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the birth -- and the separation and the divorce.
The divorce from the mother is the divorce from the universe. Then one is alone. Man tries in every way to make himself comfortable, but he never succeeds. And it is good that you never succeed, because if you succeed, you are lost. One again and again fails. And again and again one makes a home; again finds that this is just a house -- this is not a home. One has to move and to go on moving.
Only then again one day, you become capable of entering into the same relationship as there was with your mother when you were in the womb. That was an unconscious relationship -- now the relationship will be conscious. You consciously enter into the universal womb. Consciously you join together with the uni-verse.
Burke calls it 'cosmic consciousness'... it is right. Call it god consciousness, bud&a consciousness, or whatsoever you like -- but again as it was with the body in the mother's womb, so it is with your soul... and this is the second birth.
All that I am doing here is just to help you to attain to the second birth. So never get stuck on the way. It is good to stay and rest sometimes, but always remember that the home is far away; one has to go, the night is dark and the journey is arduous.
That challenge should never be lost sight of, and one should never lose that adventurous quality that arises out of the feeling that you are a stranger... that you don't belong here. Nobody belongs here.
Do a few groups here, mm? and let that stranger come alive....
[A sannyasin says: At the moment I feel very confused... It's a change for me coming from the West. Everything here is somehow so new... so totally new.]
It is natural. When you come from the west to the east, or when you go from the east to the West, there is bound to be a period of resettling, a transition period, because there are two polarities. When you live in a certain society, you live in a certain way, a certain life-style, there is a certain thinking, and you have to fit with that society. It is very unconscious, mm? but you live in a pattern.
When you change the society, the change is very drastic.
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