Today's topic is very unusual and it is also very common. Ego.
The ego is the source of all neurosis, because the ego is the center of all falcity.
And all madness. If you live with your ego, sooner or later you become neurotic.
Ego always thinks that I am the center of the world.
I will suggest that only the enlightened person or God can say 'I'. A common person cannot use 'I'.
Because we are the part of the whole, part of the God.
So, as soon as your 'I' drops your neurosis disappears.
I say that ego is like a madman. If you eve visit a madhouse if there is someone your friend in the hospitial, mental hospital, if you will visit him or her, she or he will not even look at you.
Because madman is totally taken by total ego. It is possessed by the ego.
He or she has a new friend with him or her. It is inside.
They, all these friends, they have nothing for that madman.
On the other hand, the God is egoless, because there is no ego at all.
So they are 2 opposite poles: madman and the God. Madman is fully taken by the ego and God fully drops the ego.
So, ego is the problem. People think they are living in the modern world.
That this is the modern man. But I will see the faces of the humans, I don't see that. I see on their faces they are carrying ancient man.
They are carrying a very old man, because they are carrying the old mind.
Maybe it is the modern world, but not the modern mind at all.
Because mind carries all the memories. And memory is called dirt you accumulate.
Only the no-mind state of the being is very difficult to be.
And unless you are on that no-mind state, you never will find the peace in the world.
Because you try so hard to get the point, but you are always failing.
Like Archimedes, who was trying and trying to solve a particular mathematical problem.
And as much as he was trying, he couldn't solve the problem. And the king was waiting for the problem to be solved.
Years and years passed, but he couldn't solve the problem. Suddenly it happened one day, he was taking a bath in the river.
And suddenly, he got so much relaxed. And when person is totally relaxed, it is a no-mind state of being. No-mind state.
There is no mind in-between. When he was fully relaxed, he suddenly was in the state of no-mind and he got it.
And he forgot that he's taking bath, he's naked. He ran towards the palace.
He forgot he's naked. And he was shouting, "Eureka, eureka, eureka! I found it! I discovered it! I found it!"
And the people thought he's gone mad. But he was shouting continuously, running towards the palace. People grabbed him.
Somehow there were his friends. Somehow they calmed him down. "If you found it, what do you do? You don't run naked".
That's how it happened. The discovery, all the discoveries happened in no-mind state.
There are moments you can find always gap of no-mind.
Between 2 thoughts there is a gap. Between 2 notes in the music there is a gap.
There is an interval. It is no-thought. You have seen between 2 clouds there is a little gap which is called blue sky.
And there is vast emptiness. That's your nature of the mind.
When there is no-mind, that is your nature is no-mind.
No thoughts. Nothing. It is like a huge, vast emptiness.
The blueness of the sky is huge, is vast. Mind is just floating on the surface.
It is like the wind blows through a spine, the cloud flows through the sky.
That's the way there is a gap always. And that is no-mind.
And to achieve this no-mind state, it is not easy.
It is very difficult. Very difficult. But it happens sometimes in deep sleep.
That the mind drops. And the no-mind functions in deep sleep it happens.
But remember, this gap happens, gap means no mind. Gap between 2 thoughts.
I always suggest to people that mind is very old. No mind is very fresh.
No-mind is modern. Man is old, but the world is modern.
So, no-mind is always fresh. It is young, it is original.
No-mind is always like a dew drop in the morning. Very fresh. Absolutely clean and pure.
And mind is always dirty because it collects lot of dirt.
The dirt is the memory. That's why I said, when I look at your faces they look like very ancient.
Because we are carrying a lot of memories. They are carrying a lot of ideas. They are carrying a lot of thoughts.
That's why man cannot be modern. Only the modernity will happen when there is no-mind.
It creates a gap between 2 thoughts.
Or it can happen in deep relaxation, like it happened to Archimedes.
And he shouted, "Eureka, eureka!" And he forgot he was even naked.
That time, no wonder when Mahavira found it, when Buddha found it, they are gone mad.
People told Mahavira's gone mad. And he also became totally natural.
This no-mind, it is a natural state. That is you, that is the consciousness.
That is the purest, and evil fully dissolve there.
And when evil fully dissolve there you are modern already.
Just create that gap, no-mind, between two thoughts.
And you will be surprised that whatever you are searching for today why you couldn't find it.
Because evil was the problem. Just drop it.
When you drop it, you will be fully new, fresh.
Like a flower, like a dew-drop. And no-mind state will happen.
And that will take you towards enlightenment.
Aum, peace, happiness, aum shanti, aum shanti, aum shanti, aum peace.