THE SUN BEHIND THE SUN BEHIND THE SUN !

THE SUN BEHIND THE SUN BEHIND THE SUN

Sat means truth, being, existence, rahasya means mystery, mysteriousness. TRUTH IS MYSTERIOUS. IT CANNOT BE KNOWN, IT IS UNKNOWABLE... not unknown but unknowable,

because the unknown can be known some day,
will be known some day, but truth can never
be known.

That’s its intrinsic quality.

Remove one veil and you find another.
Remove another and you find still more, and it goes on ad infinitum. There comes no point where you can say that the journey is finished; there comes no point where you can say that the boundary
has been achieved. It is infinite.

The more you know, the more you know
that knowledge is impossible. The more you know,
the less you know. The more you know, the more mysterious
life becomes. It is a mystery – the sun behind
the sun behind the sun.

You get through one mystery and you simply stumble
into another, and the other is far deeper than the first.
But that does not mean that one cannot live truth;
one can live, one can be, but one cannot know.
So the real seeker is not searching for what truth is; he is searching it first.

It is almost like a woman getting pregnant:
she does not know how the pregnancy really happens,

she does not know how the child is going to grow.
She knows nothing about the mystery but the child
is growing all the time and the woman becomes
the mother. Not that she knows how life arrives,
how it grows; she knows nothing.

Exactly like that, one has to become a womb for truth.

One just has to be feminine, open, and one day
something penetrates. That penetration transforms you and
you start living on a different plane; your quality changes,
your attitudes change. The world remains the same, but
it is no more the same because you are no more the same....

But you never know.

You can love truth. That is the meaning of faith:
loving something that you have not seen, loving
something that is not provable, loving something
that is almost unbelievable, that in fact should not
be if the world is logical, loving something which YOU FEEL
BUT YOU CANNOT KNOW.
Feeling is possible.

Truth enters through the heart, not through the head.


[A sannyasin asks about her problem: It’s about shock.
After primal, in the last days of primal, I had a feeling of anguish... I feel afraid.] It is nothing to be worried about and you have to allow it.
You have been resisting, you have been trying to avoid it.
This is something beautiful that is coming very very close
to exploding. IT IS THE DEATH OF THE EGO THAT IS VERY CLOSE BY, hence the fear and anguish. You should be happy that it is
coming close, but the fear is also natural.
It feels almost as if one is going to die.

Because you don’t know YOURSELF; you know only the ego.
You know the ego as yourself; you don’t know that YOU ARE NOT THE EGO, that YOU ARE TH WITNESS OF IT, that YOU ARE UTTERLY SEPARATE FROM IT, that it is just a cloud in the sky and you are the sky, and
the cloud disperses.

Nothing to be worried about.
The sky will not disperse because the cloud has
dispersed; in fact the sky will become more clean, more clear
when the cloud is gone. But for many lives one goes on thinking of oneself as the cloud, so when the cloud starts dispersing,
fear arises, panic arises.

And it will always arise when you relax because RELAXATION IS AGAINST THE EGO.The ego is perfectly happy when you are tense; THE EGO LIVES OUT OF TENSIONS, IT IS NOUISHED BY TENSION. When you are
tense, occupied, engaged, doing this and that and thinking this
and that, WHEN YOU ARE IN FRAGMENTS, RUSHING ALL OVER THE PLACE, - THEN THE EGO IS PERFECTLY HAPPY, it cannot die, then there is no fear for the ego.

But when you are sitting silently listening to me or you relax or sit with closed eyes, again the tension disappears, and with the tension gone the ego starts feeling the danger.

When tension disappears you have pulled out the very earth from underneath the ego. That’s why it is happening
in relaxation.


Down the ages masters have been teaching people to relax just for the single reason that WHEN YOU REALLY RELAX THE EGO WILL BE GONE. The ego and consciousness cannot relax together;
the ego cannot relax and A RELAXED CONSCIOUSNESS
CANNOT HAVE THE EGO.

It is like ice melting: when the ice melts, the ice will disappear; the ice can remain only if melting is prevented. Relaxation is a melting, and the frozen ice of the ego cannot exist if things start melting.
THE EGO CAN EXIST ONLY IF YOU REMAIN FROZEN, SHRUNK, TENSE.

Something be frightened; I am with you. That’s my purpose here, that is the meaning of sannyas: that when danger arises you can always ask for help, you can always trust and go ahead. You can continuously remember that I am there: if something goes wrong, I will take care.
So next time, when you relax just take hold of the locket in your hand, close your eyes and go into it. Let relaxation happen and let the fear be there. Just take note of it, that it is there, but don’t be
disturbed by it, don’t be distracted by it.

Say, ’Fear... fear,’ and relax!


And you will be surprised – it cannot do anything to you if you don’t get affected by it, it cannot disturb you even a little bit. It has no power. You give power to it when you cooperate with it; when you stand behind it, it is powerful. When you slip out of it and you say, ’Okay, you be there and I am not going to cooperate any more’... when you cop out, it is impotent, it is a dead snake it can’t do
anything.

You give life to it, you pour energy into it, because you have energy; IT HAS NO ENERGY, IT IS JUST AN IDEA. So allow it.


[A sannyasin whose son and grandson are here says: I’ve still been too much involved with my sons and grandsons and daughters-in-law this time. I hope next time I’ll be freer.]

That will be good, mm? – IT IS TIME TO BECOME DISENGAGED FROM EVERYTHING. You have remained engaged your whole life; now it is time, mm? – YOU SHOULD LOOK MORE AND MORE INWARDS. Not that
one becomes unloving... in fact, one becomes more loving,
but one is no more obsessed, one is no more worried.

ONE STARTS PREPARING FOR THE REAL PURPOSE OF LIFE.

THE REAL PURPOSE OF LIFE IS TO KNOW ONESELF,
and if that is not fulfilled before death then life has been a wastage; then whatsoever you have done
makes no sense.


You may have many children and children’s children and prestige and money and fame,
respectability, EVERYTHING- BUT THAT DOESN´T MATTER.
The day you die, all has to be left behind; you
will not be able to take anything from that.

You can take only one thing with yourself and that is
SELF-KNOWLEDGE. THAT, NOBODY CAN TAKE FROM YOU, NOT EVEN DEATH CAN TAKE IT AWAY FROM YOU. THAT IS REAL WEALTH. Money is not real wealth because it is borrowed and the world will take it back sooner or later. And our relationships with children and children’s children are good, but THE BASIC RELATIONSHIP IS WITH EXISTENCE, WITH GOD. That has to be fulfilled, otherwise all relationships are just toys to play with.

Sooner or later death comes and destroys all the toys and then we are very miserable and are at a loss as to what to do.


Very few people are capable of facing death because very few people have anything that they can take with themselves and which death cannot destroy. When all that you have can be destroyed by
death, you are destroyed, because YOU ARE WHAT YOU HAVE.

When you have something which cannot
be destroyed by death, then you know something of deathlessness,
of immortality, OF GOD.

So by and by become disengaged.
Love them; but don’t keep yourself focused on them;
now THE FOCUS HAS TO GO INWARDS.

Now we
have to close our eyes and see what is there inside. THERE IS THE GREATEST EXPERIENCE OF LIFE AND THE GREATEST JOY. ONCE ONE HAS TASTED OF IT THERE IS NEVER ANY MISERY.

Then you are never unhappy;
whatsoever the situation your happiness remains intact.
Even death cannot disturb it, illness cannot
disturb it, old age cannot disturb it.

SO NEXT TIME YOU HAVE TO BE MORE CONCERNED ABOUT YOUR OWN ULTIMATE JOURNEY.



For at least one hour sit silently and just look in.



In the beginning you may not be able to see
anything. There is no worry; there is no need to see anything,
just sit silently. Even sitting silently is
in itself very valuable.

First you will see those old thoughts and things
moving in the mind but by and by they all settle.
Then you will see darkness, so don’t be afraid of it.
Because we have never gone in, our eyes
have become accustomed to see only
outside.

So when we move in, first we feel only darkness.
Then by and by you start seeing a little light and one day
you suddenly see that all darkness has
disappeared.

And to know that inner light is to know god.
Everyone is a shrine of god and the flame
is burning there, but we don’t look.

(O S H O, precious note shared by my dear friend
Veetkam Jasani with love ♥)


"The nearer you approach to God, the less you reason and argue. When you attain Him, then all sounds—all reasoning and disputing—come to an end. Then you go into samadhi — into communion with God in silence."  ~Sri Ramakrishna