... physical part of the master is not the significant thing. If you are more meditative, you can consult the master every moment. The physical presence is not necessary, it becomes necessary only because you are not meditative. Because you are identified with YOUR body, that's why in your mind the master is identified with his body. Because you think that you are a body, you also think that the master is a...

... body. The master is not a body, and when I say this, that the master is not a body, I mean that he is not confined in time and space. It is not a question of being in his presence. Wherever you are, if you are meditative, you are in his presence. Even when the master is dead he can be consulted. Buddha is still consulted even today - and the answers are received. It is not that Buddha is sitting...

....... You just listen. Don't think, don't create a second series in your mind about what is happening. Just let it happen, and sooner or later you will feel the mind has disappeared and a silence has come to you. You will actually feel it descending on you, penetrating from every pore of the body, reaching deeper and deeper. In the beginning it will be only for moments, because you are such a habitual...

.... Means become ends, the moment becomes eternal. Yes, you have to follow the master totally. There may be times when you cannot consult him physically, and sooner or later the master will disappear from the body. Then there will be no possibility to consult him physically. It is better to get attuned to him non-physically; otherwise, you will be crying and weeping. My body can disappear any moment! Now...

... grace in every one of his actions. He also speaks differently. He does not bother about linguistics or grammar, his whole concern is to expose his heart, as far as is possible, through his speaking or through his non-speaking. His presence has a tremendous vitality, a freshness, a youthfulness. Even at the last moment of his life ... his body may have become old, but he is young. So rather than...

..., and she sold her body to any conqueror that came to conquer Egypt - Caesar or Anthony or anybody else. Her only defense force was, she would sell her body. She must have been the greatest prostitute of the world. Do you think she blossomed, came to her individuality? She was simply a football between the generals. One general would come and she was offering her body, and another general would come...

... and she was ready to offer her body. Certainly she remained the empress of Egypt, with lots of money, and did everything that a woman has to do. But these kind of ugly creatures are not to be imitated. Only her physical body was beautiful, but her spirit must have been mean, utterly mean. In love, you can give everything - your body, your mind, your soul - and it is a great experience. But for money...

... or for power, selling your body is the meanest kind of thing in the world. And what will you gain by impressing everybody? Here I can tell everybody, "Be impressed by this Premdipa," and they all will be impressed by you. Everybody will come to you and will say, "Premdipa, you are really great! Cleopatra was nothing." Outside in society, how are you going to impress? What genius...

... woman, because meditation has nothing to do with your body; neither does it have anything to do with your mind. In meditation you are simply and purely consciousness. And consciousness is neither male nor female. The moment you understand your consciousness, all desires for money, fame, power, impressing people and going down the drain into history, simply disappear. You have not cleaned the weeds...

... die consciously, or the routine way - the unconscious way. Nature has made a provision that before dying the person becomes completely unconscious, goes into a coma, so he knows nothing. It is simply the greatest surgery possible. If the surgeon is going to remove a small part of the body, he has to make the patient unconscious; otherwise there is every possibility that the pain will be too much and...

... unbearable. And in pain and agony, the surgery may not be successful either. What surgeons are doing, nature has been doing for millennia, and its surgery is far bigger. It takes the whole body away, not a part; it takes the consciousness to another form. Only if you are almost enlightened - just on the border of enlightenment - can you remain conscious, because the whole process of enlightenment is...

... creating distance between you and your body, you and your mind. If the distance is enough, then you can remain aware and anything can happen to the body - you can watch it, as if it is happening to somebody else. Then it is really an amazing, exciting phenomenon, but not before that. To say it in other words: To die beautifully one has to live beautifully. To die amazingly and in excitement, in ecstasy...

..., one has to prepare one's whole life for ecstasy, excitement, amazement. Death is simply the culmination point, the crescendo of your life. It is not against life. It does not destroy life. That's why I said death does not exist as conceived. It really gives the body another chance to grow. And if you have grown fully then there is no need for another chance; then your being moves into the ultimate...

... the whole become the part. But in the mathematics of consciousness the situation is totally different - here the part can become the whole, the whole can become the part, in fact they both are the same. Rather than using the word 'part', we should say, "You have a miniature being, a small image of the whole, and the body disappears: the small image becomes one with the greater image."...

... available. So if in our small surgery, from the very beginning, unconsciousness is absolutely necessary... death is the great surgery. Nothing can be greater: The whole body has to be taken away from the being which has become identified with it and clings to it. In unconsciousness it is possible to do it. Very few people die consciously, hence the fear; because very few people live consciously, hence the...

... would release her forever from every imprisonment. It was worth doing. And he managed it - his wife died enlightened. This is possible in a school. If we see that somebody has developed so much that there is no harm if everybody else contributes a little energy... so that the person can continue more in the body and come to fulfillment. Alone it is not possible: it is not the way of the monk, it is...

... to be renounced! - but here it is something else. He's trying to keep her in the body, not letting her die. In India I have seen the man - he was very much respected - Ganeshvarni. He was born a Hindu but became converted to Jainism. And whenever somebody becomes converted to some other religion he's very much respected in that religion. In his own religion nobody cared about him. But being...

... a certain thing? The direction of its movement changes: it was going out, and if you suppress it, it starts going in -- just its direction changes. And for anger to go out was good, because the poison needs to be thrown out. It is bad for the anger to move within, because that means your whole body mind structure will be poisoned by it. And then if you go on doing this for a long time... as...

... teeth, your mouth release anger. You crush the food as if this is the enemy. And remember: whenever animals are angry, what will they do? Only two things are possible -- they don't have weapons and they don't have atom bombs, what can they do? Either with their nails or with their teeth they will do violence to you. These are the natural weapons of the body -- nails and teeth. It is very difficult to...

... does not REALLY nourish you, it nourishes all that is ill in you. People with deep suppressed anger eat more; they go on gathering unnecessary fat in the body -- and have you observed that fat people are almost always smiling? Unnecessarily, even if there is no cause, fat people always go on smiling. Why? This is their face, this is the mask: they are so much afraid of their anger and their violence...

... are. Then there comes a chain: you throw on him, he throws on you, and you both become enemies. Don't throw it on anybody. It is the same as when you feel like vomiting: you don't go and vomit on somebody. Anger needs a vomit. You go to the bathroom and vomit! It cleanses the whole body -- if you suppress the vomit it will be dangerous, and when you have vomited you will feel fresh, you will feel...

... unburdened, unloaded, good, healthy. Something was wrong in the food that you took and the body rejects it. Don't go on forcing it inside. Anger is just a mental vomit. Something is wrong that you have taken in and your whole psychic being wants to throw it out, but there is no need to throw it out on somebody. Because people throw it on others, society tells them to control it. There is no need to throw...

.... Sensitivity grows with awareness. Through control you become dull and dead -- that is part of the mechanism of control: if you are dull and dead then nothing will affect you, as if the body has become a citadel, a defense. Nothing will affect you, neither insult nor love. But this control is at a very great cost, an unnecessary cost; then it becomes the whole effort in life: how to control yourself -- and...

... an outer force has been transformed into a friend. The same happens through religion for inner forces. Anger is just like electricity in your body: you don't know what to do with it. Either you kill somebody else or you kill yourself. The society says if you kill yourself it is okay, it is your concern, but don't kill anybody else -- and as far as society goes that is okay. So either you become...

... happens spontaneously. If you become aware of your anger, understanding penetrates. Just watching, with no judgment, not saying good, not saying bad, just watching in your inner sky. There is lightning, anger, you feel hot, the whole nervous system shaking and quaking, and you feel a tremor all over the body -- a beautiful moment, because when energy functions you can watch it easily; when it is not...

... managers, the managed; the governors, the governed; the rich, the poor -- they remain. You cannot change it, because society exists through contradiction. A real man of compassion will be cool; he cannot be a revolutionary really, because revolution needs a very hot mind and heart and body. No control, no expression on others, more awareness -- and then consciousness shifts from the periphery to the...

...!' Something inside relaxes. Immediately the man understands he has been moved into a situation, he has become angry -- and the moment he realizes that this is a situation, that Gurdjieff has played a trick, the gear changes: he becomes alert, aware. The body will take a little time to cool down, but deep at the center, there everything is cool and he can look at himself now. The student is already on the...

... WITH A STICK UNTIL THE TEMPER CAN'T STAND IT, AND RUNS AWAY.' He is simply joking -- don't start doing it, don't take the stick literally. In zen, awareness is called the stick by which you beat yourself. There is no other way to beat yourself, because if you take an ordinary stick the body will be beaten, not you. You can kill the body, but not YOU. To beat with a stick means: when you feel angry...

..., continuously be aware; bring awareness to it, become alert, conscious, and beat with the stick of awareness continuously inside, UNTIL THE TEMPER CAN'T STAND IT AND RUNS AWAY. The only thing that the temper CAN'T stand is awareness. Just beating your body won't do. That's what people have been doing -- beating others' bodies or their own. That's not Bankei's meaning -- he is joking, and he is indicating a...

...; FOR YOU WILL BE FREE WHEN YOU ARE FREE OF CLAY. THE BODY IS DARK - THE HEART IS SHINING BRIGHT; THE BODY IS MERE COMPOST - THE HEART A BLOOMING GARDEN. HAKIM SANAI: THIS NAME IS AS SWEET to me as honey, as sweet as nectar. Hakim Sanai is unique, unique in the world of Sufism. No other Sufi has been able to reach to such heights of expression and such depths of penetration. Hakim Sanai has been able...

... dropped the idea of playfulness. But this is what is going to happen to many people who only connect through the head. Beware of it. The heart MIRROR IS POLISHED BY YOUR CERTITUDE - BY THE UNALLOYED PURITY OF YOUR FAITH. BREAK FREE FROM THE CHAINS YOU HAVE FORGED ABOUT YOURSELF; FOR YOU WILL BE FREE WHEN YOU ARE FREE OF CLAY. THE BODY IS DARK - THE HEART IS SHINING BRIGHT; THE BODY IS MERE COMPOST - THE...

... HEART A BLOOMING GARDEN. BECOME DISIDENTIFIED from your head and become disidentified from your body. Remember that you are nothing but your watchfulness. And this does not mean that you have to be against the body. Sufis are not against the body either; they love the body, because the body is the compost. It can become fragrance: it has to be transformed. ... THE HEART A BLOOMING GARDEN. The body has...

... to function as compost in the garden of the heart. One has not to be against the body or against the head. Use the head up to the door, use the body so that it becomes the soil. But remember always, the flower of heartfulness, the flower of heart-wakefulness, has to bloom in you. And it can bloom any moment. All that is needed is to drop the chains that you have forged around yourself - your...

... defences, your armour, your protections. BREAK FREE FROM THE CHAINS YOU HAVE FORGED ABOUT YOURSELF; FOR YOU WILL BE FREE WHEN YOU ARE FREE OF CLAY. We have to become too much identified with the earth, with the body, with the clay. We have become too much identified with matter, we have forgotten that we are nothing but a witnessing. That witnessing is your ultimate reality. Let it also become your...

... have felt the presence of Buddha. But it is the same. Buddha's body is different from Jesus' body, but what is hidden behind the body is not different - that inner purity, that inner innocence, that primal innoCenCe is the same. In Somendra's unconscious, Jesus is very deep. And Jesus will be felt by many of you for another reason also. Although Somendra was not there in Jesus' time, there are many...

... there is love - life in itself is meaningless. Just to live is meaningless. A point comes when one has lived, a point comes when it is natural to die, when it is beautiful to die. Just as when you have been doing work the whole day, a point comes when you fall asleep. Death is a kind of sleep - a deeper sleep. You will be born again in a newer body with a newer mechanism, with new facilities, with new...

... opportunities, new challenges. This body is old and one has to leave it; it is just a dwelling. But there are people who-are even afraid of sleep. Just a few days ago I was reading a book in which the author says, 'There is no need to sleep. It is a wastage of time.' A person lives almost one-third of his life in sleep - and that is not living at all, because he creates nothing, he does not work. What is the...

... experience in life if you can die consciously. And you can die consciously only if you are not against it. If you are against it you become very panicky, very afraid. When you are so afraid that you cannot tolerate that fear there is a natural mechanism in the body which releases drugs into the body and you become unconscious. There is a point beyond which endurance will not be possible; you become...

... unconscious So millions of people die unconsciously and miss a great moment, the greatest of all. It is samadhi, it is satori, it is meditation happening to you. It is a natural gift. If you can be alert and you can see that you are not the body.... You will have to see, because the body will disappear. Soon you will be able to see that you are not the body, you are separate. Then you will see you are...

... HER HEART. WHAT IS HAPPENING? First: the physical heart is not your real heart. The real heart exists just behind the physical heart. The real heart is not part of your physical mechanism at all. The real heart exists in the soul - it is the centre of the soul. The physical heart is the centre of the body and the spiritual heart is the centre of the soul. They both exist together, side by side. Just...

... opening you will have love attacks. Your body will feel the trembling, the restlessness. Soon it will settle, and when it settles you will have a new being - a new plane of being. You have moved from the physical to the spiritual. Between the physical heart and the spiritual heart is the mind. That is the only barrier. The whole effort of meditation is to disperse the mind. Once the mind is dispersed...

... many it is going to happen, and to many more. But always, when you have something happening in the body, go to the physician and be checked. If it is nothing, there is no problem. If there is something, you can take medicine. So don't think that it is always the spiritual heart because sometimes it may not be. Sometimes it may be the physical heart and if you don't go to the physician you can be in...

... were respected -- and they were respected for their misery, remember. The more misery they lived through, the more they were respected. There have been saints who would beat their body with a whip every day in the morning, and people would gather to see this great austerity, asceticism, penance. And the greatest was one who would have wounds all over his body -- and these people were thought to be...

... through it and learn it. You just have to be able to enjoy suffering -- and only the ill person enjoys suffering. If you can remain for ten, twelve days on a fast, only the first four, five days are difficult. Then the body metabolism becomes attuned to not eating. In fact, it starts eating itself. The body has a dual mechanism in it; for emergency purposes the body has a dual mechanism. You eat, you...

... get energy from the outside, because every day you need a certain quantity of energy to live by. If you don't do that, then the body has some stored energy for emergency times; that's what fat is. Fat is emergency food, stored food. If a person is normal, healthy, he can live for three months without food; that much fat the body contains. In the ancient days when the body was developing and man was...

... coming down from the trees and was becoming a hunter, it was not possible every day to find food. Some days you would find it, some days you would not find. Man started gathering some storage inside; the body has learned this. The more afraid you are of tomorrow, the more fat you will gather. That's why women gather more fat. Down the ages they have been more afraid -- they have been made more afraid...

... why when you fast, every day one or two pounds of weight start to disappear. Where is it going? You are eating it; it is your need, everyday need. That much energy is used by your machine, by your body. Great saints were doing long fasts, just torturing themselves. But it is not much of an intelligent thing. Just for a few days, the first week, it is difficult; the second week it is very easy; the...

... third week it becomes difficult to eat. The fourth week you have completely forgotten. The body enjoys eating itself and feels less heavy, obviously, with no problems to digest. And the whole energy that is continuously being used in digestion becomes available to the head. You can think more, you can concentrate more, you can forget the body and its needs. But these things simply created miserable...

... not separate while he is creating, he is one with it. He is utterly lost, he has forgotten himself. That's why when painters are painting they forget about food, forget about thirst, forget about sleep. They forget about the body so much that they can go on painting for eighteen hours without feeling at all tired. Each moment is absolutely satisfying. But once the painting is complete, a great...

... existence. You say: "This is not the way I want to be. This is not the house I want to live in, and this is not the woman I want to love and be loved by. This is not the world, this is not the society, this is not the body, this is not the mind, that I can be content with." Desire means discontent, and desire means a hope in the.future - that somewhere there must be a place where everything will...

... heart, so that you can share. This is sharing of the heart. Sex is sharing of the body: love is sharing of the heart. And there is still another possibility I call prayer. When you have even gone beyond the heart, your whole being is in deep need to flower, bloom, needs to be shared, then it is prayer. Sex exists between two bodies; it can exist even with a dead body. That's what happens when you go...

... to a prostitute. The prostitute is not there; just the body is there. The prostitute makes her body available to you, and she simply escapes from the body - because she never loved you, how can she be there? She becomes absent. That is the whole art of being a prostitute. She becomes absent to you; she simply forgets all about you. She may start thinking about her boyfriend; she may create a dream...

... about her boyfriend, and she will completely forget you and leave the body at your disposal. It is a dead body. You can use it, but it is just a means. It is ugly, it is tremendously ugly, to make love to a dead body. But I am not saying that it happens only with prostitutes - it may be happening to you with your wife. Your wife may not be there. If love is not there, how can she be there? Your wife...

... roots, to sex; and love may sometimes rise to the very peak of prayer. Loving a person, sometimes you may love in a sexual way, and sometimes you may love in a prayerful way. Love will spread to both the banks. Love is the river; it touches both the banks. Sometimes even the body, and sometimes the person will be so transfigured that you will see god or a goddess. Unless your love starts feeling the...

.... In love, matter and spirit meet, body and soul meet, the creator and the creation meet. Never miss any opportunity to grow into love. BUT IT DEPENDS. You ask me: "Are all desires the same? What is my desire for love?" You will have to watch. I cannot give you an answer for it right now. You will have to observe. Be very clear about your own feelings. If it is sexual, nothing to hide...

..., nothing to be worried - it is natural. It has to rise from that natural source; you have to begin from there. Don't hide it, don't rationalize it - let it be whatsoever it is. If it is sex, it is sex. Try to understand it. Help it to move towards more loving - more and more towards the person, less and less towards the body. If you feel it is love, then help it to move in the direction of prayer. Then...

... will find ways and means and words and philosophies to hide it. Never keep any prejudice, so that your existence becomes transparent to you. And whatsoever it is, at least with.me, everything is good - whatsoever it is, it is good. It is your mind, it is your body, it is your energy. The first basic requirement is to see it clearly, and from that vision things start moving. If it is sex, nothing to...

... that Nanak had drowned. The people imagined that his body must have been carried away by the swift current and perhaps eaten by wild animals. The village was drowned in sorrow. Though everyone thought him dead, on the third night Nanak appeared from the river. The first words he spoke became the Japuji. So goes the story - and a story means that which is true and yet not true. It is true because it...

... static. HIS IS THE TIMELESS FORM. NEVER BORN, SELF-CREATING. He is not born of someone. God has no father, no mother. All who are begotten by the process of procreation enter the world of change. You have to find within your own self the unborn one. This body is born, it will die. It is born by the conjunction of two bodies; it will disintegrate some day. When the bodies that gave birth to it have...

... perished, how can something remain which is a component of the two? But within this, there is also that which was never born but has nevertheless come with the embryo. It was there even before the formation of the foetus, and without it the body will one day return to no more than clay. The timeless has penetrated within this body; the body is no more than a piece of clothing to the timeless. That which...

... body were nourished by them, but what has entered into your body has come from beyond. The day you attain the unborn within you, you will know that God has no origin, no source, because God is the entirety; He is the aggregate of all things. God means the totality. How can the totality be born to a particular someone? There is nothing beyond totality for there to be a mother and father, so He is...

..., which now is, but again will fade into nothingness. It means that which is nonexistent at both ends and exists only in the middle. Take dreams for example: during the night as you slept, dreams existed; in the morning when you awake the dream is lost and then you say that dreams are untrue. Once in the past your body did not exist, and one day again it will cease to be. Thus body is a falsity. Anger...

... changes, look only for him. All changes occur around him like the shaft of the wheel: it never moves but the wheel revolves around it and because of it. If you remove the shaft the wheel falls. All changes that take place occur around the eternal; the hub of the soul is static, while the wheel of the body revolves around it. No sooner does the hub disintegrate than the wheel falls apart. Nanak says that...

... reaped. "Now please tell me, did you offer your prayers so that I could offer mine?" You force yourself to pray, you force yourself to worship, to meditate - it is all meaningless. By bending the body into certain postures you cannot force the mind to follow suit. The cacophony of the mind continues, and in fact it becomes louder and more intense. When the body was engaged in some activity...

... the energy was divided. Now when the body sits absolutely inactive, all the energy flows to the mind and the thoughts spin at even greater speed! This is why when people sit to meditate, the mind becomes more and more active... a real avalanche of thoughts cascading one upon the other! You sit to worship, but the marketplace still grips your thoughts. You go to the temple and ring the bells, but the...

... soon as the thought is nourished deeply within you that all happens at His command, an intense peace, a gentle shower inside washes away all tension, all anxiety. The West is filled with anxiety and tension. It is much more prevalent than in the East in spite of the East's backwardness, its poor and its diseased; there is not enough to eat or to cover the body, nor even a roof over everyone's head...

..., it is always at once. There is a Jaina story: A man came home tired after the whole day's work. His wife was giving him a bath - it is an old story, now no wife gives a bath to the husband. His wife was giving him a bath, and while pouring water on his body and cooling his tired limbs, she talked and she said, "My brother has become a follower of Mahavira, and he is thinking to renounce the...

... have to sleep because they are part of the body, and the body is not an eternal energy. It is a compound, it is not an elementary force. Many things combine it. It is a mechanical device, a bio-mechanism. It depends on being fed continuous energy: food, water, air. Energy is created, fuel is created and the body runs - it is a mechanism. Your eyes will get tired because every machine gets tired. You...

..., just go on fueling the car. You are wrong. Now there are methods to judge when the car is tired. And the car is tired because every mechanism is bound to get tired. If you leave the car in the garage for a few hours, there are devices which will show when the car is ready to move again. Every mechanism needs rest. Not only your body, every mechanism needs rest, then it revives again. Only...

... consciousness needs no rest, because it is not a mechanism. It needs no fuel. It is perpetual energy, it is eternal energy, it is uncaused energy. It is there, always. That's why Sosan uses a singular word: IF THE EYE NEVER SLEEPS.... Otherwise he would say "if the EYES." It is the third eye he is talking about. Even when your body sleeps, have you watched? - watch a little, you will be able to know...

..., "If you become one eye everything will be set right." In the body everything is two: two eyes, two ears, two hands, two legs, two kidneys - everything is two because the body is a dualism. Only one thing in you exists as one and that is the witnessing eye. That is not part of the body because in the body there are always two. Everything is two, divided. The body exists as a polarity between...

... people. Their left brain is not functioning well, and if they work with it they will be in difficulty. If you are a right-handed person, try to write with the left hand. You will write like a small child. Why? Because that part is just like a small child, it is undeveloped. Even the brain is divided, everything is divided in the body. The only thing which is one is the third eye - the witnessing. It is...

... one. If you want to be one within you, seek the point of witnessing consciousness. While walking, watch. While eating, watch. While going to sleep, fall asleep watching what is happening. Sooner or later, one day you will suddenly realize that the body has fallen asleep but you are still watching. The body is moving into sleep, by and by and by and by, going almost dead, and you are still watching...