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you live
The higher the peaks you will achieve.
Eighty Four Thousand Poems
Chapter #3
Chapter title: None
5 April 1980 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 8004055
ShortTitle: 84POEM03
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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been copy-typed on to the computer. It is for reference purposes only.]
The lotus represents
The ultimate unfolding of consciousness.
The lotus is the biggest flower in the world
And in the East the most respected flower
For two reasons/
One: it grows in the mud, in the dirty mud.
One cannot conceive that out of such dirty mud
Such a beautiful flower is possible.
Hence it represents something in man.
Man ordinarily is nothing but dirt
Just dirty mud
But hidden in it is the possibility
Of a lotus flower.
So just don't condemn the dirt
And don't condemn ordinary humanity.
Secondly: the lotus grows in water.
Out of dirty mud it rises and floats on the water.
It has a very miraculous quality:
It is so velvety that the water cannot touch it.
It remains in the water
But remains untouched by the water.
That is the quality of a sannyasin.
A sannyasin has to live in the world.
Where else to live?
There is no other world, this is the only world.
One has to live here and yet
One can live like a lotus, untouched, unaffected.
Pleasure comes, pain comes,
One simply watches and everything passes by.
Pleasure passes by, pain also passes by.
Soon you realise that nothing remains
Only you abide.
The consciousness abides, your witnessing abides.
That is your true self,
That is your real being that abides.
Everything else is like a cloud coming and going
You are the sun. Many clouds will come and go
Don't be affected by them.
The day you don't cling to pleasure
And you are not afraid of pain and
You take both as if they are
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