Chapter 1 - God Loves Fun
Day 1
When we realize the futility of words, then we should know that our life is going deeper. We have started living. We live in words from morning till night. Everything should make sense to us.
Everything should be purposeful. In this run of searching for purpose and purposefulness, we lose all purpose. It is like the carrot and the rabbit. It is right there, still it is not there.
It goes to such an extent that we don't even have a sound sleep. Even at night we are bothered by words. Many people speak while sleeping. There does not seem to be a rest from words.
Words are the root cause of worries. You can't have a worry without words, can you? Now, worry for ten minutes, but don't use a single word. You cannot. We get caught up in words.
Our friendship is based on words. Someone says, "Oh, you are so wonderful, you are beautiful, you are so kind-hearted. I have never seen a person like you in my life. I have been looking for a person like you all my life."
You fall in love suddenly. And when someone hurls some abuses on us, we are overshadowed. But those are just words. Life is very shallow if we base it on words. Anything that is very profound in life, deep or meaningful, cannot be expressed in words.
The experience of love, or true gratitude, cannot be expressed in words. Real beauty, true friendship has no words. Have we ever sat, just in silence, with somebody whom we love? Do you remember?
No, we open our mouths. we start chatting and we destrov all the beaut that is there. we go on a picnic and see a beautiful spot and we keep talking. You drive in a car and see how many conversations go on in the car.
There are four people and two conversations are going on. Sometimes all four people are talking. Nobody understands each other. Everyone is just waiting to talk.
They don't even listen. If one stops, then the other starts, they may not even wait till the other stops. Do you remember having driven silently with somebody in the car, just looking at the beauty, the sunset, the hills, the ocean? No.
We fill our minds with noise. The greater the agitation inside, the harder the music outside because then it feels a little soothing. You can forget all that inner noise, the chattering that is going on inside.
Get lost in the music, that is the easiest thing. It could be a temporary relief, a soothing factor. The finer the level of consciousness, the more stress-free the consciousness, the more sensitive you are to the sound.
We have become almost insensitive to noise, to sound, to words. With the silence inside, you can hear the birds and the timing between their singing. It is so perfect, so me-lodious. It is such a wonderful phenomenon in creation.
A bird sings in rhythm. Have you ever observed this? Without any drums, any beats, they sing in rhythm. We don't have that much patience, that much time to enjoy the song of a bird.
Go a little deeper and there is a music going on very much within your own body. The divine music is happening in our own bodies. We are not aware of it. Words are very shallow.
The day we realise words are incompetent, we have gained some depth in life. We are going deeper into the existence. What do you want from your friends?
Their words, their saying nice things to you or just their presence? We don't know because we have never thought what we want from our friends. "Company", we say.
You know, you can be with your friends and not say a word and get into ecstasy. Both of you, or all of you, can get into ecstasy. Such a joy just being in silence. You can understand each other perfectly well, being in silence.
Your presence speaks what you are. A great philosopher may give discourses on love, but you would not feel that. It could be mind-blowing for a while, but something does not happen inside, something does not get kindled.
If you are just there, being in love, it catches on to everyone.
You may have heard many seminars on love and what happens? These people who give the seminars, look into their lives. Is there love? A lady in Los Angeles gives many programmes on love.
This lady gives workshops on love and she has been divorced three times. She felt so miserable. There was so much tension in her. I said to her, Why don't you just sit within yourself, meditate, keep some silence and experience that you are love.
You are made up of a substance called love. Transcend the words, then love appears. We don't allow our minds to go a little deeper, to sink into our self. How can love flower then? It was a great day for her. Be simple, innocent, and all gets done through that power of love.
The same thing with beauty. When you look at beauty, something in you happens. As though some life energy which was blocked, just opens up, like a spring opens up. A thrill, joy. Then you want to possess that.
You see a nice girl, or a nice boy, somebody good-looking with beautiful hair, a beautiful nose, beautiful eyes and all nice features, and something shakes up in you. You say, "Yes, beautiful" You feel so good.
Then the next run is - we want to possess that beauty. The moment you possess the beauty, you make it ugly. You see men with beautiful wives who are still looking for some beautiful girls outside.
Women with beautiful husbands are also still looking for some other beautiful men somewhere. May be they have broader shoulders or a long nose or good teeth, whatever they think their husband or wife does not have. Where is the end to it?
The moment you possess that, you make that also ugly. There is no more charm in it. Then you go on to another, and the whole life is a run after such a mirage, a search after that. If you don't search, then you feel dead, like a log of wood.
There is no joy. There is no charm. There is no beauty in life. Everything is gone. What next? There is no run. When there is no run, life seems to be very dull. There is nowhere to go.
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