Unio Mystica Volume - 2 Lecture-10

We Shall Meet Again

The first question:

BELOVED MASTER,

Question 1:

JESUS TAUGHT HIS FOLLOWERS TO LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF. COULD YOU GIVE US YOUR VIEWS ON CARING, COMPASSION AND SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY?

Ann, Jesus' statement is tremendously significant but has been totally missed by his followers. Let me repeat it: Jesus says, "Love thy neighbor as THYSELF." The fundamental question is whether you love yourself or not. You can love the neighbor only if you love yourself.

Christianity has been teaching you to love the neighbor, and the fundamental has been completely forgotten - not only forgotten, but just the opposite has been done. People are taught to condemn themselves: how can they love themselves? They are taught that they are sinners: how can you love yourself if you feel you are a sinner?

Christianity creates guilt in people, tremendous guilt. And if you are guilty you cannot love yourself; you will hate yourself, you would like to destroy yourself. That's what the so-called Christian saints have been doing down the ages - destroying themselves. Out of guilt, only destruction can arise; out of guilt, only suicide. And they go on teaching, "Love thy neighbor as thyself." You have never loved yourself: it is impossible to love thy neighbor.

Hence I don't say love thy neighbor as thyself. My teaching is simple: Love thyself. And my experience is this, that if you become capable of loving yourself, love for the neighbor will come of its own accord; it does not have to be brought, it does not have to be practised. All practised love creates hypocrisy.

Unio Mystica Volume - 2 Lecture-9

Beyond the Shadow

NOT ONE KNOWS HOW FAR IT IS

FROM NOTHINGNESS TO GOD.

AS LONG AS YOU CLING TO YOUR SELF

YOU WILL WANDER RIGHT AND LEFT,

DAY AND NIGHT, FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS;

AND WHEN, AFTER ALL THAT EFFORT,

YOU FINALLY OPEN YOUR EYES,

YOU WILL SEE YOUR SELF, THROUGH INHERENT DEFECTS,

WANDERING AROUND ITSELF LIKE THE OX IN A MILL;

BUT, IF, ONCE FREED FROM YOUR SELF,

YOU FINALLY GET DOWN TO WORK,

THIS DOOR WILL OPEN TO YOU WITHIN TWO MINUTES.

GOD WILL NOT BE YOURS,

AS LONG AS YOU CLING TO SOUL AND LIFE:

YOU CANNOT HAVE BOTH THIS AND THAT.

BRUISE YOUR SELF FOR MONTHS AND YEARS ON END;

LEAVE IF FOR DEAD, AND WHEN YOU HAVE DONE WITH IT,

YOU WILL HAVE REACHED ETERNAL LIFE.

REMAIN UNMOVED BY HOPE AND FEAR.

TO NONEXISTENCE MOSQUE AND CHURCH ARE ONE;

TO A SHADOW, HEAVEN AND HELL LIKEWISE.

Unio Mystica Volume - 2 Lecture-8

Dying in Wonder

The first question:

BELOVED MASTER,

Question 1:

YOU APPEAR TO HAVE MADE A POINT OF ATTACKING THE PRIME MINISTER, MORARJI DESAI, AND BACKING INDIRA GANDHI, THE FORMER PRIME MINISTER, WITH ALL THE SPIRITUAL POWER AT YOUR COMMAND. WHAT IS THE BACKGROUND? DO YOU WISH TO REPLACE MR. DESAI WITH MRS. GANDHI? IN ANY CASE, IS SUCH AN INTERVENTION IN INDIAN POLITICAL AFFAIRS BY A SPIRITUAL PERSON JUSTIFIED?

R.K. Karanjia,

Editor, BLITZ.

My dear Karanjia, I am not personally against Morarjibhai Desai. But I am against the rotten mentality that he represents, I am against the Hindu chauvinistic mind that he has. I am against his obscurantist attitudes, and approaches. I am against his stubbornness in imposing his personal fads upon the whole country. I am against his bureaucratic, autocratic, dictatorial methods. I am against his unscientific attitudes towards life. I have nothing to do with Morarjibhai Desai, but all these things combined together are a calamity for the country.

Basically I am against politicians. But we cannot discard politicians absolutely. Humanity is not yet in that state of growth and intelligence where politicians can be discarded. So they will be needed - it is a necessary evil.

But evil it is. So it is better to choose a politician who at least has a flexible mind, scientific attitudes - one who at least has a contemporary mind.

Morarji Desai is just out of date. He does not belong to this century, to this time. All that he goes on saying is sheer superstitious nonsense. He is at least one thousand years back.

Unio Mystica Volume - 2 Lecture-7

The Sacred Explosion

LOVE'S CONQUEROR IS HE

WHOM LOVE CONQUERS.

APPLY YOURSELF, HAND AND FOOT,

TO THE SEARCH;

BUT WHEN YOU REACH THE SEA,

STOP TALKING OF THE STREAM.

WHEN HE ADMITS YOU TO HIS PRESENCE

ASK FROM HIM NOTHING OTHER THAN HIMSELF.

WHEN HE HAS CHOSEN YOU FOR A FRIEND,

YOU HAVE SEEN ALL THAT THERE IS TO SEE.

THERE'S NO DUALITY IN THE WORLD OF LOVE:

WHAT'S ALL THIS TALK OF ???YOU' AND ???ME'?

HOW CAN YOU FILL A CUP THAT'S FULL ALREADY?

BRING ALL OF YOURSELF TO HIS DOOR:

BRING ONLY A PART,

AND YOU'VE BROUGHT NOTHING AT ALL.

IT'S YOUR OWN SELF

DEFINING FAITH AND UNBELIEF:

Unio Mystica Volume - 2 Lecture-6

Back to Eros

The first question:

BELOVED MASTER,

Question 1:

I HAVE BEEN A DEVOTEE OF BABA MUKTANANDA AND RAN A CENTER FOR HIM. I EXPERIENCED A PERIOD OF EXTREME DIFFICULTY AND IT WAS NOT UNTIL I READ YOUR BOOKS THAT I UNDERSTOOD ALL THAT WAS AND STILL IS HAPPENING.

I QUESTION THE NEED TO BE ATTACHED TO ANOTHER TEACHER, ALTHOUGH I FEEL AND UNDERSTAND YOUR TEACHINGS DEEPLY. I KNOW I CANNOT GO BACK TO BABA'S METHODS. I'M CONFUSED - CAN YOU HELP?

Bernadette Brown, only a disciple can be helped. And the disciple has to become involved, committed. Without commitment there is no possibility of any help. A tree has to be rooted in the soil, only then can it grow. If it starts talking about not getting attached to the earth, it will die.

Why are you afraid of getting attached to a new master? Do you think you have gone beyond attachment? Is it really non-attachment? Or is it just the attachment to the old teacher that is hindering your path?

You are still attached to a person to whom you think you cannot go back. Now, this is unintelligent.

Remain attached to him by all means, if you feel you are growing there - that is intelligence.

Wherever growth is happening, wherever you are getting more and more mature, more and more blissful, remain attached by all means.

Unio Mystica Volume - 2 Lecture-5

The Forgotten Shepherd

FROM HIM FORGIVENESS COMES SO FAST,

IT REACHES US BEFORE REPENTANCE

HAS EVEN TAKEN SHAPE ON OUR LIPS.

HE IS YOUR SHEPHERD,

AND YOU PREFER THE WOLF;

HE INVITES YOU TO HIM,

AND YET YOU STAY UNFED;

HE GIVES YOU HIS PROTECTION,

YET YOU ARE SOUND ASLEEP:

OH, WELL DONE,

YOU SENSELESS UPSTART FOOL!

HE HEALS OUR NATURE FROM WITHIN,

KINDER TO US THAN WE OURSELVES ARE.

A MOTHER DOES NOT LOVE HER CHILD

WITH HALF THE LOVE THAT HE BESTOWS.

YOU HAVE BROKEN FAITH,

YET STILL HE KEEPS HIS FAITH WITH YOU:

HE IS TRUER TO YOU

THAN YOU ARE TO YOURSELF.

HE CREATED YOUR MENTAL POWERS;

YET HIS KNOWLEDGE IS INNOCENT

OF THE PASSAGE OF THOUGHT.

HE KNOWS WHAT IS IN YOUR HEART;

OR HE MADE YOUR HEART ALONG WITH YOUR CLAY;

BUT IF YOU THINK THAT HE KNOWS

IN THE SAME WAY THAT YOU DO,

THEN YOU ARE STUCK LIKE A DONKEY

IN YOUR OWN MUD.

Unio Mystica Volume - 2 Lecture-4

A Buddhafield in Spring

The first question:

Question 1:

BELOVED MASTER,

IN YESTERDAY'S LECTURE YOU SAID THAT PROGRAMS, NAMES AND LABELS AND BECOMING CRYSTALLIZED AND IDENTIFIED ARE HINDRANCES AND LIABILITIES IN THE SEEKER'S SEARCH FOR THE SUPREME SELF. THIS IS SO FOR ME. I DON'T WANT A LABEL. I

WANT TO BE VAST, UNLIMITED. I DON'T WANT TO BE CRYSTALLIZED. I WANT TO FLOW LIKE A MOUNTAIN STREAM. TO BECOME ACKNOWLEDGED BY THE ORGANIZATION AROUND YOU AS A DISCIPLE, ONE MUST ACCEPT A PROGRAM WHICH IN PART CONSISTS OF WEARING THE MALA AND ORANGE CLOTHES AND HAVING YOUR NAME CHANGED WHICH SEEM TO FUNCTION AS BADGES OR LABELS IDENTIFYING ONE AS A SANNYASIN.

PLEASE EXPLAIN WHAT A NEO-SANNYASIN IS AND WHAT, IF ANYTHING, IT REQUIRES TO BE ONE. THIS IS IMPORTANT TO ME BECAUSE YOU ARE A LIGHT IN THE DARK FOR ME, BUT THE ONLY WAY TO GET CLOSE TO YOU, TO TALK TO YOU, IS TO BECOME A SANNYASIN WHICH SEEMS TO INVOLVE CARRYING SOME EXTRA BAGS BEYOND THE SIMPLE WISH TO STAND IN YOUR GUIDING LIGHT.

Roland Seeman, sannyas is not a program at all: it is a process of de-programming. But because you are programmed already, you will have to accept the process of de-programming.

You say you don't want to get identified with a name - then who is this Roland Seeman? You say you don't want to become a label, but you are one. The question is not of becoming a label, a name - you already are one. It is as if a hypnotized person says, "I don't want to be hypnotized." Neo-sannyas is a process of de-hypnosis: the person who is already hypnotized needs to be de-hypnotized - if he says this again is a kind of hypnosis, then he is going to remain hypnotized forever.

Unio Mystica Volume - 2 Lecture-3

The Death of the Seed

IF YOU KNOW YOUR OWN WORTH,

WHAT NEED YOU CARE ABOUT

THE ACCEPTANCE OR REJECTION OF OTHERS?

WORSHIP HIM AS IF YOU COULD SEE

HIM WITH YOUR PHYSICAL EYES;

THOUGH YOU DON'T SEE HIM,

HE SEES YOU.

WHILST IN THIS LAND

OF FRUITLESS PURSUITS,

YOU ARE ALWAYS UNBALANCED, ALWAYS

EITHER ALL BACK OR ALL FRONT;

BUT ONCE THE SEEKING SOUL HAS PROGRESSED

JUST A FEW PACES BEYOND THIS STATE,

LOVE SEIZES THE REINS.

WHILE THIS WORLD REMAINS,

THAT ONE CANNOT BE;

WHILST YOU EXIST,

GOD CANNOT BE YOURS.

THE COMING OF DEATH

IS THE KEY WHICH UNLOCKS

THE UNKNOWN DOMAIN;

BUT FOR DEATH, THE DOOR OF TRUE FAITH

WOULD REMAIN UNOPENED.

Unio Mystica Volume - 2 Lecture-2

Defeating Buddha

The first question:

Question 1:

BELOVED MASTER, WHAT AM I LOOKING FOR?

Deva Parmita, man is a search for the self - not for A self but for THE self. Man is constantly seeking the lost paradise: somewhere deep in the recesses of human beings, the nostalgia persists. We have known something that is only a far faraway memory, The memory is not even conscious; we have lost all track of it, where it is. But the fragrance goes on arising.

Hence religion is not an accidental phenomenon. It is not going to disappear from the world; no communism, no fascism can make it disappear. Religion is going to remain, because it is very essential. Unless a man surpasses humanity, unless a man becomes a Buddha, religion remains relevant. Only for a Buddha is religion irrelevant. He has arrived: now there is no need for any search.

Parmita, there are not different searches for different human beings. The search is singular, it is one, it is universal. The search is for the self, the supreme self. One wants to know, "Who am I?" because everything else is secondary. Without knowing oneself, whatsoever one is doing is pointless. Unless I know exactly who I am, my whole life is going to remain futile. It will not bring fruition, it will not bring flowering, it will not bring fulfillment.

The first step has to be that of self-knowledge. But the paradox is that if you start searching for A self you will miss THE self. By "a self" I mean the ego, the process of egoing. That is a false self: because we cannot find the true, we start creating the false, just to console ourselves. It is a substitute. But the substitute can never become the truth, and the substitute becomes a bondage.

Unio Mystica Volume - 2 Lecture-1

On the Road of Sighs

MY FRIEND, EVERYTHING EXISTING

EXISTS THROUGH HIM;

YOUR OWN EXISTENCE IS A MERE PRETENSE.

NO MORE NONSENSE! LOSE YOURSELF,

AND THE HELL OF YOUR HEART BECOMES A HEAVEN.

LOSE YOURSELF, AND ANYTHING CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED.

YOUR SELFISHNESS IS AN UNTRAINED COLT.

YOU ARE WHAT YOU ARE:

HENCE YOUR LOVES AND HATES;

YOU ARE WHAT YOU ARE:

HENCE FAITH AND UNBELIEF.

HOPE AND FEAR DRIVE FORTUNE FROM YOUR DOOR;

LOSE YOURSELF, AND THEY WILL BE NO MORE.

AT HIS DOOR, WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE

BETWEEN MOSLEM AND CHRISTIAN,

VIRTUOUS AND GUILTY?

AT HIS DOOR ALL ARE SEEKERS

AND HE THE SOUGHT.