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... atom can explode into tremendous power, each cell of your heart can explode into tremendous love. That love is called ishq. Sufism is the path of love. Remember that it is a path, it is not a dogma. Mohammedans have a particular word for dogma: they call it shariat. Dogma, doctrine, religion, morality, philosophy, theology, all are contained in shariat. Sufism is not a shariat, it does not depend on...
... after the revolution, within five years, all religions simply disappeared. What kind of religion was this which took only five years to disappear? And when the atheists came into power, people simply surrendered to atheism. That religion was false; it was pseudo. The same is going to happen in India. Any day this country will become irreligious; just let the irreligious people come into power, and all...
... meditation and end in prayer. This is the right sequence. Nobody can start by prayer because if you start by prayer your prayer will be false, it cannot be true. You will be asking for some ordinary things - money, power, prestige - because that is where you are. Your prayer will be part of your mind, and mind is full of desires, hence your prayers will be full of desires and demands. Go and listen to...
... people who are in prayer in the churches, in the temples. What they are asking? Even a man like the great Emperor Akbar used to pray for more money, more power. Once a great Sufi mystic, Farid, went to see him. He had never gone to Akbar; Akbar used to come to see him. Farid lived very close to Delhi, and Akbar had tremendous respect for Farid. He had asked him to come to the palace, but Farid will...
.... Akbar was not aware that Farid is standing behind - nobody, not even his wife, was allowed to enter in. So he was just praying to God, talking to God, unaware of the fact that somebody is listening. As he ended his prayer he raised his hands towards the sky and said to God, "Give me more money, more power, more kingdom." Farid was shocked: "This man has so much, and still he But as he...
... THE POWER, AND THE GLORY, FOR EVER. AMEN. MATTHEW 7 BEFORE SWINE, LEST THEY TRAMPLE THEM UNDER THEIR FEET, AND TURN AGAIN AND REND YOU. BE OPENED UNTO YOU: HIM THAT KNOCKETH IT SHALL BE OPENED. DO YE EVEN SO TO THEM: FOR THIS IS THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS. THAT LEADETH TO DESTRUCTION, AND MANY THERE BE WHICH GO IN THEREAT: LIFE, AND FEW THERE BE THAT FIND IT. Man is mind. The word 'man' itself comes...
... yes to the one thing you would like to say yes to. Now the yes is significant, because the man is capable of saying no. Now the yes has a potency, power. The man who always says yes - his yes is not of much worth. But the man who says no ninety-nine times and says yes one time - he means it. It has an authenticity. It is a very creative crisis because if you go above it, it will be creative. If you...
... own prayer if you cannot create anything else. ... THEREFORE PRAY YE: OUR FATHER WHICH ART IN HEAVEN, HALLOWED BE THY NAME. THY KINGDOM COME. THY WILL BE DONE IN EARTH, AS IT IS IN HEAVEN. GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD. AND FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS, AS WE FORGIVE OUR DEBTORS. AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION, BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL: FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM, AND THE POWER, AND THE GLORY, FOR EVER...
... authority, authoritarianism. It smells of institutionality. It smells of a power structure. And the moment you say God is the Father, you fall apart rather than being joined by it. Father is no more a hyphen between you and God. The word has fallen, because the institution of fatherhood has deteriorated. You will have to find new words and new metaphors - new language to relate. Let God be your beloved...
... with conscious meditation, only with awareness, living moment to moment with absolute alertness does one come to be out of sleep. And you ARE drunk - drunk with money, drunk with ego, drunk with power, prestige. And there are a thousand kinds of alcoholic beverages available: money is alcohol, power is alcohol, politics is alcohol. Beware of these things. And people are so clever, they can turn...
..., as a bird, the experiences that you went through in the entire course of your evolution are lying strewn on your journey's path. And this serpentine power known as kundalini has absorbed them all. Therefore many kinds of things can happen and you can identify yourself with these experiences. Any kinds of things, unthinkable things, can happen. You have no idea of the many subtle experiences with...
... be intensified with shaktipat. So shaktipat is not your own riches. It is like this: you are running and I am after you with a gun in my hands. Now my gun is not going to add to your power of running, but it will surely make you run faster. It is you who will run in any event; it is your energy that is going to be spent in running. But because of the gun you will bring into use even the energy that...
... comes into being. We succeeded in creating a tremendous amount of energy from the atom, because we split it into two and put its most subtle components in a state of tension. So the whole discipline of power or energy is a discipline of tensions. If we understand it rightly, tension itself is energy. Question 11 QUESTIONER: YOU TALK OF TWO SYSTEMS OF SADHANA - POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE. WHAT IS KUNDALINI...
... shaktipat also. Therefore, in shaktipat a man cannot receive from a woman. This is speaking generally; there can be exceptions. Of these rare cases I shall talk later. Sometimes this can happen, but the reasons are different. Ordinarily, shaktipat does not take place through a female body. You can call this a weakness of the female body. But she has a complementary quality - the strength and power to take...
... coax us with the curiosity to try them out. There is no difficulty in performing these experiments. When false seekers go in search of power, in search of God, they come across false givers of power also. Then it is like the blind leading the blind. The blind leader is bound to fall and also the long line of blind people that is behind him. Then the harm done is not only of a lifetime but of many...
... ENGAGED IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST ATOMIC WAR, ATOMIC POWER, DESTRUCTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT, THE DISMANTLING OF DEMOCRATIC FREEDOMS, ETCETERA, CALLED ME AN ESCAPIST. SOMETIMES I WONDER IF THEY ARE RIGHT. ARE THEY? Satyananda, they are right, but they are right in a totally different sense of which they are not aware. Once can escape from reality, one can also escape to reality. And the second is the case...
.... When you move into meditation or into sannyas it is escaping to reality, not from reality. Because the most real thing in you is your own center. The farther away you are from your center, the farther away you are from reality. And the struggle that they are continuing AGAINST ATOMIC POWER, DESTRUCTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT, THE DISMANTLING OF DEMOCRATIC FREEDOMS, ETCETERA is not going to succeed in...
... their way - it is not possible to succeed that way. We are not struggling against anything like that here, because we are cutting the very roots. They are struggling only against the leaves. From where does atomic power come? Who has created it, and why? From where does war come, and why? Who has destroyed the environment, and why? From where does all this destructiveness come? Why is there no...
... acceptance, you have the key of transforming everything. To be in trust means that whatsoever happens is good because it happens through God. Whatsoever happens is good because it comes from the whole. It is a gift: it has to be taken with great gratitude. And then who can prevent you from being victorious? Then no power can prevent you from being victorious: all victory is yours. APPLY YOURSELF, HAND AND...
... and power and prestige and a thousand and one things - god has not to be one item on the long list of your desires. Even if you put him first on the list, then too, you will go on missing him. He has to be your only search. All your desires should become one desire, all your desires should pour as if all the rivers are pouring into the ocean. God should become your only search - only then, and only...
...; AND, SPURNING OUTWARD PROSPERITY, TO BEND YOUR BACK DOUBLE IN HIS SERVICE; TO PART COMPANY WITH THOSE WHO DEAL IN WORDS, AND TAKE YOUR PLACE IN THE PRESENCE OF THE WORDLESS. He says: If you want to renounce something, renounce prestige, renounce power, renounce rank and reputation. That is not renounced by your priests and your monks. In fact they renounce the world to get more reputation, they...
... fighting for survival he becomes religious. When the will to power is no more functioning one starts shrinking and dying and one starts thinking of God and other related things. God is against life. Life is the will to power. Life is struggle, constant struggle. Life is conflict and one has to win. When people become too weak and cannot win, those defeated minds start becoming religious. Religion is...
... Guru Maharaji. He will become a 'premi', a lover. Or, the third possibility: the stupid person who has will, stubbornness or is seeking some will-power. He will go to Satya Sai Baba... miracles. He will be interested in magic. When you come to me and you say that you have been here and there, you are simply showing all the nonsense that you have been doing in your past. The second kind, the mediocre...
... worldly things, you will not have enough energy to desire God. Your desire will be wasted on things. A man who wants to have a big house, a big balance in the bank, great power in the world, and prestige, puts all his desiring, invests all his desiring in the world. Nothing is left to seek God. Things are not bad in themselves. Sufis are not against things, remember. Sufis say that things are good in...
... power. You are so spiritually high. Your SIDDHIS are released. You can have all the money and all the prestige that you want. Why bother about God and religion? Use this possibility!' Mind is tempting. And when Jesus says, 'Don't come in my way. Go away!' he is not talking to some Devil outside. He is simply saying to the mind, 'Please don't come in my way. I am no longer concerned with the desires...
..., to be of the world. It was better to have many more things: to enjoy power, to enjoy sex, to enjoy money. What have I done? I have lost all and this is the result! To every seeker this moment comes. And if this doubt arises, then naturally one starts defending oneself against the darkness. One creates an armour around oneself against the darkness, the invading darkness. One has to protect oneself...
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