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of the tongue, you say, and yet you can't remember it. It is a very weird feeling when it happens -- when you know that you know, when you know that it is just on the tip of your tongue and still can't remember it. You remember this much -- that you know. It is so clearly, so loudly there, that one feels simply mystified by the phenomenon -- why is it not coming up?
You try this way and that and the more you try, the more difficult it seems. Out of sheer tiredeness you drop the whole subject, you forget all about it. Then some time just listening to music or walking in the garden or just taking a shower suddenly it comes up. Then it is more mystifying: why has it suddenly come and when you were trying why was it not coming? In fact when you were trying you became too tense, and whenever you are too tense you shut up within yourself, everything closes; and when you are relaxed everything opens up. Because you were too tense and you wanted it to happen, you really wanted to force it to come up, it simply slipped into the unconscious. but when you were not thinking about it at all, not desiring, not longing for it -- you had completely forgotten the whole matter -- suddenly it popped up in the head. That's how bliss is: we have simply forgotten; only a little relaxation is needed to remember it.
All meditation techniques are nothing but techniques for relaxation, for rest. Learn more relaxation, more rest. The more relaxed you become, the closer you are to God. When you are totally relaxed your whole being simply becomes flooded with light, flooded with love, flooded with bliss. Those are the proofs of God and those are the only proofs of God.
(Anand Amito: infinite bliss)
Bliss has no beginning, no end. It is always there. It is within and it is without, but we are blind to it. It is just like a blind man sitting in the sun: all is light but he can't see a thing, he can't see the light. The light is showering on him, he can even feel the warmth, but he cannot see the source of it. And that is the situation of all human beings: in rare moments we can feel a certain warmth of bliss, a certain wave, but it remains vague. It looks like a faraway
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