.... Leave everything to me. Whenever you feel that you have become tense or anything, just relax, remember me, and leave it to me. I will be there to help [A sannyasin says: I'm afraid of wanting and asking for love... and I'm afraid of men.] You have only now become aware? But once you become aware, it can be dropped. The fear can continue if it is unconscious, but once you become aware that fear is...

... there, then the choice is between love and fear. Who is going to choose fear rather than love? It is impossible. Nobody can choose it. So just remain alert and see the absurdity of it. Fear cannot give you any happiness. Love can give you tremendous happiness... infinite possibilities to be happy. So there is no point in choosing fear. But it was in the unconscious; it is in everybody's unconscious...

.... It is good that it has surfaced and you are alert. Watch it - there is no need to do anything against it. If you do something, it may go into the unconscious again. Just watch and wait, and within a few days you will feel it is becoming fainter and fainter and fainter without any sort of doing on your part. Let it remain on the surface and evaporate, and remain with it for three weeks. There is no...

... through which man can evolve further. Up to now the evolution was unconscious; nature has brought man to this state. Nature cannot bring man any further any more. Now man has to take his own evolution in his own hands. Now only those people will evolve who deliberately make an effort to evolve; others will remain stuck. Up to now the evolution was unconscious, but man has become conscious; a part, a...

.... 'Vikas' means conscious evolution. And the only method is meditation, because the only thing needed is to become more and more conscious, to dissolve the unconscious, to make one's whole being full of light, to disperse darkness. And meditation becomes a lamp, a flame.... Generated by PreciseInfo ™ ...

... sannyasin inside. Why divide the outside from the inside? Is there really a division between inside and outside? Where is the demarcation line? Can you draw a line and say: Beyond this is inside? Where? - at the body can you draw a line? If the body dies, you die, If the body is not there, where are you? At the mind then? - if the mind becomes unconscious you become unconscious. Who are you without the...

... dividing you from the Whole. And where is your skin? Self-consciousness, the ego is your skin. When the ego is off you become nothing and the Whole simultaneously, because they both mean the same thing. The second thing to be understood: you may have observed in yourself and in others also, that there is a very deep urge to become unconscious. Puritans cannot understand it, moralists cannot understand it...

... change an alcoholic - very, very difficult, almost impossible. Why is there so much appeal in becoming unconscious? - because self-consciousness is such a disease, it is such a burden. And there are only two ways to go beyond it: one is to fall into unconsciousness, the other is to become superbly conscious. Either move to superconsciousness, or move to unconsciousness. Self-consciousness is such a...

... drop the division, the division into two, the self-consciousness. Self-consciousness is the greatest tension in the mind. That's why sometimes you would like to be alone; you would like to go to the Himalayas, and forget the whole society. Society is not the problem, but when the other is present, it is very difficult to be self-unconscious or to be unself-conscious - both are the same. It is...

... being, you are happy without any cause, you are happy without any reason, you are happy without any excitement. There will be no boredom. And this is what happens in love also. You need love, because only in love do you become self-unconscious; only in love does the other disappear. There is no need to be 'I'. With someone you love you can be alone. Even if the lover or the beloved is present you can...

... somebody is judging it is very difficult to remain self- unconscious. He became self-conscious; a slight tremor in the hand, a slight fear, a slight effort, because somebody was going to judge - he became afraid, a slight nervousness entered him. Mulla Nasrudin was invited to speak in a ladies' club. A woman entered into the room and asked Nasrudin: Are you feeling nervous? He was just about to speak...

... are right - you are awake, Niraj. In that sense, all the Buddhas are wrong. They too know it. But when they say you are asleep they mean something more fundamental, not the ordinary sleep, not the ordinary awakening. When they tell you, "Wake up!" they mean: Be totally conscious so that nothing unconscious and dark remains in your being, so that no nook or corner of your being remains dark...

... and unconscious. Right now only a very small part is conscious - one-tenth - very fragile; nine-tenths of your being is unconscious. You are just like an iceberg: just a little fragment of it shows on the surface - one-tenth, exactly one-tenth - and nine-tenths is underneath the water. When you listen to the awakened ones you will have to learn to understand their language, not according to you but...

... passion is hence it is not very difficult to understand what compassion may be. Passion means a state of biological fever - it is hot. You are almost possessed by biological, unconscious energies. You are no longer your own master, you are just a slave. Compassion means you have transcended biology, you have transcended physiology. You are no more a slave, you have become a master. Now you function...

... consciously. You are not driven, pulled and pushed by unconscious forces, you can decide what you want to do with your energies. You are totally free. Then the same energy that becomes passion is transformed into compassion. Passion is lust, compassion is love. Passion is desire, compassion is desirelessness. Passion is greed, compassion is sharing. Passion wants to use the other as a means, compassion...

... become more conscious. Right now you are unconscious - notwithstanding what you think, you are unconscious. A girl taking a job in an office is asked by her intended employer how much she hopes to earn. "Twenty dollars a week," she answers. "Twenty dollars?" he says. "I'll give you that with pleasure." "With pleasure, that will be thirty dollars," she replies...

... repressed everything deep down in the unconscious. That is why people go on saying that their childhood was very beautiful. You go on thinking that childhood was paradise. It was - but it appears so to you because you can't remember. Go slowly. By and by more things will come up. The whole dust of the past has to be stirred up. You will perspire; you will be scared; your whole mind will say: What are you...

.... But the help is unconscious. It is not deliberate, and you cannot manipulate it - you have to be in a let go so that the cosmic force can work through you. If you become deliberate, you become tense. If you become tense, you become narrow. If you become narrow, the infinite cannot work through you. And whenever you become afraid, you shrink - physical shrinking happens. Chuang Tzu says that inside...

... but the mother is to watch the clock, not the child, and the four hours have not passed. Now you are destroying the unconscious nature. Soon the child will follow your example - he will also look at the clock and when the four hours are up he will start crying - whether he feels hungry or not! Early in the morning he has to go to the toilet. Toilet training is such a nuisance. How is the child...

... become a painter and this is an unconscious desire, become a painter and remain poor. Don't become a doctor and become rich. You may become rich by being a doctor, but if you didn't become a doctor because of an unconscious desire, if you have only done it to satisfy your parents, society, friends, then although you may become very, very rich, you will remain unfulfilled - and the ultimate thing is...

... the world. I cannot dance, and that is the trouble. Fulfillment comes through nature - not through society. You carry your destiny within yourself but it is an unconscious thing. Follow it. Nobody else will know that you have reached but you will be aware. You may not get a Nobel prize because it has never been awarded to a fulfilled person. Nobody fulfilled has yet received a Nobel prize, no Buddha...

... sincere to your inner self; and that sincerity is religiousness. Hindus have called this RIT. Jesus calls it the Kingdom of God. Chuang Tzu calls it Tao. Whatsoever the word used, it means to stay close to one's unconsciousness, and to flow with it without any conditions. It means to flow unconditionally with the unconscious, wherever it leads - and to trust it. This is what trust is. It is not a belief...

... WORTHY OF THE LIFE. It was dangerous to allow women in - because then territories become blurred, you don't know where you are going, you don't know what is going to happen. Woman symbolizes the mysterious, the unknown, the strange, for man; woman symbolizes the poetic, the dreamy, the illogical, the irrational, the unconscious, for man. Woman symbolizes the absurd. It is always difficult to find any...

... rightly afraid that even Mary, the mother of Jesus, will create trouble. You are moving in unknown territory. It is better to remain with the boundaries, definitions. Don't allow women in! You can depend on the male mind, you know how it functions, you know the very working of it. Man functions with the conscious and woman functions with the unconscious. So man can accumulate details, but can never be...

... very deep. Woman cannot accumulate details, but can be very deep in a small, simple fact. Man can attain to knowledge, much knowledge, but not to intense love. Woman can attain to intense love, but not to much knowledge - because knowledge is a conscious phenomenon and love is an unconscious phenomenon. Said Saint Peter: LET MARY GO OUT FROM AMONG US, BECAUSE WOMEN ARE NOT WORTHY OF THE LIFE. And all...

... WILL ENTER THE KINGDOM. Jesus said, "Don't be afraid. I SHALL LEAD HER SO THAT I WILL MAKE HER MALE." What does he mean? To make a woman male means to make her unconscious conscious; to bring her inner darkness into the conscious mind, so the unconscious disappears and it becomes a conscious whole; to make her mysteriousness not a stumbling-block, but a stepping-stone. That can be done, but...

... beloved, dancing and singing. That has happened. What is Jesus saying? He is saying that the unconscious of the woman can be changed into a conscious, then she becomes totally different. "And I will do this. SEE, I SHALL LEAD HER SO THAT I WILL MAKE HER MALE. What does he mean by 'make her male'? Males should not think that they are in some higher position. It only means the inner darkness from...

... female as much as the female becomes male. It is not one-way, it cannot be, because you both are extremes, opposites. If the woman becomes like man, then what will become of man? He will become like woman, then opposites dissolve. A woman will have to transform her unconscious into conscious, her irrationality into reasonableness, her faith into an inquiry, her waiting into a movement. And a man will...

... if you avoid creativity you will become destructive. Whenever creativity calls you, go with it. It is God calling you. The second question: Question 2: WHY IS THERE SO MUCH MISUNDERSTANDING IN THE WORLD? Because people are unconscious. Because people are fast asleep. Because people are robots. Communication is impossible; you say something, something else will be understood. There is no way to...

..., My first question: CAN YOU TELL ME SOMETHING ABOUT THE LAW OF KARMA? It exists only for the unconscious man. The law of karma exists only for the unconscious man; for the conscious man there exists no law of karma. It is really unconsciousness that makes you suffer. If you do something unconsciously then you will suffer, then karma will be created. 'Karma' means unconscious action. If you do...

..., 'But we have been abusing you, sir, we have been insulting you. Are you not going to answer?' Buddha laughed. He said, 'If you wanted the answer you should have come at least ten years before. Then I was unconscious, then you could have pushed my buttons and I would have reacted. But now I have become conscious, I have become a Buddha. Now I can see what you want to do to me, and I am not going to be...

... going to accept them, what will you do? Now I really feel sorry for you. You can insult, that is your freedom - but to accept it or not is my freedom.' When consciousness has dawned you act for the first time, you don't react. Ant action is beyond the law of karma. The law of karma applies only to the unconscious being. The man of awareness has absolute freedom. No law binds him, no law defines him...

... he was here smiling and happy - I was giving him time. And a small shock, and he reacted. That's what the unconscious mind goes on doing. He reacted immediately, he could not even give time to meditate over it. He never came back to the ashram, he simply escaped. This is something for you to ponder, to meditate over. I am not here to adjust with you. If I adjust with you I don't have any compassion...

... and smile. What happens? Anger goes on being accumulated within, and you go on becoming more and more angry, because more and more energy is accumulated within as anger - suppressed. It becomes your unconscious reservoir, and against this anger you go on smiling. That smile becomes false, because while anger is knocking within how can you smile? You can smile, but then it will be just a false thing...

... ENLIGHTENED PERSON'S SLEEP?" No, an enlightened person cannot dream. And if you like dreams very much, never become enlightened. Beware! Dreaming is part of sleep. The first thing is that for dreaming to happen you have to move into sleep. For ordinary dreams you have to move into sleep. In sleep you become unconscious. When you are unconscious, dreams can happen. They happen only in your...

... unconsciousness. An enlightened person is conscious even while asleep. He cannot become unconscious. Even if you give him an anaesthetic - chloroform or something like that - only his periphery goes to sleep. He remains conscious; his consciousness cannot be disturbed. Krishna says in the Gita that while everyone is asleep the yogi is awake. It is not that yogis are not going to sleep in the night; they also...

... because it is a decision not to be angry; he CANNOT be angry. Anger can exist only when you are unconscious. Now unconsciousness is not there, so the base is not there and anger is not possible. He cannot hate: hate exists only when you are unconscious. He becomes love - not because of any decision on his part. When light is there, when consciousness is there, love flows; it is natural. Dreaming becomes...

... impossible because dream needs, first of all, unconsciousness, and he is not unconscious. Buddha's disciple, Ananda, said to him, after sleeping and living in the same room, in the same place with Buddha, "This is a miracle; this is very strange. You never move in your sleep." Buddha always remained in one posture the whole night. The way he would sleep in the beginning, that would be the way he...

... on the life of Gautam Buddha, and finally he died from poisoning. This misbehavior of the ordinary, unconscious, but the majority of people, simply prevents. I have been poisoned, jailed, for no reason at all... fined four hundred thousand dollars, and I don't have a single dollar with me. Twenty-one countries have closed their doors by law, saying that I cannot enter. Sometimes it seems the...

... disturbed, even though they may be in misery; they are in misery, but they are accustomed to the misery. And anybody who is not miserable looks like a stranger. The enlightened man is the greatest stranger in the world, he does not seem to belong to anybody. No organization confines him, no community, no society, no nation. His rebellion is so total that it makes the unconscious crowd antagonistic. Such a...

... man cannot be tolerated alive; he can be worshipped when dead. You can worship a Buddha when dead. You can worship a Jesus when dead. But not even a single enlightened person has been respected, loved, by the blind and the deaf and the unconscious masses. This has become a barrier. That's why you don't find so many enlightened people. But if you are ready to take the risk, you are capable of...

... buddha, the first unconscious reaction is to reject him because he offends you. His very presence is a challenge - "Why is he so happy and peaceful, and why am I in such an anguish? He should live according to everybody else, according to the crowd. Why is he living as an individual in his own right? He should be a sheep, he should not be a shepherd." They cannot tolerate it. Their own best...

... said, "Let it be the last trouble." I am enjoying it every inch.... But it shows you how the unconscious mind has been preventing people from becoming enlightened. I have not committed any sin, and I have been punished, dragged from jail to jail. It became known later on that the United States Attorney had asked the National Guard to arrest me. But they said, "Without any evidence...

... he himself is light; wherever he moves his light surrounds him. Choro is right when he says, "I have doubts about it - this statement of moving the wheel of dharma in flames of fire." Buddha has used that symbol, but his context has to be remembered. Just a few minutes ago, I was telling you about the difficulty of enlightenment in a world which is absolutely unconscious. This is the fire...

... center, the center and your disappearance in it. Your witnessing has to become slowly slowly, your very life. I don't teach any morality. To me, awareness is the only morality, the only ethics, the only religion, because out of awareness you cannot do anything wrong. It is always your unconscious mind which forces you to do wrong things. As awareness grows, slowly slowly, your whole being becomes...

... going to the Holy Land to persecute Christians. And then, on the road towards the Holy Land, the miracle happened that he heard the voice of Jesus calling him 'Why? Why do you persecute me? What have I done to you?' It came from his own unconscious. Let it be clear. It was not coming from Jesus. Jesus had never said, even to the real persecutors who were persecuting him when he was alive, 'Why do you...

... persecute me?' He wouldn't come to Paul to say this on that lonely road. It was his own unconscious, because his conscious was full of hatred for Jesus, because he was full of enmity, jealousy, anger, rage. The unconscious is always against the conscious; they move like polar opposites. If you love a man through the conscious, you hate the man through the unconscious. That's why you love and hate the same...

... man, the same woman. In the conscious, he was full of hatred, but in the unconscious there must have been love, because only then could the hatred exist. They exist together. Love never exists alone, and so does hate never exist alone; they always exist together. If you ask psychoanalysts, they say 'Love-hate IS ONE relationship.' Lovehate is one word. Even the hyphen that joins them is not needed...

...; they are one word. From one side it is love. from the other side it is hate. So in the conscious there was hate, in the unconscious was love. And when the hate was too much, extreme... the swing of the pendulum to the other side, and his unconscious said 'Why? Why are you persecuting me?' The unconscious became the voice of Jesus. He fell on the ground; he could not believe. This was a miracle, and...