Chapter #12

truth cannot be achieved by human efforts because all human efforts are bound to originate in the mind and mind is the barrier between truth and consciousness the mind has to be put aside that’s what man is capable of doing not using the mind, putting the mind aside by-passing the mind, transcending the mind and the moment the mind is not functioning

consciousness immediately becomes connected with the truth the barrier is no more there hence the bridge happens and that is the greatest blessing in existence when truth showers on you

only with the experience of truth life becomes meaningful, significant a celebration

a man without truth is a beggar a man without truth is not yet really alive he is simply living in a kind of dream he is not awakened not awakened to the tremendous beauty of existence to the immense ecstasy of life not aware of all the gifts that the whole has given to you

the search for truth is really the search for meaning, the search for who am i? and the single question, who am i? is enough if you can ask it with totality it will penetrate to the very core of the mystery of all that is

the moment your question is answered not by somebody else, not by any scripture but by your own being when it becomes your experience, existential then life is the life of a king then the whole kingdom of god is yours that simple word truth makes really a difference before it one is a beggar after it one is the greatest king before it one is constantly asking for more after it there is only thankfulness, gratitude

there is no god except the truth of existence

god is not a person but the experience of the ultimate meaning of life hence all worship is futile enquiry is valid, worship is futile

my sannyasins have to be enquirers not worshippers when you worship you worship an object and those objects are all man-made those temples, synagogues, churches are all man-made you can worship philosophies, theologies they are also inventions of the human mind

the enquirer has to travel a totally different path his journey is towards his innermost centre

he turns within because that is the only possible way to know what it is really that is hidden in the secretmost shrine of my being what is this consciousness? what is this awareness? what is this love? where is the source of it all?

and the source is not without, the source is within hence those who go on looking on the outside will never find turn in and the very moment of turning and you are entering into a totally different dimension the dimension of godliness, of truth, of freedom of all that is valuable

truth is god the word god can be dropped but the word truth cannot be dropped and truth is the search of all god is not the search of all

almost half the humanity are no more believers soviet russia, china and other countries have dropped the very idea of god and the people who are believers are only so-called believers they don’t believe either, they are pretenders but nobody can drop the search for truth it is intrinsic in our very being

truth comes almost like a spring into the interior world of your being suddenly thousands of flowers start blooming the whole climate changes it becomes colourful, fragrant, birds start singing for the first time you see yourself totally transform~d no more a dead weight no more just dragging your life somehow for the first time dance enters in for the first time you feel a tremendous rejoicing uncontainable, overwhelming, overflowing

the search for truth is really the most basic and fundamental search of humanity because without it we are deserts only if truth happens to us the desert can become green only if truth happens to us we can know the inexhaustible treasures which are hidden within us

and truth is not very difficult to find either the only question is a right approach

if you think about truth you have taken a wrong approach thinking is the wrong approach towards truth that is the way of philosophy

meditation is the right approach and meditation is just the opposite of thinking meditation is anti-philosophy it simply means dropping the whole structure of thinking dropping the whole process of thinking and just being silent, utterly silent alert but absolutely silent as if the whole world has stopped

there is an ancient sufi story a crazy king became interested in the idea that if the whole world at a certain time starts shouting and screaming and doing primal it will be really a great experience the whole world, exactly at twelve o’clock in the middle of the day for five minutes goes berserk and they put their whole energy into it and they cathart – the whole earth and of course, he was a great king and he had the power everybody thought the whole idea was simply mad but they had to follow a day was fixed, the whole world was informed at twelve o’clock on a certain monday for five minutes put your total energy into it don’t withhold, let go shout, scream, do jibberish whatsoever happens, allow it

and of course those who will not do it will be sentenced to death

the whole world awaited for the moment and really something miraculous happened exactly at twelve o’clock the whole world fell into deep silence nobody had ever experienced such silence the reason was that everybody thought when the whole world will be shouting who will be able to find me? and why should i miss the opportunity to listen to the whole world going crazy? so i will just wait and enjoy the whole thing why should i participate? if i participate i may not be able to enjoy it i may not be able to experience what is happening and this was the logic of everybody

for five minutes there was such a thick, dense silence that it is said, the crazy king became enlightened he was not waiting for it, it was such a shock but the shock stopped his mind

the story does not say what happened to many other people i think many others must have become enlightened too

because with such silence one starts experiencing the truth

but there is no need for the whole world to become silent if only the world of your mind becomes silent that’s enough

so any day, twelve o’clock, for five minutes just stop the world within and see what happens

once you start having a few glimpses of silence truth starts penetrating the deeper the silence the deeper the thrust of the truth and when absolute silence happens absolute truth is yours and that is the moment when the spring bursts forth

truth brings many things in its wake it brings many gifts – virtue is one of those gifts

the truth of one’s own being experienced changes your whole life pattern absolutely, irrevocably for example, if you were jealous before you cannot be jealous afterwards if you were egoistic before you cannot be egoistic afterwards if you were dishonest you cannot be dishonest afterwards if you were unkind you cannot be unkind afterwards because the experience of truth is such that one cannot in any possible way go against it

it is just like when there is light in the room you don’t try to go through the wall you go through the door

yes, when there is darkness you grope and sometimes you try to get through the wall you stumble – that is because there is darkness bring the light in and then there is no problem at all you know where the door is you don’t even have to think about the door you simply know it, where it is and virtue is a door and sin is a wall but i don’t say to my people to cultivate virtue and renounce sin that is not possible that is saying to a man who lives in a dark cave to renounce stumbling and vow to god that you will always enter from the door that is asking too much in darkness you have to be more lenient but bring the light in and then there is no need to say anything

so i don’t give to you any discipline i only want one thing to happen to you that is the experience of your own being i call it the truth

become silent, know your own truth and that will be decisive, that will be liberating

we are born with the kingdom of truth we bring from the beyond the whole kingdom but of course in a potential form, just as a seed hence it cannot be taken for granted one has to help the seed to fall in the soil one has to water one has to do a thousand and one things so that the seed can relax, can dissolve and the hidden secret can become an actuality

truth is our potential but it has to be made actual it is a possibility hence it is not beyond our grasp but one has to look for it a little bit dig for it a little bit – it is always found whosoever has looked for it has found it without any exception but that little effort is very essential looking for it

meditation is nothing but creating a right situation right perspective, a clarity of the eyes so that you can look within yourself where the seed is hidden

silence gives you the opportunity to become unoccupied with the world and the moment you are no more occupied with the world your whole attention starts moving inwards your whole awareness starts converging towards your centre

and it is at that centre that the ultimate truth is experienced the ultimate music is heard the ultimate ecstasy is felt

man can either be rich in possessions he can conquer the whole world he can accumulate all the wealth of the world but that is not really going to change his inner poverty – on the contrary he will feel himself poorer than before in contrast to all that he has accumulated he will be able to see that deep inside the wound is still there, far more clear

i am not against the things of the world i am not against the riches of the world but one thing has to be remembered that there are greater riches than that and a greater kingdom is waiting inside you to be conquered so don’t waste all your energy in the outside world save the major portion of your energy and life for inner enquiry then you become a king of religion what jesus calls the kingdom of god and it is everybody’s birthright we just have to claim it

truth is not a philosophical concept it is the experience of your eternal life it is the experience of the consciousness you are built of and that consciousness is not confined between birth and death it was there before birth and it will be there after death thousands of births and deaths have happened on the way but your pilgrimage continues the pilgrimage is endless, beginningless

the moment one experiences one’s deathlessness then only one knows what life is because life basically is deathlessness once death is found to be irrelevant to your inner being then there is no fear, no anxiety and that absence of fear and anxiety creates the opportunity for bliss to descend in you

the fearful person cannot be blissful the fear is such a disturbance and anxiety creates so much stress and tension that it is impossible for bliss to enter in you bliss can enter only when your inner being is absolutely empty of fear and anxiety, tension and stress and as far as i have observed

working with thousands of people these are the barriers and they are all related to death basically all fear is fear of death directly, indirectly, but if you go on searching you will find it is always death that is creating fear, anxiety, stress, tension

to know one’s being as eternal is to know the truth and that very truth becomes a blessing then life is lived on a totally different plane with more playfulness, with more sense of humor then life becomes simply a relaxed phenomenon utterly relaxed just as flowers are relaxed and the birds are relaxed and the rivers are relaxed and the mountains are relaxed man can have far more and far deeper relaxation than anybody else in the whole of existence because man certainly is the pinnacle of consciousness it is sad to look at humanity they could have been the most blessed beings but they seem to be the most miserable

truth is the experience of a meditative consciousness

one cannot think about it one cannot argue about it one cannot be scientific about it one can only be meditative about it and meditation means a simple thing a state of no-mind, a state of utter silence

the Sound of one hand Clapping

so silent, so absolutely silent that there is no duality left, all is one all has become one, the dual has come together the day and night are together life and death are together love and hate are together that communion of the opposites that meeting of the polarities that mingling and merging of all contradictions

the moment all contradictions are complementaries you have come home that is the state of meditation and in that state all that is our deepest longing of the heart is fulfilled – so totally fulfilled that not even a trace of desire remains in one

the old religions say become desireless then you can attain to god now that is absurd to say to people become desireless, then you can attain to god so apparently stupid, ridiculous because the people who want to attain to god are desirous people – it is a desire to attain to god in fact the greatest desire and the condition is be desireless so that you can attain to god now one who is desireless

why he should be interested in god at all? i am not

even if god knocks on my door i am not going to see him and jesus says knock and the doors shall be opened i cannot say even that to god knock and i shall open my doors why should i knock, open my doors it is none of your business to knock on my doors i don’t knock on your doors you don’t knock on my doors – it is an agreement

the man who is really desireless why should he bother about god? and if he is desiring god then how can he fulfil the basic condition of being desireless? so i don’t say that my approach is diametrically opposite i say be meditative, enjoy being silent rejoice in being silent and in that very silence bliss will happen, truth will happen freedom will happen and once bliss, truth and freedom and love have happened there will be nothing left to desire

meditation brings naturally the state of desirelessness

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