... you yourself will feel strange about it, unknown to yourself. It is your own expression, but hitherto unknown to yourself. It was suppressed in the unconscious, and suppressed it is there from centuries and pre-births. This anarchic being is within us, unknown to ourselves. It must go out. We have hypnotised ourselves to believe that we are normal and sane human beings. This is the hypnosis. The...

... not the discipline but to know that which is within. And the 'within' so suppressed has been for centuries, that it has become a part of yourself. We are just a part of the system. The inhibited, the suppressed, the collective mind-the unknown factor-is the basis of the insanity, tensions, conflicts, the lack of harmony. There is an unconscious lurking fear that if we do this, something will happen...

... will come. LSD LSD or any other chemical drug, is nothing but a help to make the mind more projective. All the hindrances, all the ordinary hindrances are withdrawn. The ordinary reason and conscious mind are withdrawn. You are completely in the hold of the unconscious. But the unconscious itself will not bring Samadhi through LSD. It can only be possible if the unconscious has been fed with...

... conceptions, colours and vital experiences. Everything that has been put into it can be projected. LSD can only be a help to project, whatsoever is in the seed form of your unconsciouS mind. If it is love, then love will be projected-if it is hatred, then hatred will be projected LSD is an expanding drug, whatsoever is in the seed form will be expanded into a tree. At night you dream because the conscious...

... happens to you because of chemical changes; because your ordinary mind is not functioning. It has been defunctioned. The ordinary reasoning, the ordinary checks are numbed. They are put off and the unconscious is put on. This has been done through a chemical agent. You are not the controller but the chemical agent is the controller. You are under its influence. You are not a free agent-now LSD is free...

... Khajuraho. He had to watch and meditate on all those abnormal, bizarre things. He had something perverted in his mind: that perversion was inside the unconscious. What does psychoanalysis do? It tries to bring things from the unconscious to the conscious, that's all. And psychoanalysis says that once something comes from the unconscious to the conscious, it is released; you are free of it. Now this was a...

... inner perversion. Suddenly, from the unconscious, the perversion surfaces to the conscious, and it is released without any Freud or Jung or Adler there - just the temple will do. He is left in the temple. For a few weeks he can be there. For each meditator who really wanted to go into deep meditation in those days, it was good to visit a temple like Khajuraho. On the walls of the temple are all these...

.... They are not obscene, they are not pornographic, they are spiritual - a great experiment in spirituality, a great experiment in transforming human energy towards higher levels. But first the energy has to be freed from the lower level. And to free it there is only one way: to make it absolutely conscious, to bring all the fantasies of the unconscious mind to the conscious. When the unconscious is...

... that way. You are a machine. It hurts - that's the purpose of calling you a machine. Let it hurt. If it doesn't hurt, then you are incurable. If it hurts, then there is a possibility. If it hurts, it means that somehow, deep down in the unconscious you also feel that, yes, it is so. Do you live in the present moment? Do you recognise things as they are right now? Or do you just go on seeing them...

... CONSCIOUSNESS, BUT THEN AS SOON AS I HAVE FELT CONSCIOUS I BEGIN TO FEEL UNCONSCIOUS, AND IT SEEMS MORE AND MORE TO ME THAT BEING CONSCIOUS IS A STATE ONE HAS TO JUST EXPERIENCE AND NOT RECOGNIZE. HAVE YOU ANYTHING TO SAY ON THIS? Prem Devo, THE STATE of real awareness is not exhilarating. It has no excitement in it, it is absolutely peaceful. It is neither hot nor cold. You live in a world of coldness...

... HAD LOTS OF EXHILARATING MOMENTS OF WHAT SEEMED TO ME TO BE REAL CONSCIOUSNESS... It is not real consciousness - they were exhilarating moments. But when you are exhilarated, soon you will slow down; you will have to go back to your original state. You say:... BUT THEN AS SOON AS I HAVE FELT CONSCIOUS I BEGIN TO FEEL UNCONSCIOUS... This is a great revelation if you Try to understand it. Why does it...

... happen? The moment you feel conscious, why do you become unconscious? - because to FEEL conscious means the mind has come in. Otherwise there is nobody to feel, nobody to recognize, nobody to say, "This is this" - there is no labeling process. The mind is back, and the mind is always hankering to come back; any excuse is enough. The moment you say, "Look! It seems this is real...

... consciousness," the mind is back. The mind is not going to miss this opportunity. The mind will pat you on the back and will say, "This is great! You have done it. You have arrived. You have become enlightened. This is what Dionysius calls AGNOSIA. SO now this is the thing, the real thing! " And then the mind goes on and on, and you know that you have become unconscious. All those peaks are...

... strategies. You have to see and watch how the mind comes back. And it comes in such ways that unless you are very alert it will deceive you. It is a great politician. Mind can live only when you are unconscious. To be conscious means the death of the mind - and nobody wants to die. Mind exists only when there is deep unconsciousness; the deeper unconsciousness there is, the more nourishment for the mind. A...

.... Whether you are conscious or unconscious you are the same. If you evaluate Consciousness, if you say consciousness is better than unconsciousness, then there is bound to be difficulty because whenever there is consciousness, your mind in a subtle way will start clinging to it - and the very clinging brings the mind in. Mind is a clinger. You have to learn one thing: to live each moment as it comes, not...

... I do." And this is what I say to my sannyasins. When you are unconscious, nothing is wrong; when you are conscious, nothing is great. Bring them closer to each other to such a point where both weigh equal, then the mind will disappear. There is no need to recognize, there is no need to praise, there is no need to feel egoistic, elated; there is no need to brag about it. And the moment mind...

..., this is doubt, this is a mistake; one of the greatest that a man can commit - and a man like Jesus. But this is the last. "Why am I being tortured, what wrong have I committed?" He was complaining, he could not believe his own eyes that this was happening to him. He must have thought deep down - somewhere a little part of his being must have remained unconscious, and in that dark corner...

... this longing must have remained like a seed - that "At the last moment God is going to save me. He will do a miracle and the whole world will know that I am the only begotten Son of God." Some unconscious longing... but even if a small part of your being remains unconscious you are not yet a christ. From where comes this complaint, "Why have you forsaken me?" A great doubt arises...

..., overwhelms him, because this is the last moment: if the miracle is not going to happen he is finished. But he must have been a man of rare awareness. He recognized it immediately, he saw the dark point, he saw the unconscious point. He became relaxed and he said, "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done. Don't take any note of my complaint, I was foolish to say so. Whatsoever is your will is my will. There...

... not seen him for ages." "Oh, he married the girl he rescued from drowning." "And is he happy?" "Rather! But he hates water now." You must be a great soul - either so unconscious that even three women cannot create any trouble for you, or so enlightened that "Who cares?" While riding home from work one evening, three commuters became friendly in the club...

... her, so that you can understand her and your own longings more clearly, so you are less clouded, less in anguish, because love in the beginning is only an unconscious phenomenon; it is biological, it is nothing very precious. Only when you bring your awareness to it, when you become more and more meditative about it, it starts becoming precious, it starts soaring high. Intimacy with one woman or one...

..., IS REPRESSION ALWAYS BAD? Prasado, absolutely bad, always bad, with no exceptions bad. Repression simply means you don't understand your life energies. Repression means you are forcing your life energies into the unconscious, throwing them into the basement of your being. There they will go on growing, there they will go on boiling, and sooner or later the explosion. That's why so many people go...

... NOT BORN TO MASTERY. The first thing to be understood is that you are a slave of unconscious forces. This is the beginning, the first step towards mastery; to recognize your slavery. To see that you are unconscious is the beginning of consciousness. But you go on throwing the responsibility on others, you never look inwards; for ANY causes you never look inwards. The judge looked sternly down at the...

... your life; you will remain a slave. When you fall in love you think you are a master. Are you, or is it just a biological, chemical phenomenon? If it is a biological and chemical phenomenon you are not the master. When somebody insults you and you become angry, are YOU angry or are you just a victim of some unconscious force that is being released in you? When you are angry, enraged, you are almost...

...! Not that she is doing it consciously, that too is absolutely unconscious - nobody is a master, all are slaves - but she is taking revenge in her own way. So whenever you want to make love to a woman, immediately she has a headache, she is tired, she is no longer interested, for the simple reason that she never achieves the orgasm. Why should she participate in a game in which she is always the loser...

... twice for a piss!" Be awake. Just see what you are doing, just see what your life consists of. Is there any awareness or is it just an unconscious play of unconscious forces? Are you just a victim of forces you are not aware of - either from where they come or what they are doing to you? Are you going to die in this way? THE MASTER ENDURES INSULTS AND ILL TREATMENT WITHOUT REACTING. The master...

... cannot react. He responds, but he never reacts. Reactions come from the past, response is spontaneous; it is in the present. The slave reacts, the master responds. The unconscious mind reacts, the conscious man responds. He has no ready-made answers. He encounters the situation, he reflects the situation. He accepts the challenge of the situation - and acts accordingly. His action is born out of the...

.... The key has left a sort of lingering fragrance in the unconscious mind of man. Maybe some four thousand years ago that key did open some locks, and treasures were found: the remembrance of that in the unconscious mind makes us carry the burden of that key to this day. However much one may be persuaded about the uselessness of the key, we cannot gather the courage to throw it away. In some unknown...

.... Despite all the attackson this - reason tries to shatter it from all sides; the so-called modern intellectual doesn't accept it - still the human heart treasures this memory and continues to be fascinated by it. So we ought to remember that though today man is not aware of it, yet somewhere in his unconscious there is a resounding echo which tells us that some locks once used to open. Why is this stored...

... in the unconscious? It is because none of us is new to this world. All of us are born again and again, and there was never a time when we did not exist. What we knew consciously in days past is now, today, unconscious, buried within us under thousands of layers as the unconscious. If in days past we knew the significance and deeper secrets of a temple and experienced the opening of some inner door...

..., then somewhere in the deep recesses of the unconscious that memory still lies embedded. The intellect may totally deny its existence, but intellect cannot reach that depth where the memory is retained. So despite all obstacles, despite its appearing meaningless in every way, this is something which persists, which can't be removed. It may take new forms, but it continues. This is only possible if we...

... his life. So we wanted the temple to have a place in his mind from his very birth; later on it would be difficult.... All those who lived in the vicinity of the temple had an impression of it imprinted on their minds. It went so deep into their unconscious that it was no longer a matter of thought but became a part of their being. So all the world over, the forms and shapes of temples may have...

... of thefts; everybody knew about it, but there was no evidence. So there was no alternative but to make him confess. He was made totally drunk and kept in such a state of intoxication that he remained unconscious for two or three days. When he did open his eyes again, he was still in a state of semi-consciousness. All around him he say beautiful women standing and he asked where he was. He was told...

...... ] ... and Stalin is not a believer! It is a suppression. His own daughter, Svetlana, became converted to theism when he died; she left communism and atheistic ideas - and the whole training from her father was to remain atheist. What happened? It was suppressed. Whatsoever you repress remains inside, moves into the unconscious, and goes deeper in fact than it was before. When Laroslavski, the man who was...

... means that there is still some significance clinging somewhere in the unconscious. Be finished with it! And there is no way to be finished with it other than to experience it. You will see that it was futile. Going into it you will see that there is nothing to it. It was just an old habit . . . the old situation, the old association. But be finished with it. Go into it fully alert, conscious, with no...

... bringing it and you will enjoy it. And once you know how to be true, it is so beautiful that you will never settle for being false. We go on deciding to be false because we have never tasted the real. From the very childhood the real was suppressed. Before a child becomes aware of what is real, he has been taught to suppress it. In unconscious ways, mechanical ways, he goes on suppressing without knowing...

... a public show free of charge. A crowd will gather and they will enjoy. Nobody can pass by that place; they will all stop there. And they know they all are doing the same kinds of things. But it is an unconscious state. Love, at the instinctive level - which is the lowest level - is just a dream created by nature so that you can pass through this arduous job of making love. If there is no euphoria...

... around it, you are going to refuse: "I am not going to make a fool of myself." Nature has given you a certain allurement. So in the unconscious state where instinct functions, love is only a name. It means nothing, it simply means foreplay... because just going to a woman and asking her, "Are you ready to come with me to bed?" looks so sudden and so inhuman that the woman, even if...

... sex as an instinct that is forcing him to do something, he becomes in a certain way a master of himself and he starts having insights, visions which the unconscious, instinctive man cannot have. Just looking at me - not a single word had been said - he said, "I have found the person." And then whenever I needed any amount of money, for myself or somebody else, I had just to inform him...

... not in your hands; you are just a slave. The unconscious is very easily convertible into its opposite, and you cannot do anything about it. But when love comes to the conscious level - that is, when it comes to the level of intellect, not instinct - then it has a different flavor. Then it has no biological purpose. What biological purpose can music have? What biological purpose can poetry have? or...

... have invited me to come, and they will take every care; they want to exchange thoughts with me. That's where the trouble is. The whole letter is beautiful. And in this too - they have not consciously written anything rude - they are unconscious people. An exchange of thoughts is not something bad, but they don't know that you cannot exchange thoughts with me; I don't deal in that business. If you...

... beyond your instinctive level - impossible - because then who will fight? If you start moving upwards then all those wolves in your unconscious will run amok. You cannot leave that place, you have to be there constantly fighting, repressing. How is transformation possible for a man who is fighting with his own nature? It is impossible. Take it as a categorical principle; there is no exception to it...

... I opened the window and saw: he was there lying on the bed with one of his feet tied inside a bag. I said, "If you are not finished, playfully, with your unconscious then it is going to come up in some way or another. You can teach beautiful things but you can't have the quality of those things." As you move up, playfully, exhausting the biological sources, fulfilling what biology wants...

.... Your religion will be different. Your authenticity will be different. An unconscious man has no authenticity. Not that it is his fault. He is many persons at the same time; how can he be authentic? He says one thing - tomorrow he is not the same person, somebody else has come on top of the wheel. There are spokes on a wheel - exactly like that there are many personalities on the wheel. The wheel is...

... allowed, and then for years he used to put the empty pipe in his mouth, just pretending that he was smoking. And then he would look at the pipe, would keep the pipe in the hand, would play with the pipe. And this is about a great psychologist of this age! What unconsciousness! So much in the grip of the habit, so much in the grip of the unconscious! It looks very childish. And then we go on finding...

..., and the wife had loved him tremendously and trusted him. He rationalized it beautifully. Look at his rationalization - that's how unconscious man goes on living. He will do something unconsciously, then will try to rationalize it, and will try to prove that it is not unconscious: "I am doing it very consciously - in fact, it HAS to be done." What did he do? He suddenly developed a theory...

... man and you will know. But man is not there. It is a very unconscious phenomenon. Man is a myth - let that be one of the most basic insights. It will help you to come out of the lie, out of the deception. TANTRA IS AN EFFORT TO MAKE YOU MORE CONSCIOUS. The very word'Tantra' means expansion of awareness. It comes from a Sanskrit root'tan':'tan' means expansion. Tantra means expansion of consciousness...

... you have broken your vows - then it is very humiliating. So you keep it to yourself. Now there is only one possibility out of a hundred that the vow will be kept; ninety-nine possibilities are that it will be broken sooner or later. You are an unconscious being; your vow does not mean much. But if you go and you tell everybody in the town - friends, colleagues, children, wife - you go and tell...

... in a desert, and it is very dangerous in the night: the enemies can kill them, the wild animals can kill them, the robbers can come, the murderers can come - it is very difficult. Now they decide on a group method. They say: "Each one will be awake for one hour." To think that each one will be capable of remaining awake for eight hours in the night is to ask too much from an unconscious...

... help, he starts thinking of the woman as the enemy. Tantra says this is sheer foolishness; you are wasting your energy unnecessarily fighting with the woman - because there are greater things to be fought about! It is better to keep company with the Woman; let her help you, and you help her. Go together as one unit and you have more chances to stand against the unconscious nature. Use all...

... unconscious can be transformed into consciousness. Modern physics says matter can be transformed into energy, energy can be transformed into matter. In fact, they are not two but the same energy functioning as two forms. Tantra says sex can be transformed into Samadhi the same approach; very basic and fundamental. The lower can be transformed into the higher, because lower ana higher are joined together; it...

... Available: N.A. Length: N.A. [A sannyasin says: I'm very lazy and I'm not doing anything to be more aware. I'm unconscious a lot of the time... most of the day. I come to the discourses and there's something, but the rest of the time I'm not doing anything to be aware.] There is no need to do anything - just remain relaxed. Enjoy whatsoever you are doing. Eating - enjoy eating. Walking - enjoy walking...

... don't allow me to do. You take your responsibility on your own head - and of course that creates a mess. By becoming a sannyasin you have dropped all responsibility. And through being here close to me, that is the basic thing to be learned. My presence will do - you simply rest in my presence. So don't carry ideas that you have to do something; that you are this, that you are unconscious. Whatsoever...