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great training is needed, otherwise the mind comes in. With listening you have to be totally attentive, otherwise you will miss. In reading there is no need -- you can read the page again; you can go back again.
And go on thinking of sannyas... that is going to help. There is no need to decide -- just go on thinking about it. Any day you will suddenly have the urge, and you will come running.
Be Realistic: Plan for a Miracle
Chapter #3
Chapter title: None
15 March 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7603155
ShortTitle: PLAN03
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[A japanese man expressed some apprehension prior to taking sannyas, as he was already involved with a movement in Japan, called Tenrikyo, which he said started just one hundred and fifty years ago in Japan, and was something akin to Buddhism, yet not Buddhism.]
No need to leave it right now. Just go on making all efforts to search deep. If you can find something higher, then leave it; then it is left automatically. Whether you leave it or not is not the question. You grow out of it rather than leaving it. You follow me?
And I am giving you something which can grow anywhere -- in whatsoever religion you are, in whatsoever church you belong. I am against nobody. You can remain in your church and still grow.
[The visitor takes sannyas.]
This will be your name: Swami Anand Mansoor.
Anand means blissful, happy, and Mansoor is the name of sufi mystic. Have you heard the name -- Mansoor Al Hillaj?
Read something about him... you can find many books in English. You have been connected with him in your past life that's why I give you the name.
He was crucified -- just like Jesus. Mohammedans killed him because he uttered something which Mohammedans think is dangerous. He said 'I am God' -- and that created trouble for him, mm?
The whole name is Mansoor Al Hillaj; yours will be simply Mansoor.
Have you something to say?
[Mansoor asked: Yes.... How to love my mother?
The translator went on to say that Mansoor loved his mother and felt that she was the one he
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