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1、Dance Til the Stars Come Down From the RaftersTalks given from 1/1/80 to 31/1/80Darshan Diary31 ChaptersYear published:UnpublishedDance Til the Stars Come Down From the RaftersChapter #1Chapter title: None1 January 1980 pm in Chuang Tzu AuditoriumArchive code: 8001015ShortTitle: RAFTER01Audio: NoVid
2、eo: NoNOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been copy-typed. It is for reference purposes only.(To Susan) - This is your new name: Ma Nartano.Nartano means dance and dance is the essential core of sannyas.I dont believe in renunciation, I believe in rej
3、oicing. Life should be a song, a dance, not sadness. The so-called saints have been too heavy, sad, sombre, and they have created an atmosphere of sadness all over the world. Churches have become cemeteries, they are no more celebrations. Even if celebrations are arranged, they are done in such a wa
4、y that they lose the very quality of celebration. They become formal. They are no more fun, they are serious. Holiness has become too identified with seriousness.My work is to destroy that identification totally. Holiness should be wholeness, and wholeness is always a dancing state, a state where th
5、e dancer disappears into the dance. Dance your way to God. Dance till the stars come down from the rafters. Dance creates the fire in which all that is useless is burned, only the essential remains. Dance creates the fire in which gold becomes purer and purer and purer, and ultimately only purity is
6、 left.(To Amy) - This is your new name: Ma Gito. Gito means song. Become a song. just a small song will do! Good!(To Helmut) - Your name: Swami Helmut. Helmut means courage, great courage. Sannyas needs it. It is the most fundamental requirement because you will be moving from the known into the unk
7、nown, from the mind to no-mind, from the visible to the invisible.Ordinary courage is not enough, total courage is needed. Because one almost has to die, to die to the past so that the new can be born. It is a rebirth. But it can be managed, it is not impossible. We have the potential to do it.Exist
8、ence requires of you only that which you can do; it never requires anything impossible, difficult, arduous, of course, but not impossible. It is tremendously paying. When one moves from the mind to no-mind one is passing through death deliberately. The thrill is immense and the surprise is infinite.
9、For the first time one starts experiencing life in its utter beauty. That experience is God.(To Mauro) - This is your name: Swami Anand Mauro. Anand means bliss. Mauro means dark.Bliss can be looked at in both ways, as light and dark, because it is both it is neither. It is light certainly, because
10、there is great luminosity, and it is dark also, because there is great depth. That depth gives it darkness, but the darkness is luminous, that is its paradox. That darkness is full of light, that darkness is light itself.The same paradox persists in all religious experiences: death becomes eternal l
11、ife, darkness becomes infinite light, matter becomes divine. because existence is basically one.Darkness and light are two polarities of the same phenomenon. One has to learn to be blissful in both ways; one has to be blissful in life and one has to be blissful in death, blissful when one is succeed
12、ing and blissful when one is failing. When you are blissful irrespective of the situation, then only you are blissful.This is your name: Ma Iaia. It is a beautiful name. it means the creative heart.For centuries religion has been uncreative, because it was escapist, because it believed in renouncing
13、 the world; hence it could not be creative. It was afraid of beauty, it was afraid of form, it was afraid of everything. It knew only one way to reach god and that was slow suicide. It created a very suicidal humanity.My approach is just the opposite: god is not against life, god is life; god is not
14、 against beauty, god is the ultimate beauty. God is the very heart of existence and god is the creator. The only way to participate in his space is to create something. The creative person comes closest to god; not the worshipper, but the creator, not the people who go on doing religious rituals, bu
15、t the people who sing, the people who make art, the people who paint; the musicians, the dancers, the scientists - all the people who in some way create.Creativity to me is real worship. And when you are lost in your creativity you are in god, you pulsate with him, your being is in rhythm with his b
16、eing, and those are the moments of eternity. You transcend time, you enter into the deathless dimension.(To Andrea) - Your name: Ma Andrea. Andrea means courage.What is courage? The most significant definition is the capacity to drop the familiar, the known, because thats what mind is; the familiar, the known, the past. And the moment you drop the past you open up to infinities. But man is afraid to be so open, man feels lost in that vast space.Mind is a small th
