Unio Mystica Volume - 1 Lecture-10

Something To Be Remembered

The first question:

Question 1:

THE MASSES WERE AGAINST JESUS, THEY WERE AGAINST BUDDHA, THEY ARE AGAINST YOU. WHY?

The masses live in a kind of non-individual existence. They live like sheep. So whenever a man like Jesus or Buddha is there, asserting his individuality, his rebellion, his freedom, he is naturally disliked. The masses become afraid; their foundations are shaken. If Jesus is right, then the whole life pattern of the masses will have to be changed. It is too much work, and people have invested too much in their slavery.

The presence of Jesus makes people feel bankrupt. The moment you come across a Buddha, you are reduced to a very ugly kind of inhuman being. You lose all dignity, you feel humiliated. If you are intelligent you will rise to the occasion: you will see the point that up to now you have lived in ignorance, in sleep. And you will feel grateful to the Buddha that his presence has become a ray of light into your dark night of the soul.

But that much intelligence is very rare. People are stupid and stubborn, they immediately react.

Rather than rising higher and taking the challenge of the peak the Buddha is, they destroy Buddha, they destroy Jesus, so that they can again fall asleep and dream their so-called sweet dreams.

That's why they are against me: I am a kind of disturbance. My presence cannot be ignored: either you have to be with me, or you have to be against me. Whenever you cannot ignore the presence of a certain person and you have to choose, great turmoil arises in your being - because no choice is easy. Choice means change.

Unio Mystica Volume - 1 Lecture-9

A Wedding and a Wake

FOR THE WISE MAN

EVIL AND GOOD

ARE BOTH EXCEEDING GOOD.

NO EVIL EVER COMES FROM GOD;

WHENEVER YOU THINK TO SEE

EVIL PROCEEDING FROM HIM,

YOU WERE BETTER TO LOOK ON IT

AS GOOD.

I'M AFRAID THAT ON THE WAY OF FAITH,

YOU ARE LIKE A SQUINTER SEEING DOUBLE,

OR A FOOL QUARRELING WITH THE SHAPE OF A CAMEL.

IF HE GIVES YOU POISON, DEEM IT HONEY;

AND IF HE SHOWS YOU ANGER, DEEM IT MERCY.

BE CONTENTED WITH YOUR LOT;

BUT IF YOU HAVE ANY COMPLAINTS,

GO AND TAKE THEM TO THE CADI

AND OBTAIN SATISFACTION FROM HIM -

THAT'S HOW THE FOOL'S MIND WORKS!

WHATEVER BEFALLS YOU,

MISFORTUNE OR FORTUNE,

IS UNALLOYED BLESSING;

THE ATTENDANT EVIL

A FLEEING SHADOW.

Unio Mystica Volume - 1 Lecture-8

The Great Palace of Consciousness

The first question:

Question 1:

CAN COWARDICE AND HYPOCRISY ALSO BE BEAUTIFUL? CAN I ACCEPT EVEN MY COWARDICE, MY HYPOCRISY, MY MISERLINESS AND A TENDENCY TOWARDS PRIVACY THAT YOU YOURSELF HAVE CALLED "IDIOCY"? AND IF I ACCEPT SUCH TENDENCIES, ALL OF WHICH TEND TO BOTTLE ME UP, HOW WILL I GET FREE?

Deva Ashoka, the very desire to be free keeps one unfree. Every desire is a chain, a bondage, an imprisonment. No desire can ever be fulfilled. By dropping the desire, its fulfillment happens.

Now, the greatest desire in the world is that of inner transformation. The desire for money is nothing, the desire for more power, prestige, is nothing. The greatest desire is the so-called spiritual desire.

And once you are caught in that desire you will remain miserable forever.

Transformation is possible, but not by desiring it. Transformation is possible only by relaxing into that which is, whatsoever is. Unconditionally accepting yourself brings transformation.

We will have to go deeper into this phenomenon, because this is not only Ashoka's question, it is everybody's.

Man is in misery, man is in anguish. Hence everybody is searching for a state of bliss, a state of unity with existence. Man feels alienated, uprooted. Hence the desire is natural - to get roots into existence again, to be green again, to be blossoming again.

Unio Mystica Volume - 1 Lecture-7

Cooked and Burnt

A RUBY, THERE, IS JUST A PIECE OF STONE:

AND SPIRITUAL EXCELLENCE THE HEIGHT OF FOLLY.

SILENCE IS PRAISE - HAVE DONE WITH SPEECH;

YOUR CHATTER WILL ONLY BRING YOU HARM AND SORROW -

HAVE DONE!

BELIEF AND UNBELIEF

BOTH HAVE THEIR ORIGIN

IN YOUR HYPOCRITE'S HEART;

THE WAY IS ONLY LONG

BECAUSE YOU DELAY TO START ON IT:

ONE SINGLE STEP

WOULD BRING YOU TO HIM:

BECOME A SLAVE,

AND YOU WILL BE A KING.

THE DUMB FIND TONGUES,

WHEN THE SCENT OF LIFE REACHES THEM

FROM HIS SOUL.

LISTEN TRULY - AND DON'T BE FOOLED -

THIS IS NOT FOR FOOLS:

Unio Mystica Volume - 1 Lecture-6

The Bridge of Love and Laughter

The first question:

BELOVED MASTER,

Question 1:

WHAT IS CREATIVITY?

Deva Mohan, action is not creativity, inaction also is not creativity. Creativity is a very paradoxical state of consciousness and being: it is action through inaction, it is what Lao Tzu calls WEI-WU-WEI.

It is allowing something to happen through you. It is not a doing, it is an allowing. It is becoming a passage so the whole can flow through you. It is becoming a hollow bamboo, just a hollow bamboo.

And then immediately something starts happening, because hidden behind man is god. Just give him a little way, a little passage, to come through you. That is creativity: allowing God to happen is creativity.

Creativity is a religious state. That's why I say that a poet is far closer to God than a theologian, a dancer even closer. The philosopher is the farthest away, because the more you think, the greater the wall you create between you and the whole. The more you think, the more you are. The ego is nothing but all the thoughts accumulated in the past.

When you are not, God is. That is creativity.

Unio Mystica Volume - 1 Lecture-5

The Fire Test

THE PURE MAN UNITES

TWO IN ONE;

THE LOVER UNITES

THREE IN ONE.

BUT I AM FRIGHTENED

LEST YOUR IGNORANCE AND STUPIDITY

LEAVE YOU STRANDED ON THE BRIDGE.

HE IS THE PROVIDER

OF BOTH FAITH AND WORLDLY GOODS;

HE IS NONE OTHER

THAN THE DISPOSER

OF OUR LIVES.

HE IS NO TYRANT:

FOR EVERYTHING HE TAKES,

HE GIVES BACK SEVENTY-FOLD;

AND IF HE CLOSES ONE DOOR

HE OPENS TEN OTHERS TO YOU.

HE TREASURES YOU MORE

THAN YOU DO YOURSELF.

Unio Mystica Volume - 1 Lecture-4

A Pearl of Exceeding Beauty

The first question:

Question 1:

BUDDHA DID NOT HAVE A MASTER, JESUS DID NOT HAVE A MASTER, YOU DID NOT HAVE A MASTER. WHY DO WE NEED A MASTER?

Devamo, because you are not yet capable of allowing life to be your master. Because you don't know how to listen, how to learn. Because you are incapable of learning, that's why you need a master.

The need arises out of your insensitivity, out of your unintelligence. If you are intelligent then life is enough. Then there are sermons in the stones, and every leaf of a tree is a message, and the river going to the ocean carries all the scriptures with it. You need not go to the Vedas and to the Koran and to the Bible, there is no need. The whole existence is every moment singing the song of the divine.

But you are not able to listen to it, you are not yet capable of opening yourself to it. Hence the need of a master. The master is only a beginning. He will teach you how to listen, he will teach you how to be open. He will give you love so that you can warm up - you have become too cold. Once you are warmed up a little, there is no need for a master, then the whole of life is the master. The master simply becomes a jumping-board.

You say: BUDDHA DID NOT HAVE A MASTER.

That is wrong - Buddha had many masters. His last master was Alar Kalam, a very rare man.

Unio Mystica Volume - 1 Lecture-3

Crying For The Light

HE DOESN'T KNOW HIS OWN SELF:

HOW SHOULD HE KNOW THE SELF OF ANOTHER?

HE KNOWS ONLY HIS HANDS AND FEET,

HOW SHOULD HE KNOW ABOUT GOD?

THIS IS BEYOND THE SAGE'S GRASP:

YOU MUST BE A FOOL

IF YOU THINK THAT YOU KNOW IT.

WHEN YOU CAN EXPOUND ON THIS,

YOU WILL KNOW THE PURE ESSENCE OF FAITH;

TILL THEN,

WHAT HAVE FAITH AND YOU IN COMMON?

IT IS BETTER TO BE SILENT

THAN TO TALK NONSENSE

LIKE ONE OF THE LEARNED;

FAITH IS NOT WOVEN

INTO EVERY GARMENT.

YOU WERE MADE FOR WORK:

A ROBE OF HONOR AWAITS YOU.

Unio Mystica Volume - 1 Lecture-2

On the Altar of the Real

The first question:

Question 1:

TODAY IN LECTURE I LOOKED AT YOU AND I FELT MYSELF SO SHALLOW AND PHONEY AND FALSE. THERE DOESN'T SEEM TO BE ANYTHING DEEPER INSIDE OF ME. DO THESE FEELINGS SHOW THAT I DON'T HAVE A CENTER YET? IT ALSO SHOCKS ME THAT THIS SEEMS TO BE MY FACE AT THE MOMENT.

Bhagavato, nobody can exist without a center. Life is impossible without a center - you may not be aware of it, that's another matter. It has not to be created but only rediscovered. And remember, I am not saying ???discovered', I am saying ???rediscovered'.

The child in the mother's womb remains perfectly aware of the center. The child in the mother's womb is at the center, vibrates at the center, pulsates at the center. The child is the center in the mother's womb, he has no circumference yet. He is only essence, he has no personality yet.

Essence is the center, that which is your nature, that which is God-given. Personality is the circumference, that which is cultivated by society; it is not God-given. It is by nurture, not by nature.

As the child comes out of the womb, he comes for the first time in contact with something outside of himself. And that contact creates the circumference. Slowly slowly, the society initiates the child into its own way. The Christian society will make the child a Christian, and the Hindu, a Hindu, and so on and so forth. Then layer upon layer of conditioning is imposed on the child.

Basically, if you enter into a well-developed personality you will find these three things. First, a very thin positive layer - positive but phoney. That is the layer which goes on pretending; that is the layer where all your masks are contained. Fritz Perls used to call that layer the "Eric Berne layer". It is where you play all kinds of games.

Unio Mystica Volume - 1 Lecture-1

Polishing the Mirror of the Heart

WE TRIED REASONING 

OUR WAY TO HIM:

IT DIDN'T WORK;

BUT THE MOMENT WE GAVE UP,

NO OBSTACLE REMAINED.

HE INTRODUCED HIMSELF TO US

OUT OF KINDNESS: HOW ELSE

COULD WE HAVE KNOWN HIM?

REASON TOOK US AS FAR AS THE DOOR;

BUT IT WAS HIS PRESENCE THAT LET US IN.

BUT HOW WILL YOU EVER KNOW HIM,

AS LONG AS YOU ARE UNABLE

TO KNOW YOURSELF?

ONCE ONE IS ONE,

NO MORE, NO LESS:

ERROR BEGINS WITH DUALITY;

UNITY KNOWS NO ERROR.

THE ROAD YOUR SELF MUST JOURNEY ON

LIES IN POLISHING THE MIRROR OF YOUR HEART.