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And that rhythm can be heard within your heart. Just silence is needed, because it is a very still, small voice. If the mind is too noisy you cannot hear it -- hence meditation.
Meditation is nothing else but a means so that your mind drops its noisy patterns, so for at least a few moments it falls into a quiet, calm space. Then suddenly you hear that which you have never heard before -- and it is within you, arising, welling up -- a music divine, a music that has infinite bliss in it.
Once you are showered on by it, all joys of life simply become meaningless. Once you have tasted it, then there is nothing comparable to it. Then you can move through life without being disturbed by it or distracted by it. And you will remain for twenty-four hours a day in a state of orgasmic joy, because that music continues, it is an undercurrent. Even in deep sleep it is there, even in death it is there.
So one who has heard this soundless sound has become deathless. He knows what eternity is because he is eternal.
The Rainbow Bridge
Chapter #5
Chapter title: None
5 July 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7907055
ShortTitle: RAINBO05
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Veet Roberta. Veet means going beyond; roberta means bright fame. The full name will mean going beyond all fame.
The ego longs to be famous, to be well-known. The ego is afraid of being nobody, is scared of being anonymous, because if you are not known you don't know who you are; if you are not known by others you don't know who you are. You know yourself only by what people say about you. The ego depends on others' eyes. It is dependent, it is a beggar. It cannot stand on its own, it needs all kinds of props.
If you are nobody, if nobody knows you, then suddenly the ego starts evaporating. Then the very earth underneath your feet is taken away. Then you start feeling empty, a nothingness -- and that scares people. In fact that emptiness is one of the most beautiful things that can happen to a person, because it is only through that emptiness that one enters into God. All name, all fame, is futile: it is a deception,
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