God is the ultimate experience of silence, of beauty, of bliss, a state of inner celebration.
There is no God, but there is certainly a quality I call godliness. It comprises compassion, love, friendship, joy, creativity. It brings you new songs, it brings you new dances. It brings you the truth, and the immersion of you into the truth.
Look deep into your throbbing life and you will find the quality of the divine. You will not find a God but you will find a godliness, a truth, an awakening, a buddha.
You cease totally and only then you arrive. You enter into the world of God, or godliness, only when you are no more.
Godliness is the fragrance of the man who has attained enlightenment.
God cannot be found outside you, because there is no God who can ever be outside you. God is the ultimate fragrance of your consciousness. When your consciousness opens like a lotus, the fragrance that is released is God – better to call it godliness.
You can call it godliness – it IS godliness. It is the highest, the greatest flowering of being. But it is not a God somewhere outside you. You cannot pray to it. You can be it, but you cannot pray to it, because it is not separate.
Hell and heaven are within you, both gates are within you. When you are behaving unconsciously there is the gate of hell; when you become alert and conscious, there is the gate of heaven.
Don’t imitate: imitation creates falsity, pseudo-ness, inauthenticity. Just feel your own way and don’t bother about what others say. It is nobody else’s business. Don’t bother about what churches say, organizations say – listen to your own heart.
Imitation has to be avoided. Understanding should be the only law, never imitation.
The real religion is not imitation of anybody else, it is a search to find out your own authentic self, who you are.
Don’t imitate. If you want to know who you are, please avoid imitation, that’s a way of avoiding knowing yourself.
Each individual’s way is going to be different. Never follow anybody. That is the greatest calamity that can happen to a man. Once you start following somebody else, you become a carbon copy. You become an imitation.
The greatest adventure that can happen to a human being is the movement from mind to no-mind, the movement from personality to individuality. The no-mind has an individuality: the mind is social.
All your personalities are absolute cover-ups, hiding your individuality.
I am here to destroy your personality, to give birth to your individuality.
Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality.
Love with eyes knows when to say no, when to say yes. Love neither interferes in anybody’s life nor allows anybody else to interfere into one’s own life. Love gives individuality to others, but does not lose its own individuality.
The disappearance of your person is not your disappearance, remember; on the contrary, it is your appearance. As your person disappears, your personality falls away; your individuality, your individual arises. To have a personality is hypocrisy. To be an individual is your birthright.
To be an individual is the hardest thing in the world, because nobody likes you to be an individual. Everybody wants to kill your individuality and to make a sheep out of you. Nobody wants you to be on your own.