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the punchline already. In life everything turns out to be a repetition of the same joke; hence people live utterly bored.
This is unique about meditation: only the person who knows meditation is never bored. Then it is impossible for him to be bored, because meditation is the disappearance of your personality, of your mind, of your thinking process. It is falling into such an abyss that the deeper you fall, the less you are. A moment comes when you are no more -- and when you are no more you come home.
That state of nothingness, nobodiness, is meditation. Hence I don't know any other experience which can be called unique, except meditation. And the real seeker will search for this unique dimension because only this can be a fulfilment. Unless one finds a source of joy that is infinite, inexhaustible, one cannot be contented, one cannot be at ease with existence. And to be at ease with existence, to be utterly relaxed and at ease with existence, with no conflict, no anguish, no desire to be victorious or to be the first -- all that nonsense is gone, one is simply enjoying of being a sannyasin.
With nothingness inside, outside you gain the whole universe. The moment you are no more, the whole belongs to you.
Ma Dhyan Gandharvo. Dhyan means meditation. Gandharvo is an eastern metaphysical word -- part of religious mythology, but significant. The gandharvas are the celestial musicians, the musicians who play for god. Gandharvo means the ultimate musician, whom there is no surpassing.
Meditation is the ultimate music. It is the music which is not created by any instrument, it is the music that arises in your silence. It is the sound of silence. It is the harmony that is hear when all noise has disappeared. When the mind with its thousands of voices is gone and your inner space is utterly empty, silent, still, that stillness itself has a tremendous music to it. And out of that music is all creativity, true creativity.
Ordinary creativity is out of the mind. Then one can compose a poem, one can paint a picture, one can do a thousand and one things; but because they are done by the mind, they are more or less compositions rather
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