Missing Text from 'Die to Love' - US version

Recently it has been brought to my attention that there is a missing page of text (page 92) in the last batch of books printed in the US and sold mainly in Northern California.

If you have bought a recent copy of 'Die to Love' in the US, I sincerely appologise for this. The publishers have been notified and they are reprinting more (without text missing - hopefully) copies.

Here is the whole of the chapter including the missing text on page 92.

The Wrong Way Around!

“You are always in love and you can only love yourself, the Changeless One in which even space is.
There is no beginning, no middle, and no end to it.
Only love is worth loving and this is your own Self.”
H.W.L Poonja (Papaji)

Most teachings are trying to replicate the Love that you are. This
is still a denial that you are that already, just the way you are right
now. By suggesting that you should try to be more loving, or more
aware, you are believing that who you already are is not already all
that you try to become. You can not try to be Love when you already
are Love. There is no need to try.
Most teachings and traditions teach of a path leading to a final
goal of enlightenment or fulfilment. On the path you must work
hard to perfect yourself in whatever way that particular teaching
suggests.
You must learn not to be attached, you must learn to open your
heart, you must learn to control the mind, you must learn not to
react in a way which is based in past conditioning…. But all this is
rooted in the idea that you are in control of your life, as well as the
idea that precisely the way it is, is not good enough.
This is all the wrong way around. Once you recognize who you
really are, then everything else takes care of itself. Then you see that
who you really are is never attached and is always an open heart.
The mind never needs to be controlled because it is obvious
that it never disturbs anyone and it is clear that there is no past
conditioning because who you really are is absolute Presence. There
has never been a past for conditioning to happen.
In this recognition there is a general relaxation. This is the end of
seeking. A great relief. In this relaxation, slowly things take care of

Page 92

themselves.
Because thought is always free to chatter and never needs to be
quiet, it is also free to relax and be quieter. With this recognition
there is more and more opening in Love which is revealed in the
individual’s life, without it ever needing to happen. A surrender to
Life itself which expresses itself freely as whatever happens. No one
standing in the way any more. No one in control of anything.
In fact the search for enlightenment or Love is really the search to
align this play of appearances with that that knows the play.
People strive to be good, to be kind, to be meditative and to love
and be loved because they already know the Love that they are
and there is the search to find it in this expression. So when people
dedicate their lives to a spiritual search they are surrendering
everything in order to align their lives with truth.
But in recognizing that what I am is truth already, it is obvious
that there is no need to try to align my life with truth. Life happens
out of control without any effort or trying. In recognizing who I am
there is a natural expression of that in everything. So it works the
other way around. Gently, slowly, naturally there is the play of more
and more clarity and expression of Love.
Who You are is Love and Freedom already and never needs
embodying or expressing, and yet this play goes on. Once there is a
recognition of who you really are, Love reveals itself more and more.
But it happens out of control. So that this apparent journey of life
becomes a beautiful unveiling as life situations present themselves.
It never stops. What would be the pleasure in living if it was not
ever-expanding and surprising?
After recognizing who you are, the path does not actually
stop, it just becomes playful and less serious. It is no longer about
me and where I am heading, but about how Life expresses and
experiences.
We believe that we need to work on ourselves to be free but
actually it’s the other way around. Recognize who you are first and
then everything falls into place gently and slowly.

Page 93

Slowly this Love that you are, unfolds and reveals itself in this
life. In recognizing the Emptiness that you are, you know that there
is no one who ever needs try to modify their behaviour, there is no
one who even cares about their behaviour, and yet bizarrely, you
notice that behaviour and interactions can’t help but be more and
more infected with Love.