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look. We miss him because we don't look through love... and that is the only door and the only bridge.
The Zero Experience
Chapter #3
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3 March 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
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Krishna Venu. It means krishna's flute.
Krishna is the only person in the whole history of human consciousness who is tremendously in love with life, with the poetry of life, with the music of life, with the dance of life. He is not at all life-negative, he is very affirmative. And he accepts life as it is; he does not put god and the world as opposites.
God is not separate from the world, god is in the world... god is the world! So the world has to be lived in and loved.
So venu, krishna's flute, became the symbol of his philosophy -- of his song, of his music, of his dance, of his love.
[A sannyas says: I had the experience of dissolving again. When I was a child I had the nightmare of dissolving, and now I have it again. It scared me.]
Your interpretation is wrong. It is not the experience but your interpretation of it that is scaring you. The experience is of tremendous value.
To come to a point where you can dissolve is the point from where god enters in you. The door of god and death is the same, but the guest who enters is different. So, sometimes the entry of the divine appears like death because it is the same door from where death and god enter. Something is similar, the door is similar, but if you misinterpret it then the whole experience becomes very scary... as if you are going to die, as if you are falling apart, melting and dissolving.
What is melting and dissolving on this side, is arriving on the other shore.
What is dying on this side, is life abundant on the other shore.
A seed has to die to become a tree and a man has to die to become god, but this death is simply a process of resurrection.
In the West the experience has never been rightly understood.
In the East we call it the shunya experience, the zero experience. One becomes so empty, so dissolved,
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