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the mortal, the physical, the mental, seek and search for that which is beyond all this, that is eternal, immortal. The whole religious search is concerned with the eternal, the timeless, the deathless. And that's what initiation into sannyas is all about: looking beyond your actual. To remain confined to the actual is to remain a prisoner.
Unless one reaches the ultimate peak of one's potential there is no contentment, no bliss, no god, no truth.
Dhyan Inge. Dhyan means meditation. Meditation is a method of slipping out of the mind in the same way as the snake slips out of its own skin.
The mind is nothing but old skin. The mind is always dead; it consists of the past, which is no more, The mind is a kind of cemetery -- graves and graves. And you can see rows of crosses on the graves; howsoever whitewashed, they only contain dead bodies, rotten bodies. Mind is a graveyard.
And it is not coincidental that churches have graveyards behind them: they are part of the same game. The churches are as dead as the graves, or maybe more. They don't represent life.
Mind is always against life. It prevents you from living, it holds you back, it insists on the known, on the familiar. It always creates fear in you about the unknown, and the unknown is what life is; not only the unknown but the unknowable. And mind is a coward -- it clings to all that is known, well-known. That is why people are Christians and Hindus and Mohammedans and Jesus.
Jesus was not a Jew. Of course his mind must have been Jewish. He was not a (Christian either, he had not even heard about the word 'Christian'. He was not a Jew, he was not a Christian -- then who was he? That state is meditation.
Buddha was not a Hindu although his mind was Hindu. And he was not a Buddhist either. Hinduism was of the past, Buddhism was of the future, and Buddha lived in the present.
To live in the present, to be in the present, always alive, searching, enquiring, exploring, accepting the challenges of the unknown, is the whole of meditation.
And Inge comes from Norse mythology. In Norse mythology Inge was the god of creativity, peace and prosperity. And all
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