Текст книги "Послания любви. 365 писем Ошо"

Such a person always sees beyond them;

dark nights surround him too but his eyes look to the rising sun

and therefore his soul

is never drowned in darkness.

And this alone is enough —

that the soul not be drowned in darkness.

The body is bound to drown in it – in fact it already has.

Those who are condemned to die live their lives in darkness;

only the deathless have their lives rooted in the light.

Blessings to the children and regards to all.

117. Love.

There is no greater power than trusting oneself –

its fragrance is not of this world;

peace, bliss and truth flow from this fragrance.

He who trusts himself is in heaven

and he who mistrusts himself

holds the keys of hell in his hands.

The Scottish philosopher David Hume was an atheist,

but every Sunday he made it a point

to attend the sermon of John Brown,

a confirmed theist.

When people pointed out

that going to church was against his own principles

he laughed – and replied: I have no faith whatever

in what John Brown says,

but John Brown has total faith in what John Brown says.

So once a week I make a point of hearing a man

who has total faith in himself!

118. Love.

Love is also fire,

but a cool fire.

Yet we have to burn in it

because it also purifies;

it burns only to purify.

The dross burns

leaving pure gold.

In the same way my love will bring suffering

because I wish to destroy you in order to recreate you.

The seed must be broken –

how else can the tree be born?

The river must end –

how else is it to merge with the ocean?

So let go of yourself and die –

how else will you find the self?

119. Love.

Truth is discovered not through swimming

but through drowning.

Swimming is a surface happening,

drowning takes you to the infinite depths.

120. Love.

The search for meaning is disastrous;

it has brought nothing but meaninglessness.

To see that there is no meaning –

is to have the real meaning

where meaninglessness cannot be,

where meaning doesn’t matter

and so its disasters are avoided.

What remains just is, and what is,

is and what is not, is not and that’s all.

You ask for a clear statement about motivelessness.

Your attempt to understand cannot succeed

because it is motivated!

Why bother about understanding?

Look, isn’t the thing clear before you there?

All things are open!

All things are clear!

But man is so busy understanding no one is left to see what is clear,

what is obvious, what is there!

Confusion is the effort to understand.

Ignorance is the effort to know.

If you don’t try to understand or know,

nothing can hide itself from you!

Truth is always in front of you, naked, clear.

121. Love.

You say you feel broken.

It would be better if you broke down completely and disappeared.

That which is will always be the case

and that which has become is bound to vanish.

Becoming always leads to dissolution so do not try to save yourself.

One who loses himself goes beyond life and death,

and he who saves himself is lost.

You are busy saving yourself

and that is why you are afraid of breaking down.

But what is there to save?

And that which is worth saving is already saved.

122. Love.

You long for the sun

and you will get it for sure,

but you have to have the courage to burn!

You can’t reach the light without dying,

for ego is darkness,

and besides, the sun isn’t anywhere outside

but is born within when everything else there burns.

When the self is alight – that is the light.

The fear of dying is darkness,

the jump into death is the light.

Die, and know this!

Disappear, and you will find it.

That is why I say love is prayer –

it is the first lesson in death.

Regards to all.

123. Love.

Do not look for a purpose in life but live, and live totally.

Do not be serious and grave but turn life into a dance.

Dance – like the waves on the sea!

Blossom – like the flowers in spring!

Sing – as the birds do continuously!

All without purpose, for no reason; then purpose is there,

and all mystery is solved.

The famous physician Rocky Tonsky once asked a student:

What is the purpose of life? What is its meaning?

The student hesitated and stammered, as if trying to remember,

then said: Yesterday I knew, but right now I seem to have forgotten.

Rocky Tonsky looked up at the sky and cried:

God in heaven!

The only man who ever knew and now he has forgotten!

Love to all the family.

124. Love.

You ask for my ten commandments. This is very difficult

because I am against any sort of commandment. Yet just for the fun

of it I set down what follows:

1. Obey no orders except those from within.

2. The only God is life itself.

3. Truth is within, do not look for it elsewhere.

4. Love is prayer.

5. Emptiness is the door to truth; it is the means, the end and the achievement.

6. Life is here and now.

7. Live fully awake.

8. Do not swim, float.

9. Die each moment

so that you are renewed each moment.

10. Stop seeking. That which is, is: stop and see.

125. Love.

The news of the commune delights me.

The tree’s seed is sprouting,

soon innumerable souls will shelter under its branches.

Soon the people for whom I have come will gather –

and you are going to be their hostess!

So prepare yourself;

that is,

empty yourself completely

because only emptiness can be the host.

You are already on your way,

singing, dancing, blissful

like a river flowing to the sea.

I am delighted,

and I am always with you.

The ocean is close –

just run, run, run!

126. Love.

Everything changes except change, only change is eternal.

But the human mind lives in the past – and that is the confusion

of all confusions.

One day the sky was filled with the clouds of war –

plane upon plane loaded with death.

Beasts, birds, worms and beetles –

all that could flee, fled.

Horses, donkeys, rats, sheep, dogs and cats, wolves –

all ran for their lives

and the paths and tracks were full of them.

As they fled, this multitude saw

two vultures sitting on a wall by the road.

Brothers! they cried to them. Flee! At once!

Man is on the warpath again.

The vultures just smiled. They knew!

One said: Since time immemorial man’s wars

have been good news for vultures.

Our ancestors have said so, and so too our scriptures.

It is also our own experience.

In fact it is for the benefit of vultures that God sends man to war!

God has made man and war just for vultures!

This said, the two vultures flew off towards the battle –

and in the next moment were blown to pieces by falling bombs.

If they had only known how things

can change over thousands of years.

But does even man himself realize this?

127. Love.

I received your letter.

Don’t be afraid of sexual desire

because fear is the beginning of defeat.

Accept it,

it is and it has to be.

Of course, you must know it and recognize it,

be aware of it,

bring it out of the unconscious into the conscious mind.

You cannot do this if you condemn it because condemnation

leads to repression and it is repression that pushes desires

and emotions into the unconscious.

Really, it is because of repression

that the mind is divided into conscious and unconscious,

and this division is at the root of all conflict.

It is this division that prevents man from being total –

and without integration there is no way to peace,

bliss and freedom. So meditate on sexual desire.

Whenever the desire arises,

watch it mindfully.

Do not resist it,

do not escape from it.

Encountering it leads you to unique experiences.

And whatever you have learned

or heard about celibacy –

throw it once and for all into the dustbin,

for there is no way other than this

of reaching to brahmacharya.

My regards to all there.

128. Love.

Be like steel – clay will no longer do.

To be a sannyasin is to be a soldier of God.

Serve your parents – even more than before.

Give them the joy of a sannyasin son.

But don’t relent,

keep your resolution firm;

it will bring glory to your family.

The son who compromises with a thing like sannyas

shames his family.

I have complete trust in you,

that’s why I have been a witness to your sannyas.

Laugh and go through everything.

Listen to everything and laugh.

This is your sadhana.

Let the storms come and go.

129. Love.

In sannyas, sansara is just a drama;

to know the world as a play is sannyas.

Then no one is small,

no one great,

no Ram and no enemy, Ravan,

and everything is a Ram-leela, God’s play.

Whichever part you are given play it well.

The part is not you

and as long as we identify with our part in the play

self-knowledge is impossible.

And from the day that this identification is broken

ignorance becomes impossible.

Play your part

but know well it isn’t you.

130. Love.

I have received your letter.

There is a great difference between love and pity.

There is pity in love

but there is no love in pity.

Therefore it is important to know things as they are:

love as love, pity as pity.

To take one for the other

is to create unnecessary worry.

Ordinarily, love has become impossible

because as he is man cannot be loving:

to be in love the mind must be completely empty

and we love only with our minds,

so that when our love is at its lowest it is sex

and at its highest it is compassion,

but love is a transcendence of both sex and compassion.

Therefore understand what is

and do not strive for what should be –

what should be flows out of

the acceptance and understanding of what is.

131. Love.

I received your letter.

Now never worry about me,

not even mistakenly for two reasons.

First: the day I surrendered myself for God

I transcended all anxiety –

because trying to look after oneself

is the only anxiety!

Ego is anxiety.

Beyond it: what anxiety? whose? and for whom?

Secondly: men like me are born to be crucified.

The cross is our throne

and our mission is fulfilled

only when stones are showered, not flowers.

But on the divine path

even stones turn into flowers,

and on the contrary path

even flowers turn out to be stones.

Therefore when the stones start raining on me,

be happy and thank God!

Truth is always received like this.

If you don’t agree

ask Socrates

ask Jesus

ask Buddha

ask Kabir

ask Meera.

My regards to all.

132. Love.

What does the seed know of its own potential?

It is the same with man:

he doesn’t know what he is nor what he can be!

The seed, perhaps, cannot look within but man can.

This looking in is called meditation.

To know one’s truth

as it is here and now is meditation.

Dive into it, deeper and deeper;

there, in the depths, all that is possible

can be clearly seen.

And once seen it begins to happen –

the awareness of what is possible turns it into a reality,

like a seed stirred by a vision of its potential

beginning to sprout.

Time, effort, energy – pour it all into meditation

because meditation is the gateless gate through which

the self becomes aware of itself.

133. Love.

Nothing in life is sure – except death,

otherwise life is another name for insecurity.

When this is realized

the desire for security simply vanishes.

To accept insecurity is to become free of it.

Uncertainty will stay in the mind

because that is its nature.

Don’t worry about it

because that will add fuel to it.

Just let the mind be, where it is,

and you go into meditation.

You are not the mind

so where is the problem of the mind?

Leave the darkness where it is

and just light your lamp.

Are you going to think carefully and then surrender?

O mad one! Surrender is a leap outside thought.

Either jump or don’t jump

but for God’s sake don’t ponder over it!

134. Love.

Theism is another name for infinite hope.

It is patience,

it is waiting,

it is trust in leela,

in the play of life,

and therefore with theism complaining cannot be.

Theism is acceptance,

it is surrender –

acceptance of what is beyond the self

and surrender to the source of the self.

In 1914 a fire broke out in

Thomas Edison’s laboratory.

Machinery worth millions

and all the papers pertaining to his lifelong research

were burnt to ashes.

Hearing of this tragedy his son Charles

came looking for him

and he found him standing by the side

enjoying the sight of the leaping flames.

On seeing Charles, Edison said to him: Where is your mother?

Go and find her and bring her here quickly;

such a sight she will never see again!

The next day, walking amidst the ashes

of his hopes and dreams,

the 67 year-old inventor said:

What benefit there is in destruction!

All our mistakes have been burnt to ashes, thank God!

Now we can begin afresh, all over again!

God’s grace is endless.

We just need the eyes to see it.

135. Love.

Wittgenstein has said somewhere:

Of that which one cannot speak,

one should remain silent.

Oh, if only this advice was heeded

there would be no useless arguments about truth!

That-which-is cannot be spoken of.

Whatever is said in words is not,

cannot be,

that-which-is.

Truth is beyond words,

only silence is related to truth.

But silence is very difficult;

the mind wants to speak even of that

which is beyond words.

Really, the mind is the only barrier to silence.

Silence belongs to the state of no-mind.

A preacher came to address some small children.

Before beginning he put a question to them:

If you were asked to address a gathering

of such intelligent boys and girls

who expect a good lecture from you,

and if you had nothing to speak on,

what would you say?

A small child replied: I would keep quiet.

I would keep quiet.

This child-like simplicity is needed to experiment with silence.

136. Love.

Sannyas is a pilgrimage to Mt. Everest –

naturally there are difficulties on the way.

But the fruits of determination are sweet too,

so bear everything calmly and joyously

but don’t give up your commitment.

Serve your mother even more than before –

sannyas is not a running away from responsibility.

Your family is not to be given up,

rather you have to make the whole world your family.

Encourage your mother to take sannyas too.

Tell her: You have seen enough of the world,

now raise your eyes towards God.

But make sure she is caused no trouble on your account.

This doesn’t mean giving in or compromising –

sannyas knows no compromise.

Strong, bold and resolute is the soul of sannyas.

137. Love.

Love does not discriminate

even in dreams,

and in that love which is prayer too,

there are no distinctions at all.

Now I am no more.

The word I is simply a convenience

and as such causes many difficulties.

When the clouds of the I disappear

nothing remains but love –

love without cause,

unconditional love.

Here I stand in the marketplace:

who is ready to come and take it from me?

Kabir stands in the marketplace, torch in hand.

If you are ready to burn your house down, come with me.

138. Love.

Ah, if the veena were outside you could hear its music,

but it is inside

and we do not hear it.

But we can become one with it.

And how much is music worth that ends with listening?

Ultimately the musician, the veena, the music,

the listener

are not separate.

Look inside,

go within,

and see who is waiting there for you.

139. Love.

The springs of meditation are close at hand

but the layers of suppressed sex work like rocks.

The repression of sex has choked your life with anger,

its smoke pervades your whole personality.

When you were meditating in front of me the other day

I saw all this very clearly,

but I could also see that your will is very strong too,

your thirst for God is also strong

and you are working hard,

so there is no need to be disheartened.

Difficulties are there,

blocks are there,

but they will disintegrate

because the breaker is not yet broken.

Meditate totally and soon the springs will be reached.

But you have to put your whole being at stake –

nothing less will do.

Hold back a bit and you will miss.

Time is short so gather all your strength;

whilst the opportunity is here

your effort must be total.

It is difficult to say whether you will have such an opportunity

in another life, so everything must be finished in this one.

If the gates don’t open this time

you will have to start from the very beginning next time –

and then it is far from sure that I will be with you.

In your last life you worked for it

but the work was not completed;

and it was the same in the life before that.

For three lives you have repeated the same cycle

again and again –

it is time now to break it.

It is already late,

any further delay would be foolish.

My regards to all.

140. Love.

The meaning of sadhana

is to enter into one’s own nature,

to live in it,

to be it.

One must therefore know what is not one’s nature

so as to be aware what one wants to be free of.

Recognizing it becomes freedom from it.

A disciple of Bankei asked him:

I become overwhelmed by anger.

I want to be rid of it but I cannot be.

What shall I do?

Bankei did not say a word,

just stared deep into the eyes of the disciple,

who began to sweat

in those few heavy minutes of silence.

He wanted to break the silence

but couldn’t gather the courage.

Then Bankei laughed and said: It’s strange!

I searched and searched but could find

no anger within you.

Still, show me a little of it, here and now.

The disciple said: It is not always here.

It comes all of a sudden, how can I produce it now?

Bankei laughed again and said:

Then it is not your true nature.

That remains with you always,

and if your anger had been part of it

you could have shown it to me.

When you were born it was not with you,

when you die it will not be with you.

No, this anger is not you.

There is a mistake somewhere.

Go away and think again,

search again, meditate again.

141. Love.

God purifies in every way.

It is not only gold that has to pass through fire

to be purified

but man too.

For man this fire is the anguish of love.

It is a blessing when this fire enters a person’s life;

it is the fruit of infinite prayers, infinite births.

It is the intensity of thirst that turns finally into love,

but unfortunately few are able to welcome it

because few can recognize love in the form of anguish.

Love is not a throne, it is a cross;

but those who gladly offer

themselves to it attain the very highest throne.

The cross can be seen, the throne cannot –

it is always hidden behind the cross.

And even Jesus hesitated for a moment;

even his heart cried out: Father, why hast thou forsaken me?

But the next moment he remembered and said:

Thy will be done.

That was enough:

the cross became a throne

and death a new life.

In the moment of revolution

between one statement and the next

Christ descended into Jesus.

Your suffering is intense and a new birth is at hand;

be happy, be grateful.

Don’t be afraid of death,

be thankful.

It is the tidings of a new birth.

And the old must die to give birth to the new;

the seed must break to blossom into the flower.

142. Love.

What is suppressed becomes attractive,

what is negated, beckons!

Only alertness to the mind’s games brings freedom.

Negation does not really negate,

on the contrary, it beckons.

The mind plays around the forbidden

like the tongue around the gap of an extracted tooth.

A small shopkeeper in London once caused a sensation.

He hung in his show window

a black curtain with a small hole at the center;

under the hole was written in large letters:

Peeping strictly forbidden.

Naturally, it brought the traffic to a standstill!

Crowds gathered around the shop

jostling one another for a peep through the curtain.

There they saw nothing but a few towels –

it was just a small towel shop

and the shopkeeper had devised this sure-fire method

of increasing his sales.

It worked like magic.

Man’s mind works the same way

and he becomes trapped by it.

Therefore – always be wary of negation,

opposition, suppression.

143. Love and blessings.

Live the truth,

for there is no other way to find it.

Become the truth,

for there is no other way to know it.

You cannot know truth through words,

not through the scriptures,

nor through learning, study, contemplation.

Truth is within, in the emptiness within.

In the state of no-mind,

in the mind free of desires where only awareness is,

there truth manifests itself.

Truth simply is;

it has not to be found,

simply uncovered.

The lid of gold covering it is the ego.

Ego is darkness;

die, and become light!

Where the darkness of the ego is no more

there, in that emptiness, truth is;

and that is truth,

and that is bliss,

and that is immortality.

Do not seek it,

just die and it is there.

144. Love.

I am glad to receive your letter.

Yes, this much suffering has to be gone through –

it is the birth pangs of our own rebirth.

And going back is not possible

for where is the past to which to return?

Time demolishes the steps we climb to reach the present.

There is no going back –

only going forward is possible,

forward and forward –

and the journey is endless!

There is no goal, no destination,

only resting places,

where the tents are dismantled as soon as they are pitched.

But why this fear of anarchy?

All systems are false –

life is anarchic, insecure.

He who seeks security dies before his death.

Why this hurry to die?

Death itself will take care of that for us

so is it not right that we learn to live?

And the miracle is

that death does not call

on the one who learns how to live –

and this alone is needed.

Doesn’t the gardener silently wait after sowing the seed?

Whenever you need me you will find me beside you.

Regards to all there.

145. Love.

Atheism is the first step towards theism,

and a must.

If you haven’t been through the fire of atheism

you’ll never know the light of theism.

If you haven’t the true strength to say No

your Yes will always be impotent.

So I am glad you are an atheist –

something that can be said only by a theist.

So I say: Go deeper into atheism.

Superficiality won’t do,

so don’t just think atheism, live it –

and it will ultimately lead you to God.

Atheism isn’t it,

it is just a doubting.

Doubt is good but it isn’t it.

Actually, doubt is a search for trust.

So go on, make your journey,

for the path to truth starts with this doubt.

Doubt is sadhana

because doubt eventually exposes the incontestable truth.

Inside the seed of doubt is the tree of trust,

so if you plant the seed of questioning

and work on it

you are bound to harvest trust.

And beware all religions!

Only religions obstruct the true path of religion.

146. Love.

Dreams too are true

because what we call truth is only a dream –

it is just the difference between open and closed eyes.

Understand this fully

and then one can go beyond both,

and the way lies beyond both.

Both are the seen and beyond both is the seer.

147. Love.

Not only is a seed a seed,

man is also a seed.

Not only seeds bloom,

man also blooms.

Not only seeds blossom into flowers.

148. Love.

How can the search begin unless there is doubt?

How will the heart awaken to know the truth

unless there is doubt?

Remember – belief and faith bind man,

doubt liberates him.

149. Love.

I was glad to receive your letter.

Make love your prayer now.

Love alone is worship, is God.

Let there be love with every breath –

this is your only sadhana.

Sitting, rising, sleeping, waking

just remember: love.

Then you will see that his temple is not far off.

150. Love.

God is testing you every moment.

Laugh and take the test –

it is beautiful that he considers you worth testing!

But don’t be in a hurry

for the more you hurry the more some goals recede,

and without doubt the temple of God is a goal like that.

He who travels with patience travels fastest on this journey.

The mind will roam again and again –

that is its way;

the day its roaming stops it will be dead.

Sometimes it sleeps –

do not mistake this for death.

Sometimes it gets tired –

don’t mistake this for death either.

Some rest and sleep and it is strong and alive again.

So stop bothering about it altogether

for even this worry gives it strength.

Surrender even this to God.

Say to him: Whatever it’s like, good or bad,

take care of it.

And then just be a witness,

simply watch the whole play.

Watch the play of the mind with detachment

and then suddenly –

there is the consciousness which is no-mind.

151. Love.

God is far off because we don’t know

how to see him close by.

Actually there is nothing closer than him.

More than that – he is the here and now.

The name God is just for those

who can’t find the here and now.

Words, names, doctrines, scriptures, religion, philosophy,

all these are created for those who can see him

only at a distance.

Hence they have no connection with God

but only with those who are blind to the near.

That’s why I say: Drop the distant.

Drop paradises in the sky.

Drop hopes in the future,

and see the near in time and in space.

Be here and now and see!

See the instant in time,

see the atom in space.

In the time moment time ceases to exist.

In the space atom space ceases to exist.

There is no space, no time, here and now.

What is left is truth,

is God,

is that.

You too are that.

Tat tvam asi – that art thou.

152. Love.

Religion too has to take new birth in every age.

Bodies – all kinds of bodies – grow old and die.

Sects are the dead bodies of religion,

their souls have left them long ago.

Their languages have become out of date.

This is why they no longer touch

the human heart any more. Nor is their echo heard any more

in the human soul.

Once Dr. John A. Hutton, while speaking in a gathering of priests asked,

“Why have the preachings of religious leaders turned

so lifeless and dull?”

When nobody stood up to answer, he himself answered it by saying:

“They are all dull because preachers are trying to answer questions

that nobody is asking.”

Religiousness is eternal.

But its body should always be contemporary.

Neither is the body eternal, nor can it be – not even the body of religion.

153. Love.

Drop the fear,

because the moment you hold on to it, it multiplies.

To hold on to it is to nourish it.

But dropping fear does not mean fighting with it.

To fight is also to hold on to it.

Just know that fear is.

Do not run away from it,

do not escape.

In life there is fear,

there is insecurity,

there is death –

just know this.

All these are facts of life.

Where would you run from them?

How would you avoid them?

Life itself is such.

And its acceptance, its natural acceptance, is the freedom from fear.

Once fear is accepted, where is it?

Once death is accepted, where is it?

Once insecurity is accepted, where is it?

Acceptance of the wholeness of life is what I call

sannyas, initiation on the path.

154. Love.

Attainment of meditation is not a question of time,

it is a question of will.

If the will is total, meditation happens in a moment too.

And a mind without will can go on wandering

for lives upon lives.

Intensify the will.

Crystallize the will.

Make the will total.

And then, meditation will knock

upon your door on its own.

And the mind certainly tortures one as long as meditation is absent.

Mind is the name for the absence of meditation,

just as darkness is the name for the absence of light.

As the light arrives, darkness leaves.

As meditation arrives, the mind leaves.

Hence, now drown into meditation.

All else follows on its own.

155. Love.

The world is neither unhappiness nor happiness.

The world becomes the same as we see it.

Our vision is the world.

Each person is the creator of his own world.

If every moment of life gives you unhappiness,

then the mistake is somewhere in your own vision.

And if all that you see around you is darkness,

then certainly you are keeping closed the eyes that see light.

Give a fresh thought to yourself.

Look at yourself from a new angle.

If you put the blame on others, you will never be able to see

your own mistake.

If you put the blame on circumstances, you will not be able

to penetrate the roots of your own mental state.

Hence, whatever the situation, proceed to discover

its causes in yourself.

Causes are always in one’s own self.

But they always appear to be in others.

Avoid this mistake and it will be difficult

to preserve your unhappiness.

Others function only as mirrors.

The face seen is always our own.

Life can become a celebration.

But it is necessary to create oneself anew.

And that is not a difficult thing.

Because in the very seeing of the fault in one’s own vision the mistakes

start dying and the birth of a new person begins.

156. Love.

Do not fight with yourself.

Such a fight is futile.

Because victory never, ever comes through it.

To fight with oneself

is nothing other than a gradual suicide.

Accept yourself.

Happily. In gratitude.

What is, is good.

Sex too, anger too.

Because whatsoever is, is from the divine.

Accept it and understand it.

Search and uncover the hidden potential in it.

Then, even sex feels to be a seed towards the divine.

And anger becomes the door to forgiveness.

Evil is not an enemy of goodness.

Rather, evil is only imprisoned goodness.

157. Love.

Strive for meditation.

Then all problems of the mind will disappear.

In fact, mind is the problem.

All the rest of the problems are only echoes of the mind.

Nothing will come of fighting

each and every problem separately.

Fighting with echoes is futile,

there is no outcome of it other than defeat.

Do not prune the branches, because four other branches

will replace that one pruned branch.

By pruning branches, the tree only grows more.

And, the problems are the branches.

If you want to cut at all, cut the roots,

because by cutting the roots the branches disappear on their own.

And mind is the root.

Cut this root with meditation.

Mind is the problem.

Meditation is the solution.

Mind knows no solution.

Meditation knows no problem.

Because, there is no meditation in the mind.

Because, there is no mind in meditation.

Absence of meditation is mind.

Disappearance of mind is meditation.

This is why I say: strive for meditation.

158. Love.

Don’t be in haste.

Maintain patience.

Patience is a fertilizer for meditation.

Go on tending meditation,

the fruit is bound to come,

it always comes.

But, do not be anxious about the fruit.

Because such an anxiety itself becomes an obstacle for the fruit.

Because such a worry distracts the attention from meditation.

Meditation requires total attention.

To be divided won’t do.

Partiality won’t do.

Meditation is not possible without your totality.

Hence, stay with the act of meditation and leave the fruit of meditation

in the hands of the divine.

And the fruit comes.

Because drowning totally in meditation is the birth of the fruit.