Bliss is music, music that arises when all your parts – your body, your mind, your heart and your being – are functioning in deep harmony; then your life becomes an orchestra. Ordinarily there is only noise, no music. The body goes on shouting out its own desires; they ask for their fulfillment, not taking […]
Unless your heart sings and dances you are not really living, you are only dragging: fulfilling certain duties, going through certain rituals, somehow managing and maintaining a facade. But deep inside, there is emptiness and a great trembling because one knows in the deepest part of the heart that life is not yet fulfilled, that […]
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, […]
Gold has always been symbolic, both in the East and in the West. For centuries alchemists have talked about it, and they have been very misunderstood because people thought that they were talking about real gold. They were talking about gold only as a metaphor. Man can become gold, he has all the chemicals needed […]
– I am not in search of another world, something that is beyond death; my effort is to transform this moment now and here into paradise. I am not for postponement. All those people who have been saying, If you are virtuous, after death you will be rewarded,” are being deceptive because who knows what […]
The moment you are open, the meeting happens instantly. Existence is always open, the problem with us is that we are closed. The sun has risen but we are sitting with closed eyes – what can the poor sun do? The light is showering but we are living in darkness. It is so easy to […]
Man lives in a dark night of the soul. Morning happens on the outside but very rarely in the inside. The moment it happens inside you are a christ, you are a buddha. The whole of life is really an opportunity to achieve that inner morning. The inner sun has to rise, and it can […]
God is your inner voice. No priest is needed, you need not have any instructions from anybody about your life. But one thing has to be done: you have to move inward so that you can hear the still, small voice. Once it is heard, once you know how it can be heard, your whole […]
It is my own experience that, by giving birth to us, existence has already accepted us. There is no question of the Last Judgment Day. I believe in the first judgment day it has already passed, it is finished. The day God decided to create the world, that was the judgment day. That day he […]
The loveliest song is the singerless one. A song is beautiful when you are not the singer, when existence is the singer.When you are just a hollow bamboo, a flute, when you simply allow existence to flow through you, when you don’t obstruct – that’s all. On our part, all that is needed is not […]