With such resolve do they become identified with Jesus that, as it were, they go through an actual crucifixion.

There is yet another significant factor involved in this matter.

Once this truth is understood, what I am explaining to you will become clear.

This is the same as if a scientist born in India were to find a suitable job in America.

Thirty students were taking the exam, but this fellow decided to run away.

By the course of evil I mean controlling, possessing, enslaving the other.

A huge crowd gathered around him.

In the past, however, they didnt have any means to verify it.

He ultimately divides the existence into conscious and unconscious.

" But the man didnt have the guts.

When people have enough to eat, the idea of fasting once in a while appeals to them.

Left to ourselves, we dont believe we could have captured him.

Making a firm resolve is hard, not the technique itself.

Diogenes is saying, "Whatsoever happens, I make that my will.

Nothing can happen against my will, because whatsoever happens I make that my will.

In fact, this man who is contemplating suicide is not doing so with any readiness to die really.

Diogenes said, "You are having fun chaining me, I am having fun in being chained.

This requires a little consideration.

In witnessing, the duality is present.

The man died in Rangoon.

ONE WHO COMMITS SUICIDE ALSO TRIES TO KILL HIMSELF VOLUNTARILY.

You wont end up as a witness if you follow the course of evil; rather, you will simply wander around within the confines of your willpower.

The equivalents of such words are extremely difficult to find in any other language of the world, because all these words are born out of very special experiences.

He can end up using that power without any discrimination.

And it is not right to say we have made him a slave.

After having performed the act of taking poison at the Rangoon University, he was driven home in a car.

Since the woman carries a child, she has a special place in her abdomen for that purpose -- which is not the case with men.

There is a woman in Russia who can read with her fingers -- not Braille, the language for the blind -- she reads any ordinary book, with closed eyes, just by placing her fingers on the printed letters.

This indicates a negative will.

Therefore, he cannot rise up to the state of advaita, nonduality.

Therefore, the question is not whether a seeker who follows the discipline of witnessing, or one who follows the discipline of tathata would attain the same as a seeker who attains by following the discipline of will.

The word prakriti means that which was before creation.

This is the very passage for going in and out of the body.

They figured if they could capture this man -- good looking, strong, powerful -- they may receive a good price for him.

The fact is he is running away from making the resolve.

Experiments in hypnosis reveal very profound truths about the mind.

But it is very difficult to make use of will for the sake of experiencing death.

Nevertheless, in the course of these practices he went through a certain discipline which produced such incredible results that even people from outside could not miss what was happening to him.

Then no scripture in the world, no guru will have anything new to add to it.

Whatsoever happens, we are willing to accept it -- we deny nothing.

The only thing that requires any action is that of simply drawing all the energy inside at a certain point.

This is becoming lost.

Question 6

But her father who was not even in the room -- she counted him.

If a man is asked to go in meditation for forty minutes by simply closing his eyes, he cant do it; he opens his eyes frequently and looks around.

And as I see it, rather than remaining a weakling, it is better if one uses his power for evil purposes -- for the simple reason that one who commits an evil act now may someday use the same power for a good cause.

Both of these words, purusha and prakriti, are highly significant.

Mahavira says, "Go on a fast, and die of hunger.

So he reached home unconscious.

His captors said, "The man is right.

CONSEQUENTLY, HIS FEAR OF DEATH WILL DISAPPEAR FOREVER.

Prakriti is something very different.

It is as though as ones feet are sticking out from underneath a shrunken blanket.

He throws away the junk, packs up the important stuff, and sets out on a new journey.

If the seeker goes through this experience once, his entire life is transformed instantly.

I said to him, "You have come back?" He was unaware that I knew he had gone to commit suicide.

So I came out.

So the question is: at the moment of death, at which center would the consciousness gather to shrink and become a seed? It would, of course, gather at the very center you have lived through all your life.

Because it is possible that a brahmin may take birth in a sudra family and, lacking an appropriate environment, he may not be able to carry the gains of his past lives into his next lives.

I have already mentioned to you that as long as one has not entered death voluntarily, he cannot be free from the fear of death.

Her mind had totally accepted my word.

Up to now it functioned as an actuality; now it will once again become a potentiality, because now, like a seed, it will enter a new body.

The eye is formed of skin as well, except that it has become transparent.

Therefore, the mental condition of the father and the mother, as well as their state of consciousness at the time of intercourse, determine what kind of soul will enter the womb, because only that type of consciousness, that kind of soul will be attracted to seek that womb which fits with the center closest to the minds of the father and mother during the intercourse.

But the blood inside this hand does not flow according to my desire; it wont stop flowing if I dont want it to.

Entering death voluntarily is the most profound of all experiments in exercising ones will.

Those who really want to know the full meaning of life should have an experience of death at least once.

Constitution in this sense means ones system, ones physical and psychological makeup as such.

If a thorn pricks his foot, the witnessing man says, "The thorn has not pricked me, it has pricked my body -- I am only the knower of it.

Whats the hurry?"

The mind did not press you to look at the billboards in the past because you had not challenged it.

In that state, the one part of your mind is not doubting, and the nine parts are believing -- now you can jump into the fire, your feet wont burn.

And it will indeed lead one toward becoming a witness.

And this is why the seeker who stops at the level of being a witness, a watcher, remains confined to a kind of dualism.

For example, Kanpur, Nagpur.

The final resolution a seeker should find worth making is that of meeting death voluntarily.

The question is that he determined something and went on to fulfill it.

We all experience a moment or two when the thought of death crosses our mind.

Another man decides he will eat, but instead of watching himself eat, he will eat watchfully.

When Jesus was crucified, nails were driven into his palms and the blood came out.

This can cause great difficulty.

Hence, many good souls cannot take birth again for hundreds of years.

But witnessing is a very difficult thing.

Actually, the various religious practices in the world are not religious practices really.

If the power is put on the course of goodness, it is sure to give rise to the witness within you, and ultimately that power can be used to know and attain oneself.

Yes, saying "only awareness" will do, but again, there is no need to add only before it.

They remained separate until he allowed them to mix.

He is not able to make a determination and live.

So Mahavira has given permission to commit santhara, causing death to oneself as a spiritual discipline.

No one could distinguish his voice from a distance.

So the working of the blood is involuntary.

It wouldnt be surprising if you closed your eyes and became unconscious when forced to go somewhere.

This is how things are.

Life tells someone, "You were rich until yesterday, today you are bankrupt.

This does not involve any doing on your part.

The man is not interested in dying actually; the truth is, he has lost interest in living.

We come across lots of opportunities to do so.

The way human beings, birds, animals, plants live, is determined by their will.

He is willing to live only on one condition.

It is already attained by him without any problem.

I said, "But he has gone to kill himself!"

In tathata, besides the feeling of am-ness, there is the feeling that my am-ness, my existence and your you-ness, your existence, constitute only one is-ness, one existence; that they are one and the same.

The soul will enter the new cell in a mothers womb through the same door from which it came out at the previous death -- thats the only door it knows.

For instance, how could one figure out from the outside what was happening inside him when he followed the discipline of the Sufis? And he himself never mentioned a word about what he was involved in.

" Witnessing is also slightly different from it.

Question 8

We all think of dying many times, but not for the sake of dying really.

No, its not the same meaning.

Actually, if food becomes sufficiently available throughout the world, fasting will turn out to be a necessity for everyone.

Until fifty years ago, all human illnesses were treated as illnesses of the body.

The feet remain beyond the reach of the blanket.

For one thing, Mahavira was fully assured that no one dies really.

Among all the spiritual disciplines discovered all over the world, tathata is the greatest.

This is truly very significant and worth giving a thought.

Neither are we concerned with life, nor with death.

So prakriti means that which was even before the creation came to be, that which didnt need to be created -- which has always been, beginningless.

Since the condition has not been fulfilled, hence the denial of life.

This seems highly possible.

One could explain away all these changes by assuming that any man with some effort can walk or talk like a woman.

There is no conflict among the three.

When the same man is asked to breathe deeply and vigorously for ten minutes, within two minutes he slows down his breathing.

It will be as if you pour water and it moves into small hollows in the earth.

The piercing has occurred at one place, while the awareness of it is present somewhere else.

The life is bound to change, because it is the kind of experience which can never leave the life just the way it was.

You are welcome to dance with them.

The experience of supreme silence, the experience of the greatest freedom from tension, and that of the ultimate liberation is possible only in the state of tathata.

If something good comes to us well receive it; if something bad befalls us well bear it.

He crossed that limit.

No one else has given such permission.

A thin silver cord will still keep you connected with the navel of your body, however.

You will come out with the feeling that you have gained something, that you are richer than you were a half hour ago.

For example, my hand moves only when I want it to; it wont move if I dont want it to move.

Therefore, in most ordinary cases a man is born again and again in the same society, in the same country.

The whole quality of your being has changed -- you are no longer the same man who lived fifteen days ago.

In Europe, stigmata appear on the hands of many Christian monks.

Similarly, he will not look upon death the way he did until then.

Death can be used, of course, for the purpose of exercising willpower -- but thats a different matter.

Thats why there is no going beyond this I, my very being.

The truth is, for those who have plenty to eat, it is easy to go without food for a day or two.

The word purusha is also very meaningful.

But once you have found the house, the matter is over.

What this means is that even fire cannot burn you if the mind is not open to it, and even coldness can cause burns if the mind is ready for it.

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The pulse rate can be brought under voluntary control.

For example, in the Jaina tradition death has also been used to strengthen willpower.

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The point from where one makes an exit is the conclusive proof of how one has lived his life.

But there is no need for one to be under such compulsion.

However, no one knew what he was doing, because these disciplines were practiced on the inner plane.

The place where he dwelt the whole life will be the place from where he will depart.

This phenomenon was put to a wonderead.99csw.comrful use.

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It is total acceptance.

In a way, he has shown his determination too.

The stronger the will, the more dead is the mind.

" A man wanting to kill himself drops the idea if he is without an umbrella! This is how it is.

It is the source of our life, it is the source of our illness, and it is the very source of our death.

The people had worked out the idea of taking birth in the same neighborhood so that one may keep finding wombs of the same quality for lives together.

The door next to my room was open and the wife was sitting inside.

Those who are healthy and those who remain mostly sick, those who are peaceful and those who are continuously restless -- all are subject to the same principle.

Therefore, I am the thorn.

Just a little trouble, a little difficulty, and one rushes to end it all.

The idea was that if a brahmin died, his soul should be reborn as a brahmin.

She looked all around the room -- except at the sofa where her mother was sitting -- to see where her voice came from.

However, if a man sets out to have a direct, positive experience of death, if he is on his way to know what death is with a positive attitude, if he has no conflict with life, if he is not against life, then even in death this man is searching for life.

Nor can I think, "It would be good if the thorn didnt prick me," because that would be tantamount to tearing myself apart from my very own being.

An ordinary man is born immediately.

The earth became incapable of giving them birth again.

You can say that being "just aware" makes up the link between witnessing and tathata.

If the moment of lovemaking between a couple is such that a soul can have an access through the door of intellect, it will have found the suitable womb, and it will be born.

But in an affluent society its a matter of convenience.

Mostly he feels people are driving him to commit suicide; certain circumstances, certain events are compelling him to end his life.

Today you posed the challenge.

In that crystallized form it draws in all his conditionings, propensities, desires -- the total essence, we may call it the perfume or the stench of his entire life -- and moves on to its next journey.

So Diogenes raised his voice and said, "A master has come here for sale.

Obviously, he is forced to seek a position in America.

The problem is, creating a scientist depends on one set of requirements while providing him with a suitable employment depends on some other set of factors.

This is a more difficult resolution.

Essentially, we alone are responsible for the way we live, and the level at which we live.

However, one needs a certain kind of sensitivity in order to see such fine shades.

One who has any doubts will not jump, but the one who has none will jump in.

It is also conceivable that what he could have achieved in ten days by being born in a brahmins home, he may not achieve in ten years in a sudras home.

If he needs to come, he comes; if he needs to go, he goes -- the same as Diogenes did.

A suicidal tendency is essentially an escapist tendency.

But the astonishing thing is that blisters appear on his hand -- the same as it would have if a hot coal had been placed there.

There is no resolve in it.

If a kshatriya died, his soul should be reborn as a kshatriya.

The entire body becomes lifeless, while the inner core remains alive like a flame.

He will set them apart as two entities -- the conscious and the unconscious, and a distance will be created between the knower and the known.

The third thing he could do was to take in any kind of poison and retain it in his stomach for half an hour, after which he would throw it out of his system.

The amazing thing is, we have devised educational means good for only one lifetime.

So tathata is the fundamental principle.

It is not too difficult to give up food.

It was indeed a remarkable experiment, but it met with decay.

In that state, if you were to place a small piece of rock on the hand of the hypnotized person and tell him it is a hot coal, he will cry out in pain as if his hand had been burned.

Just as a breath of air enters your room and goes out -- without any reason.

So the one whose coming and going away is as unmotivated, as desireless as the breeze, such a being is called Tathagat.

Once you are convinced -- that if they are not having burns, you wont either -- you reach the same state a hypnotized person does.

It would concentrate at the center which was most valuable to you in your life, because that was your most active center; one should say, that was the very point from where your whole vital energy functioned.

This phenomenon occurs at one level -- the physical.

Just the delay of a couple of moments can be enough, because in those moments his mental resolve will fall apart -- it was put together forcibly.

The journeys cycle ends where it started.

Without the minds permission, the body is helpless to do anything.

The life energy of an enlightened man would leave from the sahasrar, the seventh chakra -- his skull will break open as he departs from there.

It will be useful in comprehending the meaning of tathata.

So pur indicates the city, and the one who resides in the city is the purusha.

He would say, for instance, "Tathagat said

I just gave you an example.

As one succeeds in these, his willpower goes on increasing.

This is not a feat that only yogis can perform -- you can too.

I have come here on my own, willingly.

Even the greatest of physiologists is ready to admit today that more than fifty percent of all human ailments are psychological.

Similar is the case with regard to our ears, except they have become capable of picking up sound.

Question 1

One who hasnt realized that he is separate from the thorn which is pricking him is not yet ready to know that the thorn is a part of him.

They forgot all about the fire and asked him, "How did you come out? How did you manage to walk?" The moment they asked how he managed to walk, the man said, "Are you joking? How can I walk?" And he fell down.

Obviously, people ordinarily dont possess such sensitivity.

Then just think of going out of the body, and you will be out of your body.

In the same manner, although we help souls evolve on this earth we do not make available a suitable womb for their next birth.

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For a master musician, the words, or the notes have no direct bearing upon the music.

Where is the need for any trouble? Its great! Now tell me, where do we go from here?"

So pick very small situations -- you can choose for yourself -- and then experiment a few times during the day.

It has occurred many times; for example, once a house caught fire at night and the people inside came running out.

Of course, we all manage to make a resolve good enough for one moment.

Without having seen what death is like, they can never really know what life is worth.

But that wont necessarily make him a man of will, because after all, he is running away, he is escaping.

And one who has such a fear is indeed a slave.

Diogenes said, "Good, lets go.

Normally we use prakriti in the sense that "That mans constitution is such

Outwardly, no one could know what was going on with Ramakrishna.

Its only now that the scientists have come to recognize there may be life on some fifty thousand planets.

Just as we abandon one life, one body, and commence the journey of another life, another body -- similarly the consciousness which was spread out withdraws and once again becomes the seed.

That which already is.

Simply using your total willpower you can draw your consciousness inside from all parts of your body.

What we call sperm or ova are the seeds left by the body at the time of death.

Its a very small experiment.

This also needs to be understood.

For medical science, this phenomenon caused great interest and concern.

She can never run like a man does -- there is no way; their physical make-up is different.

Breathing ten minutes deeply is not a very difficult thing to do.

Life was pointing out to him: "Forget the person you loved before, love someone else.

" Her mother called out to her.

He will overcome something, he will succeed in breaking some kind of resistance working inside him.

Naturally, they are forced to seek opportunities for birth on other planets.

The human body is like a town, a city, and there is someone who resides in it -- he is the purusha.

There is neither a knower nor is there anything to be known.

You close your eyes and feel that the consciousness is shrinking inward.

Very rarely does this change.

However, one can stop at the level of witnessing, if he so desires, and choose not to arrive at tathata.

He will find it a little difficult to run after the things he chased in the past.

Someday death will come, of course, but then you wont be entering into it voluntarily -- you will be compelled to face it.

You drive by every day.

If you dont find it in Bombay proper, you may hunt for it in the suburbs: if you dont succeed there, you may move ahead and look somewhere else.

About one hundred and eighty thousand births take place every day, excluding the number of people dying.

It is as if a child runs away from his class as the examination hour approaches.

Ordinarily it is not difficult to make a resolve in favor of life -- we indeed want to live.

Dying voluntarily, one can see death even while being alive.

The entire black magic is a product of willpower.

For six months Ramakrishna practiced the discipline of this sect, and strangely enough, the tone of his voice became feminine.

Whether the seeker is a male or a female doesnt matter.

Mahavira is the only person in the world who allowed if any seeker wished to use death for this purpose.

Hence he felt there was no need to worry so much about death, and he found no harm in a seeker pursuing this discipline.

Any means can be used in order to fulfill ones determination.

It makes no difference where you throw me; I still remain the lord and master.

It has not come about as a consequence of an individuals will; the same will was exercised generation after generation, and it showed the result.

Only Mahavira has said one can use death as a spiritual discipline -- but not the kind of instantaneous death which occurs by taking poison.

Whatever method he could lay his hands on, he tried.

Ones restlessness and tension will continue to remain if he carries even a small degree of complaint.

I had not taken an umbrella with me, so I came back.

Our fingers wont be able to do this to such an extent.

The fact is, this man agreed lo become a slave, we didnt make him.

So our biological organism consists of two parts: one that works according to our desire, and the other which works independent of our desire.

But they suddenly remembered that the old man who had been paralyzed and sick for years had been left behind.

What does witnessing mean? It means youll walk as well as know that it is not you who is walking -- that you are simply witnessing the act of walking.

I wondered whether I should go over and help.

He said, "Cant you see the clouds have gathered? Looks like its going to rain.

The world as such has very little to do with the failures met by people -- ninety percent of the responsibility lies with the people themselves.

So the point is, an ordinary man wanting to commit suicide is not a man of will.

He will turn out to be a coward with as much resolve as he was brave a moment ago.

If the seeker proceeds with such an intense feeling, he reaches tathata.

Thats why when the doctor checks your pulse, it is never the same.

Providing work for a scientist, however, depends on how the entire society is set up, how it functions.

This living center can now be experienced very well as something separate from the body.

The truth is, we have followed him to this place.

Today, most of the scientists from all different parts of the world have settled down in America.

But about death we can certainly decide how we are going to die, where we are going to die, why we are going to die.

You can place an ember in the hypnotized persons hand and tell him it is just a cold pebble.

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Hence its a little difficult to jump directly into this experiment.

We alone lay the foundation of the life we live.

Although it was the first night and the couple were total strangers to me, I felt it didnt matter if we knew each other or not.

It is already there even before your creating anything.

The fellow had already gone.

In no way can you defeat him, because he will already be a defeated man; you cannot beat him because he will readily allow you to hurt him; you cannotread.99csw.com subjugate him because he will readily submit.

Watching such a death is a fascinating experience -- far more fascinating than the experience of ordinary death, because this death is seen of your own free will.

Question 2

No matter how carefully a woman may take her steps, she can never walk like a man.

In their view, that which has been eternally present, which has never been created, is prakriti.

We think of ending our lives because we lack resolution.

Only one who lives by his resolve is a true seeker indeed.

If anyone wished to put himself through a final test, even if it meant meeting death voluntarily, Mahavira had given permission for it.

What needs to be kept in mind is: if the will is applied totally, the energy is bound to shrink within.

It would be good to consider a couple of things in order to see how this principle was used.

Raising his voice, the auctioneer said, "Here is a slave for sale.

He will no longer be able to ignore things he ignored previously.

For example, a man fasts for three days -- this is simply a discipline for strengthening ones willpower.

Although ultimately we do influence birth, but our determination of it happens through our unconscious state.

As the body gets ready to depart, it leaves behind the tiny seed.

Otherwise, there is basically no difference between the skin of our eyes and that of our hands.

Thats why it is so amazing that in the last two hundred years many great souls, which otherwise were born in India, had to take birth in Europe.

There is no part in our body which cannot be brought within the power of our will, and there is no part which cannot go outside this power either.

You cant do anything to such a man, because no matter what you do, he will not resist.

Question 4

And I shall leave whenever I choose to leave.

The word just is indicative of omission.

Diogenes said, "Shut up, you fool! Ask these men, did I walk in front, or did they? Did they tie the chains on me or did I let them tie the chains on me?"

Nevertheless, it is necessary -- whether one intends to use it for good or for evil.

Even in chains, I am the master, and will remain so in your prison as well.

To follow the discipline of witnessing requires a great resolve.

My mastership is total and complete.

No, there isnt any necessary correlation between the two.

" Within fifteen days youll find you have become a different person.

Annie Besant, Madame Blavatsky, Leadbeater, Colonel Olcott -- these are all souls from India who were forced to take birth in Europe.

Diogenes said, "Yes, I call myself a master.

That which arises out of it is simply its structure.

Buddha has used the word Tathagat for himself.

" In the state where there is just awareness, only the feeling of "I am-ness" remains, the feeling of you disappears.

There was a terrible fight going on between the husband and wife.

So the question is not where you experiment, or what means are used for that purpose.

But scriptures are of no use; only the scientific principles work.

We are always interested in hiding the ugly parts of our body.

Had his love been reciprocated, there would have been no need for him to embrace death.

Thats the only way to realize that they have something of immense value -- the elixir of life -- which they can know only by passing through the experience of death.

And again, just a desire to get back into the body, and it is back in.

All bodily manifestations have their roots in the mind.

Then his new journey will begin from the sex center.

He could let it run or withhold its movement at will.

And, as if nails have been driven into their hands, holes appear in their palms and blood begins to flow.

In this sect, the seeker looks upon himself as Krishnas beloved or wife.

Tathata, suchness, is the ultimate flowering of religion, it is the supreme achievement.

CAN WE SAY: ONLY AWARENESS?

So there is no way to deceive.

Thats why so much importance is given to the will.

Its a state of the ultimate acceptance of that-which-is.

Just as a breeze comes and goes away without any purpose, without any meaning.

Fasting in itself is of little advantage; the real gain lies in the fact that he completed his vow, that he maintained his resolve.

And the body has no means of denying the mind, so it acts accordingly.

And therefore, the ability to make a resolve can be misused, because wisdom is not required to attain it.

So whatever we practice continuously, whatever we resolve persistently, begins to manifest, show results.

All journeys begin with the seed and end with the seed.

After having chained him firmly, they said, "What sort of a man are you? We are putting you in chains and you are helping us! We were afraid this might lead to some fighting and trouble.

The reason for all this was that a womb was not available to them in the country of their birth, hence they had to look for it somewhere else.

He can obviously put it to bad use.

Even the resolve to enter death voluntarily is not so great a resolve really.

But this man Diogenes was a very handsome man.

Then close your eyes and simply feel that your pulse is beating faster.

This is even more true if you are being checked by a lady doctor!

However, that which was present even before the making of the structure -- which you did not create, which no one created, which is uncreated, which always was -- that something is called prakriti.

For those who face many defeats in their lives, the readiness of their mind to accept defeat is far more responsible than the circumstances.

She said, "You need not be worried, he is sure to come back.

A seeker begins to live by his will.

Diogenes said, "Stop talking nonsense you fools, and let me do my own auctioneering! Besides, this mans voice is not loud enough, no one will be able to hear him in this large crowd.

So one should begin experimenting with smaller resolves, and this way collect the energy within.

What is certain, however, is that by resolving to breathe deeply for ten minutes, this man will become centered.

However, this experiment finally caused his death later on.

Those who had come to buy slaves turned their eyes toward Diogenes.

Come forward and name your price.

One who has not yet known what being a witness means can never know what total acceptance is.

They take birth instantly, without any difficulty, because many suitable wombs are available to them every day.

Actually it is not that a man is struck with paralysis; only his legs, for instance, go beyond the control of his willpower.

And no one needs to know about it -- its your own inner process.

Somehow, they tried and managed to surround him.

A seeker means one whose mind is being transformed into will.

It will enter into the womb of a kshatriya woman.

So as he was passing through the forest, four men engaged in the business of capturing and selling slaves, saw him.

We were sitting in a room.

There is no word in European languages which stands for prakriti, because these languages are influenced by Christianity.

In America, his discoveries will not be lost in the bureaucratic maze or rot in the stacks of files -- they will earn him a Nobel prize.

So finally they reached the marketplace.

In a way, even the resolve to die voluntarily has its roots somewhere in nonacceptance.

IF WE DO INDEED POSSESS THE TALENT FOR CREATING SCIENTISTS, WHY ARENT WE ALSO ENDOWED WITH THE ABILITY TO MAKE THE RIGHT KIND OF EMPLOYMENT AVAILABLE TO THEM?

No gastric juices, no blood released and mixed with the poison.

Diogenes said, "Now that we are going to the marketplace, why not reach in time?"

Lets understand it this way.

Had this man lived through a different center, the energy would have concentrated and left from that center.

The car got into an accident, and by the time he reached home forty-five minutes had passed since he took the poison.

She counted nine because for her, the mother who was sitting across on the sofa did not exist.

What it means is the will of such a person has shrunk.

You will be amazed to see that as soon as this substance, this condensed energy comes out of the body, it assumes a new form of its own -- that it enlarges and becomes a new body.

An escapist shows his determination too.

The heartbeat can be controlled too -- almost to the point of stopping it.

Now this is not a big thing.

Ordinarily, the man who commits suicide does not do it feeling himself responsible for it.

Its an experiment where one contracts his life energy at will.

They become one with Jesus.

I asked her, "Where did your husband go?"

Tathata is the ultimate state there is.

I stand here for sale of my own free will.

One who lives by the mind is not a seeker at all.

For example, we think we are able to see because we have eyes.

To him, the difference between one green and another is as obvious as it is between green and yellow, or between green and red.

Hence both walk differently.

" Her mother, who was actually sitting on the sofa, did not exist for her.

But this man cant even hold to his resolve by keeping his eyes closed for forty minutes; not much else can be expected of him.

YOU MENTIONED THAT THERE IS NO COMPARABLE WORD FOR PRAKRITI IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

He could withhold the mixing of the poison for not more than thirty minutes.

Tathata means accepting things as they are.

Thats the right expression; being has a much wider connotation.

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The basic idea is to exercise the inner firmness which decides to stand, and then sticking to that decision.

Question 9

He walked around naked -- had a beautiful body.

Constitution in that sense means an individuals makeup, his psycho-physical structure.

Both things can happen.

If two individuals who have gone deep into meditation make love not with the desire for sexual pleasure, but as an experiment in giving birth to a soul -- they can make use of the highest possible chakras for that purpose.

All this has happened as an effect of our will -- the collective will asserted over millions upon millions of years.

The stronger the mind, the weaker becomes the will.

So in the mind of a witness there exists a duality, a separation between the experiencing of an event and the actual occurrence of it.

I could hear everything through the wall.

" He took off with great excitement and began walking even faster than the captors.

Although, having gained willpower, one may wish to stay there and not come to the point of witnessing.

Similarly, without the use of will, one cannot attain the state of witnessing.

No brahmin, no shankaracharya holds any sutra, any understanding on which they can lay their claim or authority.

Remember well, if the mind accepts totally, the body will have to follow it.

Tathata is limitless, it is simply being.

The variation occurs only when a suitable womb is not available.

These are the seeds released prior to death, in anticipation of death.

The moment this energy becomes condensed at the inner core, it jumps out of the body.

And those who claim themselves to be the custodians of the system do not have a single sutra to vouch for.

He could just manage to keep the poison out during the thirty-minute range of his willpower -- his practice was limited to thirty minutes only.

This is like if you were to move from your house, you would obviously make a search for another house in the same neighborhood.

Diogenes stood in the middle, calm and unperturbed.

He resolves to remain hungry for the day.

Ordinarily, a man who has killed himself is not a brave man; he is a coward.

One who stops with attaining firmness of resolve would of course become very powerful, but he wont be able to attain wisdom.

All kinds of things will crop up, but they wont lead you on a journey toward the soul.

Even small resolves can do -- no need to make big resolutions.

The monks stand with their arms outspread as if they are tied to the cross.

Thats why in an affluent society the cults of dieting and fasting become popular.

He will at once throw the rock away -- just as he would if a real hot coal had been placed on his hand.

Thats why I say its better to be powerful than to be impotent and a wimp.

For instance, you make a decision that you wont walk, that you will remain seated in the same chair for eight hours.

If anyone were to touch this body, his hand would pass through without affecting it.

For example, when you build a house, the design, the structure of it is its constitution.

Just as a tree leaves seeds behind before dying, similarly the body too leaves behind seeds before it meets death.

The very first night of my stay I heard loud noises coming from the other side.

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There are some parts in your body which move only with your willingness.

Prakriti means that which was in existence before everything came to be -- pra-kriti.

OSHO, YOU HAVE SAID BEFORE THAT IF A SEEKER IN HIS EXPERIMENT SHOULD MAKE AN INTENSE RESOLVE THAT HE WOULD LIKE TO DIE, THAT HE WOULD LIKE TO RETURN TO HIS OWN CENTER, IN A FEW DAYS HIS LIFE ENERGY WILL BEGIN TO CONTRACT FROM WITHIN AND THE SEEKER WILL BE ABLE TO SEE HIS BODY AS DEAD -- FIRST FROM WITHIN, AND THEN FROM WITHOUT.

In many ways, man lives essentially through the mind.

Let me explain a few things in this regard, then it will be easy to follow the question.

A man of will becomes filled with power.

If we divide the human mind into ten parts, it will appear that one part of it is conscious while the remaining nine are unconscious.

But the material that goes into the making of it -- the soil, the air, the heat -- is all prakriti.

Nothing can be clearly determined by us as far as birth is concerned -- that is, where to take birth, the purpose of taking birth, the circumstances surrounding the birth, and so on.

If he is weak in his resolve -- even a little bit -- the desire for food will return the very next day.

For example, in America the idea of dieting has become very popular.

So all of this depends on a thousand and one things.

It made no difference to him whether people put him in chains or did not put him in chains.

If Mahavira had given the permission to die by taking poison, drowning in a river, jumping off a mountain, it would have been a matter of instant death.

In fact, one who comes to experience the separateness of the thorn can take the next step of feeling one with the thorn as well.

Its just a little experiment in the science of mind.

Only he to whom the coming and the going makes no difference can move like a breeze.

Similarly, if ones willpower were to decrease, what is now within the reach of his desire would be no longer.

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For example, make a small resolve that "When someone becomes angry at me, I will laugh it off.

Prakriti, therefore, is the pur, and the one who lives in it -- separate, unattached -- is the purusha.

It will be hard for him to fight for things as he used to.

But that will be possible only when watching those ten people you become fully convinced the fire is not affecting them.

Once that happens, your subtle body can easily get out of the physical body and get back in.

The witness finds himself separate from that which he experiences.

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Your doing so is obviously not going to harm anyone, but its an opportunity to exercise your will.

Whatsoever happens, one is open and agreeable to it.

ISNT THE WORD CONSTITUTION SIMILAR IN MEANING TO PRAKRITI?

" This man has indeed attained to tathata, suchness.

Since no one can make me a slave, why should I be afraid I might be taken as a slave? One who carries even the slightest anxiety that he may be turned into a slave, he alone will remain in fear of it.

Two kinds of mechanisms are working in your life, in your body -- one is voluntary, the other is involuntary.

Similarly, if a soul were to be reborn as a brahmin ten or twenty times, the kind of pure brahminic quality that will unfold because of it can never be created by putting one into a gurukul -- a residential school run by a brahmin teacher -- or by educating him.

So the first principle in the discipline of operating the will is to pull all the life energy inward at one point.

The most amazing application of it was made in India, through the caste system.

Diogenes said, "No need to tremble.

As your determination grows, the mind goes dead.

What it means is: whatever goes on, he is ready for it.

He asked, "What do you want to do?" The men were very surprised.

That is, we want to know what death is; we want to verify whether death actually occurs or not.

In the state of witnessing, there exists a firm feeling of "I am" and "you are.

anyone who has even the slightest lack of will would escape much earlier in the process.

If darkness falls well stay in the dark; if the light appears well settle with light.

Then for some time all was quiet.

Come, let me tie the chains for you.

Even this is not right to say.

For example, a man decides he will not eat.

It is this conscious mind that doubts, thinks, ponders.

Our scientist may earn ten thousand rupees in America, but a thousand rupees in India.

The point is, you may follow any experiment that will help you strengthen your will-power.

However, if the urge is further intensified, one discovers that he is not alone, he contains everything; that the sun and the moon and the stars, the rocks, the soil, the flowers are all part of him; that his very being, his existence incorporates all the rest.

A hypnotized person is simply one whose conscious mind is asleep and whose unconscious mind is awake.

There is no word equivalent to prakriti in any of the European languages.

There is just the feeling of am-ness.

If the urge to attain the state of witnessing is satisfied with the knowing of oneself, the seeker reaches up to the fifth body and stops there.

Full of fear and with trembling hands, the captors began to chain him.

So such an advanced concept and farreaching vision of human evolution was at the base of this clear fourfold division of the Indian society.

However, only a man of will can eventually attain the state of witnessing, and only his going deeper into witnessing can bring him to the state of tathata.

I am the awareness of this occurrence.

The moment he touches you, you become a bit anxious, and that causes the pulse rate to increase.

The fact is, such moments do come when a man wishes to die.

So those who wish to determine their next lives should first go through death with their own willingness.

They were shocked and frightened.

She counted ten.

The men were simply flabbergasted.

Making use of the power for the purpose of attaining oneself, knowing who am I, what am I, and living authentically, is moving in goodness.

He loses sight of the fact that simply standing there is purposeless.

One who practices it gains a lot of power, but he lacks wisdom totally.

The same skin is in the nose, only it has become specialized in picking up smells.

The mind will find a thousand and one excuses for you to look outside.

This man is not centered at all.

In the last fifty years, the more we have learned about illnesses, the more the proportion of physical illnesses has decreased while that of the psychological illnesses has increased.

Some people in the past had worked out a system of education that would last for an infinite number of lives.

It is very difficult to maintain the desire to stay hungry for ninety days.

When a man determines to live like a witness, that in itself is a great resolution.

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It was very crowded.

The center around which ones life has revolved is the center from where he will depart.

So when the vital energy inside us withdraws and becomes condensed at a certain point, one begins to feel the entire body separate from that point.

The men said, "We feel very embarrassed in telling you that we are in the business of slavery.

" But this kind of usage is not correct.

One who wants to meet death because he cant face the problems of life is not a man of will.

Then I asked her to open her eyes and count the number of people in the room.

So tathata is the ultimate will.

And indeed, about fifteen minutes later the husband returned.

Question 7

The same is the case with the throbbing of my heart, the beating of my pulse, the food digesting in my stomach -- none of these functions follow my command, they are involuntary.

A negative will is of no use.

People will have to remain with empty stomachs once in a while.

We only live by the mind.

Mind is the very substratum of mans being, his existence.

PLEASE EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WITNESSING AND TATHATA.

Up to this point one may assume that just an idea in his mind must have caused this to happen.

Now all you need is a little willpower and it will be out of the body.

No one needs to know about it, but there is no need to go into isolation either.

Secondly, besides being experienced himself, Mahavira was also confident that if a man were to seek death unwaveringly for fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety, or a hundred days, the very greatness of that event is bound to transform him.

Another man declares solemnly that he would stand in one place for twelve hours.

Tathata, suchness, is the suprememost resolution; its the ultimate resolve.

There are great advantages in closing the eyes, it causes no harm.

According to the scientists, the reverse is the case: because we want to see through this part of our body, the eyes have appeared there.

I am the very occurrence of pricking.

The idea comes to us because there is some problem in our life.

I asked, "You had said earlier the sofa across from you was empty; why are you counting it now?" She said, "The sofa is not empty, father is sitting on it.

AND UNTIL HE IS DEAD COMPLETELY, HE REMAINS AWARE OF THE PROCESS OF DYING TOO: THAT THE BODY IS BECOMING COLD, OR THE LIFE ENERGY IS SHRINKING, AND SO ON.

Having come out, he suddenly realized: how could he really have walked out? And the scope of his willpower once again became narrow, the feet once again were out from under the blanket!

Now this man is without a will, he is not centered.

Therefore, if a person who is about to end his life can be stopped even for two seconds, perhaps he will not attempt it the second time.

" He helped them put on the chains.

And if a persons soul continues to be born as a kshatriya for a few times, it will become kshatriya-like.

" When carried out a number of times, each experiment will yield such rich dividends that you will thank the person who became angry at you.

The question is not that the man will gain something by not looking downward.

The discipline of will is the most elementary.

Only such an individual can become totally silent, because even a little bit of resentment can prolong the restlessness.

Diogenes was passing through a forest.

I asked her several times who was sitting on the sofa and her answer was, "The sofa is empty.

You cant be forced into something if you are fully conscious.

As a result of the lifelong practice, her fingers have become so sensitive that they can detect the infinitesimal difference between the print and the blank paper.

So make this tiny resolve: "Whenever anyone gets angry at me, Ill simply laugh, no matter what.

The power will indeed be there, but gone astray.

Firstly, he could stop the blood circulation completely -- not only could he stop it, but he could control its flow as well.

They only quote their scriptures which state that a brahmin is a brahmin, and a sudra is a sudra.

Suicide can be used as an experiment in willpower, but normally people who commit suicide dont do it for that reason.

As far as she was concerned, the mother was not seated on the sofa.

To him the musical notes merely serve the purpose of emphasizing the state of no-sound that exists in between.

Why? -- because his next birth will be an ongoing journey of the same sex-obsessed center.

One cant build his willpower in one instant; it requires a long span of time.

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Giving birth to a scientist depends on how his soul has lived through its previous lives.

The application was of great value.

But then he takes a cup of tea and forgets the whole thing.

However, if one were to increase his willpower, what is outside the realm of desire now would become part of it.

In his life Ramakrishna had practiced six or seven spiritual disciplines of different religions.

" But the man didnt have the capacity.

Even the slightest idea, "It didnt happen the way it should have," and the tension will continue to persist.

At the moment of death, the consciousness of man comes together totally.

It became corrupt and putrefied -- not because the idea and its application were wrong, but because its fundamental sutras, its main principles were lost.

Death is a very unusual event in life, its a very decisive happening.

So apparently, although you had placed an ordinary piece of rock, the persons mind totally accepted your word that it was a hot coal.

For example, a man may stand in this balcony and resolve not to look below for six hours; even this much will do.

Without any means being used, a hole being made, a nail being driven, the blood begins to flow from their hands.

Make very small decisions and try to live up to them.

Awareness is enough -- then there is no problem.

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But they felt very apprehensive and couldnt find any way to capture him without risking their lives.

The will to appear for the exam was a positive one; it meant willingness to put up a struggle.

The power of mind lies in your being irresolute.

For example, while driving along the road simply make a resolve that you will not read the billboards.

The man will keep on holding the ember and yet no blisters will appear on his hand.

If this conscious mind were to sleep, then the remaining nine parts below would stay totally receptive.

There are ten fakirs dancing on the fire, they openly invite anyone to join them, so there is no question of any fraud.

Thoughts become objects, thoughts become happenings, thoughts create your personality.

Entering death voluntarily is a deeper experiment.

When Mahavira said, "Stay hungry and die," there was no room for anyone to create any deception, because in ninety days

And they are different parts of the same thing.

But who would come and go like a breeze?

I myself am the very realization of this all -- I am all of this.

There are a couple of reasons for it.

IS TATHATA THE SAME AS BEING JUST AWARE?

The soul will use the same door for entering another body which it used for exiting the dying body.

In that state, whatsoever is, is.

Once again I asked her to close her eyes and told her that her father, who was not in the room, had come and was sitting across from her on the sofa.

So basically this kind of suicide is a forced one.

But the most incredible thing was that Ramakrishna began to have a regular menstrual period in much the same way as a woman does.

Now you can see the body from outside, lying like a corpse.

It seems to make one feel lighter and more cheerful.

Anyone interested in buying him should come forward.

Or, in other words, the knower is the known.

They are, in fact, preparatory to building ones resolve.

It is obvious that if a society is divided into fixed divisions, then there is a great possibility that when a kshatriya dies, his soul would seek its next abode in the same neighborhood.

He was made to stand on the platform where the slaves were auctioned.

I was a guest in her house.

That means they not only prepared the man for his future lives, they also made a controlled and systematic effort to redirect and channelize his consciousness for the lives ahead.

One who has attained tathata has attained God.

It is the greatest resolution ever.

Therefore, every seeker of meditation must at some time or other go through the out-of-the-body experience.

Actually, life was asking him to exercise his will; it was telling him, "The woman you loved before

And actually the question is not what will be gained or lost by breathing deeply for ten minutes.

It contains no distinctions.

As you move from witnessing to tathata, you pass through the state of "just awareness.

There is no determination higher than this.

Its not difficult, only a firm resolve is required.

She said, "Dont be worried, he has gone away like this many times before; hell be back soon.

How can legs manage to get out of ones control? Truly speaking, the range, or the scope of his willpower becomes narrow.

As long as there exists just the awareness, just the feeling of am-ness, there will remain a world outside my state of am-ness -- a world which I am not, a world that exists beyond the limits of my am-ness, separate.

Following the discipline of tathata requires even greater resolve.

Such a man will be born with an even weaker soul in his next life -- with a much more impotent soul than the one he had in this life, because he escaped from a situation that had offered him an opportunity to arouse his will.

Then you will get into mesmerism and hypnotism, tantras and mantras, witchcraft and voodooism.

Tathata means, there is no duality.

Its an essential step, which once having been taken brings about incredible consequences for his future.

Maybe you dont read the billboards along the road.

In the Indian languages exists the word prakriti, although not everyone uses it in the sense the Sankhyaites, the Vaisheshikas, the Jainas use it.

Ordinarily, we cannot determine our birth.

This is a much more subtle resolution, a supreme resolution indeed.

One needs first to begin experimenting with smaller resolutions.

It takes ninety days for a normal, healthy man to die of hunger.

This is the subtle body.

We begin from a seed, we end up again as a seed.

I tied the chains on my own.

The energy begins to converge upon the center from where it originated -- the rays begin to withdraw from all points.

They took out chains.

So the witness comes as far as the separation of purusha and prakriti.

Similarly, consciousness, on a different level, gathers itself and becomes a seed in order to enter the seed present in some other body.

There is a significant account in the life of Ramakrishna.

It is an exact duplicate of the physical body, except that its like a fuzzy film, transparent.

To the followers of this sect, Krishna is the only man; the seeker becomes his beloved, his Radha, his girlfriend.

It is better to follow the course of goodness, because if followed rightly, it will bring you to the state of witnessing.

The wife gets fed up with her husband and contemplates hanging herself.

I was still waiting outside.

AT WHICH CENTER DOES THE ENERGY SHRINK? DOES IT CONCENTRATE AT THE AGYA CHAKRA, AT THE NAVEL, OR AT SOME OTHER POINT? WHICH IS THE MOST IMPORTANT CHAKRA, AND WHY?

So whereas green is just one color for an ordinary person, in the eyes of a painter the color green is not one but many colors of the same kind.

I was in a quandary.

It will contrive a thousand ways to force you to break your resolve and read the signs.

Similarly, those who have carried the news of this planet to other planets are also different kinds of souls -- the ones which could not be conceived on the earth.

But the boy escaped from the struggle.

Whatever we resolve deeply is what we become.

It seems quite possible man must have started wearing clothes in order to cover his ugliness.

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When you say "just consciousness," you exclude something that does not fall within the parameters set by using the word just; otherwise, why would you have added just before consciousness?

But a warrior good for showing only a moments bravery is of no use on the battlefield, because he will become a coward the next moment.

We never know why we will be born, where we will be born, and for what purpose we will be born.

The Indians divided the entire society into four castes.

Many souls, who after great difficulty were born on this earth, have been forced to take birth on other planets.

Deep down, whatsoever you want to be thats what you become.

Before one embarks on a new journey, the energy which is otherwise dispersed all over the body will return to a point.

One who cannot do evil can never do good either.

In fact in a poor society, staying hungry may be a kind of use of ones willpower.

Sicknesses which are otherwise considered as physical, more than half of them are caused by the mind.

Thats it, the woman drops the whole idea.

I cannot think, "It would have been better if the thorn had not pricked me" -- how can I? For I am the very thorn, the pricking of it, and the knowing of being pricked as well.

There, no questions are asked, no doubts are raised.

Meeting death like this is not a demonstration of his positive will; rather, it is a show of his negative will.

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If you have ever witnessed an experiment in hypnosis, there are a few things about it worth keeping in mind.

There is a sect in Bengal called the sakhi-sampradaya.

But witnessing means youll walk, and at the same time you will also know that you are not walking.

Then the husband comes home with tickets for the movie.

Discipline of Suchness

The man thinks standing in itself is enough, so he continues to stand.

Nine parts are in the dark unconscious; only a small portion -- one tenth of the mind -- is awake.

For example, if a man lived his whole life obsessed with sex, if he knew nothing beyond sex, if sex was all he lived for -- he earned wealth to enjoy sex, he went after a high position in the pursuit of sex, he wanted to have good health so that he could indulge more into sex -- if sex was the most predominant center functioning in his life, then that is where the entire energy will converge at the moment of death.

So there are many Christian monks who, following the morning of Good Friday, the day Jesus was crucified, identify themselves with Jesus.

So the journey consists of this: from will to witness, and from witness to tathata.

Actually, the way our life energy has spread out is a result of our will too.

Youll rarely come across a man whose pulse rate will not increase if he does this experiment.

Now his standing for twelve hours is of no use; the actual benefit comes from his making that resolve and the completion of it.

Altogether we were ten people: the girl, myself, and eight other people including her mother, who was seated right across from her.

About forty years ago, a man by the name of Brahmayogi astounded doctors at the Bombay Medical College by stopping his heartbeat completely.

This man, for instance, was in love with someone, but his love was not returned.

You wont be able to produce such a kshatriya, such a fighter, even by giving someone a regular military training.

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Mahavira is the first person on this earth who has authorized that a seeker can follow this discipline.

Even this too, one can rationalize by pointing out that many men grow breasts in their old age.

Diogenes said later on, "Only one who is prone to be a slave can be nervous about becoming a slave.

By and by, people forgot the basic idea that these techniques were meant for strengthening ones determination.

When one determines to do something and does it, his energy within becomes stronger; he becomes more and more centered.

Question 5

And indeed he walked ahead of us so fast that we could not keep pace with him -- we had to practically run behind him.

It is necessary that we take a look at it now, because it carries a special significance in the context of the present times.

Then I asked her to open her eyes and count the number of people present in the room.

Then what he had known as life until that moment, he will no longer be able to call it the same.

Even when we perceive something as a physical occurrence, deep down it turns out to be a psychological phenomenon.

But Ramakrishna began running like a woman, he began walking like a woman; his gestures, his voice, took on a feminine quality.

Perhaps the true meaning of prakriti may not have occurred to you, Prakriti doesnt mean nature; in fact, there is no word for prakriti In English.

When you remind him to take deep breaths, he makes one or two feeble attempts and again goes back to slow breathing.

Yogis have known this since ancient times.

The whole energy will of course shrink before death occurs.

Of course, that he didnt die is a different matter.

ISNT SUICIDE SIMILAR TO THE EXPERIMENT IN VOLUNTARY DEATH?

A resolute mind holds wonderful possibilities.

It would be good to have some understanding of what this word tathagat means.

You feel the energy moving away from your hands and feet towards the inside.

More than seventy percent of all cases of paralysis are psychological in nature.

Such techniques were discovered in the past that by looking at a dead body one could say through which chakra, through which door the consciousness left the body.

Similarly, the willpower of a paralytic person shrinks, and loses its control over the limbs.

The moment you say "just awareness," you obviously leave something out.

One will surely gain a lot of power, but that is precisely why he can abuse it.

Mostly, this journey will be automatic -- there wont be any element of choice in it.

By the third day he will begin cursing at having created such a nuisance for himself, and will start finding ways to get out of it.

This is what black magic is.

His life energy will leave through his genitalia.

So if you mean tathata, then it is not just awareness; it means just being.

It cant be otherwise.

Power in itself is neutral.

Question 3

I thought the matter was settled between the two and that both had cooled down.

If you fail to locate a house here, only then would you go looking for it somewhere else, in another neighborhood.

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Just do the experiment quietly and move along.

Therefore, a yogi can leave from the agya chakra, and a lover from his heart chakra.

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He does this in order to avoid making firm resolves.

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SO THE QUESTION IS: IN THIS CONDITION, DOES ONE NEED TO MAKE ANY SPECIAL PREPARATION OR TAKE ANY EXTRA PRECAUTION SO THAT THE SUBTLE BODY MAY RETURN SAFELY TO THE PHYSICAL BODY? OR, DOES THE RETURN OF THE SUBTLE BODY HAPPEN ON ITS OWN? PLEASE EXPLAIN.

He would be born on our soil, we would provide him with food and water, care and nourishment, but not a single living opportunity befitting his background and training.

Now it is not that the thorn is hurting me and I am aware of it; or that the thorn and I are separate from each other.

So start with the practice of will, take a voyage through witnessing, and reach ultimately to tathata, suchness.

He begins to live like Krishnas girlfriend.

The sperm contains the entire built-in program of your body, it contains the exact replica of your body.

He repeated the same act at Oxford, and later at Calcutta University.

And pralaya means: post-creation -- that which follows the creation, the end of creation.

The astonishing thing, however, was that his breasts developed and became womanlike.

When he would stop the circulation, not a drop of blood would come out even when the vein was cut.

And some day, if his work does ever become known to the public, the chances are that either the politician or his superior officer may claim the credit for it -- he may never earn the credit for his own achievements.

Conscious means the one who knows, and the unconscious means that which is known.

The husband was threatening to kill himself.

BUT HE CANNOT COME BACK IN THE BODY AFTER HAVING REACHED THE FINAL STATE.

Actually, there is a slight difference between tathata and what you call "just awareness.

So at the time of moving, he sorts out his possessions.

Thats why one of Buddhas names is Tathagat.

They said, "Please slow down a little.

Just a desire to come out of the body, and the phenomenon occurs.

YOU HAVE SAID THAT BY RESOLVING CONSCIOUSLY TO WITHDRAW INSIDE, OR AT THE TIME OF DEATH, THE ENTIRE LIFE ENERGY SHRINKS AND RETURNS TO THE CENTER FOR THE PURPOSE OF TURNING INTO A SEED ONCE AGAIN.

We can definitely determine the way we want to die.

All the chakras are doors for entrance as well as for exit.

He no longer feels like a leaf drifting in the air.

Check your pulse rate for a minute.

Having determined, the day you see your body lying like a corpse, you will know all that there is to know.

He sees only one way out: self-destruction.

In Europe there are words such as the creation, and the creator.

It would be good if you carried on with the small ones.

Prakriti does not mean srishti or nature, because srishti means that which exists after creation.

This is the same as when one moves from a house -- he collects all his important belongings.

This is indeed a demonstration of a truly supreme resolve.

Not only is he able to catch the nuances, he even begins to experience the gap, the emptiness between the two notes.

Just by exercising his will power Ramakrishna assumed he was the girlfriend of Krishna, and his personality changed accordingly.

The real music is not born of sound, rather it springs from the moments of silence existing between the sounds.

People immediately become attracted to naturopathy.

You see the energy moving down from your head.

A sort of crystallization begins to take place within him.

Remember, that which is the beginning is also the end.

But one cannot reach tathata without having been first a witness.

Actually, people who brought information from other planets to this earth were basically from the other planets.

CAN THE SUBTLE BODY OF A SEEKER WHO FOLLOWS THE DISCIPLINE OF WITNESSING, OR THAT OF A SEEKER WHO FOLLOWS THE DISCIPLINE OF TATHATA, SUCHNESS, BE SEPARATED WITHOUT EXERCISING THE WILL?

Well now take you to the marketplace and put you up for sale.

It is difficult to predict right away what use he will make of it.

The same principle that made the skin of the eyes transparent made the skin of the nose sensitive to smell.

I said to myself, "They are my neighbors; Ill be responsible too if the man dies.

Similarly, in the normal course, a womb works like a hollow into which a nearby available consciousness enters.

That is why fakirs are able to dance barefoot on fire -- there is no miracle in it.

Prakriti means that which was before creation -- precreated.

You may ask, however, "How can one die voluntarily and see death?"

This is what I call the course of goodness.

Someone else decides he will walk for eight hours -- this is not a big thing either, because since he decided to walk, he is walking.

Nevertheless, live!" He doesnt have the courage.

There is a reverse of this experiment too, which is even more astonishing.

Since I happen to be the lord and master myself, you can never enslave me.

A musician is able to catch subtle nuances in music which we cannot.

For example, I was once conducting experiments in hypnosis on a girl.

They had rarely seen a slave of this quality, because he looked more like an emperor.

When he lived there, all kinds of things were spread out in every part of the house, from the bathroom to the living room.

You decided not to walk, so you are not walking.

But death, in a way, is something which can be determined by us.

He resists nothing at all.

But still I felt I should go out and see what was going on.

YOU HAVE TALKED ABOUT HOW THE SUBTLE BODY CAN BE SEPARATED FROM THE PHYSICAL BODY USING ONES WILLPOWER.

This mans consciousness will gather at the sex center in the dying moments, and that is the point where his life will come to an end.

" Tathagat means, thus came, thus gone.

Tathata means, if death appears we will die; if life remains well continue to live.

When a man confronted by a lion runs and climbs up a tree, in a way he also uses his will.

This word belongs to them.

It will use all its cunning.

Before they could figure out how to rescue the man, they saw him come running out of the house.

Let me explain this to you with an example.

The day you feel you can, go ahead and do it.

Open your eyes after ten minutes and check.

So Mahavira had given permission to follow the discipline of death for this reason also, that one who will die applying this method will automatically become the determiner of his next birth as well, because one who has managed to choose his death, who has arranged to die voluntarily, for him nature provides an opportunity to choose his next birth too.

Scientific experiments have been carried out to this effect and the fact has been accepted.

He lived naked.

This man could do three things.

But people have no idea of this silence; for them music is no more than noise.

It is as though rays of light were spread out in pitch darkness and it was impossible to differentiate between the light and the darkness, and then all the rays were to withdraw and come back in at one point -- the contrast between the darkness and light would become clearly apparent.

Diogenes stretched out his hands.

So a man of power can set out on the path of good as well as evil.

You know what pur means; pur means the city.

Many individuals who take birth and attain higher consciousness on this earth, have to seek birth on other planets.

This is bound to be so.

When we look at a tree, we only see the color green, while a painters eyes see a thousand kinds of green trees having shades of green blended in a thousand ways.

As the hour of crucifixion approaches, thousands of people gather to watch them.

now make a resolve and forget her.

The paralytic condition is a case in point.

Actually, men and women cannot walk alike; their biological structure is basically different.

When one is ninety percent ready to encounter failure, it would be a little too much if the world didnt cooperate even ten percent with it -- the world makes a ten percent contribution.

Moreover, he can have laboratory and research facilities in America which in India he may have to await for a thousand years.

So the most incredible experiment this country did was that of planning the birth of a soul for endless lives.

Someone from the crowd asked, "You call yourself a master?"

The same is the case with many of the evil souls.

She finds it too boring.

Every day about two hundred thousand souls can enter as many wombs -- but this applies only to the ordinary souls.

After having practiced the discipline for six months, it took a year and a half for Ramakrishna to recover from its impact and come back to his normal state.

You will find that with this resolve, sitting in the car even for half an hour did not prove to be worthless.

Lobsang Rampa, for example, is a Tibetan soul born in Europe.

Here in India, his superior will put a lid on it and will never allow it to see the light of day.

But when the souls who belonged to other planets took birth on earth and brought the news, their hypothesis was confirmed.

When I placed the girl under hypnosis, I told her that her mother had left the room.

One who cannot go through this experience remains sadly deprived, because if he could see once on his own what death is like, the fear of death would no longer exist for him; then there is no death at all.

There was no one else around except me, and things looked rather serious.

A man committing suicide is not making a resolve.

This is the reason why the higher souls have to wait for a long time -- because they need a womb of a higher quality, which is very difficult to find.

Something inside him will become crystallized.

" Nevertheless, I restrained myself in the hope that when the man would actually walk out to kill himself I would go and stop him.

Now he wants to end his life.

This is a totally different thing.

In the process of living the decisions, when you become confident of making bigger decisions, then go ahead and make a little higher resolutions.

He alone can pass like a breeze who has attained to tathata.

This was also the reason why Mahavira gave his permission.

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This is the other side of it.

The same principle applies to those who go on attaining success as it does to those who meet with failures.

When the conscious mind goes to sleep, the person stops doubting, because all doubts and misgivings are limited to the conscious mind.

And his vagrant mind will be weakened, because it will come to realize there is no way to push the man around: the only way to get along with him is to obey.

In the stress and fear caused by the fire, the circumference of the mans willpower grew larger -- the feet came within reach of the blanket -- and the man walked out.

There is hardly a person in the world who has not wished to die at least a few times during his life.

If the circumstances were not such, he would not have attempted the suicide.

In the state of hypnosis, the doubting mind is put to sleep and the undoubting, receptive mind comes into effect.

We are not aware of the immense possibilities in which willpower can be effective.

It is not even that it would have been better if the thorn had not pierced me, or that it would be good if the thorn came out -- no, there is nothing of this sort.

Tathata is even more remarkable -- the ultimate.

For the next fifteen minutes the poison was able to penetrate the limits of his will and mix into his internal system.

So eventually he is bound to end up dividing existence into purusha and prakriti.

If this experiment is carried on with an intense feeling, in an instant the whole body becomes dead; only one point remains inside, alive.

But the day you will decide not to read them, your mind will do its utmost to force you to read the advertisements.

He felt that if all religions lead to the same place, why not follow their methods and verify this truth? So he underwent the disciplines of the Christians, the Sufis, the Vaishnavas, the Shaivites, the Tantrikas, and so on.

Now, everything is accepted: the presence of the thorn, the pricking of it, the awareness of being pricked by it, the experience of pain -- everything.

Once I had an occasion to stay at a place where a Bengali professor and his wife were my next-door neighbors.

So it is not correct to say we have brought him to the marketplace.

For the first time, some foundations are laid in his life.

Many X-rays were taken while the poison was still inside his stomach.

The ordinary souls are born right away.

If one exits from the gate of life with dignity and grandeur, in full knowledge, then the other gates will become wide open and welcome him with high regard and honor too.

Srishti means the created -- that which came to be.