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1、Ecstasy - The Forgotten LanguageTalks on KabirTalks given from 11/12/76 am to 20/12/76 amEnglish Discourse series10 ChaptersYear published: 1976Ecstasy - The Forgotten LanguageChapter #1Chapter title: Now or never11 December 1976 am in Buddha HallArchive code: 7612110ShortTitle: ECSTAS01Audio: YesVi
2、deo: NoLength: 0 minsI. 13. mo ko kahan dhunro bandeO FRIEND, WHERE DOST THOU SEEK ME?LO! I AM BESIDE THEE.I AM NEITHER IN TEMPLE NOR IN MOSQUE: I AM NEITHER IN KAABA NOR IN KAILASH:NEITHER AM I IN RITES AND CEREMONIES, NOR IN YOGA AND RENUNCIATION.IF THOU ART A TRUE SEEKER, THOU SHALT AT ONCE SEE M
3、E: THOU SHALT MEET ME IN A MOMENT OF TIME.KABIR SAYS: O FRIEND! GOD IS THE BREATH OF ALL BREATH.I. 57. sadho bhai, jivat hi karo asaO FRIEND! HOPE FOR HIM WHILST YOU LIVE, KNOW WHILST YOU LIVE, UNDERSTAND WHILST YOU LIVE: FOR IN LIFE DELIVERANCE ABIDES.IF YOUR BONDS BE NOT BROKEN WHILST LIVING, WHAT
4、 HOPE OF DELIVERANCE IN DEATH?IT IS BUT AN EMPTY DREAM, THAT THE SOUL SHALL HAVE UNION WITH HIM BECAUSE IT HAS PASSED FROM THE BODY.IF HE IS FOUND NOW, HE IS FOUND THEN,IF NOT, WE DO BUT GO TO DWELL IN THE CITY OF DEATH.IF YOU HAVE UNION NOW, YOU SHALL HAVE IT HEREAFTER.BATHE IN THE TRUTH, KNOW THE
5、TRUE GURU, HAVE FAITH IN THE TRUE NAME!KABIR SAYS: IT IS THE SPIRIT OF THE QUEST WHICH HELPS I AM THE SLAVE OF THIS SPIRIT OF THE QUEST.HERE I GO AGAIN - I will sing the same old song. But yet it is not the same old song; it cannot be. Manu says there is nothing new under the sun. And he is right. A
6、nd Heraclitus says you cannot step in the same river twice. And he is right too. Existence is old and new, both together, and my song is that of existence itself. I am just a vehicle to sing it to you, to spread it to you. But I am not the singer; I am just a passage. Remember it: it may look the sa
7、me, but yet it is not the same. Words may be the same, the appearance may be the same, but something vital goes on continuously changing. Have you ever come across the same morning again? Have you ever seen the same sky again? And yet the sky is the same and the sun is the same.Manu and Heraclitus b
8、oth are true together; taken separately they both are false. Life is a contradiction. Life is paradoxical. Thats why it is so charming and so beautiful. It exists through the opposites. It is vast; it contains contradictions. It is new and old both. It is life and death both, together. So I say to y
9、ou I will sing the same old song and yet it is not going to be the same. Listen attentively.Before we enter into the words of mystic poet Kabir, it will be good to know something about Kabir. Much is not known - fortunately - because when you know too much about the person, it creates more complexit
10、ies in understanding him. When you dont know anything about the person himself, then there is less complexity. Thats why in the East it has been one of the most cherished old traditions not to say much about the mystics, so that it never hinders people. We dont know much about Krishna and we dont kn
11、ow much about Buddha; or all that we know about them is more mythological than historical, not true, fictitious. But about Kabir, even fiction does not exist. And he is not very ancient, yet he lived in such a way that he has effaced himself completely. He has not left any marks.Only politicians lea
12、ve marks on time - only politicians are that foolish. The mystics live in the timeless. They dont leave any marks in time, they dont leave any signatures on time. They dont believe in signing on the sand of time. They know it will be effaced, so there is no point in it.Kabir has not said much about
13、himself, nothing much is known about him. Not even this much is known - whether he was a Hindu or a Mohammedan. The story goes that he was born a Mohammedan but was brought up by a Hindu. And this is beautiful; this is how it should be. Hence his richness. He has the heritage of two rich traditions:
14、 Hindu and Mohammedan. If you are just a Hindu, of course, you are poor. If you are just a Mohammedan you are poor.Look at my richness. I am a Hindu and a Mohammedan and a Christian and a Sikh and a Parsi. Not only that, I am a theist and I am an atheist too. I claim the whole heritage of humanity.
15、I claim all; I dont reject anything. From Charvakas to Buddhas, I claim all. The whole humanity is yours, the whole evolution of human consciousness is yours, but you are so miserly. Somebody has become a Hindu; he claims only a corner - and lives in that corner, crippled and paralyzed. In fact, the
16、 corner is so narrow you cannot move. It is not spacious enough. A religious person will claim all - Buddha, Mahavir, Christ, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, Nanak, Kabir, etc., etc. He will claim ALL. They are all part of me; they are all part of you. Whatsoever has happened to human consciousness, you carry the seeds of it in you.This is the one thing to be understood about Kabir: tha
