FlOlll WITH THE RIVER
there except to deal w i t h
it? What better way to deal
with it was there besides
looking at it right in the eye
and telling myself: “Yes,
I am sad, but I will pull
through this. I w i l l recover
and do some alternate
activity.”
In the last year I saw a,
few family tensions arise,
I saw a career change that
backfired, I saw plans going
awry, I saw some projects
finishing on time, I saw
some personal objectives
completing on target ‐ all I
think of n o w is “Charevaiti!
Charevaiti!” i.e. Keep
going! Keep going! Through
the ups and downs keep
going...
Just focusing on a few
sutras helps me a lot, for
instance ‐ “Easy is right!”
or "Keep things simple!" or
“Deal with one thing at a
time.”
Life happens! And it hap‑
pens in the now! Where are
we when it happens?V
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Sothefirst thing to be understood: The ego
is impotent.
The whole is omnipotent; the part is impo‑
tent. But the part is impotent only if it tries
to beseparate from the whole. Once it dis‑
solves itself into the whole, it becomes the
whole. Then it is no more impotent; then that part also becomes omnipotent.
If you are trying to dosomething, you will feel helpless. Life happens; it has noth‑
ing to do with doing. In the very effort you are creating trouble for yourself. Don’t
try to swim upstream. Then you will feel asif the river is fighting you. It is not the
river.
The river is completely unaware of you. The river is
completely unconcerned with
you. The river is not doing anything to you; the river is not being nasty to you.
Only you are trying to swim upstream, hence you feel the river is going against
you. [...]
There is a proverb that man proposes and god disposes. But why should god be so
against man? Why should hebeso cruel? There is no god to dispose anything, and
if there is, he cannot be so cruel asto dispose your poor desires. [...]
But the real thing is: The moment you propose, in your very proposal you have
created the disposal. You are fighting against the stream. Now you are moving
upstream, and you will feel asif the river is moving against you.
Start floating with the river, and suddenly you will see the river is taking you to
the ocean. And it is not against; it is very friendly, it is very lovely. Noneed to
swim even, no need to make any effort ‐ effortlessly just float, and the river takes
you. Don't waste your energy. [...]
And that is whatI mean when I say drop the ego. Ego is nothing but the illusion of
separation from the whole. Humbleness is nothing but a reunion with the whole,
a remarriage with the whole. The ego is a divorce; humbleness is a remarriage, a
reunion, unio mystica ‐ when you are united with the original source.
Then all that you always wanted to happen starts happening, but it never happens
till you stop wanting.
This is the dilemma. If you goon wanting, your very want will create a situation
in which it is not going to happen. And of course, the mind will say, "Make more
effort.” [...]
We
arejust the hands and legs of the whole. We
cannot have wills ‐ only the whole.
The whole wills, and everything happens to us.
Once you accept this, all effort, all struggle, is gone then. One moves effortlessly.
All weight, all heaviness from the head disappears, all headache disappears. In
fact, the head itself disappears. Then life is an ecstasy, a continuous bliss, an eter‑
nal celebration, a benediction.
Nirvana: The Last Nightmare, Chapter 10