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it was his job to kill as many times as possible and to be killed as many times as possible. Now this man can just trigger a button and can involve the whole earth in total destruction. Just one single fool, and for some small reason....
Maybe he had a very tiring day and his wife says something and then he becomes angry and just pushes the button! (much laughter) "Enough is enough!" Or perhaps he has a migraine, or just like Maneesha he is suffering from stomach pain and amoebas, (Bhagwan's hand gestures towards me, sitting just by his right. I laugh and love the intimacy of the mention.) then he just... And the world is finished! (much laughter) Unless you kill humanity you cannot kill amoebas!
That power is possible through the mind but where will you find the wisdom to use it rightly? There is only one source, I call it meditation. Meditation does not make you more knowledgeable. It simply makes you more sensible, more sensitive, more alert, more intelligent, more aware -- not more informed, but more transformed, more illumined.
A deep illumination -- that is the meaning of Manish. It means your inner world is no longer dark, it has become full of light. And when you live out of your inner light all that you do is good -- good for you, good for others, a blessing to you and also a blessing to the whole universe.
Nirvana now or never
Chapter #4
Chapter title: None
4 February 1980 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 8002045
ShortTitle: NEVER04
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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been copy-typed. It is for reference purposes only.]
Swami Anand Avinasho. Anand means bliss. Avinasho means eternal.
Pleasure is momentary: hence it is always followed by misery, it is surrounded by misery. It is just like an island, a small island in the ocean of misery. You cannot stay on it, it comes and goes. When it comes for a moment there is relief, but only for a moment, and then you are again plunged into the darkness, deeper than before, because now you have tasted something against which
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