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act in the world, and now remember: ONE MAY ASPIRE TO BE ONE HUNDRED. It does not mean only a long life. Of course, that too it means, because Upanishadic seers were not against life; they wanted to live long and live joyously, so it was perfectly good -- that meaning is perfectly right.
Aspire to live long and aspire to live deep, and aspire to live intensely and passionately -- perfectly right! -- but don't forget the symbol of one hundred. That is its true meaning, the higher meaning, the invisible meaning.
... ONE MAY ASPIRE TO BE ONE HUNDRED.
Even living and acting in the world you can become one. Those two zeros of this world and that, those two zeros of the body and the soul, those two zeros of the changing and the unchanging, can meet and merge into one even while you are acting in the world, so there is no need to renounce.
THUS, AND ONLY THUS, CAN A MAN BE FREE
FROM THE BINDING INFLUENCE OF ACTION.
Not by renouncing action but by acting in such awareness, in such deep meditativeness, one becomes free of action and its binding effects.
UNILLUMINED INDEED ARE THOSE WORLDS CLOUDED
BY THE BLINDING DARKNESS OF IGNORANCE.
Upanishads call people ignorant... if they are living in the half they are ignorant. The materialist is ignorant, the spiritualist is ignorant, because both are unaware of the whole. Only the one who knows the whole knows.
INTO THIS DEATH SINK ALL THOSE WHO SLAY THE SELF.
And by dividing your being into two, is like slaying your very being, murdering yourself, killing yourself Don't cripple yourself, don't paralyze yourself. Accept your totality and live it joyously.
AUM
PURNAMADAH
Purnamidam
PURNAT PURNAMUDACHYATE
PURNASYA PURNAMADAYA
PURNAMEVA VASHISHYATE
AUM
THAT IS THE WHOLE.
THIS IS THE WHOLE.
FROM WHOLENESS EMERGES WHOLENESS.
WHOLENESS COMING FROM WHOLENESS,
WHOLENESS STILL REMAINS.
I Am That
Chapter #2
Chapter title: Living in your own Light
12 October 1980 am in Buddha Hall
Archive code: 8010120
ShortTitle: ITHAT02
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