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It was risky, very risky, but once they started meditating there it was difficult for them to come back -- it was so easy there. Just the very altitude changes the whole chemistry of your body, and the changed proportion of the oxygen makes a lot of difference.
The more oxygen that goes into your being, the more pure the atmosphere, the less the carbon dioxide, the lighter you will feel. The same happens through fasting -- it changes the quantity of oxygen. The same thing happens through Dynamic Meditation -- it changes the quantity of the oxygen. All yoga breathing is nothing but an effort to change the chemistry, but on higher altitudes it changes naturally.
If some day it becomes more and more possible that more and more people can go into spaceships, there will be a great explosion of meditators in the world. The first space explorers all felt this. Their diaries, their memoirs about their experiences, are tremendously religious. They all felt a certain religious quality happening to them... and they were not religious people.
One explorer wrote in his diary, 'I have never been in the church and I have never been interested in god, but out here in space it is so silent, so eternally silent that I suddenly feel god exists. The very silence clicks something in me.' And he wept out of joy: God is!
Another explorer wept out of joy because for the first time he could see the earth as one: no Russia, no America, no India, no China -- just one! With the very feeling that the whole earth is one, at that moment he became a universal man: neither christian nor hindu, nor white nor black -- simply a dweller of the earth. That too is a great experience of religiousness.
My feeling is that these experiences came because of the state of no gravitation.
So start loving your work. Make it a meditation -- go on humming, be meditative. Love your work: it is one of the best that one can happen to have.
[To a sannyasin, recently arrived:]
Begin to mix and melt with the orange people, mm? You will lose your separateness and then things become very easy.
The greatest problem is how to lose the ego. That's why my insistence
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