... game. You will never become intimate with any person -- and intimacy is a revelation. Sannyas is the ultimate intimacy. You cannot be cunning. And if you are, you are deceiving only yourself. But why, Anand Lionel, has this question arisen in you? You have taken sannyas only a few days ago. This must be lurking somewhere in your unconscious. This is your question, this may be your idea; maybe you are...

... not very conscious about it. You may be thinking that you are asking the question for others, but others can ask questions for themselves; you need not worry about them. Who are you to be worried about them? Don't you have worries of your own? But this question must be there, somewhere deep in your unconscious; this must be your strategy. And still, I repeat, you may not be conscious of it, but the...

... unconscious has erupted in this question. But this is not exceptional. The world is full of assholes -- so if a few assholes manage to come here, it is not a surprise. It is natural. I keep a ten percent margin for them; ten percent of people are bound to be deceptive. In fact it is a miracle that it is only ten percent. People have forgotten the language of commitment, involvement. People don't know the...

..., to make you aware of it. This is one of the transforming processes of life: if you become aware of something, you can get rid of it very easily. If you are not aware of it, there is no question of getting rid of it. So sometimes I even have to be hard with you, sometimes I have to be really cruel with you -- because to wrench truths from the unconscious is not an easy affair. It is surgical, it...

... hurts. And the surgery that I do, I do without any anaesthesia, because the unconscious has to be made conscious. So while I am talking to you and bringing some unconscious truth towards your consciousness, you cannot be put to sleep. If you are asleep, the unconscious will never become conscious. So this psychological surgery has to be without any anaesthesia. The pain has to be accepted. And those...

... psychotherapies that have evolved out of psychoanalysis: to bring things from the unconscious to the conscious. That's the whole function of the psychoanalyst. Once they are conscious, you yourself are capable of dropping them -- because who wants to carry ugly things when one knows they are there? But ugly things can be carried for lives together if you are not aware. And remember, the conscious itself wants...

... in the morning all is forgotten; or only for a few seconds early on, for four or five seconds you remember a few things, a few fragments. And then soon, by the time you have taken your tea in bed, they have disappeared. The unconscious tries hard, for six hours every night, to relate to you what you are doing with your life. But you don't listen. It tries in other ways too. For example, this...

... question is an effort of the unconscious to relate to you something that is there as a seed. The unconscious always wants to communicate with the conscious. Why? Because the unconscious is so burdened, so heavy, it wants to unburden itself. And how can it unburden? There is only one way: to relate to the conscious. Hence Freud developed the technique of free association. He had to invent the couch...

..., because if the patient is sitting it is difficult to connect with the unconscious. Our habitual way of connecting with the unconscious is by lying down on the bed; that has become a permanent habit, you have to be horizontal. The Freudian couch is significant; it helps your unconscious to relate to the conscious. And Freud used to disappear behind the couch, behind a curtain -- because if somebody is...

... present, the unconscious may remain shy, embarrassed, and the conscious may distort, may censor. So he used to hide behind a screen. The patient would be lying down on the couch relaxing, and Freud would say, "Just start saying whatsoever comes to your mind. Don't edit it, don't correct it, don't try to make it look beautiful, sophisticated, logical, significant. Just let it be as it is, raw...

.... Simply let it come out as it is." The first few sessions are not significant. But slowly slowly the patient relaxes, starts free associating, and the unconscious unburdens itself. Psychoanalysis does nothing else, it simply helps you to unburden the unconscious. It makes things conscious which have remained unconscious for long. And just in that very process things start changing. One or two years...

... and nothing else. He is a passive silent listener, so you can unburden yourself totally, without any interference. The unconscious has its own language. It talks in metaphors, it talks in pictures. Its language is not conceptual, its language is pictorial. But its language is totally different from the language that you know. Now, this is a way of the unconscious. Lionel is asking as if it is...

... existentially also they will be experienced. Freud is a great pioneer; of course, not a buddha, but still a man of great significance, because he was the first to make the idea accepted by the larger part of humanity that man has a great unconscious hidden in him. The conscious mind is only one tenth, and the unconscious mind is nine times bigger than the conscious. Then his disciple, Jung, went a little...

... further, a little deeper, and discovered the collective unconscious. Behind the individual unconscious there is a collective unconscious. Now somebody is needed to discover one thing more which is there, and I hope.... Sooner or later the psychological investigations that are going on, on both sides of the Iron Curtain, are bound to discover it - the cosmic unconscious. Buddhas have talked about it. So...

... we can say: the conscious mind, a very fragile thing, a very small part of your being. Behind the conscious is the subconscious mind - vague. You can hear its whispering but you cannot figure it out. It is always there, behind the conscious, pulling its strings. Third: the unconscious mind which you come across only in dreams or when you take drugs. Then, the collective unconscious mind. You come...

... across it only when you go into a very deep inquiry into your unconscious mind; then you come across the collective unconscious. And if you go still further, deeper, you will come to the cosmic unconscious. The cosmic unconscious is nature. The collective unconscious is the whole of humanity that has lived up to now, it is part of you. The unconscious is your individual unconscious that the society has...

... there is no afterlife. And it feels very good - denying your own kingdom, denying your own heights, you feel very good. Look at the foolishness of it. Buddha is right. He says: THE FOOL SLEEPS AS IF HE WERE ALREADY DEAD, BUT THE MASTER IS AWAKE AND HE LIVES FOREVER. Awareness is eternal, it knows no death. Only unawareness dies. So if you remain unconscious, asleep, you will have to die again. If you...

... conscious to cosmic conscious. And your roots will be growing from so-called conscious to subconscious, from subconscious to unconscious, from unconscious to collective unconscious, from collective unconscious to cosmic unconscious. The moment your roots reach nature, your flowers start blooming in God. Hence nature and God are not divided - in the awakened one they are bridged. The really awakened one is...

..., "Don't be angry!" so you have learned ways of repressing anger. But the more you repress anger, the bigger the unconscious you are creating in yourself. You are throwing things into the basement, and then you will be afraid to enter into the basement, because all these things - anger and greed and sex - are there. You know! You have been throwing them there. All kinds of rubbish are there...

..., and dangerous, poisonous. You will not be ready to go in. That's why people don't want to go in, because going in means encountering all these things. And nobody wants to encounter these things; one wants to avoid them. For thousands of years you have been told to repress, and because of repression you have become more and more unconscious. I cannot say to you repress. I would like to say to you...

... understand what it is. You go into it every night, and you also gain much out of it. But it is all unconscious: you don't know exactly where it leads you. It leads you to the most simple dimension of your life - the first dimension. It is very simple because there is no duality. It is very simple because there is no complexity. It is very simple because there is only oneness. You have not yet arisen as an...

... ego, you have not yet become divided - but the unity is unconscious. If this unity becomes conscious you will have SAMADHI instead of SUSHUPTI. If this unity becomes conscious, illumined, then you will have attained God. That's why Patanjali says: Deep sleep and SAMADHI, the ultimate state of consciousness, are very much alike. Alike, because they are simple. Alike, because in both there is no...

... pain of illness but still he is not in pain; that difference - those six inches. He dies, he knows death is happening, and yet he is not dying: that difference - those six inches. He is asleep and yet he is not asleep, he is alert too. The first state is of SUSHUPTI. We will call it 'the first dimension'. It is dreamless undividedness, it is unconscious unity, it is ignorance, but very blissful. But...

... the bliss too is unconscious. Only in the morning when you are awake again do you start feeling that there has been a good sleep in the night, that you have been in some faraway land, that you are feeling rejuvenated, that you are feeling very fresh, again young and alive. But only in the morning - not exactly at the time when you are in the sleep, only later on. Just some fragrance remains...

... the rivers and the trees are existing. That's why trees look so beautiful - an unconscious bliss surrounds them. That's why mountains look so silent: they are in SUSHUPTI, they are in deep sleep, they are continuously in deep sleep. That's why when you go to the Himalayas, an eternal silence is felt - virgin silence. Nobody has ever been able to disturb it. Just think of a mountain, and suddenly you...

...: the dreamer and the dreamed. Now you are seeing the dream and you are the dream too. Now you are divided. That silence of the deep sleep is no more there, disturbance has entered because division has entered. Division, duality, disturbance - that is the meaning of the dream. Although the duality is still unconscious. it is there; but not very consciously - not that you know about it. The turmoil is...

... there, the world is born, but things are still undefined. They are just coming out of the smoke; things are taking shape. The form is not yet clear, the form has not yet become concrete, but because of the dualism - even though it is unconscious - misery has entered in. The nightmare is not very far away. The dream will turn into a nightmare. This is where anima]s and birds exist. They also have a...

... are very very silent, happy, healthy, but that health too is unconscious - they don't know what is happening. This is the second state: when you are in a dream. This is the second dimension. First: dreamless sleep, SUSHUPTI - simple one-dimensional; there is no 'other'. Second: dream, SWABHA; there are two dimensions: the dreamer and the dreamed, the content and the consciousness - the division has...

... be aware of the present. Because there is no past and no future, sleep exists only in the present. It is pure present, but unconscious. With the dream, the division enters. With the dream, the past becomes very very important. Dream is past-oriented; all dreams come from the past. They are fragments of the past floating in the mind, dust from the past which has not settled yet. It's her old man I...

... consciousness you are outside yourself, you have gone into the world. You can understand the biblical story of Adam's expulsion in these three dimensions. When Adam was there in the Garden of Eden and had not yet eaten the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge it was deep sleep, unconscious - unconscious bliss it was. There was no disturbance, everything was simply beautiful. He had not known of any misery. Then he...

..., just a flickering consciousness, momentary consciousness. The first was absolutely unconscious, the second was unconsciousness disturbed, the third is the first glimpse of consciousness. And because of that - the momentary glimpse of consciousness - that one per cent of consciousness coming in creates the ego. Now the future also enters in. First there is only the present unconscious, then there is...

... the past unconscious, now there is future. Past, present, future, and the whole complexity of time revolves around you. This is the state where people are stuck, where you are stuck, where everybody is stuck. And if you go on building your house with these three dimensions, you will be building it on sand, because your whole effort will be unconscious. To do something in unconsciousness is futile...

... goal. It is pure consciousness, simplicity again. The first was simple but unconscious; the fourth is simple but conscious. Unity again, bliss again - with only one difference: now everything is conscious, the inner light is burning bright. You are fully alert. It is not a dark night inside you but a full-moon night, moonlit. That is the meaning of enlightenment: the inner illumination. Again there...

.... He has been moving again and again to the post. And being hit, naturally he concludes that he has been fenced in from every direction. And that is the situation of the ordinary human consciousness. You go on moving in the same unconscious way, in the same unconscious direction. And again and again you are hit, and you think 'Why is there so much misery? Why? Why did God create such a miserable...

... conscious you are, the more blissful; the less conscious you are, the less blissful. It depends on how conscious you are. And there are people who will go on looking into the scriptures to find out ways to become more free, to become more blissful, to attain to truth. That is not going to help, because it is not a question of the scriptures. If you are unconscious and you go on reading the Bible and the...

... light come in. Work means a conscious effort to search, to inquire to explore into the dimension of the fourth - into light, into awareness - and a conscious effort to drop all that which helps you remain unconscious, to drop all that which keeps you mechanical. A man bought a farm and a sow. He asked his wife to watch the sow, explaining that if she saw it eating grass it was ready for mating and...

... wind, any rain - is going to destroy it. And you will be utterly crushed under it, because you live in that house. And people are making sand castles - with money, with power, with prestige. Unconscious, asleep, snoring, they go on making their house, not knowing what they are doing. They will be crushed under it. ... AND IT FELL, AND GREAT WAS THE FALL OF IT. Make your house on some rock. And there...

... had shouted and said 'Why are you persecuting me? Why?' It may have been just his own unconscious, it may have been just his whole obsession that his whole unconscious started feeling... His conscious was against Jesus, and the unconscious always goes against the conscious - it is just polar opposite. When the conscious was too much against Jesus, the unconscious must have become by and by...

... started working with sick people, he became aware that there is something underneath the conscious mind. He called it the unconscious mind. He stopped there. He thought he had discovered something new - and in a way he was right, because he was not aware of the Eastern psychology that has existed for thousands of years which has taken note of all the states of the mind. So it was a re-discovery. Sigmund...

... Freud's closest colleague, and the most talented psychologist, was Carl Gustav Jung. He worked even harder, went deeper into the psyche of man, and found another story underneath the unconscious. He called it the collective unconscious mind. He stopped there. It is enough for one man to discover even one story, because it is such a vast phenomenon. And, after Jung, nobody has gone deeper than that. But...

... in the East, below the collective unconscious mind, we have discovered the last story - the cosmic unconscious mind. In the East these minds are simply mentioned, no details are given. The reason is clear... because the search in the East and in the West differed fundamentally. The Western psychologists were concerned with sick people, insane people; naturally, they have to go below the conscious...

... mind to the unconscious. But if there was somebody who was even more insane, they had to go to the collective unconscious. But it is very rare to find a man who is so mad that he has reached the cosmic unconscious mind. If somebody goes that mad, he will be almost a rock. That's why they have not been able to discover the cosmic unconscious mind. But, in the East, the search was totally different...

... conscious mind into the unconscious, they become aware of their own unconscious. Seeing the patient who has fallen into the collective unconscious, they become aware of their own collective unconscious. And it is like standing on the verge of an abysmal depth. Just a single wrong step and you will be drowned in darkness. More psychologists commit suicide than any other profession: the proportion is almost...

... is simply taught a simple method of meditation, which brings him back to normal consciousness without any analysis, without going through years of all kinds of torture. And the same method - once you know it has brought you from the unconscious to the conscious, you have a master key in your hands, because the method to pass from one story into another is the same. The same method of witnessing...

... he refused to take any anesthesia, any chloroform, anything that could make him unconscious. He said, "I have been working my whole life to expand my consciousness. Just for this small operation I am not going to take anything that goes against my consciousness; I don't want to fall into unconsciousness." He told his doctors, "Don't be worried" - and the doctors had been called...

... to go forward towards more affluence, more richness, more clarity, more understanding, more love. All these combined together I give the name "godliness." Question 2: BELOVED OSHO, DOES "TO BECOME CONSCIOUS" MEAN THAT SOMETHING THAT WAS UNCONSCIOUS IS RAISED TO THE LEVEL OF THE MIND, AND ONLY WHEN IT HAS PASSED THROUGH THE STATE OF THE MIND CAN IT RISE TO THE LEVEL OF...

... mind; hence everything has to pass through your conscious mind to be released, so your unconscious becomes unburdened. But it is a very long process, because your unconscious carries the whole rubbish of this life, which is immense. Every second of your life, awake or asleep, you are collecting rubbish. The amount is so much that your remaining life will not be able to free you from it. Moreover...

..., while you are freeing yourself from the old rubbish, every day you are collecting new rubbish. And this is not all. Deeper than this is your collective unconscious which has not even been touched. And to throw out all its contents by bringing them to the conscious mind and releasing them will take many lives. And below that is the cosmic unconscious. Perhaps you will take an eternity to be totally...

... psychoanalyzed so that all three unconscious layers under your consciousness are completely emptied and you don't have any burden, any tension. And the moment they are empty they start becoming conscious. It is the garbage that is creating the darkness. Psychoanalysis is not going to succeed. The situation is such that its failure is absolute - categorically certain. It is amazing that in the East for ten...

... thousand years they have been working on the mind as nobody else has worked - psychoanalysis is not even one century old - still they never came to something parallel to psychoanalysis. They worked in a totally different way. They never bothered about the unconscious layers, because to give attention to the unconscious layers is to get into a thick forest which is unending. You will not find your way...

... consciousnesses you have so much light. In the words of Kabir it is "as if thousands of suns have arisen suddenly." Their light is so much that all the contents of your unconscious will be burned, all the darkness of your unconscious layers will be dispelled. If you want to go the long way then dig into the unconscious. The way is long, and the goal is never achieved. No one has ever achieved it...

... lightning all that is collected there will be burned and the unconscious darkness will disappear. I teach you meditation, not psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis is just a way of befooling yourself, deceiving yourself, just making sure that you are doing something - paying for your psychoanalysis, going through your dreams, being analyzed by an expert; but you have taken a route which has no end. It goes on...

.... Question 3: BELOVED OSHO, EACH DAY FOR THE PAST TEN DAYS OR SO I HAVE BEEN ATTEMPTING TO HYPNOTIZE MYSELF. WHILE I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO RELAX VERY DEEPLY, THAT'S ALL THAT HAS HAPPENED. I AM NOT AWARE OF ANY RESISTANCE TO LETTING MYSELF FALL INTO THE UNCONSCIOUS. ON THE CONTRARY, IT FEELS LIKE A WHOLE NEW TRAIL THAT I WOULD LOVE TO EXPLORE, YET FOR SOME REASON HYPNOSIS HASN'T HAPPENED. IS IT TO BE EXPECTED...

...; you don't have to do anything, you simply have to count - and that too comes from your unconscious, not your conscious. The conscious is completely relaxed. This suggestion has to be given in at least three to seven sessions. Have a ten minute session every day for seven days, but only one suggestion again and again in those ten minutes - that whenever you want to hypnotize yourself, just count from...

... will have a tremendous change in his life. But even without becoming enlightened you can have great changes in life, out of sheer understanding. And those changes will help you to become enlightened. It works both ways: you become enlightened and there will be changes in your life; you change your unconscious patterns of life and it will help you to become enlightened. Generated by PreciseInfo ™ ...

... Available: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. Question 1: CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHAT YOU MEAN BY DREAMS? We have seven bodies: the physical, the etheric, the astral, the mental, the spiritual, the cosmic, and the nirvanic. Each body has its own type of dream. The physical body is known in Western psychology as the conscious, the etheric body as the unconscious, and the astral body as the collective...

... unconscious. The physical body creates its own dreams. If your stomach is upset, a particular type of dream is created. If you are unhealthy, feverish, the physical body creates its own type of dream. One thing is certain: the dream is created out of some dis-ease. Physical discomfort, physical dis-ease, creates its own realm of dreams, so a physical dream can even be stimulated from the outside. You are...

... interpret this as the realm of the unconscious. They divide man's mind into conscious and unconscious. Then physiological dreaming is called "conscious" and etheric dreaming is called "unconscious." It is not unconscious. It is as conscious as physiological dreaming, but conscious on another level. If you become conscious of your etheric body, the dreaming concerned with that realm...

... is nothing but etheric travel, etheric dreaming. But because we have only searched the mind at one level of existence, the physiological, these dreams have either been interpreted in the language of the physiological or discarded, neglected. Or, put into the unconscious. To say that anything is part of the unconscious is really just to admit that we do not know anything about it. It is a...

... technicality, a trick. Nothing is unconscious, but everything that is conscious on a deeper level is unconscious on the previous level. So for the physical, the etheric is unconscious; for the etheric, the astral is unconscious; for the astral, the mental is unconscious. Conscious means that which is known. Unconscious means that which is still not known, the unknown. There are also astral dreams. In astral...

... still ten o'clock at night. In the astral realm, in the third body, you can travel not only in space but also in time. The astral body can trespass the barrier of time - but only toward the past, not toward the future. The astral mind can go into the whole infinite series of the past, from amoeba to man. In Jungian psychology, the astral mind has been called the collective unconscious. It is your...

... less fantastic, less imaginary - more objective, more real, more authentic. All theological concepts are created by the fifth body. They differ in their language, their terminology, their conceptualization, but they are basically the same. They are dreams of the fifth body. In the sixth body, the cosmic body, you cross the threshold of conscious/unconscious, matter/mind. You lose all distinctions...

.... The sixth body dreams about the cosmos. You cross the threshold of consciousness and the unconscious world also becomes conscious. Now everything is alive and conscious. Even what we call matter is now part of consciousness. In the sixth body, dreams of cosmic myths have been realized. You have transcended the individual, you have transcended the conscious, you have transcended time and space, but...

... and fire, but very meaningful. When you flow downwards you become more and more unconscious. When you flow upwards you become more and more conscious. Upwardness is consciousness; downwardness is unconsciousness. Heraclitus calls the downward flow of consciousness the state of moisture, and the upward rise of consciousness the state of dryness. Moisture and dryness depend on fire and water. And he...

... says the spirit, the human mind, takes pleasure in being moist. All pleasure is downward. Wherever you are seeking pleasure, you will go downwards, because pleasure means being unconscious. Pleasure means being in a certain state where you don't know any anxiety -- not that the anxieties have disappeared, but you are unconscious. The world remains the same; the anxieties are there waiting for you...

..., increasing, not decreasing, because as time moves they will increase. Your problems remain the same, even become more complicated. While you are unconscious, everything is growing: it doesn't wait for your consciousness to be there. Your misery is growing, your anguish is growing, waiting for you. You are unconscious so you are not aware. Whenever you come to consciousness again, you will have to face all...

... unconsciousness, but how long can you remain underwater? For a second -- and then you are back again to the surface. You cannot remain unconscious for long. Alcohol or drugs or sex or anything in which you become unconscious, in which you lose for a moment all your worries, forget about them -- it is a forgetfulness, but forgetfulness cannot be a permanent state. So this is not helping in any way, pleasure...

... you face, the more alcohol is needed. And then the quantity of the intoxicant has to be increased continuously because you become attuned to it. You take a certain quantity of a drug: the first day you feel unconscious. After a few days you are not unconscious; you are still conscious, worries are still there knocking at the door, you can hear -- you need a greater quantity. The greater quantity...

... consciousness through drugs, and they have found that, by and by, you become so attuned that nothing can make you unconscious. Then they have poisonous snakes -- just a bite and an ordinary men will die. When no drug affects them, then they take the snake to their tongue so the tongue is bitten by the snake. Ordinarily a man will die immediately. They do it just to seek unconsciousness through the most...

... poisonous thing -- but even that doesn't affect them. A time comes when the man is completely beyond the world of drugs; you cannot make him unconscious, nothing helps. And this man, if he bites you, you will die immediately. His whole body is poisonous. In old, ancient Indian history, there is reference to a particular detective woman. Every king had beautiful girls to be trained from their very...

... comes when no drug helps. These Tantrikas have been working through drugs towards awareness. When no drug affects you, you are already integrated, and now you can move towards the height without any fear of falling -- because you cannot be made unconscious, you have crystallized your consciousness. But ordinarily one is not working through drugs for consciousness, and the path is very dangerous...

... continuously. If you go and look at them, you will find them also stoned -- through mantra they have become unconscious. Of course, they don't have any worries, because to have any worries you need awareness. They are happy, but their happiness is like death -- stale, stony. Their happiness is not like a flower flowering; their happiness is a stagnant pool, not like a river flowing. They are not moving at...

... did! But he was taking the greatest drug. That's why there was no need to smoke cigarettes -- they are nothing. There was no need to drink, because he was already drunk with power. Those who watched Adolf Hitler, they say when he started to talk, soon everybody there felt that there had come a transfiguration. When he would start he was Adolf Hitler; by and by, he would become completely unconscious...

... drugs also. Wealth: just look when a person is achieving riches -- he is no more there, absent completely! He moves, he works hard, but he doesn't know what he is doing. He is completely unconscious. And then there are private drugs. You can become a painter, you can become a poet, and that can become your trip. Anything in which you forget yourself, anything in which you lose consciousness, anything...

... you are cracking -- not only confused, you are going mad! You have always been mad but you were not aware. Now you are becoming aware and the madness has to be faced. And if you don't face it, you cannot grow. Escape is not growth, and all dimensions of intoxicants are escapes. And when you are in an unconscious state you may believe that you are doing something meaningful, but that is a sheer...

... can walk without crutches -- believing in them. Unconscious, he left the crutches in the tavern, and he had been wandering around the town the whole night. And now, when he is coming back to consciousness, he asks for his crutches back because he says, "The whole world knows that I cannot walk without the crutches." Your beliefs are your crutches. You cannot walk without them, you cannot...

... drift, the gravitation. Look at a person who is too addicted to food; when he eats, just watch him. You will see that he is completely unconscious -- because how many times, millions of times, has he decided not to eat too much? And again, when the food comes, he forgets or he rationalizes: "This time, once only this time again... next time I am going to follow..." Mulla Nasruddin was...

... you are awake, you are sleepwalkers. But when the flame is burning and you are alert, alert to every moment, alert to the whole of what is happening all around, alert -- not in a concentrative way, because if you concentrate then you become alert to one point and you become unconscious of the whole thing -- just alert, an opening, all doors open, all dimensions open, you are simply alert, then also...

... perfect god. God is the absolutely dry state of being. And if you become even a little dry -- A DRY SOUL IS WISEST AND BEST -- then you start becoming wiser, because all foolishness consists in being unconscious. There was one case against Mulla Nasruddin in the court, and the magistrate said, "What? You have come again? But I was not expecting you this time. First you came for wrong parking, then...

... from you so that then you think, "Because of this I am unconscious," that won't help -- then you will be found jaywalking. You will do something else because you will remain the same. People think that because of their wives they are entangled in the world. They leave their wives and escape to the Himalayas -- but this is just revoking the license. It won't help because you cannot escape...

... real starts dying and the unreal thrives, becomes fatter and fatter. If you expose yourself the unreal will die, is bound to die, because the unreal cannot remain in the open. It can remain only in secrecy, it can remain only in darkness, it can only remain in the tunnels of your unconscious. If you bring it to consciousness it starts evaporating. That's the whole secret of the success of...

... psychoanalysis. It is a simple secret, but the WHOLE secret of psychoanalysis: the psychoanalyst helps to bring up all that is inside your unconscious, in the darker realms of your being, to the level of the conscious. He brings it to the surface where you can see it, others can see it, and a miracle happens: even your seeing it is the beginning of its death. And if you can relate it to somebody else - that's...

... long way to live - you can postpone for tomorrow and you can live in a lukewarm way - but death is so total. If you can die consciously... And you can die consciously only if you expose yourself totally, so all that the unconscious is carrying is poured out, all that the unconscious is repressing is released, so the unconscious becomes empty and there is nothing to hide; you can expose yourself in...

... the moment of death totally and you can die consciously. Remember, a person who has ANY repression cannot die consciously; repression creates the unconscious. The more repressed you are the bigger unconscious you have. What actually is the unconscious? It is that part of your mind that you don't want to see, it is that part of your mind that you bypass, it is that part of your house where you never...

... go, the basement. You go on throwing all kinds of things in it and you never go into it. The unconscious is not a natural phenomenon. The more man becomes civilized the more the unconscious becomes bigger. The uncivilized people have very small unconscious minds. You will be surprised to know that the aboriginals, the very primitive people who still exist in some parts of the world... In India, in...

... some deep forests, in the hills, there are still people who are as primitive as you can find anywhere else; they are at least five thousand years behind. One of the most important things about these people - I have' lived with them - is they don't dream. It is tremendously important. It is very rare that a primitive dreams, because he has no unconscious. He lives his life so naturally, so truthfully...

.... He represses nothing. When you don't repress anything you cannot create dreams. A dream is the boiling unconscious. The whole day you go on repressing, and in the night, when you fall asleep - when the repressor falls asleep - all that is repressed starts surfacing. That's what your dreaming is. And if your dreams are nightmares that simply means you are REALLY repressing. Your repression is...

... dangerous. You are repressing neurotic things inside your unconscious, and the deeper they go the more damage they do. I have lived with the primitives; I have noted many things in them, but the most important is that they don't dream. If you ask them, "What was your dream last night?" they say, "What dream? We slept well." Yes, once in a while somebody dreams, only once in a while...

... he dreams about the future, that which has not happened yet and is going to happen. And his dreams are almost always true. Now his dreams have to be understood in a totally different way. Modern psychoanalysis will not be able to understand his dreams; it is too obsessed with the civilized man, his unconscious. The primitive man has no unconscious. And the same happens to a Buddha: his unconscious...

... disappears because he goes on exposing, pouring out whatsoever is in his being. He never represses it, he never creates the unconscious. The unconscious is a creation of civilization: the more civilized you are the more unconscious you are. If you become absolutely civilized you will be robots, you will be absolutely unconscious. That's what is happening. That calamity is happening all over the world; it...

... has to be stopped. And the only way to stop it is to help people to pour out their unconscious in meditations. Gita, expose yourself That will be unburdening. And I am here - don't be worried and don't be afraid. I am coming with you. I will keep company with you to the point where you don't need me. I will only leave you in the unknown when I see that now you can walk on your own. And then there...

... the past it was a luxury; few people - a Buddha, a Mahavira, a Krishna - were interested in it. Other people were naturally silent, naturally happy, sane. There was no need for them to think of meditation; in an unconscious way they were meditating. Life was moving so silently, moving so slowly, that even the most stupid people were capable of adapting to it. Now the change is so tremendously fast...

... unconscious meditation is disappearing. Once that happens, man will be utterly mad. And that is happening. What do I mean by unconscious meditative time? You simply go into the garden, you play around with your children - that is unconscious meditative time. Or you swim in the swimming pool - that is unconscious meditative time. Or you mow your lawn, or you listen to the birds - that is unconscious...

... chosen grace. It depends on you. It is your choice. You are not confined by your chemistry. You can be confined only if you remain unconscious in your chemistry, otherwise your chemistry has infinite potential: it can be put to a thousand and one uses. And to learn how to use one's body, how to behave with one's body, how to relate with one's body, is a great art. Millions of people just take their...

... body for granted; they never search for its possibilities. Their body remains a seed. It never becomes a Golden Flower. The fourth question: Question 4: YOUR DISCOURSE ON POLITICS AND THE POISON IT IS WAS EXTRAORDINARY! I HAVE LIVED IN MANY COMMUNITIES, ALL SINCERE AND WELL-MEANING, YET EVERYWHERE I WAS APPALLED AT THE UNCONSCIOUS POLITICAL AMBITION AND INTRIGUES WHICH ARE UNDERLYING AND DORMANT BUT...

... understand the law of reverse effect. Now go to the university, anywhere, and consciously try to walk like a woman - because it is very difficult to walk like a woman unless you are a woman.' And since then he has not walked like a woman. He became conscious of it. It was an unconscious mechanism. Unconsciousness was the root cause of it. Just become conscious, and it disappears. Man's problems are rooted...

... in the unconscious. And what do you go on doing? You go on repressing those problems into the unconscious. Where else will you repress them? There is nowhere else to repress them. Whenever you repress something, you repress it into the unconscious. That's how the unconscious is created. I don't have an unconscious because I never repress anything. The unconscious is created by repressions. The...

... child does not have an unconscious. By and by he will have. And the old man has more of the unconscious than the conscious because he has been repressing his whole life. The unconscious functions like a basement. Whatsoever is useless, you throw into the basement. It accumulates there. It becomes a junkyard. That is what your unconscious is. And from the unconscious, things arise and take possession...

... of you. All the ghosts that take possession of you come from the unconscious not from the graveyards. Your unconscious is the graveyard where those ghosts are born, and whenever they can find an opportunity, an occasion, to sneak up and possess you, they will possess you. And they possess with revenge, with a vengeance. Now, to repress it is to help the unconscious more. That is the law of reverse...

... effect. Your unconscious will become more and more powerful. You are feeding it and nourishing it. My whole approach is that consciousness is liberation. Awareness is the solution. Just become more conscious of whatsoever you are doing. Once it happened... A thief came to a great Master, Nagarjuna. He had come for a certain reason. Nagarjuna used to live naked - one of the great Indian mystics and one...

... anything. One should simply wait. In that waiting, in that relaxation, something out of your own unconscious starts happening, it starts spreading into your conscious - that's what sleep is. And the same is true about love. Sleep comes from your unconscious and love comes from your superconscious. The ordinary psychology divides the mind into conscious and unconscious. The yoga psychology divides it into...

... three: the conscious, the unconscious, and the superconscious. Just before freud, the western psychology was not aware of the unconscious. They thought only the conscious was there. Then it was a great discovery to know that just below the conscious there is a tremendous space - absolutely in dark... the dark continent of the soul . And it is nine times bigger than the conscious; the conscious is just...

... the tip of the iceberg. Now a second discovery is coming closer every day. It is not good to call it a discovery - it is a rediscovery, because yoga has known it always. Just as below the conscious there is the unconscious, above the conscious there is the superconscious. Just as the unconscious is the dark night, the superconscious is pure light. And all the experiences of the mystics who talk...

... about god as pure light, are nothing but the experiences of the superconscious. You are just in the middle - everybody is just in the middle. The conscious is the link, the bridge, between the unconscious and the superconscious. The unconscious is the whole of nature, and the superconscious is god. In between the two is the man - just a wavering, a continuous wavering to be this or to be that, to be...

... or not to be... a continuous wavering to be an animal or to become a god. Of course the pull of the animal is great, because it is our past. We have been on that journey, and god is completely unknown. So the unconscious goes on manipulating us and the superconscious is not yet contacted. Sleep comes from the unconscious, love comes from the super-conscious, but both come in the same way - when you...

... are waiting, when you are not doing anything. So make it a point to wait. Sometimes in the morning when sleep is gone and you are feeling very fresh, wait for love. That's why morning became the most important thing in all the religions. It is for a specific reason. If you wait in the night you will fall asleep. You are tired, and the unconscious is ready to spread its darkness on the conscious. So...

... if you pray in the night - if you simply wait - there is every possibility you will not be able. If you do something, you can remain awake, but if you are simply waiting, not doing anything, then the night is not the right time; the morning is the right time. In the morning the sleep is over, the unconscious has done its work, the conscious is fresh, and there is no possibility to fall into sleep...