Love and prayer are two experiences of the same energy. Love is earthly, prayer is more unearthly, but the experience is the same. Love has a limitation to it; it is person to person. Prayer is unlimited, it is from a person to impersonal existence. And it is from the person to impersonal existence only […]
God is not a belief but a vision. To believe in God is absolutely nonessential. It is like a blind man believing in light, or a deaf person believing in music. They can’t conceive of what they are believing in, they can’t even imagine it. Their beliefs are deceptions, but that is not so important: […]
The Mediocre man lives according to others; the intelligent person is one who lives according to his own light. Whatsoever the risk, he is capable of taking it because he relies on his own intelligence. He knows that the greater the challenge, the greater will be his intelligence; hence he accepts challenges. He lives in […]
For centuries, people have escaped from love to the monasteries, to the mountains, to the deserts, just to avoid all the opportunities where love can grow. They have lived in solitariness in caves, afraid of love. And there is a point to it: love creates much turmoil. Life without love has a certain calmness about […]
God cannot be proved. No argument is possible either for or against. But if one grows in consciousness, one starts feeling God. As you grow more and more in consciousness, you become aware that things are disappearing; matter is disappearing, and instead of matter the universe starts appearing to be divine, to be consciousness. It […]
Ordinarily man is unconscious . Just a small part has become conscious , a very tiny part , very flickering . Any moment , if there is any small incident you will be unconscious . Somebody treads on your toes and you are unconscious ; somebody hits you and you are unconscious ; somebody insults […]
Man needs integration, an integration of all the fragments into one whole, into one harmony. And that is the whole effort of religion. The very word religion means that which binds you together. That’s exactly the meaning of yoga too; yoga means union. Religion and yoga are synonymous. When you become crystallized, when you become […]
To me, prayer has nothing to do with words. It is a silent gratefulness; it is utterly silent, but a deep gratefulness. It is possible only if you learn how to be blissful; otherwise there will be nothing to be grateful for. So I teach my sannyasins not prayer, but bliss. Dance, sing, be blissful, […]
Everybody has the seed to become a beautiful flower of love, a lotus. But very few people have been able to become it, for the simple reason that very few people are alert; they can’t discriminate what is what. Watch how many things are pretending to be love. If they are love, they cannot create […]
Millions of people live at the lowest center sex. Hence the work of a sannyasin begins at the sex center because the energy is there. I don’t condemn sex because it is energy. We just have to move it upward. And it can be moved upward only if you have a deep respect for it, […]