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days will do! (much laughter)
Have you lost three teeth?
That is symbolic. Do these three things! Good!
Dance Til the Stars Come Down From the Rafters
Chapter #3
Chapter title: None
3 January 1980 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 8001035
ShortTitle: RAFTER03
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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been copy-typed. It is for reference purposes only.]
(To Gunnar, Jill and Alven) -- This is your name: Swami Antar Gunnar. Antar means inner. Gunnar means warrior.
Man has been in three kinds of war. One is with nature; out of that war science was born. Another is with other human beings; our of that politics was born. And the third and the most important war is within oneself, with oneself; out of that religion was born.
The real fight is against the unconscious. It has to be transformed into consciousness. Unless it is transformed into consciousness our lives remain unfulfilled, the opportunity is lost, the seed never grows. But the unconscious can be transformed into light. All that is needed is a total determination, a total commitment. When it becomes a one-pointed phenomenon in which everything becomes non-essential, only one thing becomes essential -- that you have to transform your inner world into light from darkness, into life from death, into eternity from time, into consciousness from mind.... This is what sannyas is all about: a total commitment, a total determination.
(To Jill) -- This is your name: Ma Antar Jill. Antar means inner. Jill means youthful. The inner is always young, it never grows old. It never ages. It is as young as it was when you were a child and it will be the same when you will become very old.
The body changes; the body belongs to the world of time and change. The mind changes because the mind is nothing but the subtle part of the body. But beyond both of these there is a witness. That witness never changes. That is the only phenomenon in existence which is eternally the same. To find it is to find eternal life, abundant life, immortal
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