... such eternal joy, of such relaxation and let-go, it is not easy to forget it. Even though consciously you have forgotten about it - because of the birth trauma you became disconnected consciously from it - yet the unconscious still hankers for it. It tries in every way to reach to that lost paradise again. The whole of religion consists of that search, and the whole of science too consists of that...

... you will see that life is beautiful as it is. Life is beautiful in its suchness, in its as-it-is- ness. It needs no improvement. This can be helped through the birth trauma - if you go through the birth trauma, if you live it consciously again, then the whole significance of birth changes. Right now the womb experience remains in your unconscious - so important that you are striving for it...

... talks about the future. But the mechanism is the same: they both want to avoid the present. Communists and anti-communists are not very different. Real spirituality begins with the present and ends with the present. It has no past, it has no future. This moment is all. So, Adheera, try to get consciously into your unconscious. Try to penetrate to where this desire for perfection is arising. Go into...

... escape from it." Once you have passed through it and once you have seen consciously what happened in your birth unconsciously, it is wiped out. This is the process of the mind. Anything lived consciously is wiped out; it has no more grip on your unconscious being. And then for the first time you open your eyes and you see that the world is beautiful. The willow is green and the rose is red. And...

..., life begins. That's what Jesus means when he says, "Unless you are born again, you will not enter into my kingdom of God." He is talking about rebirthing! In the East, we have a name for a man who has become alert and total, we call him DWIJA - twice- born. He has attained to a second birth. The first birth is BOUND to be unconscious. And if you live only with the first birth, you will...

... unconscious hankers for pleasure, go into it - that is the only way to go beyond it. Going through is the only way to go beyond. DON'T repress. So Niseema, be hedonistic, TOTALLY hedonistic. Enjoy all sensual pleasures - there is no fear about it, because they are all dream stuff. So if you are enjoying a dream, I am the last person to be worried about it. If your saints are against it, that simply shows...

... become absolutely unconscious, like a drunkard when he has taken so much alcohol that he has lost all his consciousness - then there is peace, or you will have to become so conscious that all the nooks and corners of your being are full of light - you become a Buddha or a Christ - then there is peace. Either fall below man, or go beyond man. Don't go on clinging to being a man, because then you are...

... child is at rest - perfectly at ease and happy to be whatsoever he is. That's why his eyes have no anxiety, and the child has a certain grace around him. But this grace is going to be lost. This grace cannot stay forever, because it is unconscious, because it has not been earned, because it is a natural gift, and the child is completely oblivious to it. He cannot hold onto it. How can you hold onto...

... something when you are unconscious of it? It has to be lost. The only way to gain it is to lose it. The child will have to go into corruption, into perversion. The child will have to go into the cunningness of the mind, and then the child will understand that he has lost something - something immensely valuable. But one can know it only when it is lost. There is no other way to know it. Then the search...

... starts. Religion is nothing but the search for the lost childhood. Everybody carries the memory of it, the very alive memory of it, somewhere deep down. Maybe not very consciously, but it functions like an unconscious substratum that something has been lost, something has been forgotten, something was there which is no more there; something is being missed, and one starts searching for it. The first...

... say to you that you are a beautiful person. Somebody needs to go on feeding it. The ego can exist only in society. Although it tries to get rid of society, in a subtle, unconscious way it remains dependent on the society. 'The trouble with the self is that it is derived from others. It is constructed in an attempt to live up to the expectation of others. The others have become installed in our...

... inexhaustible law that all the buddhas have been teaching down the ages. The second question: Question 2: BELOVED MASTER, IN THE WEST WE ARE CONSTANTLY DRILLED WITH THE APHORISM: DON'T JUST STAND THERE - DO SOMETHING! YET, BUDDHA WOULD SAY: DON'T JUST DO SOMETHING - STAND THERE! THE UNCONSCIOUS MAN REACTS WHILE THE WISE MAN WATCHES. BUT WHAT ABOUT SPONTANEITY? IS SPONTANEITY COMPATIBLE WITH WATCHING? Buddha...

.... You throw thorns - falling in my silence they become flowers. I act out of my own intrinsic nature." This is spontaneity. The man of awareness, understanding, acts. The man who is unaware, unconscious, mechanical, robotlike, reacts. Curtis, you ask me, "The unconscious man reacts while the wise man watches." It is not that he simply watches - watching is one aspect of his being. He...

... there being any incompatibility between watching and spontaneity. Watching is the beginning of spontaneity; spontaneity is the fulfillment of watching. The real man of understanding acts - acts tremendously, acts totally, but he acts in the moment, out of his consciousness. He is like a mirror. The ordinary man, the unconscious man, is not like a mirror, he is like a photoplate. What is the difference...

... is this man?" And the woman said, "Can't you recognize him? He is your daddy!" The boy looked puzzled and said, "If HE is my daddy, then who is that bald man who lives with us?" A picture is static. It remains as it is, it never changes. The unconscious mind functions like a camera, it functions like a photoplate. The watchful mind, the meditative mind, functions like a...

... unconscious! A couple of drunks in a bar started talking about sex. "Say," said the first one, "have you ever gotten so drunk you kissed a broad's navel?" "Drunker!" answered his pal. Just watch your life and you will be absolutely in agreement with him: "Drunker!" What have you been doing? Can you say you have lived your life with awareness? Can you say your actions...

.... "What do you mean? Two people dead, and Bob may be about to be executed!" Jim replied, "Well, I still say it could have been worse. If Bob had come home early on Thursday night, I would be dead!" Man lives in such unconsciousness. He goes on doing things motivated by the unconscious. He is not master of his own soul. He does not know where these desires arise from; they simply...

... the staff in your hand! No, I will not ask the fourth time. I know that you killed your wife, you killed your child - you can kill me!" People don't change: so unconscious, so deeply unconscious are the desires, longings - anger, greed, sexuality - that on the surface they may seem to be changing, but deep down they don't change. By changing your character you can't change your consciousness...

... not going to change them; in return they will condemn you. So society becomes a game of condemning each other. Nobody sees his own faults; on the contrary, everybody tries to cover them up. Not that he does not want to see them, he does not want them to be seen by others. But you can't help it: others are bound to see, because whatsoever there is in your unconscious goes on surfacing. Doris, Carol...

... changed after each five hundred miles and five hundred miles are up? You have to change the oil first. I never give you rigid rules because I know how stupid human mind is and can be. I simply give you a feel, a sense of direction. Be aware and live through awareness. Ordinarily you are living a very unconscious life. You eat too much because you are unconscious - you don't know what you are doing. You...

... become jealous, you become possessive, because you are unconscious and you don't know what you are doing. You get mad in anger, you become almost possessed of the devil when you are in a rage, and you do things which you don't know that you are doing. Jesus said on the cross - the last of his words, but of tremendous import - he said: Father forgive these people because they don't know what they are...

... doing. Now Christianity has never interpreted these tremendous words rightly. Jesus' message is simple. He is saying: These people are unconscious people. They don't know awareness at all, so they cannot be responsible. Whatsoever they are doing, they are doing in sleep; they are somnambulists, sleep-walkers. Please forgive them. They cannot be held responsible. So when you eat too much, I pray to...

... discipline forced from the outside is against your sensibilities, and love is the culmination of all sensitivities. When you fall in love with a woman, you fall in love from all the five senses. You may not be aware because man has become so alienated from his own senses that he is not aware, but watch the animals which are still more rooted in their beings - howsoever unconscious, but still rooted in...

... hands in my pockets." The third question Question 3: WHAT IS THE DE-ACTIVATION PROCESS OF THE LAW OF NECESSITY AND THE ACTIVATION PROCESS OF THE LAW OF POWER? Anurag, THE LAW OF NECESSITY means you are unconscious, you are functioning like a robot. Only then does the law of necessity apply. So if you want to de-activate the law of necessity, the only way is to become more aware, more alert. De...

... no ready-made responses, because if a response is ready-made it is not a response at all: it is a reaction. He mirrors the moment as it is, and in that mirroring, he acts. The unconscious person reacts: the conscious person acts. And if you can act consciously, TOTALLY in the moment, you don't create any karma, you don't create any structures. You always remain free; you always go on moving beyond...

... OBEDIENTLY IN A NOBLE CAUSE? AWARENESS IS THE ONLY VIRTUE WITH ME REMEMBER. If you serve with awareness, it is Good. If you serve in an unconscious way, it is bad. It is not a question of a noble cause. If you are unconscious, even a noble cause is going to be very ignoble. It is the consciousness that you bring to it that matters. You can look in the history books: all kinds of mischief have continued on...

... them. Always beware of great words: MY country, motherland, fatherland, church, temple. BEWARE of all great words! They can drive you into an unconscious, robotlike behaviour. This is now the greatest danger to human survival: the capacity for man to abandon his humanity, indeed, the inevitability that he does so as he merges his unique personality into larger institutional structures. It is not...

... suffer. But it is again an alibi, a rationalization, so that you can continue in your old ways and your old patterns. That too proved to be another fallacy; now it too has become a cliche. Then Sigmund Freud invented something else. He said, "It is because of your unconscious instincts, passions that you have carried from your animalhood - it is because of those wounds in the unconscious that man...

... is suffering." Now what can you do about the unconscious? These are just different names for the same trick, the same strategy, "I am not responsible. Something else.... The unconscious, history, economics, God, fate, karma, anything will do - XYZ - anything will do. But one thing is certain, that I am not the cause of my suffering." And that is where your whole misery lies, in that...

...; Buddha never prayed. Mahavira never prayed. Prayer does not cross their ways. They made every effort that is humanly possible, every possible effort - one hundred percent. They risked ALL in the effort, and in that risking they became aware. They were cleansed, purified. Their unconscious disappeared, they became only consciousness. In that consciousness is the transcendence. They remembered themselves...

... succeeded. Repression cannot succeed because that which has not been lived, that which has not been experienced, remains in you in the unconscious. In fact, it goes deeper into the unconscious and it starts spreading there like a cancer. Humanity up to now has lived in a very controlled way; that's why humanity is suffering. Everybody is miserable, everybody is in anguish, tension, everybody is depressed...

... they all asserted themselves sooner or later; they came to the surface. He repressed his sex, and then at the age of seventy he became aware that what he had been doing had not succeeded. The sexuality had gone deeper; it had spread its roots to the unconscious realm of his being. And at the last phase of his life he started experimenting with Tantra. That phase is not mentioned by his followers at...

... message of the dreams, that it was a message from the unconscious... He never read about Sigmund Freud; he must have avoided Sigmund Freud. The man who wanted the temple of Khajuraho to be buried, how could he study Sigmund Freud? - because he was digging out temples of Khajuraho in every person! Thousands of years this repressing has gone on and on; it has driven humanity mad. He never read a single...

.... Wake up! Being a sannyasin simply means that you have decided to remain in an unconscious state no longer. And the moment you wake up, all misery disappears. Suddenly you find all is joy, all is bliss, all is benediction. Your very being is the kingdom of God. Jesus says again and again, "The kingdom of God is within you," and you are seeking it outside; that's why you are miserable. It is...

.... His innocence is not unconscious, his innocence is full of consciousness. He is innocent because he is conscious, the cow is innocent because the cow is not conscious. The cow is innocent because she cannot be otherwise, the saint is innocent out of his own choice -- TREMENDOUS choice. The saint can be otherwise, and he is not: it is a great achievement. The cow is silent, innocent -- she cannot be...

... spontaneity; I live by awareness. Watch it -- this is one of the most important things. Indulgence comes from your unconscious mind. Sexuality, or a lust for power, comes from your unconsciousness, from the dark parts of your being -- overpowers you, possesses you, drives you mad... and one day you simply feel your whole life is finished and you have not gained anything. Maybe you have succeeded, but still...

... church. They are people of rules and principles. They go on crushing their own desires. Desires come from the unconscious, and this law is superimposed by the society; it is not your consciousness. And this law also functions from the unconscious. That's why every religion and every society tries to condition the children, newborn children: immediately, they start trying to convert them into religion...

...: forcing authority, law, tradition, religion, scripture, the priest, the church, into the innermost unconscious of the child so that from there you can control him. It is an old bullock-cart way. In the future, societies will do better. They will not be doing so much work, it is unnecessary: they will find some jet-speed methods. Those methods are available: you can insert an electrode in the brain of...

... more gravitation. If you are sitting straight then gravitation is least effective, because it can pull only your backbone, nothing else. That's why it is difficult to sleep while standing. It is almost impossible to sleep while standing in a SHIRSHASANA, on your head. For sleep you have to lie down. Why? Because then the earth has the maximum pull on you - and the maximum pull makes you unconscious...

.... For sleep you have to lie down on the ground, so the earth's gravitation touches the whole of your body and pulls every cell of it. Then you become unconscious. Animals are more unconscious than man because they cannot stand erect. Evolutionists say that man could evolve because he could stand erect, on two feet. The gravitation pull is less. Because of that he could become a little more aware. In...

.... Then you can jump on your thoughts, play with them, throw them here and there, dance with them, but not be serious about them. Many people are just unconscious as far as their mind is concerned. Whatsoever happens in their mind, they are unconscious about it; they are drifting in it without knowing where the mind leads them. If you can be aware of any track of the mind you will be puzzled at what is...