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Words from Papaji:

 

Go home within the home, where you don't need any guide.

 

If you have devotion, faith, in the teacher, you can try to find a

teacher who is perfect, who can give you freedom in this lifetime, then

you have to depend on your faith, just like sitting into a plane or a

boat, you have got nothing to do, so teacher is that carrier that will

take you away. You have not to do anything. For those people who are

still ego they have to make effort.

 

Even meditation is an effort, you see, sitting in meditation,

concentrating on several centers, so they will also wear out their

efforts soon, one day. So in the end the result has to be the same, it

will take some lives.

Very few people in the world are there who aspire for freedom.

Always...the people are always suffering, they may ask for freedom but

are troubled with so many things.

 

To keep quiet, you don't have to make quiet, you have simply to keep

quiet, and [in order to] get into tension, you first have to go back, be

reminded of some incident that belongs to past, surely, [you picked] up

some enemy who [has] slapped you. This morning, yesterday, six months

ago, isn't it. Bring that picture in front of you, and then create some

tension, because in this moment you have no friend and you have no enemy

also. In this moment, no friend, no enemy, no thought, no past, no

future. So to be here and now is called, Nirvana.

 

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Freedom is a trap! A man who is imprisoned in a jail needs to be free,

doesn't he? He is trapped in the jail and he knows that the people

outside are free. You are all in prison and you have heard about outside

from your parents, priests, teachers and preachers. 'Come to us,' they

say, 'and we will give you freedom. Come to me and I will give you

rest.' That is the promise, but this is only another trap. Once you

believe it, you are caught in the trap of wanting freedom. You should be

out of both these traps - neither in bondage nor in freedom - because

these are only concepts. Bondage was a concept which gave rise to the

concept of freedom. Get rid of both these concepts. Then, where are you?

 

I tell you, 'Don't imagine. In this present moment, don't have any

imagination.' When you imagine, you are constructing images, and all

images belong to the past. Don't recall the past and don't aspire to

anything in the future. Then imagination goes. It is no longer in the

mind. Everything in the mind comes from the past.

 

Meditation only takes place when you are not concentrating on any

object. If you can manage not to bring any object of the past into the

mind, that is called meditation. Do not use your mind - that is called

meditation. If you use your mind to meditate, it is not meditation, it

is concentration.

 

All this 'doing' has been taught to you by your parents, by your

priests, by your teachers, by your preachers. Now, instead, keep quiet

for a quarter of a second and see what happens. You have inherited doing

from your parents: 'Do this and do that.' You went to the priest and he

told you, 'Do this and don't do that'. Then you heard the same thing

from society and from everywhere else. I am telling you to get rid of

both doing and of not doing. When you indulge in doing, you are back in

your parents' world. You first learned doing from your mother. If you

did not handle your spoon and fork correctly, she slapped you at the

dinner table and said, 'Don't do this!' Do's and don'ts first came from

your mother. And then from the priest: 'You have to go to a particular

church. Don't go to somebody else's church. If you do, you will go to

heaven. If you don't, you will go to hell. You are a sinner.'

 

I say, 'Get rid of both doing and not doing'. Have at least a taste of

it. You have already had a taste of doing. There are six billion people

and they are all tasting doing. Tell me, what is the result of all this

doing? Recently we have seen the result of doing in the Gulf. We have

also seen three wars. The result of this doing is hatred between man and

man, and lots of killing. Let us instead see what can be done by not

doing. In not doing, there will be love, not hatred. Let this love

spring up once again as it did in the time of Buddha and Ashoka.

 

I have been trying for the last sixty years, but I cannot solve this

mystery. I have never been able to solve this secret. I am an old man.

You are very young, so please speak to me. I want to see that secret,

that mystery face to face. I want to kiss Him, I want to kiss Her,

because I have not seen a beauty like this beauty anywhere on the face

of this planet. I am in love with someone, but the Beloved I have not

seen.

 

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