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know well that the time has come for his insanity to go.
Awareness of madness marks the end of madness.
Awareness of ignorance heralds its end.
Awareness of dreaming brings dreams to an end.
What is left is truth.
116. Love.
I am very glad to have received your letter.
Anxieties exist in life but there is no need to worry about them.
Worrying stems not from the anxieties but from our attitude towards them.
To be anxious or not is always our open choice.
It is not that a non-anxious mind is free of anxieties – anxieties are there,
they are an unavoidable part of life –
but it does not burden itself with them.
Such a person always sees beyond them;
dark nights surround him too but his eyes look to the rising sun
and therefore his soul
is never drowned in darkness.
And this alone is enough —
that the soul not be drowned in darkness.
The body is bound to drown in it – in fact it already has.
Those who are condemned to die live their lives in darkness;
only the deathless have their lives rooted in the light.
Blessings to the children and regards to all.
117. Love.
There is no greater power than trusting oneself –
its fragrance is not of this world;
peace, bliss and truth flow from this fragrance.
He who trusts himself is in heaven
and he who mistrusts himself
holds the keys of hell in his hands.
The Scottish philosopher David Hume was an atheist,
but every Sunday he made it a point
to attend the sermon of John Brown,
a confirmed theist.
When people pointed out
that going to church was against his own principles
he laughed – and replied: I have no faith whatever
in what John Brown says,
but John Brown has total faith in what John Brown says.
So once a week I make a point of hearing a man
who has total faith in himself!
118. Love.
Love is also fire,
but a cool fire.
Yet we have to burn in it
because it also purifies;
it burns only to purify.
The dross burns
leaving pure gold.
In the same way my love will bring suffering
because I wish to destroy you in order to recreate you.
The seed must be broken –
how else can the tree be born?
The river must end –
how else is it to merge with the ocean?
So let go of yourself and die –
how else will you find the self?
119. Love.
Truth is discovered not through swimming
but through drowning.
Swimming is a surface happening,
drowning takes you to the infinite depths.
120. Love.
The search for meaning is disastrous;
it has brought nothing but meaninglessness.
To see that there is no meaning –
is to have the real meaning
where meaninglessness cannot be,
where meaning doesn’t matter
and so its disasters are avoided.
What remains just is, and what is,
is and what is not, is not and that’s all.
You ask for a clear statement about motivelessness.
Your attempt to understand cannot succeed
because it is motivated!
Why bother about understanding?
Look, isn’t the thing clear before you there?
All things are open!
All things are clear!
But man is so busy understanding no one is left to see what is clear,
what is obvious, what is there!
Confusion is the effort to understand.
Ignorance is the effort to know.
If you don’t try to understand or know,
nothing can hide itself from you!
Truth is always in front of you, naked, clear.
121. Love.
You say you feel broken.
It would be better if you broke down completely and disappeared.
That which is will always be the case
and that which has become is bound to vanish.
Becoming always leads to dissolution so do not try to save yourself.
One who loses himself goes beyond life and death,
and he who saves himself is lost.
You are busy saving yourself
and that is why you are afraid of breaking down.
But what is there to save?
And that which is worth saving is already saved.
122. Love.
You long for the sun
and you will get it for sure,
but you have to have the courage to burn!
You can’t reach the light without dying,
for ego is darkness,
and besides, the sun isn’t anywhere outside
but is born within when everything else there burns.
When the self is alight – that is the light.
The fear of dying is darkness,
the jump into death is the light.
Die, and know this!
Disappear, and you will find it.
That is why I say love is prayer –
it is the first lesson in death.
Regards to all.
123. Love.
Do not look for a purpose in life but live, and live totally.
Do not be serious and grave but turn life into a dance.
Dance – like the waves on the sea!
Blossom – like the flowers in spring!
Sing – as the birds do continuously!
All without purpose, for no reason; then purpose is there,
and all mystery is solved.
The famous physician Rocky Tonsky once asked a student:
What is the purpose of life? What is its meaning?
The student hesitated and stammered, as if trying to remember,
then said: Yesterday I knew, but right now I seem to have forgotten.
Rocky Tonsky looked up at the sky and cried:
God in heaven!
The only man who ever knew and now he has forgotten!
Love to all the family.
124. Love.
You ask for my ten commandments. This is very difficult
because I am against any sort of commandment. Yet just for the fun
of it I set down what follows:
1. Obey no orders except those from within.
2. The only God is life itself.
3. Truth is within, do not look for it elsewhere.
4. Love is prayer.
5. Emptiness is the door to truth; it is the means, the end and the achievement.
6. Life is here and now.
7. Live fully awake.
8. Do not swim, float.
9. Die each moment
so that you are renewed each moment.
10. Stop seeking. That which is, is: stop and see.
125. Love.
The news of the commune delights me.
The tree’s seed is sprouting,
soon innumerable souls will shelter under its branches.
Soon the people for whom I have come will gather –
and you are going to be their hostess!
So prepare yourself;
that is,
empty yourself completely
because only emptiness can be the host.
You are already on your way,
singing, dancing, blissful
like a river flowing to the sea.
I am delighted,
and I am always with you.
The ocean is close –
just run, run, run!
126. Love.
Everything changes except change, only change is eternal.
But the human mind lives in the past – and that is the confusion
of all confusions.
One day the sky was filled with the clouds of war –
plane upon plane loaded with death.
Beasts, birds, worms and beetles –
all that could flee, fled.
Horses, donkeys, rats, sheep, dogs and cats, wolves –
all ran for their lives
and the paths and tracks were full of them.
As they fled, this multitude saw
two vultures sitting on a wall by the road.
Brothers! they cried to them. Flee! At once!
Man is on the warpath again.
The vultures just smiled. They knew!
One said: Since time immemorial man’s wars
have been good news for vultures.
Our ancestors have said so, and so too our scriptures.
It is also our own experience.
In fact it is for the benefit of vultures that God sends man to war!
God has made man and war just for vultures!
This said, the two vultures flew off towards the battle –
and in the next moment were blown to pieces by falling bombs.
If they had only known how things
can change over thousands of years.
But does even man himself realize this?
127. Love.
I received your letter.
Don’t be afraid of sexual desire
because fear is the beginning of defeat.
Accept it,
it is and it has to be.
Of course, you must know it and recognize it,
be aware of it,
bring it out of the unconscious into the conscious mind.
You cannot do this if you condemn it because condemnation
leads to repression and it is repression that pushes desires
and emotions into the unconscious.
Really, it is because of repression
that the mind is divided into conscious and unconscious,
and this division is at the root of all conflict.
It is this division that prevents man from being total –
and without integration there is no way to peace,
bliss and freedom. So meditate on sexual desire.
Whenever the desire arises,
watch it mindfully.
Do not resist it,
do not escape from it.
Encountering it leads you to unique experiences.
And whatever you have learned
or heard about celibacy –
throw it once and for all into the dustbin,
for there is no way other than this
of reaching to brahmacharya.
My regards to all there.
128. Love.
Be like steel – clay will no longer do.
To be a sannyasin is to be a soldier of God.
Serve your parents – even more than before.
Give them the joy of a sannyasin son.
But don’t relent,
keep your resolution firm;
it will bring glory to your family.
The son who compromises with a thing like sannyas
shames his family.
I have complete trust in you,
that’s why I have been a witness to your sannyas.
Laugh and go through everything.
Listen to everything and laugh.
This is your sadhana.
Let the storms come and go.
129. Love.
In sannyas, sansara is just a drama;
to know the world as a play is sannyas.
Then no one is small,
no one great,
no Ram and no enemy, Ravan,
and everything is a Ram-leela, God’s play.
Whichever part you are given play it well.
The part is not you
and as long as we identify with our part in the play
self-knowledge is impossible.
And from the day that this identification is broken
ignorance becomes impossible.
Play your part
but know well it isn’t you.
130. Love.
I have received your letter.
There is a great difference between love and pity.
There is pity in love
but there is no love in pity.
Therefore it is important to know things as they are:
love as love, pity as pity.
To take one for the other
is to create unnecessary worry.
Ordinarily, love has become impossible
because as he is man cannot be loving:
to be in love the mind must be completely empty
and we love only with our minds,
so that when our love is at its lowest it is sex
and at its highest it is compassion,
but love is a transcendence of both sex and compassion.
Therefore understand what is
and do not strive for what should be –
what should be flows out of
the acceptance and understanding of what is.
131. Love.
I received your letter.
Now never worry about me,
not even mistakenly for two reasons.
First: the day I surrendered myself for God
I transcended all anxiety –
because trying to look after oneself
is the only anxiety!
Ego is anxiety.
Beyond it: what anxiety? whose? and for whom?
Secondly: men like me are born to be crucified.
The cross is our throne
and our mission is fulfilled
only when stones are showered, not flowers.
But on the divine path
even stones turn into flowers,
and on the contrary path
even flowers turn out to be stones.
Therefore when the stones start raining on me,
be happy and thank God!
Truth is always received like this.
If you don’t agree
ask Socrates
ask Jesus
ask Buddha
ask Kabir
ask Meera.
My regards to all.
132. Love.
What does the seed know of its own potential?
It is the same with man:
he doesn’t know what he is nor what he can be!
The seed, perhaps, cannot look within but man can.
This looking in is called meditation.
To know one’s truth
as it is here and now is meditation.
Dive into it, deeper and deeper;
there, in the depths, all that is possible
can be clearly seen.
And once seen it begins to happen –
the awareness of what is possible turns it into a reality,
like a seed stirred by a vision of its potential
beginning to sprout.
Time, effort, energy – pour it all into meditation
because meditation is the gateless gate through which
the self becomes aware of itself.
133. Love.
Nothing in life is sure – except death,
otherwise life is another name for insecurity.
When this is realized
the desire for security simply vanishes.
To accept insecurity is to become free of it.
Uncertainty will stay in the mind
because that is its nature.
Don’t worry about it
because that will add fuel to it.
Just let the mind be, where it is,
and you go into meditation.
You are not the mind
so where is the problem of the mind?
Leave the darkness where it is
and just light your lamp.
Are you going to think carefully and then surrender?
O mad one! Surrender is a leap outside thought.
Either jump or don’t jump
but for God’s sake don’t ponder over it!
134. Love.
Theism is another name for infinite hope.
It is patience,
it is waiting,
it is trust in leela,
in the play of life,
and therefore with theism complaining cannot be.
Theism is acceptance,
it is surrender –
acceptance of what is beyond the self
and surrender to the source of the self.
In 1914 a fire broke out in
Thomas Edison’s laboratory.
Machinery worth millions
and all the papers pertaining to his lifelong research
were burnt to ashes.
Hearing of this tragedy his son Charles
came looking for him
and he found him standing by the side
enjoying the sight of the leaping flames.
On seeing Charles, Edison said to him: Where is your mother?
