2. “MAD WITH JOY, LIFE AND DEATH DANCE TO THE
RHYTHM OF THIS MUSIC”
Yes, joy is mad. And only mad people can afford it. The ordinary sane
person is so clever, socunning, calculating, he cannot afford joy,
because you cannot control joy.
Just as I said a joyful man cannot be controlled by the society, let me say
this also to you: that you cannot control your joy,
you cannot control your ecstasy. If you want to remain in control, you
will never be joyful; then you can only be miserable.
Only misery can be controlled – by the society or even by you!
Many people come to me, and they say they would like to get out of
their miseries, but they are not ready to move into a state of uncontrol.
They want to control joy too.
They always want to remain in control. They always want to remain the
master, the boss. That is not possible. The boss has to go.
3. The joy can erupt into your being only when all control has been
removed. Joy knows no control. Itis wild.
And I say to you God is wild, and joy is the first step towards God.
Ecstasy is wild. You cannot control it.
You have to lose all control. You have to drop into it, into the very abyss
of it – and it is a bottomless abyss.
You go on dropping and dropping and dropping and you never arrive to
the bottom because there is no end to joy.
It is a nonending process, it is eternal. And it so huge, how can you
control it? The very idea is stupid.
4. ”MADWITH JOY, LIFE AND DEATH DANCE
TO THE RHYTHM OF THIS MUSIC.”
And when you
are madly dancing, madly singing, when you are joyful without any
control, without your presence,
when the joy is so full, overflowing – you are flooded with it and all
control is abandoned – then you
will see a miracle: death and life dancing together. Because then all
duality disappears. If you are
dual, duality appears. If you are nondual, duality disappears. When you
are split, the whole world is
split. It is your own split that is projected onto the screen of the
universe. When you are in a nonsplit
state, integrated, one, organic, orgasmic, then all duality disappears.
Then life and death are not two, not opposites, but complementaries
dancing with each other hand
in hand
5. Then bad and good are not two – they are dancing with each
other hand in hand. Then
matter and consciousness are not two. This is what is happening
inside you: the soul is dancing
with the body; the body is dancing with the soul. They are not
two. They are one, they are absolutely
one, manifestations of one. The body is nothing but visible
soul, and the soul is nothing but invisible
body.
And God is not somewhere above in the heavens. He is here-now
in the trees, in the rocks, in you,
6. in me, in everything. God is the soul of existence, the invisible
the innermost core. And the inner is dancing with the outer. And
the sublime is dancing with the profane.
And the holy is dancing with the unholy. And the sinner is
dancing with the saint
Once you have become one, suddenly all duality disappears.
That’s why I say a really wise man is also a fool, has to be, because
foolishness and wisdom dance together.
And a really sage person, a saint, is also a rascal, has to be, it
cannot be avoided. God and devil are not two.
Have you ever thought about the word ”devil”? It comes from the
same root as ”divine”; they belong to the same
root.
They both come from a Sanskrit root, DIVA; from it comes
DEVA, from it comes ”divine,” from it comes ”devil.” Deep down,
the tree is one. Branches are many, moving in different
dimensions, directions; leaves are millions; but the deeper you
go, you come to one, one tree.
Mad with joy, life and death dance to the rhythm of this music.
