... again a total thing. Every moment is total! The mind is still undeveloped. Again, a sage is just like a child. There are many, many differences, but the childhood comes again - he is total again. But he cannot be in anger. The child is without a mind as far as this life is concerned, but past lives and many minds accumulated in the unconscious, they go on working. So a child appears total, but he...

... cannot be really total. This life's mind is still growing, but he has many, many minds hidden in the subconscious, in the unconscious, in the deeper realms of the mind. A sage is totally without mind - of this life or of past lives - so he can be only total in anything. He cannot be angry, he cannot be in hate, and the reason is again that no one can be totally in anger. Anger is painful and you cannot...

..., the Self is there in its total purity. But that is not the concern. On the path of surrender that is not the concern! Meera is not concerned with awareness, with consciousness - no. She is concerned with being completely unconscious in the Divine dance or in the Divine song - with being lost totally in it. To lose oneself totally.... That which cannot be lost will be there, of course, but it is not...

.... EVEN IN THESE DAYS there were scholars, priests, pundits, professors. They are not mentioned; things like this are not told about them. But a hunter lives in a more authentic way. He lives with the trees and the animals and the earth and the sky, the wind and the rain and the sun. He lives close to the nature. And the person who lives close to nature is in an unknown way, unconscious way, close to...

.... You start rationalizing. And everything can be rationalized and everything can be argumented for and everything can be defended. But the Master has played a beautiful game. And that is the beauty of the work of a Master. He has managed already; something has already happened. What the hunter has never known before... although he must have felt, it must have remained unconscious. Deep inside he must...

... have felt that what he is doing is not right; everybody feels it. Nobody is so unconscious either. You always know whenever you are doing wrong. If somebody else says it is wrong you will try to defend, and the person who has said that it is wrong has not helped you - in fact he has helped your wrong. You will insist, you will go on doing it. You will do it more on purpose now, just to show the other...

... beauty of a master-and-disciple relationship, because when you are a disciple, you become open only to your master. Your vulnerability is directed - you are not just open. Have you watched some hypnotist working? When the hypnotist works on somebody and he says, 'You are completely hypnotised; you are unconscious now, fallen deep asleep,' the person falls as if into a deep sleep. If somebody else...

..., then you are missing one dimension of blissfulness. A really blissful person will be joyful and cheerful too. If cheerfulness is not arising that simply means that something is wrong. Maybe your surface is not in contact with your depth, your conscious mind is not in communication with your unconscious mind. Some bridge somewhere is missing, some link somewhere is broken. But whenever all bridges are...

..., nobody else! But once you become conscious of it, it will disappear; it is a wound from your past life. Just knowing it, you will see it is disappearing. Anything that is in the unconscious, once it becomes conscious, starts being released. When one commits hara-kiri that wound remains for lives. That's why all the religions have been against suicide, because everything else drops with this life but...

... needs guts to lose the mind. It needs guts to get out of the calculative mechanism of the mind, and unless you get out of the mind you can't enter into the heart. Mind is doubt; the heart is trust, and trust is the door to the divine. Hate is part of our unconsciousness: the more unconscious we are, the more hateful. The moment one starts waking up, becomes more alert, more aware, more conscious, one...

... place will come peace and emptiness. When thoughts vanish the seer, the witness, becomes visible and the complex of the unconscious disappears. This complex is the cause of bondage. In the beginning it appears as hard as stone but the seeker who practises patiently finds one day that it was just a dream, a puff of air. May the seed of your meditation blossom into the flower of SAMADHI! My kind regards...

... pieces by falling bombs. If they had only known how things can change over thousands of years But does even man himself realize this? 126. Love. I received your letter. Don't be afraid of sexual desire because fear is the beginning of defeat. Accept it, it is and it has to be. Of course, you must know it and recognize it, be aware of it, bring it out of the unconscious into the conscious mind. You...

... cannot do this if you condemn it because condemnation leads to repression and it is repression that pushes desires and emotions into the unconscious. Really, it is because of repression that the mind is divided into conscious and unconscious, and this division is at the root of all conflict, and it is this division that prevents man from being total - and without integration there is no way to peace...

... not because of consciousness but because of partial consciousness. The unconscious is always behind the so called consciousness - this situation creates tension because this creates a dichotomy, a duality; hence the tension, because the being is divided - which cannot be divided. Hence the tension, The unnaturality of the situation is the root cause of this tension, and for that matter of all...

... tensions, because then one is not individual, that is, indivisible; therefore there is tension, and one cannot really relax unless one is ONE. Either be totally unconscious as in deep and dreamless sleep - and then there is no tension, or be totally conscious - and then you are in the state of no-tension because the total can never be tense. That is why the whole is the holy. But falling into deep...

... sleeplike trance is just escaping the problem, and that too only for the time being, because you will be back soon - and worse, because by such escapes the gap between the conscious and the unconscious is not bridged but, on the contrary, widened even more. One becomes split and schizophrenic. So always be aware of the mind because it tries to find solace in unconscious states in so many ways - through...

... only as a by-product of unconscious living. One goes on living as if in sleep. In this sleep the part begins to dream itself as the whole, and this dreaming becomes a barrier to knowing the whole. Begin to be aware, aware of your actions, thoughts and emotions, just aware. Because if you condemn or appreciate you will not be aware - in any choice the awareness is contaminated and the darkness of...

... be he cannot be at ease. This dis-ease is man, and health is in wholeness. The fact that language has one root for the words whole, holy and to heal conceals a deep truth: He who is whole is also healed, and to be healed is to be whole. This wholeness can only be achieved by becoming totally conscious of oneself: The darkness of the unconscious is to be penetrated and transformed into light. And...

... nothing else. The shock is nothing new. It happens whenever the deeper layers of the unconscious are encountered Before any mutation this is absolutely necessary. Be grateful to the divine because this is a good omen. Bhakti needed it badly and when she is out of it she will be a new person totally. Soon she will be twice-born. At present she is passing through a great spiritual crisis, so you be with...

... otherwise your imagination will get mixed up with the memories and then it will be difficult to know what is real and what is not. So be always aware from now that you are not to think about past lives: let the memories come up by themselves. No conscious effort on your part is needed; on the contrary it will be a great hindrance. Let the unconscious do the work, you be just a witness, and as the...

... when the time is ripe and the key is being given to you DO NOT LOSE COURAGE. The access to the treasure is difficult because it is hidden in our own unconscious layers of the mind. It will be easy if you approach that threshold when the diurnal tide favours, that is when you are passing from sleep to waking or from waking to sleep. Evening and morning are therefore probably the best times for...

... yearning for the woman. According to the latest researches in psychology, in the unconscious mind of every man is hidden the woman and in the unconscious mind of every woman is hidden the man. They go on searching outside till their inner man and their inner woman meet. Until your inner man and inner woman unite, until your conscious mind and the unconscious mind become one by being united, the...

... and thinking that meeting a woman will bring fulfillment. But the woman is there in your unconscious mind. That is why all the yogas and tantras are basically the process of uniting your inner energies. When you become united and one within you, then your outer desire ceases to exist. But at the same time, when the outer desire ceases to exist, only then can you become one. These two things are...

.... When she is not loving, but angry, sad, she gives the breast very reluctantly, or does not give it at all. So the child becomes aware that whenever the mother is loving, whenever food is available, love is available. Whenever food is not available, the child feels love is not available, and vice versa. This is in the unconscious. Somewhere you are missing a life of love so you eat more - that's a...

... if you are trying to be reborn from a man. I think sooner or later in Montreal people will try that - to be finished with women completely. But you are born out of a woman, and deep inside the unconscious you carry an image of a woman, not a man. And unless you find a woman with whom you can be in the same deep love as you were with your mother, into whom you can again enter as you were in the womb...

...; and that is everybody's destiny. If we don't attain to it, we live in hell. We live a life which is worse than death and we don't know exactly what life is. Start searching for those blissful moments. They are still there in the unconscious; deep in the recesses of your being the memory is carried. When one enters into meditation those moments start surfacing. That surfacing is known as satori, as...

... samadhi. That memory comes to the surface of the mind and it is so alive that it is not like a memory; it is a reliving, not a remembering. For a few moments one is lost again. One is no more worried, no more a mind, no more a future. All has disappeared. When those moments are released by the unconscious one is overwhelmed by them. They will be lost; again they will come and will be lost, and one has...