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#3
Chapter title: None
3 April 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7904035
ShortTitle: BAMBOO03
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Prem Akiko. Prem means love, akiko is the name of a famous poem. Your full name will mean: love, the poem. Life can either be prose or poetry: these are the two possibilities. If someone lives through the mind, life becomes prose, and if someone lives through the heart, life becomes poetry. When life is poetry, life is religious. When life is only prose, life is mundane, meaningless. Then one really does not live, one only vegetates, one somehow manages to drag oneself; and the life that is a drag ends in death. But the life that is poetic, a song, a dance, ends in eternity.
Love knows no death, love conquers death; love conquers time. But love is not of the mind, it is not a question of thinking: one has to live it.
Deva Yasunori. Deva means God, yasunori is the name of a famous temple. Your full name will mean: God's temple. Man is God's temple, but man is visible and God is invisible, so it is very easy to forget the invisible. It is also very easy to become too occupied with the visible, hence people are obsessed with their bodies. The obsession with the body can be of two kinds: the positive kind and the negative.
There are people who are continuously thinking of themselves as their bodies only. They live on the physical plane, they only indulge on the physical plane, they have no idea that they are more than that. These are the materialists. There is a negative obsession with the body too; these people are the so-called spiritualists. They torture the body, they starve the body, they destroy the body in every possible way, thinking that by destroying the body they will be making God happy. Both these kinds of people look diametrically opposite and yet they are the same people: their focus is on the visible.
My sannyasin has to become a third kind. He has not to be obsessed with the body in either way -- positive or negative. He has to shift his attention from the visible to the invisible.
Once we become aware of what this consciousness inside
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