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1. I received your letter. How lovingly you insist on my writing something, and here am I, drowned in a deep silence! I speak, I work, but I am steeped in emptiness within. There, there is no movement. Thus I seem to be living two lives at one time. What a drama! But perhaps all of life is a drama and becoming aware of this opens the door to a unique freedom. That which is inaction in action stillness in motion eternity in change -- that is truth and that is existence. Real life lies in this eternity -- everything else is just the stream of dreams. In truth the world is just a dream and the question is not whether to leave these dreams or not, one just has to be aware of them. With this awareness, everything changes. The centre moves. A shift takes place from body to soul. And what is THERE? It cannot be told. It has never been told and it never will be! There is no other way but to know it for oneself. Death is known only through dying and truth is known only through diving deep within oneself. May God drown you in this truth! 2 Love. I am in bliss. I have been meaning to write for a long time but many engagements prevented me. My blessings, however, I send every day. Life is a sadhana; the more you involve yourself in it the more divine it becomes. The light is hidden in the darkness, truth is hidden, and from THIS comes the joy of searching. I remember the words of a rishi: TRUTH IS HIDDEN UNDER A GOLDEN LID. The golden lid that hides truth is nothing but our mind. The mind has smothered us; we are in it, we identify with it, therefore the suffering comes, the bondage and the chain of rebirths. Rise above it, become aware that you are distinct from it -- that alone brings bliss, that alone is freedom and the end of birth and death. We have to be what we truly are: this is the only sadhana. It is the frustration of living through desires that brings this sadhana. Become alert about desire and non-attachment begins to appear. This is not to be made to happen, it follows naturally from awareness of attachment. Each one of us has to become aware of his attachments, and keep being so! Nothing should be done unconsciously. If this is remembered one day a totally new kind of revolution takes place in our consciousness. God is leading you towards this revolution -- this I know. 3 My respects to you. I was extremely pleased to get your letter. So far I have not written anything but a meditation centre has started here where some friends are experimenting. When I have some definite results there is every possibility of my writing something. About my experiments on myself, I am sure and certain, but I want to test their usefulness to others. I do not want to write anything in the manner of philosophy, my outlook is scientific. I want to say something about yoga based on certain psychological and para-psychological experiments. There are many illusory notions held about it and these have to be refuted. Therefore I am experimenting here also. It is clear to me that this work is not for promoting any group or cause. If you ever come here we can talk more about all this. 4 My respects to you. I am grateful for your affectionate letter. You are meditating -- that is a matter for joy. Drop all ideas of achieving in meditation, just do it naturally; what happens, happens on its own. One day, effortlessly, everything starts happening by itself. Effort does not lead to meditation, in fact it is a hindrance. In effort, practice, study, there is tension. Any expectation, even the expectation of peace, brings restlessness. The tension has to go. As soon as this happens a divine peace sets in. Stop feeling: I AM DOING IT; realize instead: I LEAVE MYSELF IN THE HANDS OF THAT-WHICH-IS. Surrender, surrender yourself completely; as soon as you do this, emptiness comes. Breathing and the body are becoming relaxed, you say. This will happen with the mind too. When the mind goes what takes place is indescribable. I know that this is going to happen to you both. Just go on naturally and without purpose. Soon I shall be there, until then, go on quietly with what I have told you to do. My respects to all. Write whenever you feel like it. I am in complete bliss. 5 Love. It is through God's grace that you are working towards the discovery of the inner light. That light is definitely there and once it is met all darkness in life disappears. Each step taken within peels away the darkness layer by layer unfolding a world of light in which everything is new. This experience cuts away all bondage -- and then comes the realization that it was never there! Liberation happens to that which is eternally free! I am pleased with your progress. Your letter was received long back but as I was busy there was delay in replying, but my memory of you is always there, along with all those eager for the light. My good wishes flow for ever towards them. We have to keep going. Many times one becomes disheartened on the path but ultimately the thirsty pilgrim reaches the spring. In fact the water is there before the thirst. My kind regards to all. 6 My respects to you. I was away, but your letter followed me here. I am pleased to have it. I see life as full of bliss. Ordinarily, we do not have the eyes to see this and so are deprived of it, but this seeing can be created. Perhaps it is not correct to say it can be created; it is already there, it is only a matter of opening the eyes, and then -- everything changes. Meditation achieves this. Meditation means: peace; emptiness. This emptiness is there but is concealed by the flow of thoughts. As thoughts cease it comes into view. It seems difficult to become free of thoughts but it is very simple. The mind seems very restless but it can easily settle. The key to this transcendence is witnessing. One has to be a witness, an observer of the mind. One has to watch it, just watch it. The moment the witness state dawns, that very moment one becomes free of thoughts. This in turn opens the door to bliss and then this very world changes into a new world altogether. Keep meditating. Results will come slowly. You are not to worry about that, their coming is certain. My kind regards to all. 7 Love. It is a long time since I received your letter. I am happy that you long for peace -- but drop this idea that you are way behind. Nobody is lagging behind. It is just a matter of turning in -- and the drop becomes the ocean. Actually the drop IS the ocean but it does not know it -- that is the only separation. In the emptiness of meditation even this separation goes. Meditation is the centre of life's sadhana. The thought process will slow down and in its place will come peace and emptiness. When thoughts vanish the seer, the witness, becomes visible and the complex of the unconscious disappears. This complex is the cause of bondage. In the beginning it appears as hard as stone but the seeker who practises patiently finds one day that it was just a dream, a puff of air. May the seed of your meditation blossom into the flower of SAMADHI! My kind regards to all. The rest when we meet. 8 My respects to you. Moving around for the whole of May affected my health so all programmes for June: Bombay, Calcutta, Jaipur, were cancelled. I am glad to hear you are experimenting with SAMADHI YOGA. Don't worry about results, just be with the experimenting. The return is bound to come one day -- not gradually but all of a sudden, effortlessly, without one's knowing, it happens. Within a moment life becomes wonderfully different! I am not writing anything on Bhagwan Mahavir at the moment. There is no urge whatsoever in me to write. But if you persuade me it is a different thing! Everything else is fine. 9 Love I read your letter on the way here. It has touched my heart. If your desire to know life's truth becomes strong then what is longing today becomes one day the attainment. Burning desire is all that is needed and nothing else. As rivers seek out the ocean so man if he wants to can find the truth. No peak, no mountain can stop him, in fact their challenge awakens his sense of adventure. Truth is within everyone. Rivers have to find the ocean but our ocean is inside us -- it is a wonder that so many remain thirsty yet without it. Actually they cannot really want it. There is a saying of Christ's: Ask and ye shall be given. But if you don't ask, whose fault is it? There is no better bargain than the attainment of God. We have only to ask, nothing more. As the asking grows stronger and stronger so he who asks starts vanishing. A limit is reached, a point of evaporation is reached, where the seeker utterly disappears and only the asking remains. This is the very moment of attainment. Truth is where the I is not -- this experience alone is the divine experience. Absence of ego is presence of God. My regards to all there. 10 My respects to you. I was waiting for your letter when it came. I really want your life to be filled with light, for you to surrender yourself to God. God and light are always close by. it is only a matter of opening one's eyes and then what is ours becomes ours. The distance is just that between the eyelash and the eye -- and perhaps not even that much; the eyes are always open only we don't know it. There is an old story: A fish had long heard stories about the ocean. She began to fret about it so one day she asked the Queen of Fishes: What is this ocean and where is it? The Queen was surprised. She said: The ocean? Why, you are in the very ocean itself! Your very existence, your very life, is in the ocean. It is within you The ocean is your everything, but for the ocean, you are nothing. For this very reason the fish couldn't see the ocean! And for this very reason we are unable to find God. But He can be found -- by being empty. In the state of emptiness we meet Him for God is emptiness. I am in bliss, or shall I say -- Bliss alone is and I am not! 11 My respects to you. I received your letter, I was waiting for it. The trip to Rajnagar was blissful. Religion robbed of the spirit of yoga has become a matter of morality only, thereby losing its soul. Morality is negative. Life cannot be based on negation, negation cannot nourish life. The emphasis has to be on attainment not on renunciation. It is not a question of renouncing ignorance but of attaining understanding, it is this that has to be central. Practise has to be positive and this sadhana can happen through yoga. In my talks with Acharya Tulsi, Muni Shri Nathamaljee and others I have stressed this point. Many letters have come from Rajnagar and Rajasthan in this connection; as you have said it seems some fruitful work has been accomplished by going there. One thing is very clear: people are eager for a spiritual life and current forms of religion do not satisfy them. If however the right religion is given to them it can revolutionize human consciousness. I think of you. May God grant you peace. My love and regards to all. 12 My respects to you. All your letters arrived in good time but as I have been busy I could not reply sooner. I have been out most of the time and I have just returned after speaking in Jaipur, Burhanpur, Hoshangabad, Chanda and other places. How thirsty people are for spiritual life! Seeing this I am surprised that some people say man has lost all interest in religion. This can never be. No interest in religion means no interest in life, bliss, the ultimate. Consciousness is by nature God-oriented and it can only be satisfied by attaining God the state of satchitananda, the truth-awareness-bliss state of being. Hidden within one in the form of a seed is the very source of religious birth, therefore whilst religions may come ant go religion can never die. I am glad to know that you feel patient about your progress towards the light. Patience is the most important thing of all in spiritual life. How long one must wait after sowing the seed! At first all the effort seems wasted, nothing seems to happen, and then one day the waiting ends and there is actuality -- the seed breaks, pushes through the earth -- into a plant! But remember that even when nothing seemed to be happening the seed was working away under the soil. It is the same with the seeker for truth -- when nothing appears to be happening much is happening. The fact is that all growth of life-energy is unseen and unknown. Only the results can be observed not the progress. I am in bliss. I want you to come closer to God. Forget about results, just keep going on your path; let the fruits come by themselves. One day one wonders: What has happened! What was I! What have I become! Compared to the results all the effort seems negligible. My love to all. 13 My respects to you. I have just returned from Rajnagar in Rajasthan. I was invited to a religious function there organized by Acharya Shree Tulsi. I put four hundred monks and nuns through an experiment in meditation. The results were extraordinary. In my view meditation is the essence of all religious practice. All the rest -- such as non-violence, renunciation of wealth, celibacy etc. -- are just its consequences. With the attainment of samadhi, the culmination of meditation, all these things come by themselves, they just happen naturally. Since we forgot this central sadhana all our efforts have been external and superficial. True sadhana IS not just ethical, it is basically yoga practice. Ethics ALONE are negative and nothing enduring can be constructed on negation. Yoga is positive and can therefore form a base. I want to convey this positive basis to all. 14 Love. I have received your very affectionate letter. You write that my words ring in your ears; what I want is for their echo to carry you into that space where everything is silent, empty. This is the way from words to emptiness. There one meets oneself. I am in bliss. Take my love I have nothing else to offer, it is my only wealth. The marvel of it is that the more of it you give the more it becomes. Real wealth is like that -- it grows as you give it away; and if it diminishes -- it is not wealth at all. Write again, for not only do you wait for my letters, I too wait for yours. 15 Love. On returning from the meditation camp I had to leave town again. I returned only last night but I thought of you all the time. I cannot forget the thirst for God I saw in your eyes and the striving for truth in your heart. This is a blessing because no one can attain without passing through this anguish. Remember, thirst is a prerequisite for the birth of light and love. Together, light and love are God. When love has no limits its flame becomes smokeless and so divine. I have seen the seeds of this growth within you and it fills my soul with great joy. The seed is there, now it has to become a tree. It could be that the time is at hand. God-realization cannot happen without meditation so you must turn towards this now with courage and perseverance. I have great hopes -- will you fulfil them? My regards to other friends there. I wait for your letter. Remember what I said about the blank paper? Everything else is fine. I am in bliss. 16 Love. I received your letter. What you say has made me very happy. Words that come out of the depth and fullness of heart echo the infinite just as a tiny flower expresses infinite beauty. When love breathes life into words what is expressed is not what is said but what wants to be said. Inside each of us there is a poet, there is poetry, but because we live on the surface these are never born. Those who go deep awaken divine love and this love fills their lives with music, beauty, peace and poetry -- their very lives become music and on to this stage truth descends. Truth will descend where there is music so life must be turned into a melody. Only through music can one reach the truth. You too have to become music, the entire life, every little act, has to be turned into music: this happens through love. Whatever is -- love it. Feel love for the whole world. Feeling love for all with every breath brings the inner music. Have you ever seen this happen? See this, fill yourself with love and see. Whatever breaks up the inner music -- that alone is irreligion, that alone is sin, and whatever fills us with music -- that is religion, that alone is religion. Love is religion because love is beauty, love is music. Love is God because it is all that is needed to attain Him. Give my love to everybody there and feel the light of my love beside you. 17 Love. I have received your letter. You long for the peace I have within me. It is yours any time. It is the deepest possibility in everyone, it only has to be uncovered. As springs of water lie hidden under layers of earth so does bliss lie hidden within us. The possibility is there for everyone but only those who dig for it can redeem it. The excavation of these hidden treasures lies through religion. Digging with it one reaches the well of light within. I have shown you how to dig and what with, but the digging has to be done by you. I know your soil is absolutely ready, with very little effort the infinite streams can be reached. This state of mind is attained with the greatest good fortune so don't waste it or miss this opportunity. Fill yourself with determination and leave the rest to God. Truth runs alongside will. Don't hesitate to write, I have lots of time for you. I am for those who need me -- nothing in my life is for myself. 18 Love, so much love. I received your letter when I got back. I could feel the ardour of your heart through your words. I well know the fervour that stirs your soul and the thirst that turns into tears within you. I was once there too, I too have suffered it. I can well understand your heart because I have travelled those same paths you now have to take in the quest for God. I too have experienced the longing that one day turns into a raging fire in which one has to consume oneself. But this burning brings the birth of a new life. The drop can only become the ocean when it ceases to exist. Continue your efforts in meditation; you have to go deeper and deeper into it -- it is the only way. Through it and it alone call one reach life's truth. Remember: lf you become absorbed in sadhana, fully committed and surrendered, you are bound to reach the truth. This is an eternal law. No step taken towards God is ever wasted. My regards to all. 19 My respects to you. Your letters were received. I have just got back from a camp at Ranakpur. It was just for friends from Rajasthan, that's why you weren't informed. It lasted five days and about sixty people participated. It was a wonderful success and it was obvious that much happened. Encouraged by the results the organizers are planning a camp on an all-India basis. You must come to that. I am glad to hear your meditation is progressing. You have only to be silent. To be silent is everything. Silence does not mean absence of speech, it means absence of thoughts. When the mind quietens down it becomes linked to the infinite. Don't do anything, just sit and watch the flow of thoughts, just watch. This just watching dissolves thought by itself. The awakening of witnessing brings freedom from the modifications of the mind. With thoughts finished, consciousness is. This is samadhi. Love to all friends. 20 Love Last night when lamps and lamps were lit up all over town I thought: My Sohan too, must have lit lamps and a few among them must surely be for me! And then I began to see the lamps you had lit, and also those your love has kept lit always. I shall stay here another day. I have talked of you to everybody and they are eager to meet you. 21 Beloved! Your letter came, and your photo too. You look really simple and innocent in it! Such love and devotion! The heart when purified by love turns into a temple and I can see this clearly in your photo. May God help this simple innocence grow! Two thousand years ago someone asked Christ: Who can enter the kingdom of heaven Jesus pointed to a little child and said: Those whose hearts are as innocent as a child's. Looking at your picture today, I remembered this story. 22 Love. I have only just arrived here, the train was five hours late. You wanted me to write as soon as I got here so I am doing so. Throughout the journey I thought of you and of the tears falling from your eyes. Nothing in the world is more sacred than tears of love and joy. Such tears, so pure, are not of this world. Though part of the body, they express something which is not. Whatever can I give you in return. 23 Love. I looked for your letter as soon as I got here yesterday. Though it was Sunday, I kept waiting for it. It came this evening -- how much you write in so few words! When the heart is full it pours into the words and so few are needed. An ocean of love can be contained in just a jug! As for scriptures on love -- it is enough to know the four letters of the word! Do you know how many times I read through your letters? 24 Love. Your letter arrived this morning. The garland you have weaved from flowers of love has a fragrance that I can catch! And the love-vine you have sown spreads through my heart! The tears of your love and joy bring light and strength to my eyes! How blissful it all is! 25 Love. I am in bliss. It was good that you met me in Bombay, my heart was overjoyed to see what is happening in you. This is how a person prepares and moves along the stairway towards truth. Life is a dual journey: one journey is in time and space the other is within oneself and truth. The first ends in death the second in deathlessness. The second is the real journey because it takes you somewhere. Those who take the first journey as it, waste their lives the real life begins the day you start the other journey. A really good beginning has taken place in your consciousness and I am filled with bliss to feel this. 26 Love. On my return home from the tour I looked for your letter. It came together with the grapes so the letter, already sweet, became still sweeter. I am in bliss. Your love enhances it yet more and the love of all makes it infinite. One body -- so much bliss! What else can others do but envy he who feels all bodies to be his! May God make you envious of me, may everybody envy me, this is my prayer. 27 Love. Your letter reached me as I was sitting on that very same spot on the grass! What I was thinking then I shall tell you only when we meet. What a fragrance memories leave behind! When life is filled with love it is so blissful Life's only paupers are those without love in their hearts, and how to describe the good fortune of those whose hearts hold nothing but love! In moments of such abundance one encounters God. Only love alone have I known as God. 28 Love. I received your letter. I am blissful to learn of your bliss This for me IS bliss With every breath I pray for all to be filled with bliss. This is my understanding of religion. The religion that ends in temples, mosques, churches, is a dead religion. A religion that fails to go beyond dead words and doctrines has no significance An authentic and living religion unites one with the whole and leads one to the whole. Religion is whatever unites you with the cosmos. Whatever feelings lead you towards this marvellous meeting and merging are prayers, and all those prayers can be expressed in a single word; that word is love. What does love want? Love wants to share with all the bliss it has. Love wants to share itself with everyone! To give of oneself unconditionally -- that is love. To love is to dedicate one's being to the whole as the drop surrenders to the sea. I pulsate with such love. It has filled my life with nectar and light. Now I have only one wish: that what has happened to me should happen to all! Give my love to everyone there. 29 Love. I received your letter. How did you hurt your finger? It sounds as if you are not taking care of your body. And why the restless mind? In this dreamlike world there is nothing worth making the mind restless for. Peace is the greatest bliss and there is nothing worth losing it for. Meditate on it. Just being aware of the truth brings about inner change. I think you won't be coming to Udaipur to assist me and that's on your mind. Come if you can, if you can't -- never mind, you are helping me all the time. Isn't one's love help enough? If you don't come I will miss you because the camp at Udaipur is linked for me with being with you, so I am hoping you can come. Regards to all. 30 Love, and lots of it. I looked at once for your letter amongst the pile waiting for me on my return. I can't tell you how glad I was to get it -- written by hand, too. You write: Now your presence is felt in your absence. love really IS presence. Where there is love space and time vanish, and where there is no love Even what is near in space and time keeps immeasurably apart. Only lovelessness separates and love is the only nearness. Those who find total love discover everything within themselves. The whole world then is inside, not outside and the moon and stars lie in the inner sky. In this fullness of love, ego vanishes. I want God to lead you to this fullness. 31 I arrived here yesterday and have been thinking of writing ever since but it didn't happen until now. Forgive the delay though even a single day's delay is no small delay! What shall I say about the return journey? It was very blissful. I kept sleeping, and you were with me. It appeared I had left you behind but actually you were still with me. This is the being-together that is so real that it cannot be divided. Physical nearness is not nearness, there can be no union on that level, only an unbridgeable gulf, but there is another nearness which is not of the body, and its name is love. Once gained it is never lost. Then no separation exists despite vast distances in the visible world. If you can arrive at this distancelessness with even one other it can be found with everybody. One is the door, the all, the goal. The beginning of love is through ONE, the end is ALL. The love that unites you with everything, with nothing excluded, I call religion, and the love that stops ANYWHERE I call sin. 32 I received your letter; I have been waiting for it ever since I returned. But how sweet it is to wait! Life itself is a waiting! Seeds wait to sprout, rivers to reach the ocean. What does man wait for? He too is the seed for some tree, a river for some ocean. Whoever looks deep inside finds that a longing for the endless and boundless is his very being, and whoever recognizes this begins his journey towards God because who can be thirsty and not look for water? This has never happened and never will! Where there is longing, there is thirst for attainment. I want to make everyone aware of this thirst. I want to convert everyone's life into a waiting. The life that has turned into a waiting for God is the true life. All other ways of life are just a waste, a disaster. 33 Love. I received your letter. Its poetry filled my heart. It is said that poetry is born out of love in your letter I saw this happen. Where there is love the whole existence becomes a poem; the flowers of life bloom under the light of love. It is strange that you ask why my heart holds so much love for you. Can love ever be caused? If it is, can it be called love? Oh, my mad friend! love is always uncaused! This is its mystery, and its purity. Love is divine and belongs to the kingdom of God because it is uncaused. As for me l am filled with love as a lamp is filled with light. To see this light one needs eyes. You have those eyes so you saw the light. The credit is yours, not mine. 34 Love. I never imagined that you would write such a loving letter! And you say that you are uneducated! There is no knowledge greater than love, and those who lack love -- these are the true illiterates, because the heart is the real thing in life not the intellect. Bliss and light spring from the heart not from the mind, and you have so much heart -- that is enough! Can there be a better witness of this than me? I am surprised that you write asking me to point out any mistakes you have made. So far on earth, love has not made one mistake. All mistakes happen through lack of love, in fact this for me is the only mistake in life. Writing you you: May God make you envious of me was no mistake. I would like the bliss that has arisen in my heart to make you thirst for it more and more. Queen of Mewal! there is no reason for you to worry about it! 35 Love. It was just this time of night, two days ago that I left you at Chittor. I can see now the love and bliss filling your eyes. The secret of all prayer and worship is hidden in the overflow of those tears. They are sacred. God fills the heart of those he blesses with tears of love, and what to say about the calamity of those whose hearts are filled instead with thorns of hate? Tears flowing in love are offerings of flowers at the feet of God and the eyes from which they flow are blessed with divine vision. Only eyes filled with love can see God. Love is the only energy that transcends the inertia of nature and takes one to the shores of ultimate awareness. I think that by the time this letter reaches you you will already have left for Kashidham. I don't know how your journey was but I hope it passed in song and laughter. Give my kind respects to everyone there. I am waiting, for your promised letters. 36 Love. I was very happy to meet you the other day. I felt the stirrings of your heart and the longing of your soul. You have not yet flowered as you were born to: the seed is ready to sprout and the soil is right you will not have long to wait. But now you have to work with great determination. It is only a matter of starting the journey, God's gravitational pull does the rest. 37 Love. It is good that you are forgetting the past it will open up an altogether new dimension of life. To live completely in the present is freedom. The past does not exist apart from memory and nor does the future apart from castles in the air. What is, is always present, and if you start living unreservedly in the present you live in God. once you are free of past and future the mind turns empty and peaceful, its waves die down and what is left is limitless, endless. This is the ocean of truth -- and may your river reach it! P.S. I shall probably go to Ahmedabad in January, can you come with me? It would be good if we travelled together for a few days. 38 Love. I am glad to see such thirst for God! To have this thirst is a divine blessing; where there is thirst -- there the way is. In fact, intense longing becomes the way. God is summoning us at every moment but because the strings of our heart are slack we don't echo His call. If our eyes are closed then even if the sun is at the door we will be in darkness; and the sun is always at the door -- we only have to open our eyes and let it in, that's all! May God give you light, that's my wish. My love and I are always with you. Regards to the family and love to the children. 39 Love. I have your letter. The wheel of the world keeps spinning but why spin with it? See what is behind body and mind; that has never moved, is not moving, can never move, and thou art that, tat twam asi. Waves lie on the surface of this ocean but in its depths -- what is THERE? When the waves are taken for the ocean it is a terrible mistake. Look at the wheel of a bullock cart: the wheel turns because the axle does not; so remember your own axle, standing, sitting, asleep or awake, keep it in mind. By and by, one begins to encounter the changeless behind all change. You have asked me about the poem. I had a little piece read out by someone, then it came to me: I should hear it from you yourself! Now when you read it out to me I shall listen -- and then I can read both you and your poem. 40 Love. I received your letter on my return. I welcome this birth of determination in you. Such strength of will alone takes us to truth. Our deepest powers are aroused by it, the unorganized energy becomes organized and then there is music. What tremendous energy exists in this atom of self! But it can't be known without utter intensity of will. You must have seen rocks that even the strongest chisel cannot break, and yet the sprouting shrub or plant slips cracks and crevices through it so easily! When the tiniest seed is filled with determination to push through and reach the sun, even the hardest rock has to give way. So a weak seed wins over the mighty rocks! The tender seed breaks through the hardest of rocks! Why? Because no matter how strong and powerful the rock, it is dead, and because it is dead it has no will. The seed is tender, it is weak, but alive! Remember, where there is will there is life and where there is no will there is no life. The seed's will becomes its power. and with this power its tiny roots sprout, enter the rock and spread out, until one day they break the rock. Life always wins over death. The living force within has never been defeated by the dead obstacles without -- and never will be. 41 Love. Your letter was received with joy When the heart thirsts so much for truth, for peace, for religion, one day you come face to face with the sun which dispels all life's darkness. Thirst! Pray! Strive! Wait! A journey of a thousand miles is covered step by small step, so don't lose heart. Vast distances can be covered one step at a time and an ocean filled drop by drop. My regards to all. I shall be coming soon now. The rest when we meet. 42 Love. Your Letter has arrived. You ask me about sex. That energy too belongs to God and through meditation it too can be transformed. No energy is bad but there can, of course, be wrong use of energy. When sex energy flows upwards it turns into brahmacharya (celibacy). It is good that you are becoming detached from it but that isn't enough. You have to go through it to transform it, rejection just leaves you arid and dry! It is true you are not alone in your sex life but sex is not essentially of the body at all but a modification of the mind. If the mind is completely transformed it affects the other person too, and one who is related so intimately is quickly affected. Until we meet, keep in mind that: there should be no calculated ill-will towards sex -- cultivated detachment is useless: stay aware whilst making love, be a witness in this situation; if one can stay in a state of meditation and right-mindfulness then the sex energy can be successfully transformed. We shall talk more about this when we meet. Brahmacharya is a complete science in itself and many doors to bliss open on that path. Still, the very first thing is a friendly attitude towards all one's energies. Enmity towards them does not lead to spiritual revolution but to self-destruction. Give my regards to all there. You are not coming to Poona -- I shall miss you. 43 Love. You have asked me about sense of humour. We can talk about it in detail when we meet but first of all: the sense of humour should be directed towards oneself -- it is a very great thing to laugh at oneself and he who can laugh at himself gradually becomes full of concern and compassion for others. In the entire world no event, no subject, invites laughter like oneself. About the truth of dreams as well we shall have to talk in detail. Some dreams are definitely true. As the mind quietens down glimpses of truth begin to appear in dreams. Dreams are of four kinds 
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