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GORAKH - DIE, O YOGI DIE!! CH1
Gorakh - Death is Divine FULL!
GORAKH
NATH - LIVE SPONTANEOUSLY, THE MASTER SPEAKS FRUITFULLY, DO NOT DEBATE
[Note: This is a translation from the Hindi Maran Hey Jogi Maram, which is in
the process of being edited. It is for research only.]
DON'T SPEAK TOO
EAGERLY, DON'T WALK WITH A STRUT, PLACE YOUR FEET WITH CARE.
GORAKH RAJA SAYS, DON'T BE STIFF, LIVE SPONTANEOUSLY.
THE FULL POT IS SILENT, THE HALF FULL SOUNDING SPLASHES
WHEN THE SEEKER IS READY, O AVADHUT, THE MASTER SPEAKS FRUITFULLY.
NATH SAYS, KEEP YOUR DIGNITY, DON'T INSIST ON DEBATE.
THIS WORLD IS A GARDEN OF THORNS, PLACE EACH STEP ALERTLY.
MOVING WITHOUT PATH, BURNING WITHOUT FIRE, BOUND BY A THIRST FOR AIR,
WELL KNOWING GORAKH SAYS, FIGURE THIS OUT O LEARNED PUNDITS.
[These couplets are not in the 'sutras' given for the discourse, but added
lines of Gorakh.]
SWAMI, GOING TO THE FOREST HUNGER ARISES, GOING TO THE CITY MAYA ARISES.
STUFFING YOURSELF, SEXUAL DESIRE ARISES, WHY WASTE THIS BODY BORN OF PASSION?
DON'T ATTACK YOUR FOOD, DON'T DIE OF HUNGER, CONTEMPLATE THE SECRET OF BRAHMAN
DAY AND NIGHT
DON'T OVERWORK, DON'T LIE AROUND, THUS SAYS GORAKH DEVA
OVER EATING STRENGTHENS THE SENSES, DESTROYS CONSCIOUSNESS, FILLS THE MIND WITH
SEX.
SLEEP OVERTAKES, DEATH CLOSES IN THE HEART ENTANGLED.
THE MILK DIETER MONK'S MIND ON OTHERS' COWS,
THE NAKED MONKS ALWAYS
NEED FIREWOOD.
THE MONK IN SILENCE DESIRES A COMPANION
-- NO DEPTH WITHOUT
THE MASTER'S SHELTER.
HIS FRAGRANCE AND SWEETNESS PERVADE THE WHOLE WORLD.
THE TRUTH IS, ONLY A MASTER WHO HAS SEEN, CAN HELP YOU SEE.
LISTEN VIRTUOUS ONE, LISTEN INTELLIGENT ONE, TO THIS CALL OF NUMBERLESS SIDDHAS.
IN THE DISCIPLE'S BOWING, THE MASTER IS FOUND, AND THE WORLDLY NIGHT IS OVER.
DIE, OH YOGI, DIE! DIE, SWEET IS DYING.
DIE THAT DEATH GORAKH DIED AND SAW.
Man lives in ego. Ego is only a mask, not your being. Ego is not your reality,
it is your acting. Ego is not your truth it is your belief. In a drama, when
someone is cast as Rama he doesn't become Rama, in the same way you are cast
here as something which you are not. A vast drama goes on. When you were born
you didn't come with a name. A name was given to you and you became that name.
You didn't come with any knowledge when you were born. You were taught and made
to study, you went to school, to college. Many thoughts were poured into your
brain. You were thrown into knowledge. Then you began to think it is your
knowledge. Nothing in all this is yours. Everything is borrowed, everything is
stale leftovers. Your name is not yours, your knowledge is not yours. The
intelligence that you think is yours is not yours -- it too has been
constructed from others. If someone says you are very beautiful you fall for it.
And if someone says you are simply incomparable you fall for that. If anyone
praises you, you wrap it up to keep it. If anyone insults you you're hurt.
Your personality is constructed from others opinions. It is the creation of
other hands. Others have brought their brushes and painted you. And if you
accept this as your being you will never be able to know yourself.
Gorakh says, DIE, OH YOGI, DIE! Let this false form die, so you can experience
your real form. Let your mask fall away. It is good if this clothing burns to
ash, so your truth, naked, can manifest in its naturalness. Until the ego is
gone there will be no experience of being. And one who does not experience his
own being, his soul, how will he become conscious of the soul of existence?
Soul is a drop, existence is the ocean. If you experience the drop you begin to
experience the ocean too, because the ocean is hidden in the drop. And what else
is the ocean than combined drops?
You are a ray, god is the sun. And the sun is nothing but the combining of
rays. God is the combination of all of us. God is the totality of all of us. You
go out searching for god but you don't destroy the ego. You have not yet
recognized even this one ray but you go in search of the sun? You will wander
much... Right now you are false, whatever you find will also be false. The
false cannot reach the truth, the false will reach only greater falsities.
The ego is false, a drama. Whatever you do while this drama is running will be
illusory. Make vows, do ascetic practices, control, fast; abandon your home and
go to the jungle. Nothing will come of it. Your ego will receive new ornaments
from all of these. It will become more beautified, better arranged. Your ego
will not die, it will get more life, become more nourished. And until the ego
dies, there is no experience of being. To experience being the ego must be lost.
DIE, OH YOGI, DIE! DIE, SWEET IS DYING.
Gorakh says, the death I am telling you about is very sweet. If one dies this
death, life is nothing but sweetness. Truth is very sweet when you experience
it. It is the taste of nectar. It spreads in the body and heart, you are filled
with it. It begins overflowing. Certainly one who has received the truth is
himself fulfilled. But droplets of fulfillment also start falling on those who
are near him, lightly showering on those who sit in his shelter. But one must
die -- this is the condition.
If the false dies, the truth is born. Truth is present within, but imprisoned
in a wall of lies. Clouds of lies have hidden the sun of truth. It has not been
destroyed. What lie can destroy the truth? It is not lost either, it has been
forgotten. It is like a veil over someone's face, the face is not destroyed, it
is veiled, it is simply not visible.
We have hidden our being behind the veil of ego. People think there is a veil
covering the mystery of existence. They are wrong. The veil is on your eyes. The
veil is covering you, existence is completely unveiled. Existence is naked all
around you but you need eyes to see it.
Today's sutra is about how this sweet death happens. What is the process? What
is its essential discipline? ... sutras about this. How can we die? What is
Gorakh's death like? DIE THAT DEATH...
Everyone dies. But there are differences in dying. You will die, Buddha also
dies, but there is a difference between your dying and Buddha's. You will die
only from the body and save your ego, your lie, taking it with you -- it will
adorn your mind like a treasure. Your ego will enter a new womb. You will die,
your mind will not die. And nothing changes until the mind dies. Masks change,
houses change but the journey is the same, just going round and round like an
old ox in a grist mill. You have died many times, and you have been born again
many times. Hardly have you died when you start being born again.
The ego hides all your diseases inside itself, enters a new womb, and starts
taking a new body. But the desires are old, the diseases are old, the miseries
are old, the ruts are old. You move ahead, get tired again, fall again, die
again, this has happened many times. Buddha also dies, but there is a difference
between his dying and your dying. Your ego does not die, it only abandons the
body. He dissolves his ego, burns up his ego. Before the body is abandoned he
abandons his ego. One who dies before dying, experiences the ultimate life. Then
he has no need to come back again, because the very thread that used to pull him
back has died.
Being has no birth, no death. The ego is born, only the ego dies. And one who
is released from ego is eternal. Then he doesn't die, he isn't born. One living,
changeless, beyond time. Then you are as big as the sky. This is your nature.
DIE THAT DEATH GORAKH DIED AND SAW.
This is why he says, don't think that I am talking about ordinary dying.
Everyone dies ordinary deaths: birds and animals die, plants die, mountains die.
Gorakh is not talking about this death, he is talking about a special death --
die in samadhi, die in meditation. Let the ego go and dissolve into meditation.
As long as the ego exists one cannot dissolve in meditation.
What is the secret of the ego's living? If this is understood, then the art of
its dying will also be understood. The ego lives in extremes. Extremes are the
life force of the ego. Perhaps you have never considered it, thought it over,
looked at it with awareness that the abode of the ego is in extremes. More,
more, more... this is the ego's way of life. Ten thousand rupees should become
one hundred thousand, one hundred thousand should become one million. More,
more, more... ego lives in this insanity. The ego lives in extremes. And the
extreme can be of anything, whether it's money or knowledge, power or
renunciation -- but more.
One who has done a thirty day fast thinks next time he will do a forty day
fast. One who has fasted forty days thinks next time he will fast fifty days.
What is the difference? One who has forty million rupees thinks it should become
fifty million. What is the difference? One who has started eating only twice a
day instead of three times, thinks when should I begin eating only once? One who
eats only once thinks, how can I be finished with eating even once?
A youth was brought to me. He wanted to know how he could live only on water.
He didn't want to take anything else, because anything else is indulgence. How
to live only on water? He had withered. He had come to India from America in
search of someone to tell him the secret of living on water. I said, "If I tell
you the secret how to live on water will you be satisfied?"
He closed his eyes and thought. He was a thoughtful youth. He kept on sitting
for about half an hour. Then he said, "No, then I would ask how can one live on
air." Only on air, why even this nuisance of water?
Such is the desire of the mind, the running of the ego -- for more. What
direction you run makes no difference. The ego lives in extremes, whether it is
the extreme of money or renunciation, the extreme of indulgence or yoga. Stop in
the middle and the ego will die. This is why Buddha calls his path majjhim
nikaya, the middle path, exactly in the center.
A youth, Prince Shrona, was initiated by Buddha. The people in the capital
could not believe it. No one had ever imagined that Shrona would become a
bhikkhu, a monk. Buddha's monks could not believe it either, their eyes were
popping out when Shrona came and fell at Buddha's feet and said, "Initiate me,
make me a bhikkhu."
Shrona was an emperor, and a famous emperor. He was famous for indulgence. His
royal palace had the most beautiful women of that era. His palace had the finest
wines, gathered from every corner of the world. Celebration went on all night
long, he slept all day. He was so drowned in indulgence that no one had ever
thought he could imagine becoming a sannyasin. When he climbed the steps he
didn't have railings put up, but had naked women stand there. He would climb the
stairs putting his hand on their shoulders. He made his house into a heaven. His
palace was such that gods in heaven would be jealous.
The bhikkhus asked Buddha, "We can't believe it, Shrona being initiated!"
Buddha said, "Whether you believe it or not, I knew he was going to take
sannyas. To tell you the truth it is for him that I came to the capital today.
What goes to one extreme will go to the other extreme too. Indulgence is one
extreme, he did that completely. Now there is no way to move further there, no
way to satisfy the ego. He has whatever is possible in that world. Now a wall
has come in front of the ego, where can the ego go now? The ego demands more.
Now there isn't any more, so the ego must return, must go back in the opposite
direction. When the pendulum of a clock goes all the way to the right, it must
return towards the left. Then it goes all the way to the left and has to return
again to the right. When the pendulum of a clock is going to the left, remember
that it is gathering momentum to go to the right. And when it is going to the
right it is gathering momentum to go to the left. One who has a subtle vision
will be able to see this. One who goes into extreme indulgence will one day go
into extreme yoga.
Buddha said, "Wait a few days, you will see the truth of what I am saying."
And people saw. The other bhikkhus walked on a well paved road, but Shrona
walked through thorns and brush, his feet became drenched in blood. When the sun
was hot the other bhikkhus sat in the shade of the trees. Shrona would stand in
the sun. The other bhikkhus wore clothes, he used only a loin cloth. And it
seemed as if he was eager to drop the loin cloth too. Then one day he did drop
it. The other bhikkhus ate once a day, Shrona ate only once in two days. The
other bhikkhus ate sitting down. Shrona ate standing up. The other bhikkhus kept
a bowl, Shrona didn't keep even a bowl, only his hand... he ate only the food
that fit in his hand. His beautiful body shrivelled. Previously people used to
come from miles around to see his body. His face had been very charming,
immensely beautiful. After he had been a bhikkhu for three months anyone who saw
him would not recall that this was Emperor Shrona. His feet became blistered,
his body became black, he shrivelled and became just bones. And he went on
disciplining himself.
Buddha said, "Do you see bhikkhus, I had told you that what goes to one
extreme, will go to the other extreme! It is difficult to stop in the middle,
because the middle is the death of the ego."
Then Shrona stopped eating. Then he stopped taking water. He continued from one
extreme to another. It seemed he would be a guest on this earth only two or
three more days, then die. This is when Buddha went to his door, to the tree
under which he had built a hut to rest in. He was lying down. Buddha said to
him, "Shrona, I have come to ask you something. I have heard that when you were
an emperor you had a passion for playing the veena, and that you were very
skilled at playing it, that you took great interest in the veena. I have come to
ask you a question: when the strings of the veena are very loose, will music
arise or not?"
Shrona said, "What are you talking about? You know it well, if the strings are
very loose music cannot arise, they cannot even sound a twang."
Buddha said, "Then I ask you this: if the strings are tightened too much will
music arise or not?"
Shrona said, "If they are tightened too much the strings will snap, music will
not arise, only the sound of snapping strings will arise. How can music arise
from the sound of an instrument breaking?"
Then Buddha said, "I have come to remind you. Just as you have experienced the
veena, I experience the veena of life. I say unto you, if the strings of life
are very tight music does not arise, and if the strings of life are very loose,
again music does not arise. The strings need to be in the middle Shrona, neither
too tight nor too loose. The greatest skill of a musician is in bringing the
strings exactly to the middle, this is what is meant by tuning an instrument."
This is why when you see Indian classical music, it takes half an hour or an
hour to tune the instruments. Tuning instruments is a great art. To bring the
strings to that middle point where it cannot be said that they are too loose or
too tight, one needs great skill, a very sensitive ear. Only a connoisseur of
music is able to tune.
"The veena of life is exactly the same," Buddha said, "It is enough Shrona,
wake up now. I was waiting to let you come to the extreme. At first your strings
were very loose, now you have tightened them too much. Music didn't happen then,
nor does it happen now: are you experiencing samadhi? What is all this that you
are doing? Previously you stuffed yourself, now you are fasting to death.
Previously you never went barefoot, if you went anywhere the road was covered
with velvet. And now if the path is good you will not move on it. You move in
the brush, in the thorns, on rough, rugged paths. Perhaps previously you had
never drunk water but only wine. Now you are afraid to drink even water! Now you
want to avoid water too. Previously at your house incomparable meat dishes were
prepared, now you are not ready even to eat dry bread. See how you have moved
from one extreme to the other? That extreme was unmusical, this too is
unmusical. I call out to you: Now is the time, come to the middle."
Tears began to flow from Shrona's eyes. He became alert. He saw his situation.
Today's sutras are sutras for bringing the strings of the veena to the middle.
And as soon as someone comes to the middle, the ego dies -- it cannot live.
The ego is a disease, the ego can exist only if your mind is sick. The life of
the ego comes out of your being sick, and extremes are the secret of your being
sick.
I am also saying to my sannyasins, I give you the lesson of the veena strings
of life -- the middle. Be in the world as if you are not in the world. The
world will not control you, nor is there any need to renounce it and escape.
Neither become indulgent nor a yogi, stay in the middle. Don't run after money,
nor renounce money and run away, stop in the middle, exactly in the middle,
where there are no extremes. There you will find music resounding! The veena
comes to life. The unstruck sound starts echoing.
DON'T SPEAK TOO EAGERLY, DON'T WALK WITH A STRUT, PLACE YOUR FEET WITH CARE.
DON'T SPEAK TOO EAGERLY...
All those who have written commentaries and annotations for this sutra give it
the meaning: don't speak without thinking. That meaning does not seem right to
me. Linguistically it is correct: you should not immediately speak, when someone
says something you shouldn't answer abruptly, you should think it over then
answer. Linguistically the meaning is right, but existentially the meaning is
not right. Replying after thinking about it means that the answer will not be
spontaneous, it will be thought out -- in the next line Gorakh says:
GORAKH RAJA SAYS, DON'T BE STIFF, LIVE SPONTANEOUSLY.
Their interpretation does not fit with living spontaneously. Living would
become very unspontaneous. Then the answer you give would be thought out and
arranged, not spontaneous.
A spontaneous reply, spontaneous speech is something entirely different. It is
not related to thinking. Whenever you think it over your answer becomes
unspontaneous. Someone asks something, before answering you examine everything:
what you should say, what you shouldn't say; what will make a good impression,
what will make a bad impression; who will gain from it, who will be harmed by
it. If you speak after thinking over and calculating all this your expression
will no longer have spontaneity. Your expression will become false. Spontaneous
expression comes from no-thought.
DON'T SPEAK TOO EAGERLY...
Others say this means to speak thoughtfully. And I say it means speak from
no-thought, speak wakefully. To speak abruptly indicates unconsciousness. Stay
aware inside, let the lamp of awareness keep burning, let your attention be
alert. Don't speak thoughtfully, speak from no-thought.
Note these two expressions -- speak 'thoughtlessly' and speak from
'no-thought.' Thoughtlessly speaking means saying whatever comes into your mouth
and repenting afterwards.
I was a guest one night at a friend's house. Anand Swami an old disciple of
Mahatma Gandhi was also a guest at the house. We were in the same room in the
evening. Everyone in the house gathered. A conversation started. I asked Anand
Swami what had impressed him about Mahatma Gandhi, because he had dedicated his
whole life to Gandhi. He said, "The first impression Gandhi made on me was when
Gandhi came to India from Africa. He gave a statement to the press in Ahmedabad.
I was working as a newspaper reporter, a journalist. In his statement he said
some vulgar words against the English. I took the vulgar words out of his
statement and the report that was given in the newspapers contained no swear
words at all. The next day Gandhi called for me, slapped me on the back and
said, 'Well done. This is how reporting should be. You did well to remove the
vulgar words.'
"By slapping me on the back this way," Anand Swami told me, "Gandhi won me
over."
I told him, "This is all backwards. Did you try another experiment to see if
Gandhi didn't use vulgar words and you added them to his statement, whether or
not he would slap your back even then? That would be something!
"It means that Gandhi spoke too eagerly. DON'T SPEAK TOO EAGERLY... It was
spoken in eagerness, in excitement, with zeal. It was spoken in the flow of his
speech. Then afterwards he must have regretted it. He must have thought
retrospectively that the vulgar words I spoke, the swearing I used, should not
have happened. They are not appropriate for a Mahatma. He must have regretted.
Then you took out the vulgar words. You protected Gandhi's ego, so he slapped
your back. In this way your ego was fed: 'He slapped my back. I am quite some
journalist, a great journalist.' Still the statement that was published was
false. And if Gandhi were a lover of truth, he should have said to you to
publish the statement exactly as he had said it. When I have said it why make
changes before publishing? Gandhi was not interested in truth. Gandhi's talk
about truth has become worthless. He patronized a lie. What was not said was
published, what was said was not published. This is giving protection to a lie.
You protected his ego; he seduced your ego. This is how you supported each
other."
I told Anand Swami, "If there are swear words in my statements they should be
published, because when I have said it, I have said it. And if later I find out
that I didn't want to say it, then it means that at the time of speaking I was
was not in my senses, I was unconscious."
Speaking has its own intoxication. Many times you will say something that you
didn't want to say. But it is not a question of whether you wanted to or not.
You said it. It was lying there somewhere in your unconscious.
"The statement that you published, Anand Swami," I said to him, "gave shelter
to a lie. Now for centuries it will be said that Gandhi never swore. You will be
responsible for it. You were to publish just what you had written down, just
what was said -- just like it was. If you are to help Gandhi change then going
back and correcting will not be needed. He should speak with discrimination. He
should speak with awareness. Gandhi spoke thoughtlessly, understanding came only
later. He must have thought, 'What have I said?' He must have looked back, he
must have felt the consequences could be bad. It would be good if somehow these
words could be taken back."
It happens every day. One day a political leader says something and the next
day he refutes it -- "No, that's not what I said, or that's not what I meant,
or the meaning has been distorted, or it was just an off the cuff remarks and he
back's out.
It happens every day, you see it daily in the papers. It is a surprising thing.
He remembers afterwards because when he is considering, measuring its effect he
finds that it would have been better if it were never said, saying it can have
such and such a result. He was speaking in such a hurry that there was no chance
to weigh what the consequences might be. It was said hastily in his speech.
Later sitting quietly, he considered and figured out the consequences. What
meanings could be stretched, how many opinions would be influenced to agree, how
many will be influenced against, what will be the consequence in the political
race. The move has been made, what will it mean finally in the whole game of
chess? When he stops and thinks all this the idea of changing it arises, so he
changes it. But this change indicates only one thing -- he spoke
thoughtlessly.
I have heard, in England a student was taking an oral examination in a medical
college. He had passed all the other subjects, the oral exam was the last. If he
passes this he will receive England's highest degree in medicine. Three doctors
were examining him. They asked him, "If you have such and such a patient with
such and such a disease and you are to give these medicines, what amount will
you give?" He quickly said the amount. All three doctors laughed. They said,
"Okay, you can go. The exam is over."
He was just going out the door when it came to him, "That amount would take his
life, it is poison." He returned and said, "Pardon me, I would give him half of
what I had said."
But the doctors said, "The patient has died, who are you coming back to tell?
What's said is said. This is not merely an exam. If there were a patient and you
gave him this dosage the patient would have died, who's pardon are you asking?
Come next year, prepare yourself better. You cannot just come back and correct
your statement like this. If we change it, it would be false, the patient has
already died."
Don't speak thoughtlessly -- giving it this meaning does not mean to speak
thoughtfully. In my vision its meaning is no-thought. Where there is thought
there will be error. Where there is no thought, the mind is completely quiet,
like a mirror, silent, empty, where meditation has awakened -- there is never
any mistake. There is no need to turn and look back. There is never any
repentance.
This is why I give it the meaning: speaking attentively, what Buddha called
right remembering. Speaking wakefully. Speaking alertly. Not after thinking: is
there an opportunity for thinking, is there time or not? Where is there time in
life? Many times you want to say good things but can't say them, later you
remember.
The great Western
thinker Victor Hugo was coming out of a sitting room. Three or four other
writers were coming with him, conversing. One writer expressed something. It was
such a lovely statement that from Victor Hugo's mouth came out, "If only I had
said that!"
A third writer said, "Hugo, don't worry. You will say it. Some day or other you
will say it. If not today you'll say it tomorrow. It will come out of your
mouth, don't worry. You will say it in other circumstances, but you will
certainly say it. You cannot leave it alone."
But what is said is said. You may also have felt many times that you could have
said that. It is as if someone has stolen the words which you were about to say,
stolen the words that had come to your lips. And sometimes you feel that if only
you had held back just one word, how much trouble you would have avoided.
Because sometimes a small word can change a whole life. A small curse you have
given may change your whole life, and a sweet statement falling from your lips
may make your whole life new, nothing can be said about it... just a small
statement.
The famous American actress Greta Garbo was very poor in her childhood. And she
used to work in a barber shop lathering soap on people's beards. She had never
thought she would become such a great actress, a world famous actress. One day a
movie director came to the barber shop to get a haircut and she lathered soap on
his face. While she was lathering -- he was a movie director -- looking at
her face in the mirror, just one word slipped out of his mouth, "Beautiful...
what a beautiful face."
And this small statement became a revolution in Greta Garbo's life. A girl
getting two cents for lathering beards died the owner of millions of dollars
-- just this small statement. It was not said after thinking it over, it came
out spontaneously. But Greta Garbo was reminded of her beauty. For the first
time she looked at herself in the mirror with great deliberation. Daily she had
stood in front of the mirror, but she just went on lathering people's beards.
She had never noticed. She had never thought that she was beautiful, or that she
could be beautiful. The poor girl didn't have the capacity even to think of it.
Greta Garbo asked, "Really, you think I am beautiful?"
The movie director said, "Not just beautiful, but one of the most beautiful
women. And if you want I will prove it, because I am a movie director. I am
making a movie. I can put you in it. You have a photogenic face, that will look
so beautiful in the picture. I have been working with pictures my whole life."
This is why it often happens that some person, film actor or actress when you
meet them directly doesn't seem so beautiful: he has a photogenic face. In a
photograph they appear beautiful whether face to face they look beautiful or
not. These are two different things. Many times people are very beautiful when
you meet them face to face, but don't look so beautiful in a picture.
Greta Garbo ascended the skies. A small incident, an accidental word changed
her whole life. Otherwise perhaps she would have died still lathering soap on
people's beards. A small word can give rise to such ripples: can make a friend,
can make an enemy; can give life beauty, can make it ugly.
DON'T SPEAK TOO EAGERLY...
But the meaning I give it is not speak thoughtfully: in thought is calculating,
cunning, cleverness, politics. I say, speak from no-thought, from a feeling of
peace and silence. Let it arise in silence from deep within. And then what you
say will be integral, because it arises out of peace. Right speech and you will
settle down. Otherwise the ego takes you from one extreme to the next.
DON'T SPEAK TOO EAGERLY, DON'T WALK WITH A STRUT...
Don't walk stamping your feet. Don't make noise in your life. Pass by so that
no one knows. Remain absent. This is god's way of being. God is present
everywhere, but he is unknown. What is his art? DON'T WALK WITH A STRUT...
Don't stamp your feet. Don't go on pointing your finger at yourself saying look
at me.
God is present as an absence. He is present. He is visible to those who also
become absent, who themselves become completely silent. Only in their eyes is
his face reflected.
DON'T WALK WITH A STRUT...
People move with such pride. They walk arrogantly, uselessly arrogant.
Have you noticed? When you are alone on the street you walk in one way. If the
path is deserted, no one in sight, you're out for a morning walk, you move in a
certain way. You won't strut. But then suddenly two people come on the road, and
your step changes. You watch tomorrow, your step will change. When two people
enter the road, your step will change. Now you move in a different way. And if
two beautiful women step onto the road then your stride will change even more.
You will quickly dust yourself off and start proudly twisting your mustache,
straighten up your tie, put your hat at a slant. You will immediately start
strutting along. Even without mustache people proudly twist. It is not necessary
to have a mustache to stand proud. Pride is a separate matter. It can be shown
in any manner, some with a mustache, some with a tie, but show pride.
People walk as if the whole world is watching them, as if everyone's eyes are
on them.
Strutting means, everyone's eyes should be on me. Why? Because the ego demands
attention from people. And the more attention ego gets from others the more it
is nourished. The more people greet you on the street, the more people agree
that yes, you are something, the more your ego is strengthened. Go out on the
street one day, if no one even looks, no one even says hello, if the whole
village has decided to treat you this way, to pretend you don't even exist --
you will be very unhappy. You will come back tired and defeated. You will say,
what happened? Your strutting has had no effect.
You watch small children, they play this game every day. There is no great
difference in grown ups. From the youngest to the oldest there are nothing but
children. If you want to watch grown up children, go to Delhi sometime --
children of sixty-five, seventy, seventy-five, eighty, eighty-three. Someone is
prime minister [83 year old Morarji Desai]. Someone is home minister, someone is
defense minister, and they go on chasing after each other, like small children.
Like children fighting on a garbage heap playing king of the mountain. And if
one stands on top then the others go on shoving and a great match of pushing
and shoving ensues. Each one twists his mustache in pride. And each one says to
himself, "I will overpower each and every one of them and stay up. Look how I
threw this one down, or look how I put that one flat on his back."
From young age to old, people remain children. As long as you attract
attention, as long as you say look at me, you are a child, you are childish.
You experience it in children every day. If there are children at your house,
when a guest comes you tell the children a guest is coming, just be quiet. Then
the children cannot remain silent. They would otherwise be sitting quietly in
the corner playing with their dolls, but as soon as guests come the children
come and get in the way. They start asking irrelevant questions... I want ice
cream, I am hungry. You are surprised, until now the child was sitting silently,
what has happened to him? The child has become a politician. He is saying. "Will
these guests go without looking at me? I will show them, I will tell them that I
too am someone. This house runs according to me, I will demonstrate it."
If you tell a child something when you are alone with him he will accept it. If
you say it in front of four people he is not willing to accept it, he stubbornly
refuses. This is why if you take a child who is well behaved at home to the
market he will cause an embarrassment right in the middle -- I want to buy
this, I want to buy that. And what is your embarrassment? The embarrassment is
that in front of four persons you cannot say that I cannot buy it, I don't have
the money, my pocket is empty, don't torture me. He is waiting for this
opportunity to show you...
Small children can easily push your buttons. Then when you are older you play
on these buttons a little more subtly, a little more cleverly. But there is no
difference. You have not grown up. The ego never grows up, the ego is always
childish.
... DON'T WALK WITH A STRUT...
You have seen children, stamping their feet, making noise, throwing things on
the floor. You have seen women who throw plates in the house at the smallest
provocation, drop pots and pans, fill the whole house with noise. ... DON'T WALK
WITH A STRUT... That woman is saying I will show you.
Mulla Nasruddin's wife was running after him -- carrying her rolling pin.
Mulla got scared and slid under a bed. The wife was fat and couldn't get under
the bed. Mulla sat proudly under the bed. Then somebody knocked on the door,
some guest came. The wife quickly hid her rolling pin and said to Mulla, "Come
out from there, a guest has come, come out quickly."
Mulla said, "Let the guests come, today I will show you who runs this house. I
will sit wherever I want."
The wife said, "Not so loud!"
But Mulla said, "Am I afraid of anyone? Who is master of this house? Today it
will be decided -- you or me."
The wife said, "Shhh!!! Quiet. Come out from there."
But by this time Mulla's pride had mounted. He said, "Ask forgiveness, ask
'please'."
She had to ask please. The guest is at the door and Mulla is sitting under the
bed, will it look good? And if he begins to say something sitting under the bed,
he starts to speak... she had to say please.
DON'T WALK WITH A STRUT...
Gorakh is saying, speak meditatively, walk silently. Walk as if you are not.
Walk so no one knows it. Don't walk like a street band playing. Don't beat your
drum.
... PLACE YOUR FEET WITH CARE
Place your steps so slowly that there is no sound. Come and pass through this
world like a gust of wind comes and passes through. No one will get even a
whisper of when you came, when you left. Pass through like a silent, empty
sound. And you will know god. And you will recognize god.
Those who are eager to show the world become actors. Out on the street you will
find mostly actors. Before leaving their homes, people spend so much time
getting ready. Women spend hours standing in front of the mirror. Even the
mirror gets tired! The husband is sitting out on the street honking the horn and
the wife is still in front of the mirror thinking shall I wear this sari or that
sari?
I was a guest at someone's house. The husband was taking me to a meeting, he
was honking the horn, it was already late. And the wife angrily looked out the
window and said, "I have told you a thousand times I am coming in a minute." If
she is going to say it a thousand times, then it will take hours just to say it
... "But this constant horn honking is killing me. Can I put on a sari or not?"
In the evening when we came back, I asked her, "At any rate you were going to
have to put on a sari. Why did it take so long?"
She said, "How could it not take long? Come, I will show you -- I have three
hundred saris. One has to think it over, consider, which one to wear, this one
or that. This has some good qualities, that has other qualities. So it is a
problem. Sometimes I put on one then have to change it. So it takes a long
time."
People are actors. This is why other peoples' wives seem more beautiful than
our own wives, because we see our own wives in their natural condition but you
see others' wives on stage -- in full costume, all made up...
Mulla Nasruddin says that for birth control no other method is needed, just
wives shouldn't use make-up. It is sufficient. Nothing else is required. This
is enough to make the mind disinterested. Remaining spontaneous and natural,
enough...
DON'T SPEAK TOO EAGERLY, DON'T WALK WITH A STRUT, PLACE YOUR FEET WITH CARE.
Don't take the world as a stage and don't get lost in acting here. There is
truth also inside -- beyond acting. You will know that truth, you will be able
to turn towards it, when in your mind you are no longer concerned that others
give you attention, whether others pay attention to you or not. When you want
others to pay attention to you, you have to pay attention to them. It is a
mutual give and take. When will you give attention to yourself? You will have to
pay attention to others if you want them to pay attention to you. If you want
people to ask how much you paid for the sari you are wearing you will first have
to ask about their sari: How much? What a beautiful weave? Where did you buy it?
Then the other will ask you. Naturally, it is a world of give and take. If you
give attention to others, others give attention to you in response, because they
also want to receive attention, the same as you. We go on decorating each others
egos -- when will you give attention to yourself? You will miss knowing that
which is waiting within you -- and that is the highest wealth, it is the
highest bliss. God is hidden in that consciousness. If you taste that
consciousness, you will taste eternal life.
DON'T SPEAK TOO EAGERLY, DON'T WALK WITH A STRUT, PLACE YOUR FEET WITH CARE.
Somewhere else Gorakh has said:
THE FULL POT CARRIED SILENTLY, THE HALF FULL SOUNDING SPLASHES
WHEN THE SEEKER IS READY, O AVADHUT, THE MASTER SPEAKS FRUITFULLY.
THE FULL POT CARRIED SILENTLY...
A pot filled with water is still, it does not splash.
THE FULL POT CARRIED SILENTLY, THE HALF FULL SOUNDING SPLASHES
One which is half full splashes. A filled water pot doesn't make noise, a half
filled pot makes noise. The more noise you make and stamp your feet, the clearer
is the message that you are false. The more you walk like a street band playing,
walk raising your flag... 'let our flag remain on high' ... the more you show
that you are false, you are half... THE HALF FULL SOUNDING SPLASHES. One who
knows, who has had a little experience of life becomes reserved, becomes deep.
There is no sound, there is silence around him, a quiet music...
THE FULL POT CARRIED SILENTLY, THE HALF FULL SOUNDING SPLASHES
WHEN THE SEEKER IS READY, O AVADHUT, THE MASTER SPEAKS FRUITFULLY.
You make meaningless noise. What else is your speech? There is nothing in your
speech because you don't know anything, what do you have worth saying? But
people talk so much, so much nonsense is said. Other people are dumping rubbish
in your ears, you are dumping rubbish into others' ears, rubbish heaped upon
rubbish. Pay close attention, ninety percent of what you say the whole day is
completely worthless, if it weren't said it would be okay. ... THE HALF
SOUNDING SPLASHES if one which is half filled does not splash what will it do?
It creates much noise. People go on talking. The whole world is full of talk:
unneeded, meaningless talk.
Gorakh says: WHEN THE SEEKER IS READY... One who knows will speak only to those
whose eagerness to know is clear. A master speaks only to one who is a potential
master. He doesn't speak to each and everyone. It is no use speaking to
everyone. A master sits only with those who show a glimpse of being a potential
master. A true master speaks to true disciples. He doesn't speak to each and
everyone.
I am asked why aren't arrangements made for everyone to come and listen here?
There is no need for everyone to come here. I speak to those who have potential.
I speak to those who are eager, who are thirsty.
WHEN THE SEEKER IS READY, O AVADHUT, THE MASTER SPEAKS FRUITFULLY.
Then there is some gain in speaking. One who has become enlightened speaks to
those who will become enlightened, then there is some gain, otherwise it is just
meaningless nonsense.
GORAKH RAJA SAYS, DON'T BE STIFF, LIVE SPONTANEOUSLY.
Don't be an egoist, live naturally, such a small teaching but this is the
greatest teaching. Gorakh says, only this much I say to you, if you can
understand this, if you can accomplish this then everything will happen.
... DON'T BE STIFF, LIVE SPONTANEOUSLY.
Live spontaneously -- what does it mean to live spontaneously? Don't live
through calculations, live out of innocence. Trees are spontaneous, birds and
animals are spontaneous, only man is not spontaneous. Where does this
unnaturalness come from? I display to people what I am not. I will prove I am
what I am not -- this is where unnaturalness arises. I am poor but I will make
an impression on people of being wealthy. I am ignorant but I will give people
the idea that I know. I am nobody but I have a great desire to speak, to be
somebody -- that ego may someday be fulfilled. So you go on telling people you
are what you are not. Inside one thing, outside another. With this deceit you
have become unnatural.
You can be spontaneous when you drop this trip of the ego. When you say I am
like I am -- bad then bad, good then good. I am just as god made me. I will
not needlessly put on a veil and hide myself. Now your situation is like a wound
that you have put a rose flower over and hidden. So you have become unnatural.
The wound is within, a rose flower is placed over it. Pus is forming inside. And
because of the rose flower the wound cannot heal, it doesn't receive the sun
light, does not get fresh air.
Expose yourself exactly as you are within. Then you will be spontaneous. Drop
your fear. What's the fear? That people think badly of you? What is the harm? If
people won't pay attention to you, will not respect you, what is lost? What do
you get from their respect?
NATH SAYS, KEEP YOUR DIGNITY, DON'T INSIST ON DEBATE.
Take care of your being. NATH SAYS, KEEP YOUR DIGNITY... Gorakh Nath says, take
care or your soul. Don't get into useless arguments, I am this, I am that.
DON'T INSIST ON DEBATE.
What you are you are. God made you this way. Look after this consciousness.
NATH SAYS, KEEP YOUR DIGNITY, DON'T INSIST ON DEBATE.
THIS WORLD IS A GARDEN OF THORNS, PLACE EACH STEP ALERTLY.
Here there are great gardens of thorns. Very attractive gardens. From afar they
seem flowers. When they prick, you will know they are thorns. From afar they
give the illusion of sweet music, but when you come close, when you are trapped,
there is trouble. Fish too are caught, seeing the bait. The hook inside the bait
is not visible to them either. Others praise you, they are setting bait. There
is a thorn in this bait, and now you are caught.
This is why flattery has so much power in the world. If you tell the dumbest
jackass how intelligent he is, how learned he is, the donkey believes it. The
donkey doesn't question: me, learned and intelligent? He believes it because he
wants to. You have said what he was thinking. There is a saying that at the
right moment you will call a donkey your father. And the donkey will believe it.
And he knows within that he is a donkey and he cannot possibly be your father.
But the believing mind says believe it, why are you passing up a chance like
this? If you tell a crow he is a sweet singing cuckoo the crow will not deny it.
If you flatter him too much and he gets excited then he will caw, caw and prove
he is a crow. But he will think that he is sweetly calling out: 'kuhuu-kuhuu'.
This is why flattery has so much influence. If you flatter someone he will be
ready to do anything, any job can be done. You also are taken in by flattery,
move alertly.
PLACE EACH STEP ALERTLY...
THIS WORLD IS A GARDEN OF THORNS...
There are many thorns here. Flowers cover up, thorns are inside. You go to
grasp a flower and are pricked by a thorn, then it is difficult to get free.
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GORAKH RAJA SAYS, DON'T BE STIFF, LIVE SPONTANEOUSLY.
And pride is a wide road. Don't think that it is only emperors that are filled
with ego, a beggar too has ego. Beggars also have egos.
I have heard there was a beggar who came daily to Mulla Nasruddin's lane, for
many days he didn't appear. When he saw him in the market Mulla asked, "You are
not seen these days, you used to come daily to harass me. You have harassed for
such a long time, for so many years that it has become a habit. Many times I
have thought you haven't come, what has happened? You didn't come to the door
and rap your staff."
He said, "I gave the lane to my son-in-law."
Mulla said, "Meaning?"
He said, "That lane was mine. There no other beggar can cause any mischief or I
will break his limbs." He was a cripple, dragging himself along, saying, "I
would break their limbs, no beggar can cause mischief there. That lane was mine.
I gave it as a dowry -- my daughter got married!"
Mulla had thought the lane was his, today he found out who the lane belongs to.
Don't think that only emperors have egos, beggars too have egos. They too have
their kingdom, they too have their boundaries. If you enter into their
territory, you will be in difficulty. If you beg there you will have to pay
taxes to them. If a new beggar begs in the lane of an old beggar he will have to
pay taxes.
Naturally, you might never have thought about it, you never knew which beggar
you belong to. There is a beggar on the street who has bought you. He has
rights. He has a license to beg from you. If any other beggar begs then he will
have to pay taxes. You didn't know that you have been sold, that the beggar on
the street is your master and has rights over you.
Don't think that only the rich have egos. Don't think that only the worldly
have egos. Yogis have big egos, renunciates have even bigger egos -- they have
renounced so much! DON'T BE PROUD... Scholars have big egos.
Gorakh has said:
MOVING WITHOUT PATH, BURNING WITHOUT FIRE,
WELL KNOWING GORAKH SAYS, FIGURE THIS OUT O LEARNED PUNDITS.
He says, listen you reciting pandits, you parroting pandits. What do you have?
But you move arrogantly. Some rubbish, some borrowed stinking words!
WELL KNOWING GORAKH SAYS...
Gorakh says, I have known from experiencing myself and then I found out that
you have only words and nothing else.
... FIGURE THIS OUT O LEARNED PUNDITS.
O well-read pundits, O so-called pundits! Figure out what I am saying, come to
your senses. MOVING WITHOUT PATH... There is a movement that is without path,
where there is no path and the goal arrives. Do you know anything about it? By
reading and reciting you have become a pandit, do you know the path that doesn't
exist but the goal comes?
MOVING WITHOUT PATH, BURNING WITHOUT FIRE...
Do you know the happening that occurs from a fireless burning? I know a fire
like this, that doesn't exist yet it burns. I know a death, that doesn't occur,
but it happens. I know a goal that has no path to reach it. I know that which is
sitting within you. What can be the path to reach there? A path is to take you
far away. If god was distant there could be a path. God is you, so what path?
You are god himself.
MOVING WITHOUT PATH...
This is why if you stop you will reach.
... BURNING WITHOUT FIRE...
And this ego is false. To burn it no real fire is needed. If you understand
this then the fire of understanding is enough, and it burns.
Gorakh says, my teaching is very direct -- of spontaneity. As Kabir has said,
based on Gorakh: "O Seeker, the natural samadhi is best."
SWAMI, GOING TO THE FOREST HUNGER ARISES, GOING TO THE CITY MAYA ARISES.
He is saying, O swamis, O escapist sannyasins! If you go to the jungle hunger
will catch you. Then sitting in the jungle twenty-four hours a day you will
think of food. Who knows if anyone will give it. Will anyone bring it or not?
And if you go to the town you will be caught in maya, caught in illusion, caught
in attachment, caught in desire. You will see a beautiful woman passing by and
you will be fascinated. You will see a beautiful house and desire will arise
-- if only it were mine! If you stay in the city maya will catch you. If you go
to the jungle to be saved from maya, hunger catches you. What will you do? You
are in great difficulty.
STUFFING YOURSELF, SEXUAL DESIRE ARISES...
If you over eat, really stuff yourself, sex desire will be created from this
stuffing, from the extra food. If you eat more than is necessary, it creates
desire inside of you. Why does it create desire? Because you will not be able to
contain the extra energy you have taken into yourself, it wants to go out, it is
superfluous, it is not needed, it is burdensome.
What is desire? A way for energy to go out. What is sex? A way to throw out
energy. When you have too much energy that you cannot contain, it will begin to
flow out on its own. It has to flow out. A container can be filled with only as
much water as it contains. If it is filled more, it will overflow. Desire is the
energy that overflows your vessel, this is why if you eat too much you will be
caught in sex desire. Now it is very difficult. If you eat too little you will
remember all kinds of food day and night.
So what will you do? What is the way? Be spontaneous Gorakh says. Come to the
middle. Eat as much as is necessary. Don't go to the jungle, because there you
will be hungry. Don't play around so much in the city that besides city nothing
remains of you, because desire will catch you there. But how to live? Live in
the city like someone living in the jungle, this is the middle. Live at home
like one lives in the forest. Live in the world but don't let the world inside
of you. Live as a lotus leaf in the water.
... WHY WASTE THIS BODY BORN OF PASSION?
Then you will know how this body created from egg and sperm attains the state
of enlightenment! Then you will know. If you have chosen to go to the jungle
because you are afraid desire will catch you in the city, then hunger will catch
you. If you are afraid hunger will catch you in the jungle, come to the city...
and wherever you go, it will be city or jungle, there is no other possibility.
If out of duality you choose one, then you will not be able to remain with it
very long, because the needs of the opposite will begin to pull you, will begin
to attract you.
So eat the right amount of food -- what is sufficient for meditation,
sufficient for worship and prayer. Eat rightly, give to the body what is needed
for natural functions. Don't dump more, otherwise the extra amount will put you
in trouble. Don't go to extremes.
There are some people who overeat, stuffing and forcing food. Their whole work
is food, food, food... they don't do anything else. Then superfluous energy
arises from the extra food. Then the release of energy is necessary, otherwise
the energy will be a burden, will become a load. Then go into desire. Then the
energy flows out in desire. Then people are so drowned in desire that whatever
energy they had flows out in it. Then they become empty, emptied out. Then they
fill up with food because now they are empty, now emptiness aggravates. This
becomes a great disturbance. From one extreme to the other extreme, from the
other back to the first, from the first back to the second, going on swinging
like this, like the pendulum of a clock. The clock of life goes on. Your coming
and going continues. Stop in the middle. Have you ever stopped the pendulum of a
clock and seen what happens? As soon as the pendulum stops the clock stops.
Coming and going has stopped. Time has stopped. Time has stopped means the world
has stopped.
DON'T ATTACK YOUR FOOD, DON'T DIE OF HUNGER, CONTEMPLATE THE SECRET OF BRAHMAN
DAY AND NIGHT
DON'T OVERWORK, DON'T LIE AROUND, THUS SAYS GORAKH DEVA
A plain and simple sutra, but such that if it finds its mark it will land in
your heart like an arrow and your life will be transformed.
DON'T ATTACK YOUR FOOD...
Don't eat fuller and fuller, don't burst with food!
DON'T ATTACK YOUR FOOD...
Don't launch an attack.
... DON'T DIE OF HUNGER...
And don't die of hunger either. Don't starve. Don't fast.
... CONTEMPLATE THE SECRET OF BRAHMA DAY AND NIGHT
Live rightly and assimilate the secret of the ultimate day and night. This
whole universe is filled with mystery, it is overflowing with the beauty of the
highest. The blessings of that highest are present everywhere. In these rays of
sunlight, in the specks of sunlight falling on the leaves, in green leaves, in
flowers, in birds, in people, this vast life, drink his mystery, fill yourself
with it.
O my heart, speak of Him!
In comparison to his face,
All colors and shapes pale;
I have become sated with him --
Drinking his water of compassion;
Float on him wave after wave, flow with him!
O my heart, speak of Him!
His fluid nimble way of moving,
Is unique in the whole world;
His sweet sweet voice --
How beautiful to me;
Become his shadow, live every moment with him!
O my heart, speak of Him!
The bliss of his spontaneous closeness,
Is a trust of life;
But if the hour comes --
of parting company with the beloved;
Then deep within will I bear the fire of distance from him!
O my heart, speak of Him!
Remember the divine. Don't become a glutton, and against gluttony don't always
be starving and fasting. Remember again the story of Shrona -- when the
strings of the veena of life are neither too tight nor too loose music arises.
This music is a song of devotion. This music is kirtan. This music is
remembrance.
O my heart, speak of Him!
Remember the divine. Assimilate his secret. And his secret is overflowing, it
is whispered in every direction.
Your laughing call, O bird of songs!
Spread freedom's wings
Sound the conch of life,
And you join with eager speed
This painted sky!
Soar beyond the horizon
Send a piercing ray
Open the heavenly gates of your heart
And you rain a shower of nectar
This pattering melody!
Secret sky of subtle intelligence
Drink the soma nectar of eternity,
And you sing your drunken bliss,
This immortal, alone!
Watch the moon, watch the sun,
Let the trumpet of truth proclaim,
And distinctions of this world are kidnapped
O destroyer of illusions!
Slough the skin of darkness
Kiss the thousand petalled radiance of the crown,
And you awaken in the cave of the navel
O supine serpent!
It is he outside, it is he inside. Just sink a little into his mystery. It is
he seen rising in the trees, he appears showering light in the moon and stars.
He is moving in your every breath, he is hidden in every beat of your heart. It
is he who pervades your consciousness -- drink up his mystery.
The more a person is filled with the beauty of the universe the closer he
reaches to god. All this beauty is his.
DON'T OVERWORK, DON'T LIE AROUND, THUS SAYS GORAKH DEVA
And don't be stubborn. Don't try to force the body more than necessary.
DON'T OVERWORK...
Don't make too much effort otherwise you will become tired and broken.
But also don't do the reverse: ... DON'T LIE AROUND...
Don't become lazy. Don't just lie there thinking: "We shouldn't make effort,
shouldn't exert ourselves So I'll just lie around."
Now what is to be done? Between the two... Act, as if inactive. Do, but don't
become the doer. Let him be the doer, you are merely his vessel, only a
medium... as Krishna said to Arjuna in the Geeta, just become a medium. The doer
is god, become a bow string in his hands. If he shoots arrows with you then
arrows, and if he offers worship in the temple with you, then worship.
Don't be over active... like people who believe in the yoga of good acts, they
become over active. And don't be too inactive. There is a yoga of inaction too.
This too has become a belief. Such people also find support from the scriptures,
from the songs of the sant mystics. They extract their own meanings. For
instance Baba Maluk has said:
Boas never hold a job, birds have never worked;
Das Maluka says, no need, Rama provides for all.
Lazy people have extracted their meaning from this. They have made a very
beautiful interpretation. They say, it is good, then we will lie around happily
as big snakes lie around. So some sadhus and sants just lie around. They think,
what is there to to? Baba Maluk has said that "existence provides for all." If
it provides it provides... relax and believe in fate.
This whole country has died believing in fate. Laziness has spread through this
whole country. This whole country has become indolent and idle. And it has given
it's indolence and idleness a very spiritual color by saying it is fate, what
happens is what is meant to happen. If one is poor one is poor. A beggar then a
beggar, a slave then a slave. Everything happens by fate. When he wishes it then
everything will be made well, but we have to drag along.
The suffering of this country is that we have taken up this sutra -- of
laziness. We are lying down. The misery of the West is that they have taken up
action, taken it up so much that they can't sleep at night -- they have
forgotten how. Now they cannot sleep without sleeping pills. They have become so
active, so many waves have arisen, the mind is moving so much that they lay down
on the bed at night but the mind has forgotten sleep even exists. It goes right
on thinking. It makes calculations, does accounting, makes plans: tomorrow's
shop, tomorrow's market, tomorrow's world. It remains absorbed in its plans.
This way the night is lost.
The West is going crazy because of too much activity. And the East has become
poor because of too much inactivity. If what Gorakh says is understood then
there is no need to go crazy and no need to be poor.
Gorakh says:
DON'T OVERWORK, DON'T LIE AROUND, THUS SAYS GORAKH DEVA.
I tell you to be in between. Work but from a state of no work. Enter into work,
but peacefully, silently... so that work does not make you restless. Work but
don't go insane in it.
OVER EATING STRENGTHENS THE SENSES, DESTROYS CONSCIOUSNESS, FILLS THE MIND WITH
SEX.
If you eat too much food the senses will be strengthened and awareness will be
destroyed.
... DESTROYS CONSCIOUSNESS, FILLS THE MIND WITH SEX.
And the more awareness is destroyed the more nothing but sex remains in the
mind. Understand this. The more the amount of awareness increases the more the
amount of sex decreases. The more the amount of awareness decreases the more the
amount of sex increases. These two are always influencing each other.
Make an experiment and see. If you eat too much then unconsciousness overtakes
you, immediately sleep starts coming. This is why sleep starts coming after
eating. Remain some night without eating, then sleep will not come the whole
night. You didn't eat so unconsciousness does not overtake you. This is why to
one who fasts sleep doesn't come at night. Or sleep becomes less. In old age
sleep becomes less because food becomes less. The body cannot digest so much
food. Life is finishing so now there is no need for sleep either.
Unconsciousness takes over in sleep. For sleep it is necessary that your body
remain more powerful than your being, only then can sleep take over. When you
eat the body grows, the being becomes weak. If you eat too much then the body
becomes very burdensome, you start getting drowsy.
When consciousness increases, you will find simultaneously that sex desire has
started becoming less, because the pressure of the body becomes less on the
being. This is why Gorakh and I do not tell you to fight against sex desire, we
tell you to awaken awareness. Become more alert. Whatever you do, do it with
alertness. If you go into sex, go into it alertly, go into it consciously. And
you will be surprised, as consciousness increases, sex desire will become weak
by itself. One day you will suddenly find that without repressing, without
fighting that you don't know where sex stopped -- when you go within to look
for it, you don't find it. Everything within has become lit with awakening.
Sex and meditation have the same relationship as light and darkness. If a lamp
is lit, darkness is ended. There is no need to throw out darkness. Who can throw
it out? How can it be thrown? Can anyone throw it out? Only a lamp is to be lit.
This is why the people who fight with sex desire have gotten into very foolish
activity. Fight with desire and it will increase. You will be more possessed by
it. No one has ever fought darkness and won. Cutting it with a sword doesn't
work. Beating it with a staff makes no sense. Give it a shove, collect all the
strong men of the village, still you won't be able to push the darkness out of a
small hut. But light one small lamp and you won't even know where the darkness
has gone. Darkness is not a thing, darkness is negative. Darkness is only an
absence, the absence of light. If light becomes present, it is done. There was
no darkness, nor has it gone anywhere: only light was missing, light has come.
Sex is the absence of meditation. If the lamp of meditation is lit: enough, sex
is gone.
Here people ask me, "You don't teach people brahmacharya -- to be celibate?
Brahmacharya cannot be taught. Only meditation can be taught. Brahmacharya is
the result. As meditation ripens, brahmacharya comes to fruit by itself. All
effort is to be put into meditation. One who puts his effort directly into
brahmacharya will sit suppressing sex in the name of brahmacharya. And
brahmacharya is not happening -- it is only superficial -- within the being
the worms of desire are crawling. Inside the snake of desire will raise its
hood. His life will become very unnatural. His life will become very difficult.
Peace will not arise in his life, nor will equanimity come. He will fall deep
into duality. A continuous struggle will go on turning within him. And how can
there be experience of god while struggling? A non-dual mind is needed, only
then is the experience of god possible.
OVER EATING STRENGTHENS THE SENSES, DESTROYS CONSCIOUSNESS, FILLS THE MIND WITH
SEX.
SLEEP OVERTAKES, DEATH CLOSES IN...
Sleep catches you, death catches you.
... THE HEART ENTANGLED.
And then trouble always created within, a disturbance continues to be raised.
An insanity goes on increasing. Just look inside yourself and see how mad you
are. Madness goes on there. Living in this madness how will you know the truth?
It is impossible! This madness must go. And there is only one way for this
madness to go -- LAUGHING, PLAYING THE KNACK OF MEDITATION. Laugh, play,
dance, be ecstatic and keep meditating. This is enough, it will go.
THE MILK DIETER MONK'S MIND ON OTHERS' COWS...
There are a few people who have decided to consume milk only. They think milk
is the purest food.
I was a guest for some time in Raipur. There is a community there -- of the
milk drinkers sect. Milk is the only diet of the people living there. They
thought they would be healthier with milk. Have you gone mad? In the first
place, the milk you are drinking has not been produced for you. You drink cow's
milk, no? It is produced for calves. It is for growing bulls. Milk is not a pure
food. From milk, sex desire will awaken. And sex desire like that of a bull --
not just a little, because god made it for a bull not for you.
And the nature of milk is to be a provision for the child, so the child can get
milk until he can digest food. After a certain age no animal drinks milk, with
the exception of man. Man makes unnatural arrangements. To drink a little in
tea, a little in coffee is okay, but don't become a milk dieter.
When I was in Raipur a priest from the milk diet community came to meet me. He
asked, "How to become victorious over sexual desire?"
I said, "First drop this milk diet, drop this practice. To be a man is bad
enough, you will become a bull! ... and you take nothing but milk. People go on
bringing milk because the saints drink nothing but milk... pure food. What is
pure about milk?
Just a few days ago there was a report in the newspapers that meat has been
produced from milk in Japan. Milk is a part of the blood, this is why meat can
be made from it. Scientists have succeeded in creating meat from milk. Within
two or three months white meat produced from milk will be available in Japanese
markets. Milk contains the same substance that is in meat. This is why flesh
increases from drinking milk, blood improves, a person becomes robust.
Where do you think the milk comes from when a child is born from the mother's
womb? As blood passes through her breasts it begins to produce milk. In this way
blood is available to the child. And the child cannot digest anything else. It
is good for him at this age. There is not such purity in milk as you think there
is. There is greater purity in fruits, greater purity in wheat, rice, beans.
Gorakh says, THE MILK DRINKER MONK'S MIND ON OTHERS' COWS...
Don't become a milk dieter. Otherwise the milk drinker has always to pay
attention which house he will get milk from, which house he will not get it
from. ... MIND ON OTHER'S COWS... His attention is continuously on others'
houses. Whose cow is good, whose cow is bad...
Once I was travelling with a sadhu. He would drink only the milk of a white
cow. I said, "You have gone mad. Use a little common sense. Milk from a black
cow doesn't turn black, milk is always white. Are you afraid of a black cow
because the milk might become black?"
"No," he said, "No, I am... my guru suggested milk of a white cow."
Whether the skin of the cow is white or black what difference is there in the
milk? Then the milk of black women would be black, and the milk of white women
would be white. Milk is white, but nothing becomes pure just by being white.
Have you seen herons? Herons of Indian politics fishing in pure white homespun
khadi? Mulla Nasruddin went into the market one day wearing khadi shirt and
vest, wearing khadi hat and fine cut pajamas. And someone said, "Mulla, what a
clean white!"
Mulla said, "Don't be deceived, no matter how white the clothes are, the heart
is mine, still black as ever."
The heart does not become white from clothes being white, nor does anyone's
soul become pure from drinking white milk.
But people create problems. That sadhu travelling with me was in great
difficulty. First he had to circle all around the cow and check that there was
no black spot or anything on the cow. If the cow was completely white, then
before milking it someone had to bathe. They should milk it wearing wet clothing
so they remained in a freshly bathed condition. His followers had to milk
wearing wet clothes. They were shivering. It was winter, they went on shivering
and milking... And he consumed only milk and thought he was doing something very
virtuous.
I said, "You will fall into hell. They will all make complaints against you,
these people freezing in the cold. Someone will get pneumonia, someone will
catch a cold -- it is all being done for you. You will suffer the fruit of bad
karma. Now you are shocked, but it is better you are careful."
THE MILK DIETER MONK'S MIND ON OTHER'S COWS, THE NAKED ALWAYS NEED FIREWOOD.
And those who have gone naked need wood to burn everyday. Is a blanket worse
than this? Are clothes worse than this? You live naked so you burn wood. This is
greater violence, because to burn wood you have to cut trees. And his mind is
continually concerned with getting firewood each day. He needs his holy fire
burning twenty-four hours a day because he lives naked. The fire goes on
burning. And how many insects are dying in the fire? Trees are cut, insects die
in the fire..what was wrong with wearing clothes? Why are you creating troubles?
Gorakh says let life be spontaneous. These are unnatural things. Now their
minds are caught up in meaningless things: Will I get firewood today or not?
Will I find a white cow or not? Will I get milk or not? Will I get enough milk
or not? Make life simple, not complex. Be natural, be ordinary. Don't buy into
things that give your mind useless worries.
THE MONK IN SILENCE DESIRES A COMPANION...
And the one who vows silence, he wants someone to move with him, he always
needs a companion.
A friend came to meet me, a silent Muni Maharaj. He brought someone with him to
interpret his signs and tell me. I said, "Why don't you speak directly?"
His companion said, "No, he has taken a vow of silence, he doesn't speak
directly."
I said, "This is an additional problem. Now you have to go wherever he goes."
He said, "Yes, I have to go. And Muni Maharaj never touches money either, I
have to keep the money. If we take a rickshaw or taxi I have to give the money.
He doesn't touch money."
"But whose money is it?" I asked.
"The money is his. People give it to him, but I hold it. People offer it at his
feet, I quickly collect it."
I said, "Does Muni Maharaj keep track of it?"
He said, "How can I hide anything from you? He goes on watching, goes on
counting how many notes have come. With hand signs he says a five keep it
carefully." Why this useless nonsense? When you are going to count it anyway,
count it yourself and keep it in your own pocket? You have to count it and keep
it in someone else's pocket and then keep worrying whether he will run away,
whether he will change his mind by the morning.
I said to him, "Come tomorrow to the meditation." It was in Bombay. Meditations
were being held at Birla Matushri's. So I said, "Come tomorrow morning for the
meditation."
He said -- he made gestures and had his friend say, "He cannot come, because
I will not be available in the morning, I am going somewhere else. He cannot
come without me. Who will take care of the taxi? Who will seat him? Who will
help him out? He doesn't speak."
You have become lame by your own hand. God has given you feet, has given you a
tongue. But you have refused them! And you are using a tongue, it too is god's
tongue, in the other man's mouth. Your tongue is also god's. What sense is there
in renouncing a closer tongue to use one further away? But people are caught up
in such disturbances, in such entanglements.
THE MONK IN SILENCE DESIRES A COMPANION...
He always needs a companion.
... NO DEPTH WITHOUT THE MASTER'S SHELTER.
This is all useless nonsense because without finding a master these people will
not find the real thread of life. They have gotten into this nonsense from
reading books, reading scriptures.
Place your hopes in one who has found,
How can thirst be slaked from an empty river?
Rahim's expression is beautiful!
... in one who has found,
You can get something only from someone who has it.
How can thirst be slaked from an empty river?
Is there water in the scriptures? There are nothing but words. Thoughts about
water, descriptions of water, but where is the water? Only with a master can you
get the secret formula, the sutra, the key.
A couplet of Gorakh,
HIS FRAGRANCE AND SWEETNESS PERVADE THE WHOLE WORLD.
THE TRUTH IS, ONLY A MASTER WHO HAS SEEN, CAN HELP YOU SEE.
Gorakh says god is the fragrance filling the entire universe. From his
fragrance the whole universe is made fragrant.
HIS FRAGRANCE AND SWEETNESS PERVADE THE WHOLE WORLD.
And his sweetness is in this whole world, but unless you meet someone to show
you, how will you taste it? Unless you meet someone to tell you, how will his
fragrance reach our nostrils? How will his music connect with our ears?
THE TRUTH IS, ONLY A MASTER WHO HAS SEEN, CAN HELP YOU SEE.
The truth is that until you meet a seer, one who has seen, you cannot be
connected to god.
... NO DEPTH WITHOUT THE MASTER'S SHELTER.
Without a master faith will not come, trust will not come. Only a seer can
provoke this self trust that yes, god is. Only a seer can be a witness -- an
eye witness.
Without finding a master nothing can be attained. People have fallen into these
useless troubles. And the master's message is small, a small sutra: be
spontaneous.
DON'T SPEAK TOO EAGERLY, DON'T WALK WITH A STRUT, PLACE YOUR FEET WITH CARE.
GORAKH RAJA SAYS, DON'T BE STIFF, LIVE SPONTANEOUSLY.
A small sutra, drop the ego, live simply. Don't be extreme, come to the middle,
a natural state...
LISTEN VIRTUOUS ONE, LISTEN INTELLIGENT ONE, TO THIS CALL OF NUMBERLESS SIDDHAS.
THE DISCIPLE BOWING, THE MASTER IS FOUND, AND THE WORLDLY NIGHT IS OVER.
Gorakh said, if you can listen, listen; if you can understand, understand.
LISTEN VIRTUOUS ONE...
If you have a little capacity, you have a little intelligence, listen.
... LISTEN INTELLIGENT ONE...
If you have a little awareness, then grasp this.
... THIS CALL OF NUMBERLESS SIDDHAS.
And not only I am saying it, numberless enlightened people have said it.
THE DISCIPLE BOWING, THE MASTER IS FOUND, AND THE WORLDLY NIGHT IS OVER.
Enough, if the disciple bows down, he meets the master. As soon as the disciple
bows he meets the master. The master is always present, if you bow you meet the
master.
There is an ancient Egyptian saying that whenever the disciple is ready the
master appears. There is not a moment's waiting. The disciple bows, the master
comes.
IN THE DISCIPLE'S BOWING, THE MASTER IS FOUND, AND THE WORLDLY NIGHT IS OVER.
Then this world of night is no more night, then it passes in wakefulness.
Understand these small sutras, comprehend them and practice them a little in
your life, taste them. I finish today's talk with a couplet of Rahim,
RAHIM A STONE IN WATER, SUBMERGED BUT NEVER SOAKED
LIKE FOOLISH PEOPLE, WHO UNDERSTAND BUT DON'T SEEK LIVING INSIGHTS.
Like a stone lying in the river, but still doesn't get soaked. The same way
foolish people sit in satsang but don't get soaked.
RAHIM A STONE IN WATER, SUBMERGED BUT NEVER SOAKED
It remains submerged, remains under water but doesn't get soaked, just remains
untouched. Lying in the water it remains untouchable.
LIKE FOOLISH PEOPLE, WHO UNDERSTAND BUT DON'T SEEK LIVING INSIGHTS.
One who sits in satsang listening, listening to the words but doesn't
experience. '... understand without living insight.' He listens, he understands
but doesn't live it, doesn't experience it. Know he is a fool, he is a stone.
This is satsang. Get soaked, drown, live it...!
DON'T SPEAK TOO EAGERLY, DON'T WALK WITH A STRUT, PLACE YOUR FEET WITH CARE.
GORAKH RAJA SAYS, DON'T BE STIFF, LIVE SPONTANEOUSLY.
Enough for today?
OSHO
- Death is Divine Chapter 3
GORAKH - DIE, O YOGI DIE!! CH1
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