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But as far as the bliss is concerned, they are all useless. They are irrelevant -- not relevant to the basic search, the basic urge, the basic thirst of humanity. That is somewhere inside. And you come inside when thought ceases. With thought, the known ceases, the knowledge ceases. With thought the wandering ceases. With thought, everything outward ceases -- thought is the foundation of all that is outward. You come in -- really, you have never been out, but with the association of thought you have imagined yourself to be out. When I say you come in, you really don't come in, you have always been in, but for the first time you are disassociated from the outside. You realize what has been always yours.
Early Talks
Chapter #3
Chapter title: None
26 August 1970 pm in CCI Chambers, Bombay, India
Archive code: 7008260
ShortTitle: EARLY03
Audio: Yes
Video: No
[NOTE: This is a partly edited tape transcript of an unpublished early dialogue. It is for reference purposes only.]
A: The mind is now integrated. The moment you are one the will is created. The will means an integrated mind. The willessness comes from disintegration, from fragmentariness, from your mind divided in itself; divided in contradictions, struggling, conflicting in itself. The mind which is unconscious is a willless mind. The mind which is total, one and whole is a mind with a will. The will only means wholeness, total.
FIRST INTERVIEWER: DOES THAT MEAN CONCENTRATION?
A: No, it doesn't mean concentration. Concentration means still. It's a fragmentary attitude. When you are concentrating, you are choosing a particular point excluding all else.
Q: IS THAT WHOLE (ALL?) ?
A: Not whole(?). The will means you are whole within, as well as without. It is a choiceless wholeness. You are not exclusively concentrating, but you are whole. The moment you are whole within, the total without is open to you, you are open to it. It is non-exclusive, it is inclusive of all. When I concentrate upon something, all else is excluded. When I am just whole in me nothing is excluded; everything is included. The
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