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concentration point: with closed eyes look at the third eye. Looking at it you start feeling great light spreading inside you -- and with the light comes delight!
Man can have many kinds of happinesses. There are at least three very clear-cut planes of happiness. One is animal happiness: good food -- enjoing good food -- bodily pleasures, sex. They are all animal happinesses, the lowest kind. Nothing is wrong with it -- I have no condemnation for the animal, I have all respect for the animal -- but it is the lowest strata of happiness. It has not to be denied, because it becomes the foundation of the temple.
The second happiness is human: the joy that you derive from music, art, beauty, from singing, from dancing, or from just being with a friend, having a relaxed conversation. These are human joys: higher than the animal, that has to be remembered. The animal becomes the soil in which much can grow that will go beyond the soil, it starts reaching to the sky; it becomes a bridge between the earth and the sky. And so are human pleasures and human happiness a bridge between the animal and the divine.
And the third kind of happiness is divine. Divine happiness has no object -- neither food nor woman nor man, neither paintings nor music nor poetry ... no object. It is your pure subjectivity. You are simply silent, enjoying your very being. Just to be is such an unbearable bliss. It is a miracle that we are alive; there was no necessity. You may not have been, but you are. Somebody else may have been in your place, but that somebody else is not there: you are. It is such a miracle that one is! But we don't enjoy it, we take it for granted and that's why we go on missing it.
Stop taking life for granted. Every moment is a gift from God. And just in being with oneself, sitting silently, doing nothing, just enjoying nothing in particular, for no reason, for no motive, a subtle joy arises from one's deepest recesses and overfloods one. That is divine happiness. That is the goal of all religion, of all meditation; that is the goal of sannyas.
God is another name for that bliss.
Scriptures in Silence and Sermons in Stones
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