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Peace will come only to him who is ready to accept even the absence of peace.

When the whole consciousness is centered in the eyes, the mind had no energy left for thinking. There is no mind—only the eyes exist—so there is no thinking.

Samadhi is not a glimpse, samadhi is a death;

It is desire- lessness in the sense that the one who could desire is no more. It is not a state of no desire; it is desirelessness be- cause the one who could desire is no more. Then there is no longing, there is no future, because the future is created through our longings; it is a projection of our desires.

And if you can feel the very futility of desire, suddenly something drops in you... ThisL is a nothingness, an absence, a negativity. No new circle begins.
In this moment, you are out of the wheel of samsar (the world). But you cannot make it an object of your desire to be out of the wheel. Do you feel the distinction? You cannot make desirelessness an object.

And the moment you become aware of the fu- tility of what you are desiring, the mind goes on to some other object.
When this happens, the gap is lost. When something be- comes futile, useless, unattractive, remain in the gap. Be aware of whether the object has become futile or whether it is desiring itself that is futile.

The whole trick of the mind h that you always become aware that some object has become futile. Then you change the object, and in changing the object, the desire continues to take hold of your consciousness

If you can feel this very fact of desiring—that desiring is futile, meaningless—then you will not create another object to desire. Then desiring ceases. Become aware of it, and it ceases. Then there is an absence, and this absence is silent because there is no desire.

You can change objects and you can create new objects of desire. Even eternal life can become an object. Again, the circle sets in: the fact of rlesiring.

You are not frustrated with life because of objects. Religious people go on telling others that there is nothing in women, there is nothing in the world, there is nothing in sex, there is nothing in power. But these are all objects. They are still saying: there is nothing in these objects. They are not saying there is nothing in desiring itself.

You cannot remain "just sitting" if there is a desire. It may appear as if you are—everyone may say that you are just sitting—but you cannot be just sitting. You can just sit only when desiring is absent. To "just sit" is not a new desire, just an absence. All desiring has become a futility.

So a sannyasin, to me, is a person who decides to live to the utmost, to the optimum, to the maximum. Moment to moment you live. Moment to moment you act. Each mo- ment is complete in itself. You do not decide how to act. The moment comes to you, and you act. There is no pre- determination; there is no preplan.

To me, sannyas is not something very serious. Life, it- self, is not very serious, and one who is serious is always dead. Life is just an overflowing energy without any pur- pose, so to me, sannyas is to lead life purposelessly. Live life as a play and not as a work.

surrender

No one who is asleep can initiate anyone, but the ego wants to initiate

the enlightened personality is without mind—a **no mind*' personality: living, but without any conceptions; doing, but not thinking about it; loving, but without the concept of love; breathing, but without any meditation. So living will be moment to moment and one with the Total, but mind will not be there in between. The mind divides, and now there will be no division