... people. He was a great king, now even beggars were not ready to be friendly with him or to come close to him. There are many mythological stories of the same type in all the languages, and they are not simply stories. They are descriptions of our unconscious mind. Unless you are fully conscious, your prayer is going to be a punishment if it is fulfilled. Because from where will it come? And the moment...

... hands and he thanked the crow. He said, "I will remain grateful to you forever, and I pray that you please remain here to prevent anybody else from committing the same mistake. Because anybody, without exception, would like to commit it." This is our unconscious desire: not to die. But we have never looked at the implications of it. What will happen if you cannot die, if you cannot commit...

... honesty, distorts their smiles, distorts their truth. But no morality in the world teaches people to first be conscious and only then to find, by your own consciousness, what qualities you would like to blossom in your being.... Honesty, sincerity, truth, love, compassion? Except for a very few rebels like Gautam Buddha, nobody has thought about your unconscious - that first it has to be dropped...

... worship me. If you have any respect for me, do what I am saying - don't waste your life by worshipping me, because that is not going to help. And the worship of unconscious human beings is absolutely futile, meaningless; it is a deception - a deception that you have understood me." The last day of his life he repeated again, for the last time, "Don't make my statues. If you love me, do what I...

... have been telling you for forty-two years continuously: be more alert. Don't raise temples and statues in my name." But it is something that shows how our unconscious mind functions. Gautam Buddha's statues were the first statues to come into existence. And he has more statues in the world than anybody else. There are temples which are almost a whole mountain, carved. One temple in China has ten...

... understand the relationship between love and fear. It is absolutely natural for every person who loves to feel fear, because he does not know that love is nothing but a graveyard for your ego, and because you are identified with the ego you think it is going to be your death. All this may not be on the conscious level; it may be going on underneath, in the darkness, in the unconscious part of your...

... psychology. On the conscious level you think perhaps you are split into two opposing camps. They are not opposing camps; they are two branches of the same tree, but the tree is hidden in the unconscious and you see only the branches in the conscious. Naturally, they look like two separate things. So the first thing is to understand exactly that love is death of the ego, the personality, the false. There is...

... no way to have both, love and ego. Either you can have the ego or you can have love - but make it a conscious thing. Just a few days ago, one of the most intellectual and experienced journalists of India, M.V.Kamath, wrote a review of my two books, THE REBELLIOUS SPIRIT and THE NEW MAN. In his review he said a few things that perhaps he himself was not aware of... the unconscious is very deep, and...

... whole history of man who was not surrounded by all kinds of controversies while he was alive?" A little part he sees - that which comes to his conscious mind - but something unconscious erupts. Secondly, he has said in his statement that I do not have to be heard or seen: I am a master of words; just reading me is enough. He was thinking that he was praising me, calling me a master of words...

... secrets and the mystery of your being. And as they are revealed, mind disappears. Mind is only there while you are utterly unconscious and ignorant. When more light is brought by meditation, watching, mind disappears like darkness. It is not a strong enemy; it is just that you have never tried to go beyond it. Watching is simply a process of going beyond the mind, far away, looking at the mind, watching...

... meditation; the other possibility is to die. But the other possibility is not certain because death is such a great surgical phenomenon - the whole consciousness has to leave the body - and nature has made an arrangement that before people die they become unconscious. Medical science learned it very late, that when you operate, first make the man unconscious. Either local or general, but some anesthesia...

..., some unconsciousness has to be there. He will not be able to bear the pain - and this is about small surgery. Death is the greatest surgery. Your whole consciousness is taken out of your body. Naturally you become unconscious before it happens. So even if you die - and you have died many times - you don't remember. Because you were unconscious, how can you remember? Memory has not made any record of...

... inward so deep that you are only pure consciousness. The body is surrounding you, but it is not inseparable from you. You can see the gap. That very moment you have seen that death is a fiction - the greatest fiction. But it goes on haunting people because nobody meditates, and when they die, the fear of death makes them so unconscious that it becomes impossible for them to experience what is happening...

... crisis; you may not be thinking about AIDS. At least consciously you may not be concerned at all what is going to happen to humanity tomorrow, but deep down you cannot avoid it. Your consciousness is a separate personality, but your unconscious, as you go deeper, becomes more and more part of the whole ocean. So whatever is happening in the soul of the cosmos has ripples in everybody's unconscious. If...

... you can read your own unconscious, you can read the whole future that is going to happen. But you may know or you may not know about your unconscious situation. These frauds - the Indians and their by-products, mostly American - are doing a good business. It is said that psychologists build castles in the air, psychoanalysts live in them, and psychiatrists collect the rent. But I wonder who pays the...

... unconscious. They are quoting me, in their name, and they are sending those pamphlets to the sannyasins. And the sannyasins send them to me, saying, "Look what your people are doing." They have never been my people. They were here just to learn some strategy so that they could be masters. The third type is more sincere. They come and they don't feel at ease. It is natural. When you change from one...

... in the dark caves of the unconscious. You only appear to be conscious. Your consciousness is very fragile, it is very momentary. It is a very thin surface - it is not even skin-deep - just a little scratch and you lose your consciousness. Somebody insults you; just a word, or just a glance, and all your consciousness is gone and you are a rage, anger, violence, aggression. In a moment your humanity...

... yourself. Your dreams have to be asked, because you have become so false and you are wearing so many masks that it is almost impossible to penetrate to your original face. But it is very difficult to know your original face even from dreams and dream analysis. Who is going to do the analysis? Freud is as unconscious as you are. One unconscious person is trying to interpret the dreams of another...

... unconscious person. His interpretations are bound to be very limited; his interpretations will reflect more about him than about you. That's why if you go to a Freudian analyst with the same dream you will get a different interpretation than you will get if you go to a Jungian analyst or to an Adlerian analyst. And now there are many. And you will be puzzled: a single dream has different interpretations...

... machine. And how to reduce a man into a machine? Make him more and more unconscious, make him more and more robot-like. Let his essence completely disappear from his consciousness. Let him become perfectly pseudo. Let him be a husband, let her be a wife; a servant, a boss, this and that, but never let him be his essential self. Don't allow that because that essential self is not obedient to anybody...

... are just rationalizations and nothing else. Deep down something else goes on working in the unconscious. You are not even aware of it. Psychologists say that when a woman is raped, in the majority of cases, the woman wanted to be raped - she had the desire. She was inviting it, she was using certain gestures; the way she walked, the way she dressed, the way she talked were all gestures inviting rape...

... energy source. The second is spirit-fire. It is light, logos; it is conscious mind. Eros moving upwards takes you beyond conscious and unconscious mind. Logos is conscious mind. It is psychology, it is science. Thought-earth is darkness, unconsciousness, intuition. It is parapsychology, art. Thought-earth is intuition, darkness. Women live in thought-earth, in the intuitive vision. Women live as...

... unconscious, illogical beings. Men live in spirit-fire, logos, logic, conscious mind. Artists are feminine, scientists are masculine. And the seed-water, eros, the one energy, is non-dual. It takes you beyond art and beyond science. It takes you beyond the conscious and the unconscious. It takes you beyond man and beyond woman. It takes you into the non-dual, the transcendental. But the secret of the magic...

... have been saying that Shiva lives on Gourishankar, the highest mountain-top. Shiva is the highest consciousness; Shiva is not a person, Shiva means the perfect consciousness. Perfect consciousness lives on Gourishankar. When you are unconscious you fall down into the dark valley - your night is a valley, your sleep is a valley. When you are aware you start moving towards the height; when you are...

... completely unconscious, that is the lowest point of existence. Rocks exist there, at the lowest rung of the ladder, because rocks are perfectly unconscious. They are not dead - they are alive, they grow; they are young, they become old, they die. They pass through all the phases you pass through, but they are not conscious - the lowest rung of the ladder. Sometimes you are like a rock: when you are fast...

... is still awake. When everybody is in slumber, the yogi is still alert." The totality of the yogi never goes to sleep. A point of witnessing always remains there; he witnesses his own sleep. In sleep you fall down, in awareness you rise high. When nothing is asleep in you, when your whole consciousness has become a light, when not a single fragment is unconscious, when your complete being is...

... filled with light - that is what we mean by a Buddha, a Christ: no unconsciousness exists - this is the highest peak. Hence the symbolic meaning of... A CITY BUILT ON A HIGH MOUNTAIN. You are building your cities, your houses, in a valley, and ordinary sleep alone is not enough for you, you also seek drugs to fall more asleep; you seek methods of hypnosis to become more sleepy, more unconscious...

... - because consciousness is pain, it is anguish. Why is it anguish? And Buddha and Jesus say it is the greatest bliss that is possible! But for you, why is consciousness painful? And why do you want to forget everything? Why is consciousness painful? It is painful if only one percent of you becomes conscious and ninety-nine percent of you remains unconscious, then that one percent suffers seeing the mess...

... are closed; you are playing into the hands of the enemy, on your own part you are becoming a victim. You could have escaped, but now there is no escape because you think there is no enemy. You may feel a momentary happiness because the enemy is not there - not that the enemy is not there, but because you feel as if he is not. That's how you feel a momentary happiness when you become unconscious...

... darkness only death can exist; in unconsciousness only death can exist. Unconsciousness is the path towards death. Whenever you want to be unconscious, you want to die. A deep urge to die is in you, otherwise you would start moving towards the height. Freud, in the last phase of his life, stumbled upon a very deep fact: he called it thanatos - the wish towards death. His whole life he was thinking around...

... the libido - the lust to live, the will to live - there is a will to die, thanatos. He became very much disturbed. But that's what Buddha has always been saying, and that's what Jesus has been saying: that as you are, you are so useless, your whole life is so futile, just full of frustrations, that you would like to die. When you take something to become unconscious, the wish to die is there...

... is man, that means his side which has the figure of man is in his conscious, and his woman is in his unconscious. You get surprised when you hear that some man wants to become a woman. Now, through plastic surgery, it is possible. We have here one of the best plastic surgeons who changes sexes, Leeladhar. He hates the work, but I told him, "It is immensely beneficial. You should not hate it...

..., "Certainly." He said, "But she has committed crimes! What are you going to do with her crimes?" I said, "I will send her to my therapists. And we have all kinds of therapies possible. So she will have to move through all those therapies, which will cleanse her mind, make it clearer, more perceptive, so that she recognizes that what she did was something in the unconscious of...

... her own mind. And once you recognize something as your own unconscious - this is a law of nature - it loses control over you." Not only to Sheela, this is my approach to all crime. For five thousand years we have been punishing criminals, and the whole story is simply hilarious. A man tries to commit suicide but is caught red-handed, so he could not commit it. Now, the court in many countries...

... somebody, or destroy a Wasco County building, and they refused and this was the punishment. And if they had not gone, they may have injected them with the virus, just as they polluted their blood samples which went out for examination, for testing. They may have injected those people under any excuse and killed them. Still I say I will accept them, because everybody in his deep unconscious carries the...

... criminal. The difference is only that they got the opportunity for their criminal to surface. And they have given you a good insight - that when power is in your hands, be very mindful that your unconscious will try to exploit and take advantage of the situation. Beware of yourself, because you are so unconscious and so asleep. Your question is that you have been thinking up to now that in the commune...

... start fighting with anything - it may be sex, it may be ego, it may be greed, it may be fear, it may be anger, whatsoever - if you start fighting with it. And how will you drop it? Other than fight, how are you going to drop it? You will push hard but where will you push it? Anything pushed goes deep down into your own unconscious. And anything in the unconscious is far more powerful than in the...

... conscious, because conscious is only one part; the unconscious is nine times bigger than that. And in the conscious mind at least you are aware what is there. In the unconscious mind it is so dark, you don't know what is there; and it is nine times bigger, more powerful. It can take over your conscious effort any moment. Now, what is happening to this old monk? Many things at the same time. The girl was...

..., the first man, and he had to be forced out every night because the museum was going to be closed. And sometimes he had to be taken on a stretcher, because reading the whole day and smoking cigarettes - that was all that he was doing - he would become unconscious. For forty years continually the British Museum had to deal with this man. But they became aware that "we have to accept him. He is...

... the first man - before the door opens, he is standing there - and he is the last man. If you find him conscious, you can take him out; if you find him unconscious, you carry him on the stretcher to the hospital." This man never even for a single moment meditated. He knew nothing of the inner; he was just concerned with books. What he has written in Das Kapital... no communist reads it. I have...

..., sad, angry, in a rage and that you have been cheated, and this and that - all nonsense! People live accidentally. Nobody is conscious; if they were conscious they would be in a totally different world. One day she fell in love with you; that was an unconscious thing. Now she has fallen in love with [someone else]; that is another unconscious thing. Don't think that she has cheated you or she has...

... been deceiving you. Nothing of the sort! The love with you was an unconscious thing and then you got involved in each other; now another unconscious thing has happened. But you can move consciously; that's what I mean. Move consciously, take a decision that this is good, you are free... at last! Use this freedom. Create some new situation for yourself. You need that situation, and you have needed it...

... existence. You are one with it. Just below you is the collective superconscious mind. Below that is the individual superconscious mind. Below that is the normal conscious mind. Below that is the unconscious mind. Below that is the collective unconscious mind. And at the very bottom is the cosmic unconscious mind. This is the whole rainbow of mind energy - all the seven colors. The cosmic superconscious...

... mind and the cosmic unconscious mind are the two ends of the rainbow. And then there are five divisions in between. We are at the fourth, exactly in the middle. Three are below us, three are above us. If a man goes mad, that means he slips down from the fourth to the third, sometimes even to the second; very rarely, to the first. A meditator travels upwards: first to the superconscious mind, then the...