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Posts: 2554 · Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 5:43 am

Being close to nature, if you can discover the oneness between yourself and nature, then in a mysterious way your thoughts will become pure. The impurity of your thoughts will begin to grow less. So there are three ways: purtiy of thought...and there are innumerable paths to the purity of thought. Pure beings never die out, they are forever present --- but sometimes we are so blind that no living person ever seems pure to us. Only the dead people seem pure to us. But it is very difficult to commune with dead people, and yet all the religions of the world worship the dead. There is not a single religion that worships the living; they all worship dead people. And they have this false idea that all the great people who were to be born have already lived, and there cannot be more. And they have this idea that if a person is alive he cannot be divine.

There are always enlightened people on the Earth, they are present everywhere. If you have the eyes you can recognize them. And the important thing is that even if according to your judgments and expectations they are not absolutely pure, how does their impure past concern you?

There was a fakir who used to say, " I have learned something from whoever I have met up to now. "

Someone asked him, "How is this possile? What can you learn from a thief?"

He said, "It happened once that for a month I was a guest at a thief's house. He would leave the house every night to go out and steal, and he would return at three or four o'clock in the morning. I would ask him, 'So, did anything happen?'

He would reply, "Nothing today, maybe tomorrow."

He did not manage to steal anything for the whole month. Sometimes there was a guard at the door, sometimes the people of the house would wake up, sometimes he could not break the lock, sometimes he entered a house but could not manage to steal anything. And every night the thief would return home tired and I would ask him, "So, did anything happen?" And he would say, "Not today, but maybe I will manage tomorrow."

"This is what I learned from him: if it does not happen today, don't worry. Remember, it might happen tomorrow. When a thief who has gone out to steal, to do something wrong, can be so full of hope ..."

So the fakir said, "In the days when I was searching for God, I wanted to steal God. I was feeling the walls and knocking on doors but I could not find the way. I was tired and disheartened and I thought, 'It is hopeless. Just drop it.' But that thief sved me -- just by saying, 'It did not happen today, but maybe it will happen tomorrow.' And I have made this into a maxim: If not today, maybe tomorrw. And then one day it happened -- the thief managed to steal something and I also found the divine."

So it is not that you can learn only from a realized man. You have to have the intelligence and understanding to learn, and then for you the whole world is full of realized people. If they are not available, then....

For instance, there were people who passed by Mahavira and I thought that he ws just a scoundrel, a naked man: "Who knows who this man is? Maybe he is a madman." There were many people who did not recognize Mahavira. You may have heard people say that a man is a nangaluchcha: this word was first used to describe Mahavira because he was naked, nanga, and he used to shave his head, luchcha. People used to say, "He's a nangaluchcha." Nowadays this word is considered to be an insult. In India, if someone calls you this you will get angry. But it was first used for that naked and shaved sage, Mahavir. So there were people who pssed by Mahavira and thought, "Who knows what kind of person he must be?" There were people who did not understand Mahavira.

There were people who crucified Christ thinking that he was a liar. There were people who poisoned Socrates. And don't think that such people were only around in those days; they are present inside each of you. This is how people are. Even now, if you had the opportunity you would poison Socrates, and given half a chance you would crucify Christ again. And if you had the opportunity you would look at Mahavira and laught at this madman.

But since they are dead and you revere the dead, they are not a problem. It is difficult to revere someone who is alive. It is difficult to accept him and to understand him. So if you are really seeking for truth then the whole world is full of enlightened people. It has never happened and it will never happen that there are no enlightened people available. And the day it happens that the chain of enlightened people stops, from that day on no one will become enlightened anymore because the very stream itself will come to an end. It will have become a desert. Wide or narrow, the stream has always been flowing. Be familiar with it, be connected with it. It is not that when you find an enlightened person you will immediately understand. But if you keep your eyes open, understanding will come through small things.

In one book, I was reading about a sage who was still working at the age of sixty. His name was Rajababu, as his mother had called him. He had become old but people still called him Rajababu. One day he went out for a stroll. The sun had not yet risen and he walked to the outskirts of the village. A woman was trying to wake up her son saying to him, "Rajababu, how long are you going to keep on sleeping? It is morning now, wake up."

He was walking with a stick in his hand when he heard, "Rajababu, how long are you going to keep on sleeping? It is morning now. Wake up."

He heard this, turned around and went back home. He felt, "Now it will be difficult.... today I have received my message. Today I heard, "Rajababu, how long are you going to keep on sleeping? It is already morning, now wake up." And he said, "Enough is enough. Now it is finished. "

Now who knows which woman was saying this to wake up her child --- but for someone with understanding it becomes a divine message. And it is possible that someone is trying to teach you something and you don't have the ears to hear or the eyes to see. You are just sitting and listening, thinking that maybe it is meant for someone else.

So be close to truth, long for truth, search for truth, discover and nourish pure thoughts in your life, be close to nature. These are all helpful conditions and foundations for the development of pure thoughts.

Now I have given you a few indications for the purifation of thoughts, but you will have to understand their important to make them part of your daily practice. It is not only for today or tomorrow: there cannot be a meditation camp where in three days the thing happens and the matter is finished. Irreligiousness is a disease that pervades life, so the meditation camp will also have to go on for your whole life. There is no way out, it will have to be practiced throughout your whole life.

Tomorrow I will talk about how to purify the emotions.

Now we will try to understand something about the evening meditation and then we will sit for the meditation.

For the evening meditation we will make a resolution like we have done for the morning meditation. We will repeat the resolution five times. Then after these five times, for a while we will feel it, the same as we have done this morning. Everyone should be lying down....everyone should lie down before hand. Lie down quietly in your place and then the lights will be switched off. Then we will relax our bodies. In the last meditation camp I asked you to relax your whole body. It is possible that some of you were not able to do it, but I have a suggestion for them.

In yoga there are seven centers or chakras. Out of these seven we will use five for this mediation. The first chakra is called the muladhar and it is near the sex center. It is the first chakra that we will use in this nightly meditation. The second chakra is called the svadhishthan. Assume that it is near the navel. For now you can just imagine this, that the first chakra is near the sex center and the second one close to the navel. Next, the chakra near the heart is called the anahat chakra. The chakra on the forehead is called agya, and if you move further up the chakra at the top of the head is called the sahasrar chakra. We will use these five. There are more chakras -- there are seven chakras -- but we will use only these five and with their help we will get our bodies to relax.

You will be surprised to know that the first chakra controls the legs. We will give suggestions to the first chakra. When you lie down I will ask you to focus on the first chakra, so then you will place your attention near the sex center and keep your focus there. Then I will say: let the first chakra relax. And with that, both legs should relax. You should imagine that the first chakra is relaxing, that it is relaxing, and the legs are relaxing. In a little while you will find that your legs have become lifeless and are just hanging from your body.

When the legs have relaxed then we will move upwards to the second chakra near the navel. I will ask you to bring your awareness to the navel; you will focus your attention on the navel. Then I will say that the second chakra is becoming relaxed, all the organs in the abdomen are becoming relaxed. With this suggestion all the organs will become relaxed.

Then we will move further, to the heart center, and I will say that the heart chakra is relaxing. Then you will relax your heart. Your awareness should be on the heart chakra, near the heart, and you will feel that the heart chakra is becoming relaxed. Then the whole area, the whole mechanism of the chest will relax.

Then we will move upwards: on the forehead, between the two eyes is the agya chakra, the third---eye center. We will direct our awareness to the third eye, and I will say that the third--eye center is becoming relaxed and the forehead is relaxed. And with that the forehead, the neck and the whole area of the head will become totally relaxed, and the whole body will relax. There will be a slight heaviness and only at the top of the head will there be a little vibration.

And finally I will direct you to the sahasrar chakra, the seventh center, and you will bring your awareness to the top of your head. This too will relax and with it the whole head will relax. Through these suggestions you will find that everything inside you has become relaxed. I have created this long process so that everone's body becomes as relaxed as a dead body.

I will give suggestions to these five chakras, and when all of them have become lifeless, then I will say that your breathing is relaxing, is becoming quieter. I will suggest this for a while.

Then I will suggest that the mind is becoming totally empty. So I will be giving three suggestions: one for the chakras, then one for the breath, and the third for the thoughts.

After this whole exercise I will say that for ten minutes everything will be silent. In that silence you wil be a light of awareness and you will be quietly lying there. Only your awareness will be there, there will only be an awareness of lying there. In this stage it is possible that the whole body will feel as if it is dead --- and it will, because through the exercise with the chakras the body will become like a dead body.

Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid if the body feels as it is dead. It is good to feel like this. If a person experiences his body as being dead while he is alive, he will slowly become free of his fears about death. So don't be afraid. Whatever experiences you go through --- light, brightness, peace -- just observe it and be where you are in total emptiness. These three stages are very important: the determination, the feeling and the meditation. This will be the nightly meditation.

I think you have all understood what I have said. Now you can all spread out. First find a place for yourself so that you can lie down. Nobody should be sitting. Give yourself as much space as possible, make use of the whole space.