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be destroyed and nothing can be added to existence. Existence is always exactly the same.
Now even science accepts that we cannot destroy anything and we cannot add anything; only forms change. The river goes on, only waves change. Sometimes there are big waves, sometimes small, sometimes no waves, but it is the same river. With waves, big waves, small waves, no waves, it is the same river.
This insight takes you beyond time -- and to go beyond time is to go beyond misery. To know the timeless is to enter into the world of bliss. Your name will remind you again and again that you are the ancient one, the timeless one, the eternal one. So no need to be worried about small things, no need to be too concerned about mundane things; they come and go, you abide. Remember that which abides, which never comes, never goes. That is god, and that is within you as it is within everybody else.
(To Peter) -- This is your new name: Swami Gynodaya. Gynodaya means the rise of true wisdom.
Knowledge is easy and cheap. One can accumulate as much as one wants, one can borrow it from others. But wisdom is costly, very precious. One has to pay for it with great effort, awareness, meditativeness. Nobody can give it to you and nobody can take it away from you. It is absolutely your individual effort that will release your wisdom. It is there like a seed, but only like a seed. It has to be planted, nourished, nurtured, watered, taken care of -- and that's what meditation is all about. Slowly it starts growing. Then you become a rose bush and many flowers come. The moment those flowers open up and your fragrance is released to the winds there is great joy -- not only in you -- the whole existence rejoices with you.
Whenever one person becomes enlightened, the whole of existence takes a step ahead.
Dance Til the Stars Come Down From the Rafters
Chapter #2
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2 January 1980 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 8001025
ShortTitle: RAFTER02
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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been
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