to recognize that it is your body. People are recognizable only by their faces; the whole body is ignored. And through clothes you can create the illusion of beauty. You can hide the ugly parts and you can expose the beautiful parts...

...; you can emphasize the beautiful parts. Diogenes was disgusted with the whole idea. This is exhibitionism, not what Sigmund Freud thinks is exhibitionism. I agree with Diogenes and not with Sigmund Freud. Sigmund Freud calls a man exhibitionist if he tries to show his naked body to somebody. Diogenes calls all people who have been forced by your so-called civilization to wear clothes, exhibitionists...

.... This is a beginning of deception, hypocrisy. And my feeling is that one day man will return back to being naked, because only then he will regain his health again -- for the simple reason that then he will have to be healthy, otherwise he will feel embarrassed. Then he will have to exercise, then he will have to go to some gymnasium and maintain his body and his beauty, because now it is not only his...

... face that is his identity; now his whole body is his identity. And he will not be ashamed of it; it is his body and nature has given it to him. He will be proud of it. Diogenes was as beautiful a man as Mahavira -- both lived naked -- so proportionate, so beautiful. In India Mahavira's nakedness became spiritual; in Greece Diogenes became a madman. He used to carry a lamp with him, and whomsoever he...

... this body to another body. But once that consciousness that is his life moves out of the body, the body is dead. The body has always been made of dead, material things. It is the consciousness within which radiates through all that the body is constituted of and makes it look alive. And you know perfectly well, when you are depressed, sad, you look less alive. And when you are joyous, blissful...

... meditation; the other possibility is to die. But the other possibility is not certain because death is such a great surgical phenomenon - the whole consciousness has to leave the body - and nature has made an arrangement that before people die they become unconscious. Medical science learned it very late, that when you operate, first make the man unconscious. Either local or general, but some anesthesia...

..., some unconsciousness has to be there. He will not be able to bear the pain - and this is about small surgery. Death is the greatest surgery. Your whole consciousness is taken out of your body. Naturally you become unconscious before it happens. So even if you die - and you have died many times - you don't remember. Because you were unconscious, how can you remember? Memory has not made any record of...

... it. So the only certain way, a hundred percent sure, is meditation. Meditation creates the situation in which you know you and your body are absolutely separate. They are working together in deep harmony, in great synchronicity, but they are not one. Once you understand that they are not one, you know your consciousness is your life. And the moment life leaves the body, people think the body is...

... inward so deep that you are only pure consciousness. The body is surrounding you, but it is not inseparable from you. You can see the gap. That very moment you have seen that death is a fiction - the greatest fiction. But it goes on haunting people because nobody meditates, and when they die, the fear of death makes them so unconscious that it becomes impossible for them to experience what is happening...

... himself doing the same thing - that was crime. And now the punishment is the same crime. Now it is being done by the government, by the justice department. He himself may have failed, but now there is no possibility of any failure. Death can be sweet if you move from one body, one existence, one form, with pure awareness into another and higher. Then it is sweet, really sweet. But not for others, only...

... with an absolute condition. Moving out of the body with full awareness will not only allow you to understand fear, it will allow you to forget all about fear. It does not exist. But people go on thinking about things which can only be experienced. It is one of the greatest problems, that thinking gives you substitutes and if you become satisfied with those substitutes, guesswork, then you will never...