Kahlil Gibran says, "While you -- heedless of its expansion -- bewail the withering of your days, it is life in quest of life in bodies that fear the grave.
What the seeker is doing? IT IS LIFE IN QUEST OF MORE LIFE. It is dance that wants to become more perfect. It is silence that wants to become deeper.
IN THE DEPTHS OF SILENCE THERE IS A SOUNDLESS SONG, the song celestial; there is a music without any instruments -- a music that is just part of your being. It is not something added from the outside, it is something that grows from inside.
EVERY BEING IS PREGNANT WITH GOD. Just as the child grows in the mother's womb, God grows within your being. Clean yourself of all rubbish that you have gathered so that your God can have enough space to grow. It needs all the space that is available in existence... less than that will not do.
"There are no graves here." Remember... DON'T BE AFRAID OF DEATH -- because there are no graves here.
"These mountains and plains are a cradle and a stepping stone. Whenever you pass by the field where you have laid your ancestors, look well thereupon; and you shall see yourselves and your children dancing hand in hand."
If you enter into yourself, you will be surprised -- ENTERING INTO YOURSELF YOU HAVE ENTERED INTO THE IMMORTALITY OF LIFE. And you will find your ancestors, your forefathers. And you will also find your children's children, hand in hand, dancing within you. Life is spread on both the sides -- the past and the future -- and the present moment in you contains both.
IF YOU CAN BE JUST HERE AND NOW, without any thought, any disturbance, totally centered... in that very centering, you will find that you are only a link between an eternal life. The chain goes backwards, containing all your forefathers from the very beginning. And it goes forwards, containing those children who have not yet been born -- but their seeds are there.
TO KNOW THE PRESENT IS TO KNOW THE PAST AND IT IS TO KNOW THE FUTURE. And then you will be able to say: "There are no graves here...." There is only life eternal. Graves exist because of our ignorance, because we have never entered into our own life. We have remained always outside of our own life -- that's why the graves exist; otherwise there will be no graves.
I started telling my people that WHEN SOME SANNYASIN LEAVES THE BODY, there is no need to be sad and sorry; rather dance and celebrate. Celebrate even the death, because death is false; celebrate that one's friend has passed into future, into a new body. BUT NOBODY DIES; NOBODY HAS EVER DIED. That's the meaning... when Jesus was asked, "Will you say something about Abraham, the oldest, the most ancient father of humanity?" And Jesus said, "Before Abraham was, I was."
He is not saying anything about Abraham; he is saying, "Even before Abraham" -- and Abraham was almost two thousand years before Jesus -- he says, "Even before Abraham was, I was."
The same can be said... even before my children's children and their children will be, I will be. I AM SPREAD ALL OVER EXISTENCE. Where graves can be? There are no graves.
