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In moments of harmony you forget that you are.
Later on, you may remember how beautiful it was, how fantastic it was, how far-out.
But in moments of real far-outness, you are not there.

Something bigger than you has overpowered you;
something higher than you has possessed you;
something deeper than you has bubbled up.
You have disappeared.

In deep moments of love, lovers disappear.
In deep moments of silence, meditators disappear.
In deep moments of singing,dancing, celebration, celebrators disappear.
And this is going to be the last celebration, the ultimate,
the highest peak – kaivalya.

Patanjali says, ”Even the desire to be disappears.
Even the desire to remain disappears.”
One is so fulfilled, so tremendously fulfilled that one never thinks in terms of being.
For what? – you want to be there tomorrow also because today is unfulfilled.

The tomorrow is needed; otherwise you will die unfulfilled.
The yesterday was a deep frustration; today is again a frustration; tomorrow is needed.
A frustrated mind creates future.
A frustrated mind clings with the future.
A frustrated mind wants to be because now, if death comes, no flower has flowered.
Nothing has yet happened; there has only been a fruitless waiting:

”Now, how can I die? I have not even lived yet.”
That unlived life creates a desire to be.
People are so much afraid of death: these are the people who have not lived.
These are the people who are, in a certain sense, already dead.
A person who has lived and lived totally does not think about death.
If it comes, good; he will welcome.
He will live that too, he will celebrate that too.
Life has been such a blessing, a benediction; one is even ready to accept death.
Life has been such a tremendous experience; one is ready to experience death also.

One is not afraid because the tomorrow is not needed;
the today has been so fulfilling. One has come to fruition, flowered, bloomed.
Now the desire for tomorrow disappears.
The desire for tomorrow is always out of fear,
and fear is there because love has not happened.
The desire to always remain simply shows that deep down you are feeling yourself completely meaningless.
You are waiting for some meaning.
Once the meaning has happened, you are ready to die – silently, beautifully, gracefully.
”Kaivalya,” Patanjali says, ”happens only when the last desire to be has disappeared.”
The whole problem is to be or not to be.
The whole life we try to be this and that,
and the ultimate can happen only when you are not.

Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega　Vol 10　CHAPTER 9. KAIVALYA