Occupation: Guru Birth: December 11, 1931 Death: January 19, 1990
Wherever desire exists ego exists, and wherever ego exists illusion exists because ego is the greatest illusion there is. Even in a beggar who has no….
Searching for money, what are you really searching? You are searching power, you are searching strength. Searching for prestige, political authority,….
Ego brings unnatural desires in you; it drives you crazy. Life is simple, but to be simple one has to be purposeless. Any goal, and you can`t be simp….
Perfect people don't exist. And perfect people, if they existed, would be very boring. It is imperfection that keeps life interesting..
Once you start drinking a little of meditativeness, a little of love, you start growing wings..
The richer you are, the more worries you have - problems of security, future. Whatsoever you have, you have to hold it. You have to hold it against o….
Existence cares. When I say God cares I mean that existence cares for you, it is not indifferent. Let this be the foundation of your sannyas and then….
The more desires you have, the more misery you will create for yourself. Misery is a consequence of desiring - and you go on desiring. In fact, you t….
Love is power, the purest power and the greatest power: Love is God. Nothing can be higher than that. But this power is not a desire to enslave other….
You will have to go deep into man. From where comes this violence? From where comes this exploitation? From where come all these ego-trips? From wher….
Why do you dream? - because there are so many desires unfulfilled, and to live with unfulfilled desires is painful. In dream you try to fulfill them;….
Hence the tension, the anxiety, the anguish of humanity. The more you fight with death, the more anxiety-ridden you will become, you are bound to bec….
But then you become closed. Then you start dying as far as your intelligence is concerned because intelligence needs the open sky, the wind, the air,….
If you understand, if you see, if you can feel and experience that you are not separate from existence, that you are one with it, all fear of death d….
If you cannot love yourself, you don't know even the taste of love or what love means..
And remember, that is the criterion. If a person can enjoy and celebrate his death, that shows he has lived rightly; there is no other criterion. You….
If I fulfill YOUR expectations, how am I going to transform you? I have to DESTROY your expectations. I have to destroy the very mind that creates th….
We are afraid of love because Love is a small death. Love requires that we should surrender, and we don't want to surrender at all. We would like the….
There is nothing ugly about death; but man, out of his fear, has made even the word, death ugly and unutterable. People don't like to talk about it. ….
Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility - because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist. Then your search is only for a….
Meditation is simply a strange surgical method which cuts you away from all that is not yours and saves only that which is your authentic being. It b….