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the curtain, they are sitting drinking tea, gossiping. Sita is sitting just between the two -- with no question of abduction, with no question of rescue.
Life is a drama; but only those who have attained emptiness can know it fully as drama.
LAUGHING, PLAYING, THE KNACK OF MEDITATION.
Meditation too is nothing but play, nothing but laughter. People ask me, "What's wrong with this ashram of yours? Here people laugh, dance, play, frolic!" And how else could an ashram be?
LAUGHING, PLAYING, THE KNACK OF MEDITATION,
DAY AND NIGHT SHARING DIVINE KNOWLEDGE.
And then whatever is said is divine inspiration -- day and night. The way he walks, the way he speaks. If he remains silent, in that silence is divine inspiration. If he speaks, the words are inspired. If he dances, then inspired dance. And if sitting peacefully then he sits peacefully in divine inspiration. His entire being is surrendered to the divine, surrendered to the whole. Now he is not separate. This is why he laughs, why he plays. Now he has become part of the divine play.
HE LAUGHS, PLAYS, KEEPS MIND UNTROUBLED...
Just laugh and play and don't be sad and troubled, uselessly letting the mind be serious. Don't be miserable.
But you can see some people are very troubled in a worldly sense and some troubled in a religious sense. Both are miserable. One is running after money, his mind is disturbed; the other was frightened of money and has fled, his mind is disturbed. One says the more women I can get the better, the other says let no woman come into my sight, otherwise everything will be disturbed. But both are disturbed, neither has learned to laugh and play. They haven't learned the art of playing. They are too serious. They are ultra-serious! This seriousness is their disease.
LAUGHING, PLAYING, THE KNACK OF MEDITATION,
DAY AND NIGHT SHARING DIVINE KNOWLEDGE.
HE LAUGHS, PLAYS, KEEPS MIND UNTROUBLED...
Therefore he says laugh, play, don't disturb the mind.
... SUCH UNWAVERING ONE IS ALWAYS WITH GOD.
Then immersed in this laughing and playing, this delight, soaked in the juice of this play you are always
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