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stand? Won't you allow me this freedom, just to stand? Have I to look for something, wait for something or do something? Can't I just be?'
So just sit -- no meditation, nothing -- and you will feel a great joy welling up inside. You can continue Kundalini but this is a separate thing. In the morning, afternoon, whenever you feel any tension arising in the head, just sit silently and keep in mind that you are not supposed to do anything. Don't start repeating a mantra, otherwise you will never be out of that habit. And one should not fall a victim to any habit whatsoever -- good or bad; habits are habits. All habits are bad, because habits make you a robot; then you have to function only like a machine. You don't function like a man, you don't function like pure consciousness -- and that's how one should function.
So just sit, and soon the tension will disappear and something very positive will start welling up and will fill you with such joy that you have not known before. And when it comes without any effort on your part, it is tremendous. Because through your own effort you can create only small things; man's efforts are limited. And when something comes while you are only waiting and doing nothing, then it is a grace -- it comes from the beyond. It has a purity of its own....
Hallelujah!
Chapter #3
Chapter title: Love is The Introduction to The Book of Bliss
3 August 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7808035
ShortTitle: HALLE03
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Deva means divine, dharia means patience -- divine patience. God is not available to those who are in a hurry. God is not instant, and the more you are in a hurry, the less is the possibility. Patience is a very basic requirement... infinite patience. Only when you are in a deep state of patience are you silent; otherwise the mind is tense. When there is hurry, there is tension. Then the mind is constantly longing, and because it is not happening the mind feels frustration.
For those who are not patient, frustration is their lot. One can choose between frustration and patience. In frustration you become
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