“ Each person comes into this world with
a specific destiny-
he has something to fulfill, some message
has to be delivered, some work has to be
completed. You are not here accidentally-
you are here meaningfully. There is a
purpose behind you. The whole intends
to do something through you.”


“ You feel good, you feel bad, and these feelings are
bubbling from your own unconsciousness, from
your own past. Nobody is responsible except you.
Nobody can make you angry, and nobody can
make you happy.”


“ Courage Is a Love Affair with the Unknown”


“ The real question is not whether life exists after death.
The real question is whether you are alive before death.”


“ Fame is foolish, it is pointless, meaningless.
Even if the whole world knows you, how does it
make you richer? How does it make your life
more blissful? How does it help you to be more
understanding, to be more aware?
To be more alert, to be more alive?”


“ The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love.
It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not.
It is an existential truth: only those people
who are capable of being alone are capable of love,
of sharing, of going into the deepest core of
another person--without possessing the other,
without becoming dependent on the other,
without reducing the other to a thing, and
without becoming addicted to the other.
They allow the other absolute freedom,
because they know that if the other leaves,
they will be as happy as they are now.
Their happiness cannot be taken by the other,
because it is not given by the other.”



“ Each person comes into this world with
a specific destiny - he or she has something
to fulfill, some message that has to be delivered,
some work that has to be completed.
You are not here accidentally -
you are here meaningfully.
There is a purpose behind you.
whole intends to do something through you.



“ There is a deep desire in everyone to commit
suicide for the simple reason, that life seems
to be meaningless. People go on living, not
because they love life, they go on living just
because they are afraid to commit suicide.
There is a desire to; and in many ways they
do commit suicide. Monks and nuns have
committed psychological suicide, they have
renounced life. And these suicidal people
have dominated humanity for centuries.
They have condemned everything that is
beautiful. They have praised something
imaginary and they have condemned
the real; the real is mundane and
the imaginary is sacred.
My whole effort here is to help you see
that the real is sacred, that this very world
is sacred, that this very life is divine.
But the way to see it is first to enquire within.
Unless you start feeling the source of light
within yourself, you will not be able to see
that light anywhere else. First it has to be
experienced within one’s own being, then
it is found everywhere. Then the whole
existence becomes so full of light,
so full of joy, so full of meaning and poetry,
that each moment one feels grateful
for all that god has given, for all that
he goes on giving. Sannyas is simply
a decision to turn in, to look in.
The most primary thing is to find
your own center. Once it is found,
once you are centered, once you are
bathed in your own light you have
a different vision, a different perspective,
and the whole of life becomes golden.
Then even dust is divine.
Then life is so rich, so abundantly rich
that one can only feel a tremendous
gratitude towards existence.
That gratitude becomes prayer.
Before that, all prayer is false.”




“ It was good of Friedrich Nietzsche to declare
God dead – I declare that he has never been born.
It is a created fiction, an invention, not a discovery.
Do you understand the difference between
invention and discovery? A discovery is about truth,
an invention is manufactured by you.
It is man-manufactured fiction.
Certainly it has given consolation,
but consolation is not the right thing!
Consolation is opium. It keeps you unaware
of the reality, and life is flowing past you
so quickly – seventy years will be gone soon.
Anybody who gives you a belief system
is your enemy, because the belief system
becomes the barrier for your eyes, you
cannot see the truth. The very desire to find
the truth disappears. But in the beginning
it is bitter if all your belief systems are taken
away from you. The fear and anxiety
which you have been suppressing
for millennia, which is there, very alive,
will surface immediately. No God can
destroy it, only the search for truth and
the experience of truth – not a belief –
is capable of healing all your wounds,
of making you a whole being.
And the whole person is the holy person to me”



“ Here, start living moment to moment
totally and intensely, joyfully and playfully —
and you will see that nothing goes out of
control; that your intelligence becomes sharper;
that you become younger; that your love
becomes deeper. And when you go out
into the world, wherever you go, spread life,
playfulness, joy, as far away as possible —
to every nook and corner of the earth.”



“ Look at the trees, look at the birds,
look at the clouds, look at the stars…
and if you have eyes you will be able
to see that the whole existence is joyful.
Everything is simply happy.
Trees are happy for no reason;
they are not going to become
prime ministers or presidents and
they are not going to become rich and
they will never have any bank balance.
Look at the flowers - for no reason.
It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are.”


“ Lovers feel a certain burning in their hearts.
A deep longing and desire to meet with
the beloved creates that burning.
To love God is bound to create a very great fire
in you. You will be on fire because you have
chosen as your love object something impossible.
You will have to weep and cry, and you will
have to pray, and you will have to fast, and
your mind has to continuously repeat and
remember the beloved. ”



“ First the husband tried to make the wife
his possession, and once she is a possession
he loses interest. There is some hidden logic
in it: his whole intent was to possess;
now that is finished, and he would like to try
some other woman so he can again go
on another trip of possesion.”


“ If you live with unhealthy people,
to be healthy is dangerous.
If you live with insane people,
then to be sane is dangerous.
If you live in a madhouse,
even if you are not mad
at least pretend that you are mad;
otherwise those mad people will kill you.”


“ The tongue never slips – remember this
always. What goes on within the mind
comes invariably on the tongue.”


“ Repentance can become a very, very deep
phenomenon in you if you understand
the responsibility. Then even a small thing,
if it becomes a repentance-- not just verbal,
not just on the surface; if it goes deep
to the roots, if you repent from the roots;
if your whole being shakes and trembles
and cries, and tears come out;
not only out of your eyes but out of
every cell of your body, then repentance
can become a transfiguration.”



“ Light is shallow; darkness is infinitely deep.
Light is always bounded, it has boundaries.
Darkness has no boundaries, it is unbounded.
Light comes and goes; darkness always is.
When there is light you cannot see it.
When light is not there you can see it.
But it is always there; you cannot cause it.
Light has a cause. You burn the fire,
you put on wood. When the wood is finished
the light will be gone. It is caused,
hence it is an effect. But darkness is not
caused by anything, it is not an effect.
It is uncaused eternity.”


“ They were afraid of your authentic love,
because authentic love is beyond their control.
You are possessed by it. You? are not the possessor,
you are the possessed. And every society wants
you to be in control. The society is afraid of your
wild nature, it is afraid of your naturalness,
so from the very beginning it starts cutting
your wings. And the most basic thing
which is dangerous in you is the possibility of love,
because if you are possessed by love you can go
even against the whole world.”


“ Destructiveness cannot bring happiness;
destruction is against the law of creation.
law of creation is to be creative. So Buddha
says if you are destructive you will be
miserable.If you are envious, infatuated,
competitive, ambitious, jealous,
possessive, you will be in misery.


“ Love is the opposite of [lust]:
respecting the other as an end
unto himself or herself.
When you love someone as an end
unto himself, then there is no feeling
of hurt; you become enriched through it.
Love makes everybody rich.”


“ If you know your being, there is no question
of becoming. All that you could have ever imagined
to become you already are. You are gods
who have forgotten who they are. You are emperors
who have fallen asleep and are dreaming
that they have become beggars.
Now beggars are trying to become emperors,
in dreams they are making great efforts
to become emperors, and all that is needed
is to wake up!"

“ Belief is in ignorance. If you know, you know.
And it is good that if you don’t know,
know that you don’t know — the belief can
deceive you. The belief can create an atmosphere
in your mind, where, without knowing,
you start thinking that you know.
Belief is not trust, and the more strongly you say
that you believe totally, the more you are afraid
of the doubt within you.”