We have not heard your warnings – and now we have created a major disaster
“Times of disaster make you aware of the reality as it is. It is always fragile; everybody is always in danger. Just, in ordinary times you are fast asleep, so you don't see it: you go on dreaming, imagining beautiful things for the coming days, for the future. But in moments when danger is imminent, then suddenly you become aware that there may be no future, no tomorrow, that this is the only moment you have got.
“So times of disaster are very revealing. They don't bring anything new into the world; they simply make you aware of the world as it is – they wake you up.
“If you don't understand this, you can go mad.“
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“But this critical state can become also a great blessing in disguise. It may make us more aware, more responsible. It may provoke us to do something so that humanity takes a surge towards the higher plane of consciousness.”
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How is that for people to see this as “a great blessing”?
“Death is coming close – you cannot even rely on your being here tomorrow. And your life is an absolute desert – it has not found any oasis, it has not felt any meaning, any significance – and death may destroy all possibilities in the future.
“So first you have to make them aware of their meaningless, accidental, frustrated life. They know it, but they try to suppress their knowing in many ways, because to know it continuously is a torture. So they go to the movies to forget it. They go to parties, they go to picnics, they drink alcoholic beverages; they do everything – just to somehow not remember the reality of their life, their hollowness, futility.
“This is the most important part – to remind them. And once a person remembers all this, then to lead him towards meditation is a very simple thing, because meditation is the only answer to all the questions of man. It may be frustration, it may be depression, it may be sadness, it may be meaninglessness, it may be anguish: The problems may be many but the answer is one.
“Meditation is the answer.”
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“Meditation is a way to face the real crisis of life, to face one's own growth and the growing pains….
“If one percent of human beings are changed towards, turned on to meditation, we will be able to change the whole world consciousness... just one percent. And a totally new consciousness can come into being. The world needs it now -- it never been in so much need. It is really passing through a tremendous crisis. It has never been so; there have been crises before, but never of such proportion.”
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