to be or not to be.

I know that the challenge is great, but I know also

that your being is completely ready to take the jump.

Hence my insistent call for you to come and enter.

And this is not for the first time that I have called you,

nor the first life;

I know you, Bhakti, through so many births!

And soon you will also remember many things.

But not before the jump.

Only your superficial persona is resisting, not you –

and it is expected to resist always

because the moment one takes the plunge

into the unknown

it has to die naturally.

So please do not identify yourself with it;

be a witness to it, and you will be in the jump.

It is time now to die to the old ego

and be reborn to the supreme self!

248. Love.

Logic is not all;

nor is consistency;

because even madness has its own methods,

rationalizations and inner consistencies.

A madman was throwing handfuls

of crumbs around his house.

What are you doing? someone asked him.

Keeping the elephants away, he answered.

But there are no elephants in these parts,

said the inquirer.

That’s right – my method is effective, isn’t it?

declared the madman.

249. Love.

Total acceptance of existence is impossible for the mind

because the mind exists as denial.

It exists with the no,

and with a total yes it dies.

So it continues to find reasons to say no

even if there are no reasons.

Walking with a disciple one day

Mulla Nasruddin saw for the first time in his life

a beautiful lakeland scene.

What a delight! he exclaimed. But if only,

if only…

If only what, master? asked the disciple.

If only they had not put water in it! said the Mulla.

250. Love.

Meditation is like the sea:

receiving the dirty river and yet remaining pure.

You need not be purified before it,

but you will come out of it purified.

Meditation is unconditional,

purity is not a prerequisite but a consequence.

251. Love.

Be as if dead,

and then dualisms will not contaminate you

and you will reach the state

of the non-arising of thought.

The brightness of self-nature will appear in full –

and when this happens you are no more.

This disappearance is the appearance of the divine,

so please – disappear!

252. Love.

Existence exists in order to exist –

and likewise life.

There is no meaning to it beyond itself

so never posit any meaning,

otherwise you will feel its meaninglessness.

It is not meaningless and it cannot be so

because there is no meaning in it all!

The very search for meaning is mean and ugly

because it comes from the utilitarian mind of man.

Existence simply is

and likewise life:

there is no purpose in it

and there is no end to it.

Feel it here and now!

Please do not practice it

because that is the way of the utilitarian mind.

Be playful

and only then will you know the playfulness

of the universe.

And to know that is to be religious.

253. Love.

Do not continue moving in the old rut –

and the way out is just by your hand.

The mind is the past, the dead past;

one has to break it somewhere and jump out of it

The mind is the prison, the slavery.

Be free of it.

And the moment is ripe.

Of course I know that you are still not clearly aware of it

but you are not unaware either.

Gather courage and jump into the unknown.

Just one step is enough

because the next follows it automatically.

But do not go on thinking and thinking and thinking.