... HAVE MERCY. This is his key secret. What does he mean when he says: I will have mercy? He means that it is almost impossible for you to cancel all the bad karmas that you have committed because the whole thing is tremendous, vast. Millions of lives you have been doing things and all that you have done has been wrong, has to be wrong, because you have been unconscious. How can you do anything good...

... while unconscious? You have done millions of things, but all are wrong. While one is asleep one cannot do anything that is good. Virtue is impossible in unconsciousness, only sin is possible. Unconsciousness is the source of sin. You have done so many sins that it seems almost impossible. How will you get out of this? - the very effort doesn't seem probable, the very effort seems hopeless. Jesus says...

..., "Mercy will do it. Just surrender to me," Jesus says, "and I will have mercy." What does he mean? He simply means that "If you can trust me, and trust that you have been forgiven, you are forgiven" - because all those karmas have been committed in an unconscious sleep. You are not responsible for them. This is the key message of Jesus: that man is not responsible unless...

... merciful, there is no need to do anything. Just Fay to him, confess your sin. He is merciful, he will forgive you. In fact, Jesus is just an excuse. He is saying this: that if you become alert, and become aware that whatsoever you have been doing up to now, hitherto, you were unconscious - the very awareness that you were unconscious, the very realization, forgives, becomes the forgiveness. Not that...

... unconscious, you are a sinner. Your being a sinner is not the result of the sins you have committed. Your being a sinner is simply the state of unconsciousness. You are not a sinner because you do sins. YOU DO SINS BECAUSE YOU ARE A SINNER. It is a continuity of unconsciousness - a continuum, without any gap. Once you realize this, the very realization is an awakening. The morning has come, it has knocked...

... to, because you will not have anything else to lean upon except your consciousness. Because of these substitutes: marriage for love, character for consciousness, morality for religion, logic for truth, philosophy for existential experience - because of these substitutes you are lost in a kind of desert. You have become unconscious. Whenever the question of truth arises you start thinking...

... persuaded to believe that "This thinking is yours, this philosophy is yours." No thinking is yours and no ideology is yours. You have been deceived - but you can remain in this deception because you are unconscious. And you have become unconscious, because consciousness grows only with the real. With the unreal there is no growth. It is like if you have a real tree in the garden, it grows; but...

... you can have a plastic tree, it will not grow. It can deceive the passers-by, it can deceive the neighbors, but it will not grow. The unreal cannot grow. Character is unreal so it never grows. Knowledge is unreal so it never grows. Morality is unreal so it never grows. And because you become too attached to these ungrowing things you stop growing. That's what I mean when I say you become unconscious...

.... Consciousness has to be a constant flow; only then do you remain conscious. Consciousness is river-like. The moment you become stagnant you lose consciousness. People are living unconsciously. It hurts to feel, "I am living unconsciously," it goes against the ego. But this has to be understood - at least by the seekers this has to be understood: that you have lived an unconscious life. This very...

... person is, the more he feels uprooted. Knowledge does not lead to wisdom, knowledge leads to madness. Knowledge does not lead to enlightenment, it leads to deeper and darker unconscious realms of your being. Knowledge takes all celebration away from your life - it destroys all poetry, all song, all dance. It makes you serious. Wisdom knows how to laugh, knowledge cannot laugh. Knowledge is always...

... felt very subtle nourishment. The ego must have become more strong than ever. And it was not the eyes, it was his capacity to become unconscious; the eyes had not led him astray. How can the eyes lead you astray? The eyes are just windows into the world. Standing in your room looking out of the window, you see a beautiful woman - you don't destroy the window. And by destroying the window you will not...

... of karma was talked about - when Buddha talked about it and Mahavira talked about it - they had used physiological, physical analogies. Man has gone far away from that, man has moved far away from that. Now man lives more in the psychological, so this will be helpful. Every crime against one's own nature, every one, without exception, records itself in our unconscious - what the Buddhists call...

... brings a feeling of unworthiness. Karen Horney has a good word to describe this unconscious perceiving and remembering. She says "It registers". I liked it... it registers. Everything that you do registers itself automatically. If you have been loving it registers that you are loving; it gives you a feeling of worth. If you have been hateful, angry, destructive, dishonest, it registers and...

... with your woman totally. It is impossible, because it registers: deep in your unconscious you know that you have been dishonest, deep in your unconscious you know that you have betrayed, deep in your unconscious you know that you have to hide it, that you are not to reveal it. If you have something to hide, if you have something to keep secret from your beloved, there will be distance - the bigger...

... transform the unconscious mind that exists on the earth and creates all kinds of problems Politics, economics, social reforms and the so-called religions - they are all escapes from the real revolution. The real revolution has been talked about, only talked about Jesus says, "Ask and it shall be given. Seek and ye shall find. Knock and the door shall be opened unto you." Somebody asked Meister...

... two kinds of traditions in the world: one that is created by unconscious people, and the other tradition that is created by conscious people. Sufism is a conscious tradition: from one Master to another, in succession, a small chain has been kept alive. It has been kept alive for the days when the time-spirit would be ready. Zen is a conscious tradition. Bodhidharma became enlightened in India and he...

... became the successor. Zen has remained an alive tradition. So remember, all traditions are not bad. Traditions created by the unconscious people are bad. They are bound to be bad, they are bound to be evil - because the unconscious mind cannot do anything good. But there are traditions of conscious people, and they have always been waiting for the right moment, and the moment is coming close by. The...

... fall from the tightrope of life. The second state is irrational, unconscious, intuitive, emotional. Too much of it and there is again madness. This madness happens to poets, painters, artists: van Gogh, Nijinsky and others. Become too irrational and you will become mad. Become too rational and you will become mad. Exactly between the two there is a third state called witnessing. That is...

... needed is to convert everybody to my God, to my religion." The second belongs to the intelligentsia, the people who think they think. I say they think they think because they can't think. They are so unconscious. They are very clever people, but not wise; intellectual, but not intelligent. They can argue, but their argument is impotent. It is just a gesture. Inside there is no experience to...

..., you can go into the unconscious of man.... Freud did that, and did it perfectly, but that didn't solve anything. Jung had to go deeper. He had to find something like the collective unconscious. And you can go on. Then you can find the universal unconscious, and so on, so forth, layer upon layer. You can go on analysing - that maybe it is a birth trauma, that you became very much afraid when you came...

... you don't have any feeling, you don't have any love, you don't have any poetry. Your heart has no song. Then you can paint - and your painting will be perfect technically - but it will be dead. The real artist has both qualities - the innocence of a child and technical expertise. But when he paints he forgets all technicalities. They are there, from the deep unconscious they are working, but he...

... forgets all expertise. He becomes inno-cent. He paints like an amateur. He does not know anything he paints from the mind of not-knowing - so there is freshness, there is vision. And the expertise goes on functioning from the unconscious. It is there, it is in his blood, in his bones. There is no need to remember it, there is no need to be self-conscious about it. Then something of the unknown descends...

...? IT SEEMS THAT EVERYONE GOES THROUGH THE SAME CYCLE OR PHASES, NOT AS INDIVIDUALS BUT AS A COMMUNITY. WHAT'S UP? And the third: Question 3: IS THERE A COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS AT THE ASHRAM? EVERY OTHER QUESTION I HAVE THOUGHT TO ASK HAS BEEN ASKED BY SOMEONE ELSE, OR YOU HAVE ANSWERED IT ANYWAY. The second is from Big Prem and the third from Anand Samatha. That is the meaning of a commune. A commune...

..., whether you have been a saint or a devil incarnate, it does not matter." Unconscious acts are unconscious acts; they are all the same. One man can dream that he is a sinner, a murderer; another can dream he is a great saint. In the morning both will find that they were dreaming - all dreams are the same. So don't bother me at all. Not only that, people have taken sannyas who are imprisoned From...

..., as if out of nowhere - and against the backdrop of a black cloud which was shining like velvet against the setting sun, those white cranes in a row flashed before his eyes like lightning. It was a moment, a tremendous moment! He fell on the ground. He was so possessed by the beauty of it he became unconscious. He had to be carried home by others. After one hour somebody found him Lying down there...

... - it was so sudden, as if out of nowhere - and against the backdrop of a black cloud which was shining like velvet against the setting sun, those white cranes in a row flashed before his eyes like lightning. It was a moment, a tremendous moment! He fell on the ground. He was so possessed by the beauty of it he became unconscious. He had to be carried home by others. After one hour somebody found him...

... Lying down there on the shore of the lake. It took six hours for him to be brought back to consciousness. When he came back to consciousness he started crying. And they asked, "Why are you crying? You should be happy - you have come back to consciousness." He said, "No, I am crying because I have come back to the ordinary world. I was not unconscious. I had moved to a higher plane of...

... Tao; it is a natural phenomenon. They cannot understand it, they cannot be conscious of it. Their bliss is unconscious. Man is conscious hence either he will be very miserable or he will be very consciously blissful. Either he will become an idiot or he will become a Buddha. And you have to choose between the two, you cannot simply remain in between. You cannot say, "Why can't I remain just...

... responsible for the whole history - from the very beginning, if there was any beginning? Karl Marx says it is not history but the economic structure of the society. Sigmund Freud says it is not the economic structure of the society but the unconscious structure of your psyche - unconscious! You cannot do anything about it, it is beyond you. You are conscious and it is unconscious; there is no bridge. You...

... moment you accept your responsibility for yourself, the moment you say, "Whatsoever I am is my choice - not of the past but of the present. It is my choice of this moment, and if I want to change it I am absolutely free to change it. Nobody can hinder me - no social force, no state, no history, no economics, no unconscious, can hinder me. If I am determined to change it, I can change it." Yes...

... intelligent, at least more intellectual, more educated, more cultured, more sophisticated - but their basic style of life is still the same: unconscious, accidental. People don't live out of their essence, they simply depend on accidental circumstances. And not only the little people, but the people you think are geniuses, even they behave in very stupid ways. The twentieth-century physicist, Niels Bohr...

... man like Niels Bohr, one of the geniuses of this century, still behaving in the same way, the same unconscious way as the common people have always been behaving! It seems education makes no difference, science makes no difference, civilization makes no difference. Man goes on living and repeating the old patterns. And the greatest and the oldest pattern is: not to accept responsibility for yourself...

... could have been predicted that man could not tolerate God any more. One has to be free. Nietzsche simply declared what was in the unconscious of millions of people. He became the voice of this century. Nobody else represents this century as truly as Friedrich Nietzsche. He declared. "God is dead." And immediately the second declaration is, "Now man is free." That means God was a...

... then threw the lamp on the ground. For a moment there was silence, and then he said, "It seems you have not yet heard the news. God is dead! And one more thing: it is we who have murdered him. But it seems the news has not yet reached you - it takes time." It is a tremendously significant, meaningful parable. Man has murdered God in the unconscious, and the news has not yet reached the...

... does it. Too much cleaning of the teeth, and the toothpaste and the toothbrush, destroy the teeth." You can find rationalizations - but if you look deep down in the unconscious, you will simply see it is your mother still telling you, "Clean your teeth! And unless you clean your teeth you will not be given your breakfast." And you are crying and cleaning your teeth. That scene is still...

... there somewhere in your unconscious. You may have become very educated, sophisticated, and you may talk great philosophy - but that is all rubbish. If you look deep down, it is only a reaction. Your mother remains immensely powerful over you, so does your father. Now, Margret, you must have been very much dependent on your parents. This is a reaction: now you are afraid of falling in love, you are...

... creating here an atmosphere of freedom. You cannot be dependent on me, even if you want to. And deep down, Margret, there seems to be a desire in you to be dependent - hence the fear. You are afraid of your own unconscious. You say: WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN? I AM AFRAID TO BECOME DEPENDENT ON YOU. If you really want to become independent, really want to taste what independence is, then take a plunge into...

... yourself moving in a kind of drunkenness, unconscious. You don't know what life is. You don't know who you are. You don't know from where, to where... and still you go on in a drunken state, just like a driftwood, accidental. You will not find God this way. You will have to become alert, you will have to bring the quality of awareness to your whole life. Each moment has to be of tremendous attentiveness...

..., has transformed him tremendously, but his old mind goes on lingering somewhere in the unconscious. It goes on throwing judgements. The old mind goes on saying, 'What are you doing? It is nonsense.' It is nonsense in a way - because it is beyond sense. Just to think that you ask only for the hand - somebody's hand on your head - is so irrational, so fanciful. Just to ask for blessings only, is so...

... ideas of murdering children. Now, the husband is the closest person, the most available to be projected on, almost like a screen - you can project. Now the poor man is crying and the woman thinks he is going to murder her. In the deep unconscious she may even have ideas of murdering the husband, because she must have this logic inside - that because of this man she is not getting pregnant. If she were...

... with some other man, she would have become a mother. She will not accept it on the surface. Deep down, because of this man, because of this man being her husband, she has not been able to become a mother. Somewhere in the unconscious there is a lurking shadow that if this man dies, he will be able to find another man - or something like that. And then the idea that she would like to kill others...

... may be crying within, you go on smiling on the outside. You may be sad, but you go on pretending you are happy. It is hard to accept that you are miserable. But if you go on denying it, it will by and by become disconnected from your awareness. That's what happens when we say something has become unconscious. It means it has become disconnected from consciousness. You have denied it so long that it...

... course nobody will fall in love with you; okay - you will be saved many troubles. You will remain alone - but nothing is wrong in being alone. Face it, go deep into it, take it out, uproot it from the unconscious and bring it to the conscious. It is hard work, but it pays - it pays tremendously. The pay-off is immense. Once you have seen it, you can simply throw it. It exists unseen, it exists only in...

... the unconscious, in the darkness. Once you bring it to light, it starts withering. Bring your whole mind to light and you will see - all that is miserable starts dying, and all that is beautiful and blissful starts sprouting. In the light of consciousness, that which remains is good, and that which dies is bad. That's my definition of sin and virtue. Virtue is that which can grow with absolute...

... is very cloudy, I am cloudy. If the sun is shining bright and clear, I am that way. You not only come to me with questions, you also come with the answers. Maybe the answer is not known to you, maybe the answer is hidden in your unconsciousness, lurking somewhere in the darkness of your soul. The question is conscious, the answer unconscious. My function is to make your answer clearly obvious to...

..., in rocks, than in man. Man's mind is full of ripples. These ripples have to be dropped. Man is in a very strange situation. Below man is nature - absolutely unconscious and blissful. Above man are Buddhas - absolutely conscious and blissful. Man is just in between - a passage, a bridge... a rope stretched between two eternities. Man is neither as happy as the cuckoo in the garden, no, nor as happy...

... as the Buddha. He is just in between - stretched, tense, wants to move both the ways together... becomes more and more split. That's why I say schizophrenia is not a special disease, it is a very common phenomenon. It is not unusual. Everybody is schizophrenic, has to be. The very situation of humanity is schizophrenic. Man is not unconscious so he cannot be like trees - enjoying without...

... preparation. And he is not yet buddhalike, so he cannot enjoy without preparation. He is not in the present. He is just in the middle. But nothing to be worried about. You can never be as happy as the tree now. There is no way of going back - that world is lost. That is the meaning of Adam's expulsion from the garden of Eden - he is no more part of the unconscious bliss. He has become conscious by eating...

... the fruit of the tree of knowledge. He has become man. Adam is man, and every man is adam-like. Every childhood is in the garden of Eden. Every child is as happy as the animals, as happy as the primitive, as happy as the trees. Have you watched a child running in the trees, on the beach? - he is not yet human. His eyes are still clear, but unconscious. He will have to come out of the garden of Eden...

..., re-entering the garden of Eden. But now he comes with full awareness. Now the circle is complete. He comes dancing, he comes absolutely blissful. He is as blissful as any tree, but not unconscious. He has gained consciousness, he has risen towards consciousness. Now he is not only blissful - he is aware that he is blissful. A new quality has entered. That's what is trying to enter in you - knocking...