The future may turn out to be terribly bleak and dangerous.

The wording of his dedication is tremendous, wonderful.

In sleep one doesnt know whether one really is or not.

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Assured, the mother rested.

The body is nothing more than an electric bulb.

We fail to become acquainted with the light that is our vital energy, our life, our existence, and we are frightened of the darkness that we are not.

"You foolish child!" she said.

I have heard: A magician once entered a city.

When it sprouts, man ceases to be a seed and grows into a tree.

But once in a while a courageous person breaks through the inner walls.

He will just cling to the sheath and the sprout will never come out.

People asserting it have already come forward.

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Regardless of how much Gandhi may teach non-violence, or Buddha and Mahavira may teach it; no matter how many lessons of non-violence are given in the world, as long as man does not experience from within that whatsoever is, is eternal, war cannot cease.

In that case, souls, which before had entered the mothers womb, would now enter test tubes.

But the possibility of such a phenomenon happening again is decreasing every day.

Neither did he before, nor does he now.

With the breaking of dawn, two women from the nearby village passed, carrying milk pots on their heads.

Its difficult to say how I felt at that time.

There was one more, but that was inside the kings palace.

It is totally opposite, reverse to the body.

It will be a state in which the body will lie separate from you.

His soldiers were puzzled.

Once darkness went to see God and implored, "Lord, this sun of yours is out to get me.

And as long as he was awake he knew he was still awake and not asleep.

About something which is unknown nothing can be thought.

That is when wars will disappear -- not before.

The fear of death has only one meaning, unfamiliarity with life.

What happens in death really? The entire vital energy that is diffused, spread all around, it contracts, returns to its center.

Seeing death, this center will be the first to become disturbed.

If understood correctly, these are just two ways of expressing the same thing.

" The life of the tree springs from those invisible roots; the tree which is visible draws life from the roots that are invisible.

They believe the world should become non-violent.

" Marpa gave a big laugh and said, "If you want to know about life you are most welcome, because I know what life is.

Darkness is merely the absence of light.

On the contrary, the truth is that when the seed is born the sheath has to efface itself, has to burst, has to diffuse itself, has to dissolve in the earth.

But the existence of the soul will not be disproved by it, it will only weaken the will of man to turn within himself.

Day and night, from dawn till dark, Mao would toil in the garden.

The tree replied, "In the roots, which are not visible.

In this state of sleep what do we understand about life? We understand only that the body itself is life and that one is unable to penetrate the body.

At some point the light will be reduced to the point where it comes close to the lamp itself.

You wont find them anywhere in this physical body.

Misery, pain, anxiety, sadness and insanity make up our lives, but we never notice it because people around us are also as asleep as we are.

You may not be aware of it, but what Marx has said is gaining ground.

I was watching all this from above.

And were we to dim it even further, the light would be lodged in seed form and darkness would surround you.

Just escape by the back door, drink the water of the well outside and hurry back; otherwise this palace is in grave danger.

But from the point of view of the soul, the number of poor has never been so great as it is today.

Every day, death seems to be happening all around us.

He pretends he knows things he is ignorant about -- all because of fear.

First you will see from within that inside, you are standing separate -- radiating, like a flame.

There wasnt any grown-up around, but Mao told his mother not to worry about the plants and flowers.

But even so, it would not be the soul taking birth, it would be the body -- the soul would still just be arriving.

This country is full of sadhus, monks and other people who make themselves hoarse shouting "The soul is immortal" -- there is a whole line of them, a huge crowd.

We breathe, we walk, we rise, we sit, we sleep.

Well kill you.

For example, we are all seated in this room; we can see this room from within.

Once humanity believes there is nothing within, the whole idea of reaching inside is finished.

But man has understood life in terms of the outer expanse of the flower and has neglected the roots completely.

I am not saying the soul is not immortal.

The people expressed their joy, singing and dancing the whole night.

I have no idea what I said.

There is no reason for it; it has no meaning.

When a man is no longer asleep, only then does he know he was asleep before.

" So we give poison to Socrates, we execute Mansoor.

We never search in the direction of life; we dont even take one step towards it.

A single flower blooms and its fragrance spreads to faraway places.

There is no more death for those who know the soul is immortal.

The question is of living life.

These centers are the contact fields between this body and the inner soul, the meeting points for both.

Know life, death is gone; know death, there is life.

At that point I experienced something else too.

If you want to change the world, stop talking nonsense about improving the moral conduct of each and every person, about teaching moral education to everyone.

These three additional months in that asylum, he told me later, were worse than hell for him.

He said, "I did the best I could.

He suffered from continuous vomiting and diarrhea.

It has a very hard shell which protects the tender, delicate seedling of life hidden inside it.

He does not even know whether he exists or not.

What yoga is concerned with has to do with an existential, living experience.

We consider the outside of the wall to be the palace, we remain ignorant of the inside of the wall.

I believe he is drunk.

" A drunkard also walks, breathes, moves, talks, and so does a madman.

It boils down to the fact that man is deeply unconscious.

How exciting the world will be when, as a whole, it will come to know from within that the soul is immortal! That day the whole fear of death will disappear.

But that would not prove there is no soul.

That which expands and manifests is without.

I beg you, please make him understand.

We are familiar only with the outer layer of the body; we never come to know its inner layers.

And the fact is, life is flowing within us every moment.

I would like to say they are wrong.

Now we have to pay very dearly for it.

You come to know there is no death.

They are two pointers in the same direction.

" And this should not be just a verbal declaration, it should be reflected through their entire way of living.

Our physical body is the sheath containing the seed, and inside there is a sprout consisting of life, of consciousness, of being.

One whose understanding revolves around the body is like this fool who imagines himself to be the palaces guest while standing outside its walls.

We dont know the light that we are, and we become scared of the darkness that we are not.

The mothers womb is a mechanical system too; its a test tube.

And then a chill goes up ones spine, fear grips one, one begins to tremble.

It is said that God called the sun and said, "Why are you after darkness? What wrong has he done you? Why the enmity? What grievance do you have against him?"

The cause was not physical; rather, the breaking of the adjustment between their physical and subtle bodies was responsible for it.

And then, perhaps, scientists may fall under the illusion they have created life.

Up to now there never has been an organization of atheists.

We walk and talk and love and hate, wage war -- all in sleep.

The man also feels he is dying.

But while the man was hurling stones and abuse at the emperor, the emperor himself was laughing.

When I was mad I never could recognize that everyone around me was mad as well.

All her life his mother had tended the garden with great love and care.

Owning an exclusive well is dangerous.

He tells that there was a little garden close to the hut he and his mother lived in.

But, until then, the king had not realized the consequences of having his own separate well.

We dont n九_九_藏_書otice it because we are all sleeping too.

It is something which has never occurred, never occurs, can never occur.

As long as life itself remains unfamiliar, as long as it remains an enigma, there is no way one can be familiar with death, no way one can ever know what death is.

We live outside the body.

And remember, only they can know the immortality of the soul who experiment with death while being alive -- there is no other way of knowing it.

I used to dust each and every flower, I used to dust each and every leaf.

That which is authentic is within.

The common man has always been the same.

In that case the old house would do -- it is now repaired.

Mao Zedong has written an anecdote from his childhood.

" Nothing is ever destroyed in this world; hence, there is no place for the fear of dying or of killing.

And yet, such a low moral character! Such a downfall of the country! This degradation proves they are all involved in a double-dealing business.

"Dont you know trees never have their life-energy in their flowers and leaves? It lies in their roots, which are not visible.

From the tower of his palace the king saw there was no way to escape, that he was completely surrounded by the mad crowd.

I have been asked to speak on life and death, but this is impossible.

And yet, you will be surprised if I say there is no other word in the entire human language more false than death.

What will happen after that is hard to say.

In the last three thousand years man has fought fifteen thousand wars.

He asked his prime minister what he should do.

The whole of life is immortal, but we never look at the immortality.

I dont know how long this state lasted, but it was an exceptional experience.

No event like death occurs anywhere.

Seeing you awake, we who are asleep feel very insulted.

In samadhi, the seeker brings it about with effort by knowingly drawing his entire life energy within.

I am familiar with life, I can talk about life.

Those who are ready to undergo the experiment deep within themselves

The ignorance of life itself becomes the phenomenon of death.

The master prepares to leave and the house becomes depressed, desolate.

There have always been poor, wretched, miserable, sick people in the world.

In her old age his mother fell ill.

There was a mystic in Tibet by the name of Marpa.

So I used to meditate every night sitting in a tree.

But we wont accept this.

There is an internal arrangement of the body which has resulted from the contact between this body and the inner body.

Then such matters become irrelevant.

We can only think about something which is known to us.

If anyone from a distant planet were to watch us, he would think the entire human race is behaving as one behaves in sleep, in a state of unconsciousness.

" But deep down they are saying, "Lest we are killed by someone.

The king asked, "Why did you shout abuse at me? Why did you swear at me yesterday? What was the reason?"

You should also keep another thing in mind: neither can anyone kill them, nor can they be now under the illusion that they can kill anyone -- because now, for them, the very phenomenon of death is finished forever.

But then it is not needed.

And so by evening the entire city had gone mad.

This kind of understanding is similar to a man mistaking the outer wall of a palace for the palace itself, or a man walking on the parapet and thinking he is in the palace, or a man sleeping, leaning on the outer wall, thinking he is resting in the palace.

" To kill is evil indeed, but if these people know there is no death at all, then there is neither room for the fear of dying nor of killing.

That the soul is immortal is not a theory; it is not an ideology.

Except for what yoga has said about life and death, everything else that has been said is only playing with words.

That misfortune has occurred in this very country.

And in this country the number of cowards afraid of death is the greatest as well.

Those who believe the soul is immortal are people afraid of death.

"Darkness?" asked the sun.

He becomes aware of his sleep only after waking up; only then he comes to know that he has been asleep.

It is merely a matter of will.

Only when I came out of my madness did I realize that all those people were mad.

Either we know we are life, then there is no death -- or we do not know we are life, and in that case death alone is, there is no life.

In his insanity, one day, he accidentally drank a bucket of phenyl that had been left for cleaning toilets.

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Because of this very contraction, this very shrinkage of the essential energy, one feels, "I am dying! I am dying!" What one had taken to be life until then begins to slip away; everything begins to drop.

" Afraid of death, such people will also talk a great deal about non-violence -- not because they wouldnt want to kill anyone, but because, very deep down, they dont want anyone to kill them.

In the past, around the world, the moral character was high because of a few self-realized individuals.

You might say, however, that I have often said religion is the art of living.

I can show you what life is.

We dont tolerate him for long.

I was fast asleep and two men jumped on me; I was going my way and someone started pushing me.

The body is made of earth, and the forces of the body work very powerfully if one meditates sitting on the ground.

About seventeen or eighteen years ago I used to meditate until late at night sitting in the top of a tree.

A planned death is meditation, yoga, samadhi.

He thinks, "The soul is immortal, we are part of the divine, we are the form of Brahman.

The fear of dying will vanish as well, and the threat of killing will be gone for good.

And since we remain unfamiliar with life, we seem frightened of death.

If, God willing, we could come to know the life that is within, a single ray of that knowing would destroy forever this ignorance that one can die, or that one has died at some time in the past, or that one will die at some time in the future.

Where is he? Please bring him before me so that I may ask his forgiveness, come to know him, and stay out of his way.

You may have noticed, if you suddenly get into an accident driving a car, the navel will be the first to feel the impact.

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4 November 1969 pm in Bhulabhai Auditorium, Bombay, India

"Why do you laugh, my lord?"

Once you experience that the body is separate from you, you are finished with death.

What are we to think? Thats why I say that whatsoever the philosophers have said about life and death is totally worthless.

When the sheath is dissolved, the seed inside manifests itself.

Actually he was to stay in the asylum for six months, but his stay was extended for three more months even after he became well.

They came and sat next to the body.

And if we understand rightly, we will come to realize that wherever we may be standing on the earth, the dead bodies of countless people have been cremated on that very spot.

Those who are afraid to kill or to be killed become impotent in the eyes of life.

The phenomenon of birth is a double event -- the formation of the body and the arrival of the soul, the descending of the soul.

You are awake; your presence disturbs our sleep.

The fear itself shows we are unfamiliar with death.

And in that silent state he finds that the life energy and the body are two separate things.

We have no access inside the body.

It seems the women took the body to be dead.

Therefore, experiments must be carried out in all corners of the world so that a few individuals may stand up and assert -- not merely an assertion of words and doctrines, not just a reiteration of the Geeta, the Koran, The Bible, but a living affirmation, "I know I am not the body.

Manifestation is all outside.

A Mahavira, a Buddha, a Christ, a Lao Tzu breaks through the wall and enters within.

The day man comes to believe he is nothing more than a body, that there is nothing within him, perhaps all doors leading inwards will be shut.

Each time the moment of death has arrived, we have become so perturbed, so restless, so troubled -- how can we have known anything in that state? What knowledge can one have had? Each time death has come -- and yet we have remained unfamiliar with it.

The master of the house is within, and we never get to meet him.

"There is no other way you can save yourself except by becoming mad," replied the prime minister.

We set out, leaving one house for another.

Not only were the flowers long gone but the leaves w九_九_藏_書ere dead too.

We cant find them because we are looking at the body from outside.

In fifteen days the mother recovered from her illness and came out in the garden.

We are never able to remember, to realize there is something different and separate from the body as well.

Only then can you know, not otherwise.

It has just occurred to me; I have never told it before.

It is also possible that in the near future science may succeed in creating a child in a test tube, in producing life.

I am exhausted.

And what looks like God to you is nothing but a byproduct of matter.

When one knows what life is, only then does life exist, but when life remains unknown there is only death.

And once the separation between the body and the being is known, the experience of life has begun.

As long as man is a seed, he is only a potentiality, and when the tree of life is born in him, he becomes authentic.

If the invisible roots begin to gain strength, the flowers and leaves come on their own -- you dont have to worry about them.

I am not familiar with death.

Once, while a royal procession was passing, a man stood in the main square and began throwing stones and shouting abuse at the emperor.

This can only mean one thing, that some deep spiritual hypnotic sleep is surrounding him.

What I am saying is that the doctrine of the immortality of the soul is a doctrine of those who fear death.

That which we know from without is only the sheath, it is only the outer covering.

There are people who blame the common man for causing the moral decline in the world.

How can darkness be where there is light? How can death be where there is life? Either there is no life at all, or else there is no death.

It is a totally false word.

It would only demonstrate that because the mechanism of the body used to wear out, the soul had to change it.

The truth is, yogis have always been ill, and have died at early ages.

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The end of death and the experience of life take place at the same point, simultaneously.

With a little more courage you can even bring this inner living flame outside, and from outside you can see the body lying there, removed from you.

The greater the distance between the body and the earth, the lesser the pull of the earthly element on the body.

This story is similar to the tale of darkness and light.

Man doesnt even know what life is.

As soon as death appears, the navel will be disrupted in relation to the bodys center.

The future looks very dangerous and dark as far as the soul is concerned, because with each new discovery science will convince man there is no soul.

The emperor replied, "As far as I can see, the man doesnt know what he is doing.

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For example, if we go on dimming a diffused light, it will begin to shrink and darkness will gather.

Instead, a man becomes so restless he never knows what death is.

They live as if almost dead.

The very presence of a person who has known the immortality of the soul can bring about the purification of the spirit of an entire village.

And actually, whatsoever is, is within.

I was drunk, I was unconscious, I wasnt there.

And this ignorance makes us believe in the certainty of death.

"I have been wandering the universe since time immemorial, but I have never come across darkness.

" He tries to muster up his belief, his courage by doing so, and tells himself, "Dont be afraid.

People used to come from faraway just to see the large, beautiful and lovely flowers of that garden.

If, because of increased longevity and the creation of test tube babies, man should come to believe there is no soul, even then the existence of the soul will not be disproved, only the continuing inner search of man will come to an end.

When we dont even know the wall from the inside, how will we come to know the master seated within?

Life passes and he has not a single glimpse of joy.

In samadhi, the seeker himself meets death.

And if we cant know what life is, then there is no possibility of our knowing death either.

Inside lies the very delicate sprout, and a tough wall, an enclosure, a sheath covers the seed in order to protect it.

What also occurred to me was that the reason for Shankaracharya dying at the age of thirty-three and Vivekananda dying at the age of thirty-six was something else.

So obviously, to know the body from within is to know a totally different kind of world altogether, a world we know absolutely nothing about.

Your watering the flowers and leaves, your kissing them, your pouring love on them was all meaningless.

The palace was filled with music and celebration, but by evening they realized they were wrong.

These people who are scared of death continue to fear it.

But this is a far cry when, in the first place, we dont even realize there is something existing within that is different and separate from the body.

The truth is within, the energy is within, all potentialities are within -- they manifest from there.

The king asked in horror, "You want me to drink water from that well? You want me to go mad?"

Hence, the real issue in life is experiencing that which is within, but we believe life to be that which pervades outside.

The nervous feeling that he is dying -- the worried and melancholy state, the anguish and anxiety of dying, the feeling that his end is approaching -- brings such terrible suffering to a mans mind that he fails to be aware of the very experience of death.

It would only prove that the soul wont need to change homes anymore, that science had now worked out a way to fix the old house.

For the first time I saw my body from outside, and from that very day on the body ceased to exist.

Man is not even able to see his own body, his own house from within -- he knows it only from the outside.

But this doesnt even remotely prove there is no soul in the body.

I have often felt the body has a greater influence over you if you meditate sitting on the ground.

" Now if the soul is not and only the body is, then obviously there is no life, only death is.

He has written, "To George Gurdjieff, the disturber of my sleep.

I dont know who darkness is.

No doctor was ready to believe me.

Wars cannot disappear from the world as long as it appears to man that he can be killed, that he can die.

It is a natural system.

I certainly talk about both things, for only one who knows how to die is able to know what life is.

Samadhi means only one thing: bringing about the event that, otherwise, occurs by itself in death.

That night a great celebration took place in the city.

But man creates a strange deception.

I couldnt comprehend what was happening.

" Around such wise men who talk about the immortality of the soul, people afraid of death gather in big crowds.

There have been very few people in the world who have tried to break mans sleep.

Where are the seven chakras, the centers within the body that yoga talks about? They are nowhere in the body.

The common man bears no responsibility for it whatsoever.

Nevertheless, scientists should not remain under the illusion that by increasing the longevity of man to five hundred years, to a thousand years, they would have proved there is no soul in man.

As far as death is concerned, I have not had any meeting with death, I am not acquainted with it.

The king and his queens rushed to the city well and drank its water.

What wrong have I done? What kind of enmity is this? Why is this sun following me and harassing me? I barely manage to rest after a hectic day when once again I find him standing at my door at dawn.

Today, half the world is already within its fold, and the remaining half will join it in the next fifty years.

He never can, and this matter is never going to be resolved.

He sees his body growing weaker inside -- youth has passed, old age is approaching.

One who has recently become a king will certainly find his separate well proves costly tomorrow.

There have been a few beings, of course, who always raised, always uplifted human consciousness.

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We know our bodies externally; we have never gone inside and seen the body from within.

The entire garden had withered away.

He sees the body is on its way out, but inside he keeps reiterating, "The soul is immortal.

It is the experience of certain individuals.

If you want to know death, go and ask those who are as good as dead, or those who are already dead.

because you are an awakened man, and that is your fault.

I felt that a woman can create a chemical change in a mans body, and so can a man in a womans body.

He threw some powder into a well and declared tha九九藏書t whosoever would drink water from that well would go mad.

The soul exists, of course, but all the avenues through which it can be known, recognized, are closing down one by one.

There, it can be shown what life is and what death is.

The bulb that emanates electricity is one thing, and the electricity that is emanated from it is another.

It is difficult for darkness to penetrate the radius of light around a lamp; it is difficult for darkness to have an encounter with a lamp.

Infinite time has passed since this incident took place.

Once in a while, when an awakened one takes birth, we who are asleep become so angry at this awakened person that we immediately kill him.

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If even one hundred, two hundred individuals could experience the inner flame, we will be out of danger.

Every village has a cremation ground.

We treat the awakened ones in the same manner the inmates of a madhouse would treat someone who is not mad.

Look at a seed.

Medical science knows nothing about it, and wont for some time.

If a man takes the sheath for the seed, he wont be able to know the sprout hidden within it.

On its way to the new, unknown journey, his soul starts screaming in agony, "I am dying! I am gone! Everything is sinking!" -- because what he had considered as life up to now begins to sink, to drop away.

Surrounding the palace, they shouted, "It seems our king has gone mad.

This was the only well in the city.

It becomes difficult to live once the connection between the two bodies breaks abruptly.

" Marx says, "There is no life, only death is.

It is not a question of thinking and then writing about it.

I used to kiss each flower and spray water on each flower.

" The ground is ready for it.

It can only mean that the whole vital energy of man is not conscious, not awake.

What death does anyway, he does himself.

" What he is saying in effect is, "No, I wont have to die, the soul is immortal.

The old woman must have felt the same way anyone with eyes would feel looking at the garden of humanity today.

A mans limbs start losing their strength, he begins to become short of breath, his eyesight becomes poorer, his ears become hard of hearing.

During intensive experiences of samadhi, mans luminous body, his subtle body, cannot return without a womans help if it has come out of the physical body.

The people had surrounded the palace; they had all gone mad.

Once it is known that "I am separate from the body," death is finished.

You will see the entire body from within as you see this building.

The matter is over.

Not too many, just a hundred people.

How did these two things happen together?

As a problem, life and death do not both exist simultaneously.

Next morning the man was brought before the emperor.

This brought about such a drastic change in his body that he became well -- as if all the excess heat were expelled from his body.

He remains completely ignorant of what joy is.

But when I recovered, I couldnt figure out where I was.

One who can neither die nor kill has absolutely no idea that that-which-is can neither be killed by anyone nor can it ever die.

It is even difficult to bring darkness before a little lamp, let alone the sun, which is so vast.

Statues in the city square of those holding swords are statues of cowards.

There are certain words which are absolutely false; they contain not even an iota of truth.

From birth to death it is one long story of anxiety, misery, pain and death.

Only in sleep is it possible a man could remain unfamiliar with who he is.

I was still sitting in the tree and the body was below.

Their lifespan was short: they neither had good food to eat nor proper clothes to wear.

And then you can actually come out of the body and look at it yourself from outside.

When he was not asleep he knew he was about to sleep.

We have all been here many times in the past and will be here many more times again.

Mao was very young then.

Ignorance of Life is Death

Dont think those who wield swords are brave people.

He said, "As long as I was mad, there was no problem, because everyone else was the same as I was.

But we see people dying every day.

But, taking this sheath for the seed, we ruin ourselves and the sprout is never born, the seed never sprouts.

This energy is simply an expanse of the will.

Man is the seed of God.

The fear of death has disappeared for them; now no one can kill them.

Questions relating to life and death are not matters of philosophical or metaphysical thought.

The very piece of land on which we may have built our houses has been a cemetery at some time or other.

Again it becomes a seed, an atom, ready for a new journey.

He said he would take good care of them.

And in those six months I felt I had lost at least ten years off my life.

They thanked God for restoring the kings mental state, because now the king was also dancing in the crowd and shouting abuse.

And this unfortunate circumstance is sure to occur in the next fifty years.

Similarly, a womans luminous, subtle body, cannot be brought back without a mans assistance.

We are surrounded by people who are asleep, hence we dont realize we are asleep too.

It is flowing in every breath, in every particle, all around, within and without -- and yet it is unknown to us? This can mean only one thing, that man is in a deep sleep.

What I am talking about is an existential approach.

What would happen next was beyond my comprehension.

If you wish to know what life is, what death is, you will have to learn the art of withdrawing energy from your body voluntarily.

This energy is diffused at will and withdrawn at will.

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Man doesnt know what life is because he has believed his fulfillment is in being a seed alone.

There was never so hard-hearted a person who, passing by the garden, would not stop for a moment or two and admire such appealing flowers.

No, death cant be known at the moment of dying, but one can certainly have a planned death.

Now, if the parts of the body could be replaced -- the heart, the eyes, the limbs -- if they could be replaced, then the soul would have no reason to change bodies.

He doesnt even remember that he is something inner as well.

Thats why he doesnt know life itself, what life is.

The navel will become disordered at once, because here the contact field between the body and the soul is the deepest of all.

I dont know when I became immersed in deep meditation, and I dont know at what point my body fell from the tree, but when it did, I looked with a start to see what had happened.

It wears out, it gets tired, and we have to go beyond it.

" Were you to have such an intense longing, such a powerful emotion; if your whole being were to fill with a passionate, intense desire to return to your center; if your entire body were to pulsate with this feeling, someday it can happen -- you will instantly return to your core and, for the first time, see your body from within.

Again I have to run for my life, again I have to escape -- this has been going on since eternity.

A friend of mine once went mad.

Those who take the outer manifestation as life, their entire life is threatened with the fear of death.

I dont know what happened! I put in so much effort, and the whole garden has withered away!"

The seed cant even dream of the possibilities awaiting when it grows into a tree.

Even to this day, the inner doors of the majority of people have remained shut.

On the battlefield, Krishna says to Arjuna, "Do not be afraid, because those you see standing in front of you have existed many times before.

All this talk of the yogis moving up to the higher elevations -- to the mountains, to the Himalayas -- is not without reason; its very scientific.

A sword is proof that the man is a coward.

The brave man needs no sword in his hand because he knows it is childish to kill and to be killed.

This house has a limited capability.

How can the absence of the sun be brought into the presence of the sun? No, darkness can never be brought before the sun.

Yogis have nothing to do with physiology.

Marx is the first atheist in the world who created an organized church.

We cannot tolerate a mad king sitting on the throne.

Let me tell you an incredible experience I had.

The darkness of millions of people can be dispelled with the inner flame of the few.

When this experience slips away from ones hands

Before all the doors and avenues close down, those who have even a little bit of ability and courage should experiment on themselves and make an effort to turn within so they can have the expｒｅaｄ•９９cｓw.cｏmerience.

" This is all rubbish, it is nothing more than self-deception.

Its difficult to say how long this experience lasted.

Even a tiny lamp cuts through a long darkness.

To know death one needs to be peaceful.

The sole reason for this is that the necessary adjustment between the two bodies becomes interrupted.

They are afraid they may die some day, any moment.

Life is there, but all the possibilities of connecting with it are fading away.

"

Mao also burst into tears.

The man said, "Me? Swearing at you? No, your majesty, I must not have been myself; thats why I must have said such things.

Once I asked a tree, "Where is your life source?"

This experiencing of life from outside becomes the experience of death.

My problem was that I knew I was quite well, but I wondered and worried what would happen to me now.

"

The reason we give for crucifying Jesus is "

So the vital energy of our life shrinks, returns to its own center.

But if you attempt to break anybodys sleep, he will take revenge on you.

Then we will be in a position to say that death just happens.

Subsequently, I had many more experiences of this kind.

A British scholar, Kenneth Walker, has dedicated a book of his to a mystic, Gurdjieff.

This explained why Ramakrishna was besieged with illnesses and Ramana died of cancer.

They placed their hands on my head, and in a moment, as if by a powerful force of attraction, I came back into the body and my eyes opened.

He knows.

Mans inner roots are lying there, totally neglected.

Nevertheless, bring him before me tomorrow morning.

I am sinking, the end is near.

Obviously, there is no need for him to feel restless, because he is experimenting with pulling, drawing the consciousness in.

We too exist as if we are not.

But it may be that in the next one hundred or two hundred years man might say, "Only death is, life is not.

We dont even know the inner sides of the palace walls, let alone the palace itself.

You can only think about that which is known to you.

This needs to be understood.

The nerves, veins and centers of the body known through that inner physiology are all totally different.

Well say, "We know very well what life is.

What on earth is there to think about?

In fact, all these senses were alive, and the whole body too, because of the connection with some energy.

"

The question is only of life, there is nothing like death at all.

"

So the question is not one of life and death, the question is only of life.

Some clown with bandages over their mouths, some perform acrobatics with a staff in their hands, others present yet another type of circus! Such a crowd of people know the soul and this country is in such a decline! Its hard to believe.

Those who think about these things never accomplish anything.

His prime minister asked.

It is only the outer wall of a house, it is not the master of the house.

I never noticed these things before because I was mad too.

What happens when a union between a man and a woman takes place? Together, they dont create a soul in the mothers womb, they just create a situation where the soul can enter.

Its easy to pull this energy inside.

For those who know life, death is an impossible word.

We have died many times before, an infinite number of times, but we have never known what death is.

But why? Their answer will be, "It is bad to kill anyone.

Never worry about the flowers and the leaves.

He starts chasing me at dawn and only after much trouble leaves me alone in the evening.

It can be known that "I am life;" it can be known that "I am not going to die.

Life is the electricity, the energy, the vital force that keeps the body alive, warm, excited.

Knowing the immortality of the soul is a totally different thing.

It is generally believed that yogis are healthy people, but the truth is completely the opposite.

Dont ever try to waken a sleeping man, he will be at your throat.

The prime minister said, "Now there is nothing left for which to seek advice.

I cant take it any more.

Of all the people in the world who believe in the immortality of the soul, most are in this country.

He is only a seed.

They explained why the tantrikas of India, who experimented extensively with samadhi and death, had linked themselves with women too.

Thats a subtle physiology.

How can you bring darkness before the sun? Darkness has no positive existence of its own at all.

They dont both exist together -- they cant.

By the time it was evening everyone in that city became thirsty, so even at the cost of turning mad, people drank the water.

Obviously, man has no idea whether he is or not, or who he is.

I was still in the tree, but the body had fallen below.

This shows the human race is not awake.

Deep down he is fraught with fear, deep down he knows he will have to die -- people are dying every day.

How would I return to my body?

Has it ever occurred to you that you cant think what you dont know? How can you think, how can you conceive that which you know nothing about? We dont know what life is; we dont know what death is.

The old woman cried out, "What have you done? What were you doing from dawn till dusk?" she wailed.

How can the seed have such an experience? How can a seed ever know the blissful state of the tree? How can a seed ever know that green leaves will appear someday, and that the suns rays will dance on them? How can a seed ever know the winds will pass through the leaves and the branches, and a resounding music will emerge from their beings? How can a seed ever know that flowers will bloom, eclipsing the beauty of the stars? How can the seed ever know that, sitting on top, birds will sing and that travelers will rest in the shade? How can a seed ever know the experience a tree has? The seed has no idea.

Even the trees had become sad.

"As I ceased to be mad, I became the target of everyone there.

If you resolve that for half an hour you want to turn within, you want to die, you want to drown within yourself, you want to withdraw all your energy, then within days you will come close to experiencing the contraction of energy.

But as soon as he falls asleep he doesnt know he is asleep, because if he were to notice that he is asleep then that would mean he is still awake, not asleep.

"We thought we were fortunate that we had our own well.

Look at the crowd, at this queue, at this platoon of sadhus, at this whole great circus of sadhus all over the country.

Of course death is there, but the sages, the wise men say the soul is immortal.

And the man feels, "Here I go!" At the moment of death he comes to feel, "I am going.

The common man always remained the same; he has remained unchanged.

The truth is, death seems to occur because we have no idea of what life is.

Its the tree that will have the experience of the wholeness of life.

The king was terrified.

As they approached the tree they saw my body lying there.

This secret needs to be understood.

Only a single silver cord connected me with the navel of my body -- a very shiny silver cord.

Both cannot be true together.

Soon, with full discovery and knowledge of those chemical elements which make up the male sperm and the female egg, a scientist in his laboratory may succeed in producing the same chemical organization in a test tube.

A man, wandering around outside, sees this house from the outside; he cant see it from within as we do.

Religion is the art of living and dying.

There is one other way to observe the body -- from within, through the inner physiology.

As the male and female bodies connect, an electrical circuit is completed and the consciousness that has gone out returns swiftly to the body.

Man doesnt find a single moment of bliss, a single spot of joy in his life.

None of these people know anything about the soul.

He is dying, because his consciousness begins to move within, away from what he had understood as life.

" One can live this experience, one can enter into it.

A deep three-month long experiment will make you see your body lying separate from you; you can see your own body lying distant from you.

When a man is asleep he doesnt know who he is, what he is, where he is from -- everything is lost in the darkness of sleep.

Mentally, the king had become normal.

One night

For fifteen days he was violently sick.

In the last fifty years, the ground has already been prepared for it.

Since our state of sleep is so common, so universal, and because we have been asleep since birth, we remain unaware.

It may be that soon scientists rｅaｄ•9９ｃsw.coｍmay create a similar situation in a test tube, but that is not the same as creating a soul.

The matter is still pending in Gods files; he has still not been able to bring darkness before the sun.

People outside think the man is dead, and in this moment of death, in this moment of change, the person also feels, "I am dying! Dying! Dying! I am gone!"

" Although his being shakes with fear, yet outwardly he says that the soul is immortal.

It can only realize them by being a tree.

And once the energy begins to recede, the body, which was essentially lifeless, becomes lifeless once again.

He was put in a lunatic asylum.

When yoga talks about thousands of arteries and veins, it is not from the point of view of physiology.

Ignorance is death.

Since then I am finished with death, because I came to see another body different from this one -- I came to experience the subtle body.

He will know it only when his inner tree of life has manifested itself totally.

One just needs a determined resolve to go within.

If a hundred individuals in a country reach a point of knowing what the soul is, the life of that entire country will be automatically uplifted.

No, the sheath, the cover is not the seed.

Let me say this too: such an achievement wont prove anything either.

And this gives rise to the idea of death.

What she saw was awful.

Although, in fact, they dont really cry and feel troubled over anyones death -- each death reminds them of their own, and the closer the dying person, the stronger the reminder.

I also wondered how the touch of that woman caused my return to the body.

Some call this authenticity the soul, some call it God.

There have always been people in the world who have denied the soul, but up to now a religion was never born of these people.

How would I get out of there? My screaming I am not mad, was of no avail because all madmen scream they are not mad.

"

Thats why it is difficult to find a nation more afraid of death than the one which talks about the immortality of the soul.

It wouldnt prove anything.

These have been known from within; hence, when one looks today one wonders where these arteries and veins are.

Only then may we succeed in saving humanity -- otherwise, the whole of scientific development will turn man into a machine, an automaton.

One experiences life when the seed sprouts.

"What will happen now?" he worriedly asked.

In this state a man thinks nice things.

Only when experience is what you want can experience alone solve the riddle, "What is life? What is death?" And as soon as you have the experience you will come to know that life is, that death is not -- that only life is, that there is no death at all.

The palace guards and the soldiers of the kings army had gone mad as well.

They are merely repeating, "The soul is immortal.

When the electricity contracts totally, the bulb lies there, lifeless.

This is true all over the world.

If a man knows the soul is immortal, he doesnt have to repeat it even once.

You have certainly existed before, and I have too.

Deep inside we have a kind of being which is entirely different from the body.

But the sheath, the enclosure itself, is not the seed.

His ministers were happy to be saved from madness as well.

And those very people who are frightened of death, weep and are troubled over someone elses death.

Charvaka, Brihaspati, Epicurus and many other such remarkable people in the world denied the existence of the soul, but they never formed any church, any organization.

All the flowers had fallen off, all the leaves had dropped, all the trees were sad.

With the presence of a hundred shining lamps the whole country can be uplifted.

If science would have it so, it would be possible to keep the human body alive for one hundred, two hundred, three hundred years.

And because he enters death himself, he comes to know the truth that he is separate from his body.

After all, what is Marx saying? According to Marx, "Matter is, God is not.

Perhaps you may have heard it.

" Sooner or later, all kings have to pay dearly for owning an exclusive well.

The responsibility for the present low state of human character lies with these sadhus, with the so-called holy men, with the hypocrites and charlatans who talk about religion.

It was, after all, a royal pageant, so the man was immediately arrested and thrown into prison.

This essential energy that is reaching out to every nook and corner of our bodies, withdraws, comes back to its core.

How long could they hold out? They were helpless.

The consciousness begins to move within, away from the plane where he knew life to be.

The biggest meeting point is the navel.

Being is within.

To boost his strength, one who is scared of death repeats, "The soul is immortal

But that does not prove the drunkard is in his right senses or that the madman is conscious.

Even though she was crying, his mother couldnt hold back her laughter.

The word death is one of them.

This is only because man has come to believe there is nothing within, and so, for him, the question of turning in doesnt arise.

For people like us who are asleep, you become a symbol of disgrace.

If you want to change the world, a few individuals will have to be willing to go through very intense inner experiments.

Their very presence has always worked as a catalytic agent and has always elevated human life.

Man is not mortal, he is immortal.

But that would also be wrong.

In sleep a man doesnt know he is asleep.

The king and his queens were happy that they didnt have to drink the water from that well and become mad.

But those who only think, who say, "Well think about what death is, what life is," may think about it a million times, may think about it life after life, but they wont know anything.

This body of ours does not really represent our authentic being.

With the use of will power, simply with will power, the energy can be drawn inside -- just the thought, the feeling, "I want to turn in, I want to go back in, I want to return within, I want to come back in.

With a cool mind he contracts the consciousness within.

We are alive, but we dont know what life is.

It occurred to me, however, that the connection between this body and that body had ruptured, had been interrupted, that the adjustment, the harmony that had existed between the two, had broken down.

So he turned to the prime minister for advice.

This house is a machine.

the day ones vital energy contracts within -- leaving the house, the body behind, and the consciousness moves inside, away from the outer wall -- people looking on from outside feel the man is dead.

With the presence in a village of a single man who has known the immortality of the soul, the whole atmosphere, the whole vibe, the entire life of the village will change.

And what this simply means is that we leave the house, the body we were living in, and a journey towards a new home begins.

Hence, I say religion is the art of dying.

We immediately kill the one who is awakened because he appears very troublesome, very disturbing to us.

I went through some strange experiences in six months -- even the hair on my chest turned white.

Once the subtle body comes out of the physical body it never reenters fully and the adjustment is never completely restored.

If I were to live up to seventy, now I can only live up to sixty.

Whatsoever is written about life and death in the philosophy books is worth nothing, because those people have written it after a lot of thinking.

This energy can be withdrawn; it is not difficult.

Millions upon millions of people have died, and are dying every day.

Meanwhile, they fail to know life and invent a new trick, a new deception that the soul is immortal.

Obviously, one cannot say man is living in awareness.

Up to now, whosoever has tried to shake man out of his spiritual sleep, we have been at his throat as well.

Someone once came to him and said, "I have come to ask you about life and death.

I say: Only life is, death is not.

But we are all afraid of death.

I agreed to speak on this subject only because I felt that in case some courageous man came forward, I would invite him, "Come on! If you are ready to go on an inward journey, I am willing to take you.

When the two elements of man and woman meet, an opportunity is created for the soul to enter the womb.

The chakras are their contact fields.

I have run out of patience.

Following this event, I consistently had the same kind of experience about six times in six months.

Being is within, becoming takes place outside.