That Art Thou

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That Art Thou
TalksontheSarvasarUpanishad,Originallytitled”SarvasarUpanishad”(first17discoursesat
Matheran),”KaivalyaUpanishad”(second17discoursesatMt. Abu)and”AdhyatmaUpanishad”
(last17discoursesatMt. Abu). DiscourseswereinHindiandEnglish,thetapesproducedas”That
ArtThou”aretheEnglishparts. ThatArtThou
Talksgivenfrom08/01/72pmto21/10/72pm
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AUM, SUPREME ONE, GUARD US (MASTER AND DISCIPLE) TOGETHER.NOURISH US
TOGETHER.LET BOTH OF US STRIVE TOGETHER.LET OUR LEARNING SHINE BRIGHTLY.
LETUSNOTHATEANYONE.AUM,SHANTI,SHANTI,SHANTI(PEACE).
To know and to be are one and the same. To be is the only way to know. And there are two
dimensionsofgrowth: oneofknowledgeandoneofbeing.
Youcanknowmoreandmoreandmore,andstillremainthesame. BEmore. Thebeingmustgrow;
not knowledge, not accumulation, not information – but being. Not knowledge, but consciousness,
mustgrow. Andonlythatgrowthwhichisofconsciousnessisspiritual. Allelsethatjustaddstoyour
knowledgeisnothingbutaburden.
It is always dangerous to play with truths, because they will destroy you as you are. They will give
youarebirth. Wearejustpregnantforcenturiesandcenturies,andlivesandlives,andthebirthhas
not happened. We are just pregnant, just a seed, because no one is ready to pay the price. And
beforeonecomestothatblisswhichisourseeking,onehastopassthroughadeepsuffering. That
deepsufferingisamust. Thatisthebirthpain–youcannotescapeit.
Whythisprayer?
The relationship of the master and the disciple is the most intimate relationship possible, because
bodies are not related, but spirits. All relationships are bodily, even that of the mother and son – it
is just a physical relationship. The relationship of lover and the beloved is still something earthly.
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The only relationship on the earth which is unearthly is that of a master and the disciple. So if the
discipleislost,themasterislost.
One is never safe with the ego. The ego is the source of all errors. So, to feel that one is saved
already,meansthatoneisstillprone,oneisstilltendingtofallbackdown. Ratherthemoreweknow
it, the more unknown it becomes. The other shore means the unknown – not only the unknown but
the unknowable. This is the mystery; this is what makes this type of knowledge esoteric. This is
whatmysterymeans: oneknowsandstillremainsignorant.
Moneycontinuestocirculate,justlikebloodinthebody. Knowledgecannotbecirculatedlikemoney;
this knowledge cannot be transferred. Then what to do? What should the master do with the
disciple? The master only prays, ”Give us strength. We should endeavor together, we should make
an effort together” – but we endeavor TOGETHER. The family of the master – a member of the
family,becausetheyarenotteachers.
Tobeabuddhaisonething,buttobeamasterissomethingplus.
Toknowtruthisnotasdifficultastocommunicateit. Communicationisagreaterdifficulty,because
the other comes in. In knowing, you are alone, but in communication the other comes in. And
when you are trying to communicate, the other has to be considered. It becomes difficult. So there
are many enlightened persons, but not so many masters. What has happened? The thing has
happened, the explosion has happened, but even the person is not able to grasp the totality of it.
Whathashappened?
Buddharemainedsilentforsevendaysafterhisenlightenment. Why? Oneofthereasons,amongst
many, is this: for seven days he tried to comprehend ”What has happened? To whom has this
happened? Whathashappenedandtowhomhasthishappened?
Knowingisjustriverlike. Itgoesonandonandon,andthereisnoendtoit.
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WHATISBONDAGE?WHATISFREEDOM?
WHATISVIDYA(RIGHTLEARNING)ANDAVIDYA(FALSEONE)?
WHAT ARE THESE FOUR STATES: WAKING, DREAMING, SLEEPING AND TURIYA (THE
FOURTH)?
WHAT ARE THESE FIVE KOSHAS (BODIES): SHEATHS OF FOOD, BREATH, MIND, KNOWING
ANDBLISS?
WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THE DOER, LIVING BEING, PANCHVARGA (FIVE GROUPS),
KSHETRAGYA (KNOWER OF THE FIELD), SAKSHI (WITNESS), KUTASTHA (THE SUPREME)
ANDANTARYAMI(THEIMMINENT)?
THE SAME WAY WHAT ARE THESE THREE: SELF, SUPREME SELF AND MAYA (THE WORLD
OFAPPEARANCES)?
Right enquiry begins with prayer; otherwise, the enquiry is not right. Without prayer, doubt is just
a disease. With a prayerful mood, with a prayerful heart, doubt becomes just a methodology to
enquiry,andtoenquire.
Doubt is healthy if inside there is faith. A faithful doubt is a good sign. The end remains faith;
doubting is just a means. The doubt must not be the end. If doubt is the end, then it is an infinite
regress: you can go on doubting and doubting and doubting, and there is no end to it. You go on
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falling, with doubt, into more indecisiveness. To reach somewhere, doubt must not be the end. Use
it as a means – it is helpful – but remain centered in faith, because that opens your mind; doubt
closesit.
Doubt is a closing – you are closed. So doubt is a self-destructive process; it is suicidal, because
you ask and you are not open to receive. You ask but you are not ready for the answer. You go on
asking,andpreventingtheanswerfromreachingyou.
Prayer means receptivity, festivity – you are open. Be open and ask, be open and enquire.
This UPANISHAD begins with prayer to the divine force for help, then the enquiry, and then the
questioning. Withprayerquestioningisnotjustcuriosity. Withprayeritbecomesasincerequest.
The first thing towards freedom is to know that you are not free. The first step, the basic, is to know
that you are in bondage. Then comes the longing, then is created the desire; then one begins to
dreamaboutfreedom. Butonemustbeawarethatoneisnotfree,oneisjustaslave. Sotheenquiry
beginswiththequestion: Whatisbondage?
Bondage doesn’t mean knowledge. VIDYA is not knowledge. Vidya means the methods, the
techniques. ”What is wisdom?” It doesn’t mean, ”What is knowledge?” it means, ”What is the
methodology? How to achieve it; how to be free? Tell me about the highest, the supreme-most
truth–becausethesupreme-mosttruthisnottobebornatall.
The primary truth, the foundational truth, the best, the highest the supreme-most is not to be born
atall. Andthesecondistodieassoonaspossibleafteryouareborn.
Falsedoors,falsekeyspseudo-methodsarethere. AVIDYAmeanspseudo-methods.
Dreamingisnotjustadreaming;itissubstantial,itissignificant. Youcannotdreamwithoutcauses.
Even a dream has a causality. It is relevant, it shows something about you. Rather, it shows
more about you than anything you are doing and showing when you are awake, because one can
deceive oneself and others when one is awake, but one cannot deceive in dreams. Dreams are
more innocent because we have not yet found any technology to polish dreaming, to use masks in
dreaming. Dreams are still naked real, authentic; they show the real face more sincerely than any
faceyouusewhenyouareawake.
So this paradoxical thing happens: a dream becomes more real than all that you think is real,
because you cannot maneuver it, you cannot manage – you are just helpless. A dream happens;
youcannotdoanythinginit. Youarenotthedoer,youcanjustbeanobserver. Inasubtleway,you
are totally helpless. Because of that helplessness, a dream becomes more real, more authentic,
andshowsmanythingsaboutyourmind. Dreamingisworthknowing,worthenquiringabout.
So the UPANISHAD asks, ”What is this awake state of the mind? What is dreaming? What is
non-dreamingsleep? AndwhatisTURIYA?”
Thisword”turiya”onlymeans”thefourth.”Sowhatarethesethreestates–beingawake,dreaming,
being deeply asleep – and what is the fourth which transcends all these three? The fourth has not
beengivenanyname;ithasonlybeenknownas”thefourth,”theturiya,becausereallythatisnota
stateofthemindbutone’sbeing,one’snature.
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These three are states.... When you are awake, this is a state, a mode, a form, a shape of your
being. This is not your being. This is a state – it can change. In the night you will be dreaming.
Dreaming is still a state, because it can change. Then you will be deep in sleep, dreamless sleep –
that too is a state. By ”state” is meant something which you can take and change. The fourth, the
turiya, is not a state, it is your being. You cannot change it, you are IT. So the fourth goes on in all
the three states, and transcends them. But the fourth is not a state, it is your being. So what are
thesefour?
All sociological interpretations of religion are just nonsense, sheer nonsense, because they cannot
conceivethatreligionisborninaconsciousness. Theycanonlyconceivethatoutoffeareverygod
is born. No, never out of fear is any god born – out of love, out of prayer, out of a deep glimpse into
thenatureofexistence. Butthisglimpseisboundtobeindividual. Whenothersbegintofollow,they
arejustfollowingadeadritual.
Thesuncanbecomedivineinamomentofopening,inamomentofdeepexposure,whenthereisa
deepopeninginallofyourfivebodiesandtheinnermostbecomesonewiththeoutermost–evenfor
asinglemoment. Inthatexposure,everythingisjustdivine. EVERYTHING!Inthatexposurenothing
remainsmaterial;inthatexposureeverythingbecomesjustabenediction,abliss,ablessing. Matter
justdissolves;everythingbecomesalive.
Divisionsfall,barriersarenot,onenessisfelt.
Outofthisoneness,outofthislove,religionisborn.
Soallsociologicaltheoriesaboutreligionareabsurd. TheyjustmissthePOINT!Butthatisnatural,
because for one who has not known love, fear is the only thing in life, the only experience. These
are the basic experiences: either you know love or fear; if your life is not oriented in love, then it
is bound to be oriented in fear. So, man’s mind can have only two conceptions about the universe:
either fear-oriented or love-oriented. If it is love-oriented it becomes religion; if it is fear-oriented it
becomesjustamaterialscience. Ifyouareinfear,thenyoubegintofight.
Science is a fight, a conquering of nature, a conquest, a struggle – nature becomes the enemy. If
life is love-oriented – and that is what is meant by a religious life – then it is not a fight. Then it is a
communion, then it is a reverence; you are not an enemy and nature is not your enemy. Then there
isadeepfriendliness;thenyoubecomeone.
So, if one has not felt deep love, love towards each and everything, then there is only one
interpretationpossible–onecanonlyinterpretthroughfear.
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THE SELF OR SOUL IS BOTH GOD AND LIVING BEING. BUT THE BODY, WHICH IS NOT THE
SOUL, GETS INFECTED WITH A SENSE OF EGO, AND THAT IS WHAT IS CALLED LIVING
BEING’SBONDAGE.
THECESSATIONOFTHISEGOISWHATISCALLEDFREEDOM.
THATWHICHGIVESRISETOTHEEGOISCALLEDAVIDYA(FALSELEARNING).
AND THAT WHICH LEADS TO THE CESSATION OF THE EGO IS CALLED VIDYA (RIGHT
LEARNING).
One, is to analyze a thing, to divide it into its parts, but parts are not the whole. They constitute the
whole,buttheyarenotequivalenttothewhole. Thewholecannotbecreatedwithouttheparts. But
still the whole is something plus, something more than all the parts combined. That something plus
isthemystery.
Science divides, and the knowledge achieved is through analysis. Religion is quite the opposite
dimension. Religion believes, not in division, but in synthesis. Religion goes on adding, totaling.
And when everything is totaled – nothing remains outside, everything is included; and this whole,
taken as a whole, is looked at – the divine appears. That’s why science can never say that there
is a god – that is impossible. So no one should hope that any day science can say there is a god,
because the very process of scientific analysis cannot lead to the total. The very process leads to
thepart,theminutestpart–nevertothewhole–becauseitdependsondivision.
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Science can never come to any divineness in the universe, in existence, because divineness is
something like a perfume that comes out of the whole. It is not mathematical; it is organic. It is
not mechanical; it is alive. You can divide me into parts; then put back all those parts, but I will not
be found there. You have put everything again in its place; but I am not a mechanical device, I am
not just parts accumulated and arranged. Something more is there, more than all the parts – that
somethingislost.
Lifecanneverbeknownbyanalysis.
Analysis can only know the material, never the spiritual. These are the two dimensions of knowing.
So if someone concludes that there is nothing except matter, that only means that he has used the
analytical method – nothing else. When someone says there is no matter, but only consciousness,
itonlyshowsthathehasusedthemethodofsynthesis–notanalysis.
Freud used analysis as a methodology; then he couldn’t conceive that there is any soul, any divine
element in man. But another psychologist, Assagioli, is now using synthesis as a method, and he
says: There is no body, only the spirit, only the consciousness. Whenever someone asserts matter
orconsciousness,itmeansaparticularmethodforthesearchhasbeenused.
Logicisanalysis–loveissynthesis.
That’swhyreligionhasalwaysbeenillogical,andsciencealwaysloveless.
To be identified with something which you are not, is the formation of the ego. Ego means to be
identifiedwithsomethingyouarenot.
Whatsoeveroneisneedsnoidentification.
Youneednotbeidentifiedwithit: Youarealreadyit.
So whenever there is any identification, it means WITH something else – that you are not. One can
be identified with the body, with the mind. But the moment one is identified, one is lost to oneself.
Thisiswhategomeans. Thisishowegoisformedandbecomescrystallized.
Whenever you assert ”I,” there is identification with something – with some name, with some form,
with some body, with some past; with mind, with thoughts, with memories. There is some deep
identification: onlythenyoucanassert”I.”Ifyouarenotidentifiedwithanythingelseandcanremain
withyourself,thenyoucannotsay”I”;the”I”justdrops.
”I”meansidentity.
Identityisthebasisofallslavery:
Beidentifiedandyouwillbeinaprison.
The very identity will become your prison. Be non-identified, remain totally yourself, and then there
is freedom. So this is what bondage is: Ego is the bondage, and egolessness is freedom. And
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this ego is nothing but to be identified with something that you are not. For example, everyone
is identified with his name; and everyone is born without any name. Then the name becomes so
significantthatonecandieforhisname’ssake.
What is a name? But the moment you are identified, it becomes very meaningful. And everyone is
born without any name – nameless. Or, you take form; everyone is identified with one’s own form.
Everydayyouarestandingbeforeyourmirror. Whatareyouseeing? –Yourself? No. Nomirrorcan
mirror YOU, just the form you are identified with. But such is the stupidity of the human mind that
everydaytheformischangingconstantly,butyouareneverdisillusioned.
Whenyouwereachild,whatwasyourform? Whenyouwereinyourmother’swomb,whatwasyour
form? When you were in your parents’ seed, what was your form? Can you recognize – if a picture
isproducedforyou–theegginyourmother’swomb? Willyoubeabletorecognizeandsay,”thisis
‘I’”? No, but you must have been identified with this egg somewhere back.... You were born – and
if the first scream can be reproduced for you, will you be able to recognize it and say, ”this is MY
scream”? No,butitWASyours,andyoumusthavebeenidentifiedwiththat.
Ifanalbumcanbeproducedbeforeadyingman.... Aconstantchangingform–thereisacontinuity
but still every moment a change.... The body is changing every seven years, completely, totally;
nothing remains the same, not a single cell. Still, still we think, ”this is my form, this is me.” And
consciousnessisformless. Theformisjustsomethingoutsidethatgoesonchangingandchanging
andchanging–justlikeclothes.
Thisidentificationisego. Ifyouarenotidentifiedwithanything–withnameorwithformoranything
– then where is the ego? Then you are, and still you are not. Then you are in your absolute purity,
but with no ego. That’s why Buddha called the self, no-self; he called it ANATTA, ANATMA. He
said, ”There is no ego, so you cannot call yourself ATMA even. You cannot call yourself ‘I’; there
is no ‘I.’ There is pure existence.” This pure existence is freedom. This term AVIDYA really cannot
be translated. It is not synonymous with ignorance; it is not ignorance... because ignorance is just
negative. You don’t know something, you are ignorant. But this avidya is not something negative, it
is very positive. It is not that you don’t know something; it is rather, on the contrary, that you know
somethingwhichisnot. Thisavidyais,rather,apositiveprojectionofsomethingwhichisnot.
The”I”isnot–theegoisthemostnon-existentialthingintheworld.
Itlooksverysubstantial,andisabsolutelyempty.
Avidya means the projective source in you of this ego, of this identified image of yourself. Avidya is
a projective force within you. It is not just ignorance, it is not that you don’t know something; it is
thatyoucancreatesomethingwhichisnot. Youcandreamsomethingwhichisnot,youcanproject
somethingwhichisnot.
When the mind is projecting something which is not, it is avidya .When this mind destroys all
projections,allidentifications,remainswithoutanyprojectiveactivity,thenthismethodofdestroying
allprojections,allthatisnot,butappearstobe–iscalledvidya. Vidyaisnotknowledge;again,vidya
is a positive force to destroy all that which avidya creates. Vidya is untranslatable. Vidya means a
positiveforceinyouwhichcandestroyegoformation. Botharepositive: avidyacreatesthatwhichis
not,andvidyadestroysthatwhichisnot. Sovidyameansyoga,vidyameanthescienceofreligion.
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THENIGHTMEDITATION
This night meditation is going to be a constant staring at me for thirty minutes, without blinking the
eyes. Justgoonstaringatmeforthirtyminutes. Feelyoureyesjustasdoors,andfromthosedoors
yourconsciousnessiscomingtowardsme.Goonfeelingthatyourconsciousnessiscomingtowards
me, and don’t blink your eyes – go on constantly staring for thirty minutes. This constant staring
creates a very deep mutation of the bio-energy, of the kundalini, of the coiled energy, the serpent
power.
For thirty minutes go on jumping. Your hands will be raised towards the sky as if you are just about
to fly towards the divine. So your hands will be raised, your eyes will be staring at me, and you will
havetojumpandgoonusingamantra,the mantraof ”hoo.” This ”hoo”isnotaword,mm? –thisis
a meaningless sound. This ”hoo” is to be used just as a hammering inside on the coiled energy, so
that it uncoils and the serpent within begins to move upwards. You will begin to feel a subtle flow of
energyinyourspine;theenergywillbegoingupandup. Youwillbecomeweightless.
For thirty minutes constantly using the mantra, ”hoo! hoo! hoo!” forcefully, jumping, staring at me....
Then after thirty minutes I will tell you to stop and just lie down, dead, for ten minutes. This is the
nightexperiment.
Tomorrow morning we will do a new meditation. Whatsoever we did this morning, today, that
meditation will be done in the afternoon. Kirtan meditation will be done in the afternoon instead
of silent meditation. And in the morning we will be doing a meditation of four steps. The first step,
ten minutes fast breathing – so fast that your body becomes just oxidized energy. Then for ten
minutes, a catharsis. Whatsoever happens inside you, just throw it out. Go on dancing, crying,
making noise, laughing, weeping – whatsoever, whatsoever you feel, just be free to express it. And
then in the third step, for ten minutes the mantra ”hoo” will be used. And then in the fourth step, for
thirtyminutestotallyrest,asifyouhavedied.
Sothiswillbethemorningmeditationtomorrow. Andtoday’smorningmeditationwillbeusedinthe
afternoon meditation from four to five. And in the night, this meditation which we are going to do
now,willbecontinuedforthewholetimeofthecamp.
Sonowwewillbeginthenightmeditation.
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