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And do not have a goal,

for he who has a goal begins to swim.

Remember always –

wherever one reaches, that is the destination,

therefore he who makes God his goal goes astray.

Wherever the mind is free from all goals –

there alone is God.

67. Love.

I say: Die, so that you can live!

When the seed destroys itself, it becomes the tree;

when the drop loses itself, it becomes the ocean.

But man – man refuses to lose himself.

How then can God manifest in him?

Man is the seed, God is the tree.

Man is the drop, God is the ocean.

68. Love.

Leave the old track –

only the dead walk on trodden paths.

Life is the continuous quest for the new.

Only he who has the knack of being new

every moment truly lives.

Die to the old every moment

so that you are forever new –

this is the crux of the transformation of life.

69. Love.

Truth is like the sky: eternal, everlasting, boundless.

Is there a door to enter the sky?

Then how can there be one to enter into truth?

If our eyes are closed, the sky exists not.

The same holds good for truth.

Opening the eyes is the door to truth; to close the eyes

is to close that door to truth.

70. Love.

Where to find truth?

Well, it has to be sought within one’s own self,

within one’s own self

within one’s own self

within one’s own self.

It is definitely there.

One who seeks it elsewhere loses it.

71. Love.

I am extremely grateful for your loving letter.

I take life as a whole and I am incapable of viewing it in bits and

pieces; it is already the whole but because it has been viewed

in fragments for so long it has become perverted.

There is no politics, no morality, no religion;

there is life, there is God, whole and unfragmented.

It has to be sought, recognized and lived in all its forms,

therefore I shall continue to speak on all its forms.

And this is only the beginning.

Answering journalists is just preparing the ground.

All paths lead to one end – certain friends might take some time

to understand this truth.

As things are, this delay in understanding the truth is unavoidable,

but seekers of truth won’t be afraid – courage is the first condition

in the search for truth.

Remember, as long as spirituality does not become a philosophy

of the whole life it proves impotent,

and only escapists will take shelter behind it.

Spirituality has to be turned into a force,

spirituality has to be turned into a revolution,

only then can spirituality be saved.

My regards to all.

72. Love.

Man becomes a slave because he is afraid to be alone,

so he needs a crowd, a society, an organization.

Fear is the basis of all institutions,

and how can a frightened mind know the truth?

Truth requires fearlessness and fearlessness comes from sadhana,

not from societies.

That is why all religions, institutions and organization

bar the path of truth.

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73. Love.

Don’t be in a hurry.

So often, hurrying causes delay.

As you thirst, wait patiently – the deeper the waiting,

the sooner it comes.

You have sown the seed, now sit in the shade and watch what happens.

The seed will break, it will blossom, but you cannot

speed up the process.

Doesn’t everything need time?

Work you must, but leave the results to God.

Nothing in life is ever wasted,

especially steps taken towards truth.

But at times impatience comes,

impatience comes with thirst,

but this is an obstacle.

Keep the thirst and throw away the impatience.

Do not confuse impatience with thirst.

With thirst there is yearning but no struggle.

With impatience there is struggle but no yearning.

With longing there is waiting but no demanding.

With impatience there is demanding but no waiting.

With thirst there are silent tears.

With impatience there is a restless struggle.

Truth cannot be attacked; it is attained through surrender

not through struggle.

It is conquered through total surrender.

74. Love.

Your letter has been received.

Why seek at all for a purpose?

If you seek this you will never find it

because it is eternally hidden in the seeker.

Life is without purpose – life is its own purpose,

therefore he who lives without purpose truly lives.

Live! Isn’t living itself enough?

The desire to have more than just life is a result

of not properly living –

and that is why the fear of death

grips the human mind, for what is death to one who is really alive!

Where living is intense and total there is no time to fear death –

and there is no time for death, either.

Do not think in the language of purpose –

that language is diseased in itself.

The sky exists without purpose.

God is without purpose,

flowers bloom without purpose,

and stars shine without purpose –

what has happened to poor man

that he cannot live without purpose!

Because man can think he gets into trouble.

A little thinking always leads to trouble.

If you must think, think completely, utterly!

Then the mind whirls so fast with thoughts

that freedom from thoughts is attained.

Then you begin to live.

75. Love.

Rest is the supreme goal, work is the medium.

Total relaxation, with complete freedom from effort,

is the supreme goal.

Then life is a play, and then even effort becomes play.