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conscious that because of their consciousness they cannot move to the past and to the future. They are anchored in the present... their consciousness is centred in the present.
And man is just between these two. He is neither as unconscious as the animals and the trees, nor is he as conscious as a buddha. So he goes on, split: one part moving towards the past one part moving towards the future -- pulled, tom apart. Hence there is anguish, anxiety, pain suffering.
One just has to understand and become more and more aware.
Ananda means bliss, and devika means goddess -- goddess of bliss.
... And the goal is not very far away -- it is very close by. Just remembrance is needed -- nothing else. We have only to remember that we belong to god. Just remembrance -- it is not a question of doing anything else. We have forgotten. We have become oblivious to the obvious. And it always happens -- that which is obvious, we tend to forget.
When a person is healthy he tends to forget health. When he becomes ill, then he remembers. When you don't have a headache you don't remember at all that you have a head. When the headache is there, then the memory is too.
The human mind remembers only something which is missed. God is never missed -- that is the problem. He is always there -- whether we remember him or not. He is always there... he is always showering. Whether we welcome him or not, it doesn't matter -- he goes on showering on saints, on sinners, on good, on bad. On religious, irreligious, theists, atheists, he goes on showering.
His love is unconditional. There is no condition that we should do something and then he will be loving towards us. His love is unconditional, because he is love and nothing else. Hence we tend to forget. He is so available -- like the air... all around.
Just like the fish in the ocean.... The fish never remembers the ocean -- cannot remember. Unless she is thrown out of the ocean on the bank, on the beach, then suddenly she remembers -- she has missed the home. Then there is anguish, trembling, an urge to go back to the ocean.
But a fish can be taken out of the ocean -- we cannot be taken
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