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Energy Enhancement SEPTEMBER 2006 Course Students
Experiences
L'Escala SEPTEMBER 2006 With Gerhard
Gerhard is an economist with the
Central bank and visits all over the world on Conferences. Here he is on the
course at the Monastery of Montserrat just outside of Barcelona where we
made an excursion with Satchidanand, Devi, Rodika and Ciprian.

The course for me was really a big
step forward. I had previously completed the first half of the course in
2005.
After
finishing the second half of this course of Energy Enhancement I am enjoying
the benefits of increased energy flow, a strong feeling of love to remove
all remaining blockages.
From a spiritual perspective my
abilities to detect and remove blockages has increased very very very
rapidly and substantially.
But more important to me is the
feeling that I am gaining back all the spiritual abilities I need to move
faster on the way to Enlightenment.
Prior to Energy Enhancement, I started with the intuition school were I
received a training in chakra reading, followed by an Energy Mastery
Seminar, followed by a one year Clairvoyance training program.
But during this Energy Enhancement course I for the first time got a method
to deal with the all relationship disturbing sub personalities.
This insight helped me to understand
all the sub personalities that were disturbing the harmonious relationship I
was aiming for.
During the Energy Enhancement course I also could improve my
psychic vision substantially.
And the BEST all the improvements are still taking place
after leaving the last two week course in La Escala!

The Alchemical Monastery of
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Subject: RE: Getting back again.
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 21:28:59 +0000
Dear Satchi
Yes, everything, all the DVD course and Online Course Downloads are here,
all together they arrived, mighty excited i might add and all is downloaded
and well.
Im
getting stuck straight in, its amazing, because the very first time i got
the sitting position correct. I could feel the energy flowing up my spine
and over my head incredible heat and a real tingling in my face and a
feeling of elation i cant describe and i did this while using sound for each
chakra, when i struck the heart chakra tone my chest just expanded and it
felt like it was being lifted up and the whole room seemed full of energy
and and and what a feeling, phew. It was heaven.
I was sitting still for about an hour and it felt like only a few
minutes i think i just arrived.
I think i now have all the little pieces of my jigsaw, its taken a long time
searching and im also seeing the numerous times when i was shown the
direction but i was unable to see, There seems to be so much that i have
missed and i wonder how come i was this blind for so long.
I wanted to say "Thank You" For your patience, For your time and most of all
for being here on the planet at this time.
May Peace and Love always be your friends.
Don And Anne.

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ENLIGHTENMENT.......
YUKO
SATO - MEDITATION ENERGY ENHANCEMENT TESTIMONIAL FROM THE SEPTEMBER 2006
COURSE
Yuko comes from Japan and is a
Professional Photographer in Shanghai and London. Before coming on the
course she had not meditated before although she has been trying Yoga for a
while...
Oh my god, I changed a lot!
I screamed with silence.
I was sitting in the bar around 9
p.m. by myself in Barcelona on the first night after my Energy Enhancement
Course. On the way back to the hotel, I wanted to have one drink.
Surrounding by local Spanish people, everybody had a good time with their
own friends, even a bartender was chatting with some regular customers.
I was drinking a glass of red wine
in the middle of them and felt totally relaxed without fear. I enjoyed the
moment of being, by myself, in foreign county as a stranger.

YUKO SATO TAKING A GLASS OF WINE IN
GIRONA, SPAIN DURING THE ENERGY ENHANCEMENT COURSE - TAKEN BY SATCHIDANAND
If I were to be here before, I
could not relax this situation, I might worry too much, for example, how
they think about me? how am I look like? do I look a bit lonely? am I look
OK? etc...... too many of small thoughts, however they usually are big
enough to destroy having a simple good time....
To be honest, I have not had that
feeling, "without fear...." for the whole 33 years of my life.
This is just after the two weeks of
an Energy Enhancement meditation course.

YUKO SATO TAKING MEDITATING IN THE
ENERGY ENHANCEMENT CENTER IN SPAIN DURING THE ENERGY ENHANCEMENT COURSE - THE
MOVING INTO THE SOUL INFUSED PERSONALITY INITIALLY ONLY HAPPENS OCCASIONALLY,
BUT AS WE INTEGRATE MORE AND MORE IT BECOMES PERMANENT IN ENLIGHTENMENT - TAKEN
BY SATCHIDANAND
During the course, I
had many interesting and amazing experiences through meditation. I saw three
black snakes, a BM with snake hair, a black rose covered with thousands of
ants, a devil who controls and sucks the energy from me and thousands of
innocent people, frogs, parasite eggs...etc..
All of them were blockages and
implants in my body and my chakras.
Then I removed all of them using
the Energy Enhancement Techniques.
The techniques are simple and
powerful, moreover effective.
I did not feel any difficulty
during the course. On the contrary it is fun and enjoyable.
The meditation with Satchi and Devi
is sailing with fresh wind, also they have a big
map. You can not be lost.
After the EE course, I went to the Juice fasting place in Portugal.
I did it for two weeks and I felt so much energy without eating.
I went for walking in the mountains
for 3 hours, 2 hours yoga practice, swimming in the sea and meditation
everyday.
After my Energy Enhancement Course,
I am the most energetic person in this fasting program, people who work
there, they thought I am not a normal human being, because I am smiling and
happy all the time.
I feel absolutely happy and full of
love.
(Satchidanand - fasting is a
spiritual technique used for thousands of years because as well as being
good for the waistline (Wasteline) and for the health, it is also working
internally to get rid of the energy blockages. Because Yuko had removed most
of her energy blockages during her first two weeks of the 4 weeks Energy
Enhancement Course, she did not have these problems, and was able to use the
fast to find and remove more of her internal energy blockages. Usually, it
is my habit to do a 28 day fast each year and there are no problems due
to the previous removal of internal energy blockages; I work as
normal, just difficulties with entertaining.)
Another change, I can feel other person's fear in my 2nd chakra. So I give
them love and ground their fear in centre of the earth. I understand the
world better, that keeps the sky of my heart is clear and the sun is
shining.
(Although we teach this during
Energy Enhancement Initiations, this removal of energy blockages from others
happens quite naturally once we begin to take back the power normally taken
from us by our separated psychotic sub-personalities. Integration of them back into
the Soul Personality. Once we integrate them we get back the psychic powers
they normally use to get us into trouble and destroy our lives using ego
strategies like the poor me and the violator. -
Satchidanand)
Yuko Sato
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(Yuko, due to her Japaneseness and
her experiences in past lifetimes brought a colourful experience to the
Energy Enhancement Course. She had great fun removing her blockages. -
Satchidanand)
For meditation, I now do for at least one hour everyday, sometimes for two
hours.
I find new blockages every time.
Two days ago I found the river
bottom of my antahkarana and I saw a snake swimming under my antahkarana. I
have done the Energy Enhancement 7 steps for them and in the 6th step I met
a strong ice woman who can turn everybody and everything into ice.
Finally I grounded her.
I just drop lines of my meditation is going and I feel bright energy every
time I meditate.
Thank you for meditation
Love and light
Yuko Sato
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FROM JEAN JUST TWO WEEKS AGO...
WE HAVE ALSO TAKEN THE
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SATCHIDANAND BY JEAN
I have put
together a testimonial below. After last years testimonial I was struggling for
something new to say, so I have gone for a different angle.......
Energy Enhancement Course
L’Escala SEPTEMBER 2006
The course for me was really a refresher as I had previously completed the
course in 2005. You can see my testimonial from 2005 elsewhere on this site.
After a year of practicing the advanced techniques of energy enhancement I am
enjoying the benefits of increased energy flow, and much less blockages.
From a material perspective my income has doubled in a year!
But more importantly I feel I am moving swiftly along my spiritual path towards
enlightenment.
Prior to Energy Enhancement, Enlightenment seemed like a faraway dream not for
this lifetime. Now I feel it is almost inevitable - only a matter of a few years
away.
As for the course - I can only reiterate what I said last year. After 12 years
of Transcendental Meditation and experimentation with many other meditation and
self improvement techniques it is my opinion that nothing comes close to the
power and precision of energy enhancement.
There is little more I can say about the efficacy of Energy enhancement that I
haven’t already said before so I will recount a wonderful experience I had
whilst on the course.
The rest of the class were sat in a circle on the floor meditating with Master
Satchidanand. It was my turn to receive an initiation from Devi so I was sat on
a chair at the back of the meditation room with my eyes closed and hands
together in a prayer like fashion.

SATCHIDANAND BY YUKO SATO
As I became absorbed in the experience of the initiation it was as if my eyes
opened to the scene before me. However this was not the scene to which I closed
my eyes.
Satchi and the students had transformed into beings of intense white light. I
think that I was being given a glimpse of their true nature, a peek at the world
the way the enlightened see it.

The meditation room had opened and expanded. I felt we were outdoors in a place
of great space, holiness and energetic purity maybe a forest or mountain top.
Then I became aware of the presence of others. A group of beings approached from
my right and turned to face me one by one.
I felt immense happiness and peace at their presence, they had an aura of
intense holiness and purity - great Saints and Sages.

DEVI DHYANI BY YUKO SATO
As they faced me and bowed one by one I felt a feeling of unworthiness but the
thought came immediately "worthiness is not necessary, by the grace of God
infinite love and light is offered to each of us every moment all we need do is
accept it".
I felt that they were very pleased with my practice and had appeared to me to
let me know. I think it is important to say that I was in no way unique.
Most of the other students this year and last year had experiences of meeting
beings of light, ascended masters and angels - EE has that effect!
Come and experience it for yourself you won't be disappointed.
JEAN
Truly, perhaps Enlightenment is
next!!

PHOTO OF SATCHIDANAND
JEANS
SEPTEMBER 2005
COURSE TESTIMONIAL

JEAN, THOMAS, AMY,
SATCHIDANAND AND VANESSA IN SPAIN
My Introduction and background
My name is Jean, and I am a thirty seven year old
Chartered Engineer from the UK working in the Nuclear Industry.
Since beginning the four-week Energy Enhancement course
two weeks ago I have been consistently impressed with the efficacy of this
programme.

YUKO SATO LIKES FOOD AND INDEED PROFESSIONALLY PHOTOGRAPHS FOOD AND MANY OTHER
THINGS FROM SHANGHAI TO LONDON. FROM THE COURSE SHE WENT ON TO A TWO WEEK FAST
AND LIVER CLEANSE.
I have experience of
many forms of meditation and practices for self improvement including:
Transcendental meditation (TM) 12 years, Kriya Yoga 9 years, Sushila Buddhi
Dharma (SUBUD) 7 years, and more recently the Sedona Method and the Course
in Miracles. The Energy Enhancement programme encapsulates and expands all
of these systems, it is complete and no questions are left unanswered.
After years of trying all these methods, I had had some
success with my mind and emotions but the DVD and Online Energy Enhancement
Course over one year so improved my psychic vision that I was able to see 13
energy blockages along my spine as shiny black stones.
The extra energy from
the ONLINE AND DVD EE Meditation caused me shake every time I meditated, a
phenomena that has been reported in many books describing the action of
Kundalini energy.

SATCHIDANAND BY YUKO SATO
I had to wait for the
advanced blockage removing techniques of EE Level 2 and a lot of hard work
over one week before these energy blockages were removed and my Kundalini
shaking, so much a part of my preliminary Energy Enhancement meditational
experience over the last year, was brought to a stop.
Energy Enhancement In Spain Course Arrangements
The course takes place in L’Escala on the Costa Brava in
Northern Spain. The duration is four weeks to learn the four levels of Energy
Enhancement.
I was allowed to make payments in easy monthly
instalments via Pay Pal beginning a year in advance of the course start
date. This planning well ahead also allowed me to book cheap flights from my
home in the UK to Barcelona. From Barcelona I caught a train to Figueres
station (only 8 Euros) where Satchi collected me.
Accommodation is available at the SOL centre with Satchi
and Devi or in one of the many campsites and villas available nearby. I
chose to stay at the SOL centre to take maximum advantage of the ‘Buddha
Field’ of energy, which pervades there.
This highly charged energy field boosts progress towards
freedom from negative feelings, circumstances, persons, places and
conditions – towards enlightenment.

SATCHIDANAND BY YUKO SATO
What is Energy Enhancement?
Energy Enhancement is a systematic and complete programme
for removing all the negative thought forms (blockages), which cause an
individual to be unhappy, stressed, unenthusiastic and tired. This course
promises enlightenment.
ENERGY ENHANCEMENT SATCHIDANAND
AND DEVI DHYANI

The course was devised and is
delivered by Master Satchidanand (Satchi) and his wife Devi Dhyani. These two
highly evolved individuals have very impressive credentials. Satchi had two
enlightened masters, Zen Master Roshi Hogen of Japan and Swami Satchidanada,
Yogiraj and disciple of Swami Sivananda of Rishikesh of India and the USA who
died in 2002 at the ripe old age of 89.
Devi has been teaching Meditation
for over 20 years (34 years - SATCHI). All the details and much more are
available at
www.energyenhancement.org.
The benefit of all this is available to all the students who undertake the
course – it is real!

DEVI DHYANI
AND SATCHIDANAND BY YUKO SATO
ENERGY ENHANCEMENT PROGRAMME
LEVEL 1
The programme begins at level 1 which includes basic
training in meditation and the manipulation of life energy (Ki, Chi, Pranha,
Orgone, Kundalini). It also includes techniques for avoiding food, which
contains poisons such as pesticides and for dealing with the effects any
poisonous substance, which you may have ingested in the past. These poisons
reduce your energy and therefore your progress towards happiness.
ENERGY ENHANCEMENT PROGRAMME
LEVEL 2
Level 2 provides training and actual experience in removing the blockages
(negative thought forms) to the free flow and accumulation of this energy in
the body. With the skills learned in this stage it is possible for an
individual to systematically remove all these blockages improving day by day
until eventually none are left.
This state of freedom is commonly
referred to as Enlightenment or the end of personal suffering. I have not
encountered any other system, which makes the light at the end of the tunnel
so clear and attainable.
ENERGY ENHANCEMENT PROGRAMME
LEVEL 3
Level 3 deals with past life resolution (I will be taking
this part of the course in the next week)
ENERGY ENHANCEMENT PROGRAMME
LEVEL 4
Level 4 deals with the mastery of relationships – or how
to help your loved ones and acquaintances (final week)
My Experiences
Energy Enhancement Online course
Prior to coming on the residential course at L’Escala I
had an excellent introduction to Energy Enhancement by taking the online
course. Over a period of a year I was introduced to and worked with the
principles of Level 1 of Energy Enhancement. The course material was
abundant and clear.
Any clarification that was required was forthcoming from
Satchi via email. So I already knew before I came to L’Escala that the
programme was effective because from the online course I had already had
experience of energy flowing through my body, Kundalini shaking and psychic
vision of the blockages (negative thought forms) like shiny black stones,
which restrict that flow.
My Energy Enhancement
Residential Course in Spain
My first notable experience on the course came when
Satchi gave instructions on how to sit correctly in meditation. With
Satchi’s help I was able to align my spine perpendicular to the surface of
the earth and the Kundalini energy that radiates from within it.
Kundalini Shaking
The flow of energy caused my body to shake like
electricity. I had had this shaking experience before with the more advanced
level one techniques of the DVD Course but this time all that was required
was correct posture.

SATCHIDANAND - TAKE WHAT IS IN MY HAND,
DRINK!!! BY YUKO SATO
Heart Chakra Warmth
Throughout Energy Enhancement Level 1 I experienced
instances of movement and beautiful warmth in the heart as the Chakra
increased in energy. This occurred during initiation from Devi, dealing with
toxins and construction of psychic protection. The flow of energy became
stronger and stronger causing my body to shake more intensely as it hit upon
resistances.
Blockage Removal Techniques
In Energy Enhancement Level 2 the techniques were
given to remove those resistances – the first few baby steps towards
ultimate freedom. Some of my experiences of blockage (negative thought form)
removals are given below:
Heart Chakra Blockage:
This was my first blockage removal attempt and required a little help from
Satchi. After I had worked on it for a while without completion Satchi asked
if he could have a look to which I replied in the positive.
From that point I was aware of great
heat and light at the front of my body as though the sun was shining on me –
but I was indoors! Needless to say the blockage is gone!
Solar Plexus Chakra Blockage:
For some time I had been experiencing pain at the bottom of my breast bone –
one of the signs that there is a blockage. I tackled it with the techniques
of Energy Enhancement Level 2 until it was successfully removed. There was
an immediate reduction in pain which reduced to virtually nil over the
following days – proof to me that these techniques work!
Blockages on the spine:
I had been aware from using the techniques of level 1 gained from the online
course that there were blockages along my spine. These blockages caused my
body to shake when connecting to high levels of Kundalini energy – an
interesting phenomena which let me know that something was happening but not
helpful in the long run.
Using the techniques of level 2 to
remove these thirteen blockages which looked to me in my meditation like
shiny black stones, the shaking ceased and the energy increased!
Childhood trauma
– The techniques of EE can be used to remove the negative thought forms
associated with past trauma. When I applied the techniques to the memory of
a near fatal childhood accident when I fractured my skull at the age of two
I spontaneously experienced wonderful feelings of warmth and compassion
towards the child that I was, and of forgiveness the whole situation that
had occurred.
These are just a few of
the experiences that I have had since being here. All of my fellow students
have had similar and much more dramatic experiences.
Conclusion
I have been working for over 12 years with many well
known techniques including Transcendental meditation and Kriya Yoga, Subud,
A Course in Mircles and the Sedona Method.
Although I have made good progress with these techniques
I now consider these to have been preliminary techniques to prepare me for
Energy Enhancement.
These methods that I have tried before simply don’t
provide for the systematic identification of Energy Blockages or contain the
Advanced Techniques for the removal of the energy blockages to
enlightenment that Energy Enhancement does.
If you are serious about self-improvement, growth,
change, enlightenment! Then the Energy Enhancement course is for you.

SATCHIDANAND BY AMY ZANTRAS. AMY ZANTRAS IS
LIVING AS A MASTER IN AN ASHRAM IN INDIA AND SPEAKING IN SATSANG IN
INDIA, CANADA AND SWEDEN.
If you are tired of all the many systems of meditation
which leave questions unanswered and where the path to enlightenment is ill
defined and uncertain then don’t delay end the suffering as soon as possible
– learn Energy Enhancement.
Jean, FROM THE
SEPTEMBER 2005
ENERGY ENHANCEMENT COURSE
ENERGY ENHANCEMENT - THE INTELLECT
IS GOOD, BUT IT CAN NEVER BE GOOD ENOUGH!!
THE WORLD PROBLEM
My master, Swami Satchidananda knew all
of this. They asked him about the Rulers of the World. "You are a famous man,
you have shaken the hands of all these leaders and Prime Ministers. Just what
do you think of them?"
First of all he said that it was very
dangerous to speak of these people or even mention their names.
For this reason he said he would tell a
story.
If you had an election for the leader
of the council in a town and 75% of the people in this town were thieves,
murderers and their accomplices, just what sort of a person would they elect?
BUDDHA, CHRIST AND ALL
ENLIGHTENED MASTERS SAY THAT YOU NEED TO LEARN TO WORK WITH MEDITATION TO
ATTAIN WISDOM, INTEGRATION, SOUL FUSION, INTUITION AND LIFE MASTERY.
ENERGY ENHANCEMENT SPEEDS
UP THE PROCESS
ENERGY ENHANCEMENT-
"An example of one of the different
types of Energy Blockage is that they are sometimes created when we do not
get what we expect, or we get what we do not want. They are caused by the
pain of disappointment.
Like when our Mother or Father or Son or Daughter dies. Like when a Lover
leaves us.
This trauma, this pain is so strong that at that moment the mind can not
look at it, so it gets locked away within the body until we get strong
enough to process it.
Then amnesia. We forget the pain fulminating in our bodies. We forget the
poison until, after a while, disease is the result."
Satchidanand
SATCHIDANAND IN THE MEDITATION ROOM OF THE ENERGY ENHANCEMENT CENTER
Al-Hillaj
Mansoor,
'THEN
THE UNION... THEN THE FUSION'
IMAM
MUHAMMED BAQIR IS SAID TO HAVE RELATED THIS ILLUSTRATIVE FABLE:
'FINDING I COULD SPEAK THE LANGUAGE OF ANTS, I APPROACHED ONE AND ENQUIRED,
"WHAT IS GOD LIKE? DOES HE RESEMBLE THE ANT?"
'HE ANSWERED, "GOD! NO, INDEED -- WE HAVE ONLY A SINGLE STING, BUT GOD, HE HAS
TWO!"'
What is God?
Al-Hillaj Mansoor says:
it is the gathering together then the silence
then the loss of words and the awareness
then the discovering and the nakedness.
and it is the fire clay then the fire
then the clarity and the cold
then the darkness then the sun.
and it is the orgy then the casting away of cares
then the wish and the approach
then the conjunction then the joy.
and it is the strain then the relaxation
then the disappearance and the separation
then the union...
then the fusion.
What is God?
It depends on you. Your God will be your God, my God will be my God. There are
as many Gods as there are possibilities of looking at God. It is natural. We
cannot go beyond our plane; we can only be aware of God through our eyes,
through our minds. God will be just a reflection in our small mirror. That's why
there are so many concepts about God.
It is like the moon in the sky on a full moon night. There are millions of
rivers and reservoirs and oceans and small streams and small puddles on the road
-- they will all reflect God, they will all reflect the moon. A small puddle
will reflect the moon in its own way and the big ocean will reflect it in its
own way.
Then there is great controversy. Hindus say something, Mohammedans say
something else, Christians say something else again -- and so on, so forth. The
controversy is foolish. The conflict is meaningless. God is reflected in
millions of ways, in millions of mirrors. Each mirror reflects in its own way.
This is one of the fundamentals to be understood. Not understanding this
fundamental there is naturally antagonism between religions, because they all
think, 'If our standpoint is right then the other has to be wrong.' Their
rightness depends on the other's wrongness. This is stupid. God is infinite, and
you can look at him through many ways, through many windows. And naturally you
can look at him only through yourself -- you will be the window. Your God will
reflect God as much as it will reflect you; you will both be there.
When Mansoor says something, he is saying something about himself. This
tremendously beautiful statement -- 'THEN THE UNION... THEN THE FUSION' -- is
much more about al-Hillaj Mansoor than about God. This is Mansoor's God. This is
Mansoor's unique experience.
Mansoor was murdered, crucified, like Jesus. Mohammedans could not understand
him. This happens always. You cannot understand any point higher than your own.
It becomes a danger to you. If you accept it, then you accept that there is some
possibility which is higher than you. That hurts the ego, that humiliates. You
would like to destroy a Mansoor or a Christ or a Socrates just for a single
reason: that you cannot conceive, you cannot concede, that there is a
possibility of some higher standpoint than yours. You seem to believe that you
are the last thing in existence; that you are the paradigm, that you are the
climax, that there is no beyond. This is the attitude of the stupid and the
irreligious mind. The religious mind is always open. The religious mind is never
confined by its own limitations. It keeps remembering that there is no end to
growth; one can go on growing.
It is said in the Bible that God created man in his own image. This is a human
statement; it says nothing about God. It simply says something about man. It is
man writing about himself. Naturally man thinks in terms which are
anthropomorphic. Man thinks in terms of man being the centre of existence. God
created man in his own image. He has to... at least in human scriptures he has
to follow the human mind and the human ego.
Just the contrary is the case. Man has created God in his own image. Man's God
is a human God. You can see. You can go into the temples and you can see the
images of God. They are made in the form of human beings -- a little better,
more beautiful. but still a modification, a decoration of the human body. They
have human eyes with a little more compassion. Just a little more is added. The
ideal human being, that's what our Gods are.
When Nietzsche declared that God was dead. he was, in fact. not saying anything
against God himself. He was simply saying that the God that we have followed up
to now is no Longer applicable because man has grown up. The God that we have
been following up to now was a childish, juvenile God. Humanity was juvenile.
Somebody worshipping a stone as God is saying a very, very primitive thing. His
statement is very primitive, pagan. Somebody worshipping an idol is a little
better, but still limited. All forms are limited. Somebody worshipping a tree...
a little more alive because the tree has a kind of vitality. God is vital; the
tree participates in god so it is vital. God is green and fresh and so is the
tree; and God blooms and the tree blooms. There is an at-oneness.
But a tree is a tree. It may be a faraway reflection of the divine, but to
worship the tree as God is ignorant. Somebody worshipping a river may be right
in his own way -- because the river also expresses the divine, everything
expresses him -- but everything expresses him in a limited way. He is all. So no
single thing can express him in his totality. How can a single thing express him
in his totality? If you worship the tree, what about the river? If you worship
the river, what about the sun? If you worship the sun, what about the moon? You
are worshipping only one thing -- and because it is limited and one, it cannot
represent all.
When Nietzsche said 'God is dead', he was saying that all formulations of God
up to now have become irrelevant. Man has gone beyond them; man has become more
mature. Man needs new Gods every time. As man becomes more mature he needs a
more mature God. Look in the Old Testament. God is ferocious, very jealous. God
declares, 'I am a very jealous God. If you worship somebody else I will be your
enemy. I will torture you in hell. I will throw you into fire.' This seems to be
a very primitive God; seems to be conceived of by a Genghis Khan -- not very
cultured, not very sophisticated yet.
The Hindu God is far more sophisticated. Krishna with his flute is far more
cultured. But Buddha reaches to the very peak because he drops the idea of God.
He talks about godliness. The very word 'God' makes God like a thing: defined,
clear-cut, solid, concrete, like a rock. Buddha drops the very idea. He says,
'There is godliness but there is no God. There is divineness. Existence is full
of divineness, BHAGWATA, but there is no God like a person sitting there on a
golden throne controlling, managing, creating. No, there is no God as a person.
The whole existence is full of divinity, that is true. It is overflowing with
godliness.'
Now this is a far higher concept. we drop the limitations of a person. We make
god more like a process. The ancient concept says that God created the world, he
was the creator. Buddha does not agree. He says, 'God is creativity, not a
creator.' God is one with his creativity. So whenever you are creating something
you participate in God.
When a painter is lost in his painting, when he is completely absorbed in his
painting, he is no longer an ordinary painter. He is divine in that moment of
absorption. THEN THE UNION... THEN THE FUSION.
A dancer lost utterly in his dance is a human no more; hence the beauty, hence
the utter beauty. Even those who are just spectators, even they start feeling
something strange, incredible, fantastic, happening.
It happened that for nine years before al-Hillaj Mansoor was crucified he was
confined in a jail. And he was tremendously happy because he used those nine
years for constant meditation. Outside there were always disturbances,
distractions -- friends, followers, the society, the world, the worries. He was
very happy. The day he was put into jail he thanked God from his very heart. He
said, 'You love me so much. Now you have given me complete protection from the
world and there is nothing left except you and me.' THEN THE UNION... THEN THE
FUSION.
Those nine years were of tremendous absorption. And after those nine years it
was decided that he had to be crucified, because he had not changed a bit. On
the contrary, he had gone farther in the same direction. His direction was that
he started declaring, 'I am God -- AN-EL-HAQ! I am the truth, I am the reality.'
His Master, al-Junaid, tried to persuade him in many ways -- 'Don't say these
things! Keep them inside you, because the people won't understand it and you
will be getting into trouble unnecessarily!'
But it was beyond Mansoor. Whenever he was in that state -- what Sufis call HAL
-- whenever he was in that state, he would start singing and dancing. And those
utterances would simply overflow; it was not possible for him to control them.
There was nobody to control; all control was lost. Junaid understood his state,
but he knew the state of the people too -- that sooner or later Mansoor would be
thought to be anti-religious. His declaration, 'I am God,' was a fact, his
experience was there behind it, but people didn't understand it. They would take
it as arrogance, as ego, and there would be trouble. And the trouble came.
After nine years they decided that he had not changed a bit; in fact he had
grown deeper into it. Now he was continuously declaring, 'AN-EL-HAQ! I am the
truth! I am God!' So finally they decided that he had to be crucified.
When they went to take him out from his prison cell, it was very difficult --
because he was in a HAL, in that mystic state. He was no longer a person, he was
just pure energy. How to drag pure energy out? The people who went there were
just struck dumb! What was happening in that dark cell was so fantastic! It was
so luminous. Mansoor was surrounded by an aura not of this world. Mansoor was
not there as a person. Sufis have TWO words for it: one is BAKA, another is FANA.
BAKA means you are defined by a personality, you have a definition around you,
you have a demarcation line that this is you. FANA means that you are dissolved
into God and you don't have any definition. BAKA IS like an ice cube and FANA is
like the ice cube which has melted and become one with the river.
This constantly happens to the mystics: they move from baka to FANA, from FANA
to BAKA. It is almost like day and night. By and by there comes a kind of
rhythm. Sometimes you will find the mystic in the state of BAKA -- and when you
find him in the state of BAKA you will see the most unique individuality that
has ever been seen. In the state of BAKA he will be a unique individual -- very
original, very pure, clear-cut. he will be like a peak standing against the sky,
or like a star in the dark night -- so clear, so separate, so individual. That
is the meaning of BAKA -- individual.
You will not find these kinds of individuals in the ordinary world. There are
people but not individuals, persons but not individuals A person is one who has
no individuality; he is just an anonymous part of a mass. He lives like they
live, he talks like they talk, he eats like they eat, he goes to the movie that
they go to, he purchases the car that they purchase, he makes a house like they
make -- he is continuously following 'they', the mass, the collectivity, the
crowd. He is not himself; he is very confused. His boundary lines are very
messy. They are there but they are in a mess; they are not clear-cut. If you
look into him you will not find him there. You will find layers upon layers of
conditioning. He will be a Mohammedan because he was born in a Mohammedan house.
He will be a Hindu because he was born into a Hindu family. He will be reciting
the Gita because his father used to recite it -- and his father's father. For
ages they have been reciting it, so he is reciting it. It all seems accidental.
He has no uniqueness in him. He is just a part. He lives like they live, he dies
like they die. He lives their life, he dies their death. He never asserts
himself, he is never rebellious. This is the state of the ordinary personality.
This is not individuality.
Individuality arises only when you become very clear-cut, when you attain an
original shape of your being, when you do your thing, when you don't care what
others say, when you are ready to sacrifice your whole life for your freedom,
when freedom becomes your ultimate value and nothing else matters -- then you
become BAKA, individual. And this is the paradox: only individuals can go into
FANA, into that utter dissolution, desolation, into that utter disappearance.
First you have to be, only then can you disappear. If you are not, then what is
going to disappear? First you have to detach yourself from the crowd, only then
can you take the jump. So this is the paradox: the man in the state of BAKA can
go into the state of FANA, and only he can go.
The mass man cannot go into FANA because he does not know who he is. He has no
address yet, he has no name yet, he has no identity yet. He is just a number. He
can be replaced very easily, he's replaceable. He is just a part doing a certain
kind of work. He is a function. For example, he may be an engineer. If he dies,
you can put another engineer there and nobody will miss him. Or he may be a
doctor. If he dies, you place another doctor there and nobody will miss him. He
is a replaceable part, he is a function.
But the man of BAKA is not a function; he has a totally different kind of
quality in his being. He will be missed forever and ever. Once he is gone you
cannot replace him. You cannot replace Jesus. You can replace the pope of the
Vatican; many times you have replaced him. Each time one pope dies he is
replaced. You can replace the Shankaracharya of Puri very easily, there is no
problem -- one dies and you put another there. But you cannot replace the
original Shankaracharya. You cannot replace Jesus, you cannot replace Mohammed.
Once gone they are gone forever. They exist as unique individuals -- that is the
state of BAKA. And they are the only people capable of going into FANA. It looks
contradictory, because FANA means losing all your definition, losing all your
being.
But first you have to have the being to lose it. How can you lose it if you
don't have it? How can you renounce it if you don't have it? So the paradox is
only apparent. It has a very, very universal law behind it. First you have to
have something in order to drop it. First gather together. IT IS THE GATHERING
TOGETHER THEN THE SILENCE. First gather together, integrate, become BAKA, and
then you can go into FANA.
This man, Mansoor, became a man of unique individuality. Wherever he went he
was immediately recognised; it was impossible to miss him. He came to India too.
In fact, because his Master, al-Junaid, told him, 'It is better if you start
travelling into other countries, otherwise you will be caught,' he travelled to
faraway countries. Everywhere he was recognised imme-diately. He was a king of
kings. You could not miss him. If he was standing in a crowd of ten thousand
people, you would be able to see him. He had BAKA; he was crystal clear. His
presence was immense, huge, enormous. Once you had seen him, all other persons
would look pale, faint, flat. So sooner or later he would be recognised and he
would have to leave the country because trouble would arise.
He went to many countries in the Middle East, but wherever he went it was okay
for a few days -- he could live without being recognised -- but not for long. So
finally he went back and said to Junaid, his Master, 'It is futile. I get caught
everywhere. So why not here?'
When this man was being carried from the cell, the officers who had come to
take him out could not find exactly where he was. He was there, utterly there.
The whole cell was full of a radiance, a presence -- very solid yet indefinable.
They could not enter the cell. They stood there in awe, in wonder -- 'What to
do?' Finally they gathered courage. They tried to pull him out but they could
not. Then there was only one way: his Master al-Junaid was asked to come and
help because the time was passing and Mansoor had to be crucified and they could
not get him out.
Al-Junaid came and he said, 'Mansoor, now listen. A thousand and one times I
have told you to surrender to God. If he wants you to be crucified, then be
ordinary and be crucified. Let him do his work. Enough is enough?' And when al-Junaid
shouted, Mansoor came back out of the FANA into the BAKA. Again there was a
demarcation line; he was no longer a cloud, he became concrete and solid. The
boundaries appeared. The Master had come and he had to listen to his Master.
Then he was taken to the gallows. It was very difficult to kill him. One
thousand wounds were made on his body -- still he was alive. Then they started
cutting off his limbs, but still he was alive -- because on the cross he again
lost the state of BAKA and went into the state of FANA. He got lost again into
ecstasy, into that energy that is God.
God is energy for a man of the state of Mansoor. God is consciousness for the
man of the state of Buddha. God is love for Christ. He is not a person. These
three L's have to be learned: God is love, life, light. You have heard about the
three R's. The three R's make you civilised. These three L's make you religious.
Be more alive -- so much so that you become one with life. Then let love arise
so much that you start overflowing with love. Then you know no boundaries. Then
out of you a new kind of light starts arising, a luminousness. These three 'L's'
have to be learned, and those three 'R's' have to be forgotten.
The whole philosophy of Sufism is to approach God as cosmic energy, with no
concept. But we all have concepts and all concepts are juvenile, childish. God
cannot be conceptualised.
We have been given concepts by others; we have learned them. They are just
suggestions from the mass, ideas put into your head. Christians have an idea of
an old man with a white beard, very ancient-looking, sitting there on a golden
throne surrounded by angels, controlling the world. There is nothing wrong about
it, but there is nothing right either. It is good enough to satisfy the
curiosity of small children, children also need some idea about God, but one has
to grow out of this childishness.
We go on hammering certain ideas into the heads of small children.
I have heard....
The clergyman said to Mrs. Mott whose baby was just christened, 'Oh, Mrs. Mott,
I have never seen a child that was so well behaved at a christening.'
Mrs. Mott said, 'Well, it's because my husband and I have been practising on
him with a watering can for a week.'
If you practise on a child for one week with a watering can, of course.... It
becomes habitual. And that's what has been done to humanity down the ages --
ideas have been practised on you. Those who practise them don't know what they
are doing; they are in the same trap. Their parents practised those ideas on
them. They don't know what they are, what they are talking about. If you insist
too much on asking what exactly the word 'God' means,. you will make anybody and
everybody uncomfortable. So asking questions is not supported; one has to accept
these things, one has to believe these things. Nobody likes answering if you ask
too much. If you go on asking, you make the other person very uncomfortable
because you start seeing and touching his buttons. It is also a belief for him;
he does not know what God is.
It is just out of fear that children have been trained, and out of fear they go
on clinging. That's why whenever you are afraid you start thinking more of God.
In a dark night, passing through a cemetery, you are bound to remember God. When
you are alone, ill, in difficulties, in frustration, in anxieties, in misery,
you remember God. God is more associated with misery. If you are happy, you tend
to forget God. God has no association with happiness. In reality, it should be
just the other way -- when you are happy you can approach God more easily
because a happy mind is a flowing mind, a happy mind is an open mind, a happy
mind is more vulnerable, more delicate.
An unhappy mind is closed. How can a mind that lives in fear be open? It is not
possible.
I have heard....
A young man wanted to pass an old man in a wagon on a country road, but the old
man would not pull over.
Finally when he had passed the old man, he took his pistol out and walked back
to the wagon. 'Old man, do you know how to dance?' he asked, shooting at the
ground near the old man's feet and laughing uproariously as he began to jump up
and down.
When the young man started back, the old man grabbed his concealed shotgun and
said, 'Young man, did you ever kiss a mule?'
The young man said, looking into the barrel of the shotgun, 'No, but I always
wanted to.'
Out of fear you can create anything. And your God is created out of fear. Your
God is nothing but your fear instinct. It is not your experience.
A little boy in Aberdeen, Scotland, was disciplined by his mother, who used to
say to him when he was naughty, 'Now, God won't like that.' And when he was
particularly unruly or disobedient, she would say, 'God will be angry.'
Usually these admonitions were sufficient, but one night when she had prunes
for his dessert at supper, he rebelled. He refused to finish the prunes on his
plate. She pleaded, she coaxed. Finally she said, 'Now, God won't like this. God
doesn't like little boys who refuse to finish all their prunes.'
But the little fellow was quite unmoved. She went on further to say, 'God will
be angry.' But for some reason or other the little boy stubbornly refused to
take the last two prunes which lay on his plate... dark blue, wrinkled tokens of
his rebellion.
'Well,' said the mother, 'you must now go to bed. You have been a very naughty
boy, and God is angry, really angry.'
So she packed him upstairs and put him to bed. No sooner had she come down than
a violent thunderstorm broke out. The lightning was more vivid than usual. The
thunder clumped up and down the sky with shattering reverberations. The suddenly
angry wind threw handfuls of rain against the windows. It was a most violent
storm, and she thought her little son would be terrified and that she should go
up and comfort him. Quietly she opened his bedroom door, expecting to find him
whimpering in fear, perhaps with the covers pulled over his head. But to her
surprise he was not in bed at all; he had gone to the window. With his face
pressed against the window pane, she heard him mutter, 'My, my, such a fuss to
make over two prunes!'
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But that's how your God is.
You have been brought up in fear and you have been brought up in greed. Because
of fear and greed you go on believing in a certain idea of God. That idea is as
absurd as your greed and your fear. It has nothing to do with God, it has
something to do with you and your psychology.
If you really want to know what God is, then you will have to drop all kinds of
fear and all kinds of greed. You will have to drop, in reality, your whole
psychology, your whole mind. God is an experience of the state of no-mind, FANA;
when you are no more, dissolved, then you know what God is.
So, a few things.... God is not a concept, a theory, a hypothesis, an
explanation, a philosophy -- not at all. How can you make a concept of something
that you don't know? You don't know God, you have never encountered God, so
what-soever you think about him is borrowed, is pseudo. The real has to be your
experience. Otherwise, God is a kind of explanation -- because there are
problems in life and there are puzzles in life and there are mysteries in life,
and you always find it difficult to explain them. Birth is there and death is
there, and this whole tremendously beautiful existence is there. From where does
it come? Who creates it? Why is it created? Why is it at all? Why is it rather
than not? A thousand and one questions arise in the mind and you need some
comfortable, convenient explanation so you can rest and sleep well. God is a
blanket explanation. It covers all your problems. In a single concept you
explain everything.
Whenever you say 'God knows', you simply mean 'I don't know'. But it is a very
tricky strategy. You don't say 'I don't know', you say 'God knows'. It gives you
a kind of feeling that you may not know it but there is somebody who knows --
and that is your God and he takes care, you need not worry. Father knows, mother
knows, God knows, somebody knows. So why bother? You can remain unburdened. But
let me tell you, God is not an explanation. And those who cling to explanations
will never know what God is.
God is the dropping away of all explanations and all theories and all
philosophies. God is the dropping away of all kinds of thinking, because
thinking is a barrier. How can you think about the unknown? You can think only
about the known. Thinking is just chewing the same thing over and over again.
You can think only that which you have known already. Thinking never gives you
anything original; it cannot, it is not in its nature. And God is the most
unknown phenomenon. God means the totality. It is not known. All explanations
are kinds of deceptions -- deceiving yourself, deceiving others, that you know.
A sincere, honest seeker will drop all explanations. That is what is meant when
al-Hillaj says,
IT IS THE GATHERING TOGETHER THEN THE SILENCE
-- the silence which comes when you drop all explanations, all theories, all
philosophies.
THEN THE LOSS OF WORDS
-- then the words are not needed at all. When all theories and all explanations
and philosophies have been dropped, what are you going to do with words?
THEN THE LOSS OF WORDS AND THE AWARENESS
-- when words are lost, in that silence awareness arises.
THEN THE DISCOVERING AND THE NAKEDNESS
-- you are utterly naked. Before God you have to be utterly naked, with no
explanations, no philosophies surrounding you. You have to be as naked as
possible, totally nude, empty, undressed. Then only is there a possibility of
contacting God.
God is not a person -- that is the second thing to remember. It is human to
think about God as a person. When we think about God as a person it looks
warmer. Lao Tzu says 'Tao', but Tao doesn't seem so warm. You cannot hug Tao.
Tao cannot hug you. Buddha says 'Dhamma' -- the law. But the law seems to be
cold. You need some warm embrace, you need a God who can love you, who can
caress you, who can kiss you, who can take you close, who can hold your hand.
This is human desire, desire for warmth.
But existence has no obligation to fulfill your desires. Your desire is all
right, but your desire simply shows that you are missing love, not God. Try to
understand it. Your desire simply shows that you have missed your parents --
your mother, your father, or you have missed a beloved. Your desire simply shows
that there is some hankering for love that you are projecting on to God. So God
becomes a person. You transform God into a person because OF your need. But this
is your need, and there is no necessity that your need has to be fulfilled. You
have to understand your need and drop it. That's why my insistence is never to
remain unfulfilled in your love, otherwise you will never find the real God.
Love as much as you can. Love human beings, love animals, love trees, love
rocks, mountains, rivers -- love as much as you can. Let there be great
experience of love so that your love-need is fulfilled, so that one day you can
transcend love.
Just the other day there was a question from Ananda Prem. WHY, she asks, DO
SPIRITUAL PERSONS WANT TO GO BEYOND LOVE? This is why. Because if you are not
yet satisfied in your love, you will go on projecting love-needs onto God. And
that will be a false God, that will be your projection. That will be your idea,
not the reality of God. You cannot see the reality of God. You will see God in
terms of what you would like him to be; you cannot see that which is. You will
have a kind of wish fulfilment.
So Freud is not absolutely wrong when he says that God is a kind of wish
fulfilment. He's right about ninety-nine per cent of people. He's right about
Ananda Prem. Ananda Prem is suffering from a love-need. She tries to find a
lover and she cannot, because she has a certain idea of a lover. The very idea
becomes an obstruction. She searches for a perfect lover. Yes, it is very
difficult in the first place to find a perfect lover, and if you can find one,
the perfect lover will not be in any kind of need. A needy person cannot relate
to a perfect lover. Only a perfect lover can relate to a perfect lover. Both
will be without needs. Their love will be of a totally new kind; it will be a
kind of sharing. It is not that they need each other; just because they have so
much they want to give it.
A perfect lover is one who is as happy alone as when he is with the beloved;
there is no difference. Then he is a perfect lover. But he is as happy alone.
Now Ananda Prem goes on searching for a perfect lover, and because she cannot
find the perfect lover and ordinary human beings are just worthless for her, now
she can start projecting upon God. She writes in her question: WHAT ABOUT MEERA?
MEERA LOVED GOD IN THE FORM OF KRISHNA, STILL SHE ATTAINED. Yes, she loved God
in the form of Krishna, but Meera's love is the love of a perfect human being.
She has no need, she does not want anything from Krishna; she simply goes on
giving. She has a song to sing, she sings. She has a dance to dance, she dances.
She has nothing to get, she only gives. And she gets a thousandfold -- that is
another thing, but she has nothing to get.
If you want to become Meera, Ananda Prem, first you will have to be fulfilled
about human love-needs -- otherwise your Krishna will be false, it will not be
Meera's Krishna. Your Krishna will be just your imagination, your Krishna will
be just a projection of a repressed desire. Your Krishna will have much
sexuality. First be finished with the human needs. And the only way to be
finished is to go into them. I am not against them, remember, and I am not
saying that something is wrong in them. There is a great lesson in them and it
can be learned only by going through them. Go through them, don't demand the
impossible -- otherwise love will not happen.
Remember the limitation of human beings, and remember your limitations. And
whatsoever kind of love is possible, go into it. don't hanker for the
impossible, otherwise you will miss even the possible. And the impossible cannot
happen. The impossible happens only the other way round: go through the
possible, let the possible be finished with, let your being come out of it
fulfilled -- then the impossible can also happen. You have become capable of it.
If people's love-needs are not fulfilled, they go on projecting onto God -- and
poor God suffers unnecessarily. When I was reading Ananda Prem's question I
became very, very sad for God. If Ananda Prem starts loving God, then think
about God too! -- because he cannot go to the court, he cannot say no; he just
has to suffer your love.
First go through human turmoil, human anguish -- the joys of human love and the
miseries of human love. Let yourself become ripe through it. Then only do you
have the fragrance which can be offered to God, not before it. First become a
lotus. Come out of the mud of desire. And remember, the lotus comes out of the
mud. Out of desiring comes the state of desirelessness -- the lotus of
desirelessness. Seeing the futility of desire again and again and again, one day
one becomes so mature that one drops the very desire. In that very dropping is
the meeting. When there is no desire there is nothing to hinder you from seeing
God. Then God is all over the place, then only God is. But God is not a person.
Christians say that God is a father. God is not a father. That simply shows
somehow that your father-need is still unfulfilled. There are people who say
that God is a mother. That simply shows that their mother-need is unfulfilled.
There are some who think that God is a lover. Then their love-need is not
fulfilled. What you say about God shows something about you. If you think of God
as a father, it simply shows that you are unsatisfied with your father, that you
are not yet reconciled with your father, that you have become too dependent on
your father. You need a father in the sky now. Maybe your father is dead and you
cannot live without a father, or maybe your father is far away and you cannot
live without your father. You are still immature and childish; you need somebody
to cling to. Then you will create God the father.
God is neither father nor mother nor lover nor beloved. God is not a person at
all.
God is energy, cosmic energy. God is continuous creativity. God is love, life,
light. God is not an object of experience either. It is not that one day you
will encounter God as an object of experience. God is not an object and God is
not a subject either. When subject and object meet and disappear into each
other, FANA, then there is a new kind of experience -- what Krishnamurti calls
'experiencing'. It is not even experience, because the very word experience
seems to be finished, complete, rounded. God is never complete, never finished;
it is always an ongoing affair, always open, always flowering, always moving.
God is a dynamic energy.God is a process, not a thing.
So, an experiencing.... And what is an experiencing? What is the difference
between experience and experiencing? The difference is that in experience you
remain separate from the object. For example, you are listening to me. This can
happen in two ways. For those who are here just as spectators, as listeners, as
an audience, it is an experience. I am here separate from them; they are there
separate from me. I am an object and they are the subject. They are there
centred in their egos listening to me. And they are continuously judging whether
this is right or wrong, whether this applies or not, whether this can be
practised or not, whether this agrees with their scripture or not -- they are
continuously judging inside. This will be an experience.
But those who are in deep love with me, who are not standing against me, who
are not there as a subject listening to me, who get lost into it, who are en
rapport with me, involved with me, involved with me as if they are listening to
themselves, to their own heartbeat -- then there is not an experience but
experiencing. Then I am not here separate from them, and they are not there
separate from me. Then there is a union and a fusion.
God is an experiencing.
If you want to know what God is you will have to learn the art of experiencing.
Then there is no need to go to a mosque or to a temple or to a church. Wherever
experiencing happens there is the church, there is the temple, there is the
mosque. Looking at a roseflower, if you disappear into the roseflower and the
roseflower disappears into you -- the observer becomes the observed and there is
no distinction left, there are not two things confronting each other but a
meeting, merging, melting into each other -- then boundaries are no longer
there. Somehow you have entered into the rose and the rose has entered into you.
And this is possible, this transfiguration is possible. Because it is possible,
religion is relevant, meaningful -- otherwise religion won't be meaningful.
Being with the roseflower, you enter into God. Then all possibilities can be
used as doors to the divine.
I have heard....
Bernard Synon writes: Think of a man driving up a country hill road, who upon
reaching the top, stops his car and walks over to a nearby five-barred gate.
Leaning on it he gazes with pleasure at the vista spread out before him. There
is a sky of breathless blue, full of birds wheeling lazily in the warm sun.
Fields of emerald green ripple in the soft breeze, while on the hillsides cattle
and sheep graze peacefully. The whole scene is one of tranquil beauty and the
man draws a deep breath saying, 'It is really lovely.'
At that moment another car draws up and the first man ;s joined by another.
'Beautiful, isn't it?' murmurs the first man.
The other man is silent for a moment, then says thought-fully, 'Have you ever
considered what is really happening out there? These graceful birds who wheel in
the sky are seeking food. How graceful do they look to the insects they gobble?
or to the writhing worms they drag from the earth with cruel and rending beaks?'
The first man shifts uneasily, 'Ah, come now!'
The other man speaks again. 'Those sheep so peacefully grazing -- they are
being fattened and will soon be dragged to the slaughterhouse trembling with
fear as they smell the blood-stained floor on which they will die. Their little
lambs will be snatched away to dangle from butchers' hooks.'
The first man is silent as the voice continues.
'This emerald green grace rippling in the sun -- within it murder and mayhem
are constantly taking place as spiders devour flies and large insects devour the
smaller. If the sounds could be interpreted and magnified, screams of pain and
fear would reverberate throughout this lush meadow.'
The first is a poet; he looks through the eyes of positivity. The second is a
critic; he looks through the eyes of negativity. Bernard Synon ends this small
parable here. I would like to bring another man, the mystic, in.
A third car comes and out gets a mystic who listens to the stories of both the
men and laughs. And he says, 'Life is not either/or. Life is both/and. You are
both right, but life is more than that. Yes, there is dark night and there is
bright day, there is summer and there is winter, and there is life and there is
death. You are both right, but you have chosen one standpoint against the other.
You see only half the picture of life and you try to impose that half on the
whole. Then you go wrong. I don't choose, I simply accept as it is.'
Yes, there is death and there is life and both are intertwined. Seeing both
together one transcends; one transcends to a higher peak. Then one is no longer
dominated by any standpoint. Then you see life and death as part of each other,
and then you are so transcendental to- both that you see eternity. Then there is
neither beauty nor ugliness, there is simply truth.
Beauty is choosing one standpoint, ugliness is choosing another standpoint.
Truth is not choosing any standpoint at all. Truth is not choosing.
God is not any aspect of reality. God is all the aspects together without any
choice. If you choose, you miss; if you don't choose, there is no way to miss.
But there is a problem.... When you choose, you can remain yourself -- all
choice feeds the ego. When you don't choose, you disappear. You disappear with
your choice, likes, dislikes. You cannot exist without choosing. The ego cannot
exist without choice. Choice is its very breath. Just as you cannot exist if the
breath disappears, so ego cannot exist without choosing, without taking a
standpoint, without being for or against. Once you don't take any standpoint,
you disappear. In that disappearance is God.
You will never meet God, remember. Nobody has ever met God. When people say
that they have met God, what they mean Is that they have disappeared, only God
is. The ego disappears and then there is experiencing -- continuous, constant,
eternal. That energy, that everflowing energy, is what God is.
So remember, God is not an object of experience, neither is he the subject of
experience -- God is experiencing itself. God is not static but a process --
evolving, expanding, exploding, exploring. It goes on and on. It is an
adventure; it is a pilgrimage from nowhere to nowhere. God is not there in the
heavens or somewhere else -- God is not there, God is here. And God is not then,
God is now. And God is not that, God is this.
If you can understand these few words: here, now, this.... These three words
are the three pillars of Sufism, of Zen, of all that is essential religion.
These three words -- let them vibrate in your being again and again: here, now,
this.
Those who think of God as that -- far away, somewhere else -- are just
imagining, and missing the obvious which is just close by. God is not far away.
He is closer than you are to yourself. He's your innermost core, how he can be
far away? And God is not then, there -- lin the past, in the future. It is not
that God used to walk in the days of Moses and talk to people, it is not that
God used to talk to Mohammed and will not talk to you. It is not that he used to
sing songs to the seers of the Upanishads and he has forgotten you or abandoned
you. God is now. God is always now. God is never past, never future. In
relationship to God, past and future are meaningless words. You cannot say 'God
was', you cannot say 'God will be'. You have always to say 'God is'. There is
only one tense: is, present. And God is here this very moment.
If you can be in a state of experiencing, God is here, now, this. If you cannot
be in the state of experiencing, God is never, nowhere. This state of
experiencing is what Sufis call medi-tation. But this God here, now, this, is a
dangerous God. You have to disappear for it to be. You have to dissolve into it.
It is risky. We have created substitutes to avoid the risk.
It was announced in church that a substitute preacher would preach.
A little boy leaned over and asked his mother, 'What is a substitute?'
'Well, for example, son, if you threw your baseball through the window and
broke it, and we didn't have another real pane, we could put a piece of
cardboard in the window... that is what we call a substitute.'
When the substitute minister had finished preaching that morning, the little
boy leaned over and said, 'Mother, this sure is not a substitute... he is a real
pain!'
All your substitutes are real pains because no substitute can ever satisfy. No
substitute can ever fulfil, no substitute can ever quench your thirst. But man
is very cunning and goes on creating substitutes. Your temples are substitute
temples, your teachers are substitute teachers, your prayers are substitute
prayers. Your own prayer has not arisen yet, and you have not yet found the
temple of experiencing. But remember, you choose these substitutes, and then you
suffer. And when you suffer, you blame God.
I have heard....
Cohen, aged eighty-six, had lived through beatings in Polish pogroms,
concentration camps in Germany, and dozens of other anti-Semitic calamities.
'Ah, Lord!' he prayed, sitting in the synagogue. 'Isn't it true that we are
your chosen people?'
And from the heavens boomed a voice, 'Yes, Cohen, the Jews are my chosen
people!'
'Well, then,' wailed the old man, 'isn't it time you chose somebody else?'
No people are God's chosen people. You have chosen to be God s chosen people --
and then you suffer. Jews have suffered for a really long time. And all their
misery can be condensed into this single thing: they have chosen to be the
chosen people of God. That very ego has created great antagonism. And they are
stubbornly clinging to it. The more they have suffered, the more stubborn they
have become.
But God has not chosen anybody. How can God choose? All is his. All is he.
There is no question of choice. But we choose our ideas and then those ideas
become prisons, calamities. Beware! If you are suffering, then look back -- you
must have chosen something wrong, otherwise you cannot suffer. This is my basic
observation after observing thousands of people and their miseries. Whenever I
see somebody suffering and in misery, I have by and by become absolutely certain
about one thing -- that he is responsible, that he has chosen some wrong ideas,
that he has chosen some wrong notions. But those who suffer always throw the
responsibility on others. And sometimes it seems very unjust. If a couple comes
to me and the wife or the husband is miserable but the other partner is not
miserable at all, the miserable partner tries to throw the responsibility on the
other -- 'He is responsible for my misery.'
It seems very hard to tell the person who is in misery that he must be
responsible for his misery -- because nobody else can be responsible for his
misery. If the other is happy he must have chosen different values. He must have
chosen values that give happiness, health, wholeness. If you have chosen wrong
values, you suffer, but you can always manipulate and interpret in such a way
that your suffering seems as if it has been done to you, Nobody can make you
suffer. It is always basically you who decide whether to suffer or not. In every
situation you can take a standpoint from which you can get out of suffering, and
in every situation you can take a standpoint from which you can create as much
suffering as you like. But people like to suffer. There is a reason for it: the
more they suffer the more they are. In suffering the ego feels strengthened; in
bliss it disappears.
So you go on saying that you need bliss, that you seek bliss, but when I look
into you I find just the opposite. You seek misery, you live on misery, you look
for misery. You go on saying that you seek bliss and you go on looking for
misery. Unless this mechanism is understood perfectly well, you will never be
able to know what God is. God is bliss. And bliss is possible only when you have
understood the phenomenon of how you create your misery. Substitutes create
misery.
For example, you wanted to love a woman but love is dangerous, unsocial,
rebellious. And who knows what might happen? So you settled for marriage. Now
marriage is a substitute for love. You will never be happy, you will be
miserable. Of course you will be comfortably miserable, conveniently miserable
-- but miserable all the same. You will have a certain security, a good bank
balance, prestige, respect, but you will not be happy. Look at your respectable
people. They have all that they always thought would help them, they have it.
Money they have, power they have, prestige they have. But look into their eyes
-- they are deserts. Not a single flower blooms, there is no joy. They are just
dragging themselves somehow. They settled for a substitute.
Go and sit by the comer of a temple or a mosque and watch people coming and
going. Do you see any celebration? Do you see any real joy? Do you see any
dance? -- nothing! People just walk into the temple as part of their formal
duty, and get out as soon as they can. They have to fulfil a certain duty; they
have to show society that they are religious people -- it pays. But there is no
joy. The temple is a substitute.
See people praying. Not a single tear comes to their eyes. See people praying.
No radiance is on their faces. Not even a ripple of dance is around them. And
they go on praying for their whole life. It is a sheer wastage of time and
energy. They have chosen a substitute. Beware of substitutes. Only then can you
find God. God has no substitute. God is the really real, the truth.
Now this small parable.
IMAM MUHAMMED BAQIR IS SAID TO HAVE RELATED THIS ILLUSTRATIVE FABLE:
'FINDING I COULD SPEAK THE LANGUAGE OF ANTS, I APPROACHED ONE AND ENQUIRED,
"WHAT IS GOD LIKE? DOES HE RESEMBLE THE ANT?"
'HE ANSWERED, "GOD! NO, INDEED -- WE HAVE ONLY A SINGLE STING, BUT GOD, HE HAS
TWO!"'
That's how all your religions and philosophies are -- God is just your
magnified ROOP, form. You have one sting, he has two. You live seventy years, he
lives eternally. You become old, he never becomes old. But the difference is of
quantity, not of quality. Your God is your projected, reformed, modified,
decorated form. Your God is you as you would like to be.
OSHO - Sufis, the People of
the Path Volume 2 Chapter 3

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