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is always alive.
(to the visitor) I have heard that you were contemplating suicide.... That's perfectly good, that's needed -- a basic requirement to becoming a sannyasin! Sannyas is a better sort of suicide, because in ordinary suicide you simply leave the body and enter another body -- it is not much. You simply change the clothes.
But I can change you -- why change clothes? I can transform you totally, so why change houses? Why not be changed yourself? The change of house is not going to prove of any value because you will remain the same... you will be born again.
But this is significant.... To me, in my understanding, a person who is ready to commit suicide is the right person for sannyas, because that means that he is really fed up with the whole nonsense that the so-called life is. He is fed up with it and sees no meaning in it.
But ordinary suicide is simply very destructive. I teach you a very creative suicide. You die -- but you not only die... you resurrect. On this side there is crucifixion; on another side there is resurrection. That is the meaning of jesus' crucifixion that he died and yet he didn't die.
Sannyas is that type of death. You die and yet you really become, for the first time, alive.
This situation comes to every sensible man, to every man who has a little awareness, a little intelligence. He starts thinking, 'What is the point of it all? It seems so pointless.'
Only mediocre minds never think about it. Only stupid people go on in the rut -- moving in the rut. But if you have a little intelli-gence, you are bound to feel that this life has no meaning -- some other life has to be searched for. So intelligence is a great responsibility, and intelligence is a great chaos, because intelligence is creativity.
I can understand your turmoil -- because you are an intelligent person; that's why you are in a turmoil. Stupid people are never in a turmoil. They are unfortunate.
Become a sannyasin!
Divya means divine, ananda means bliss; divine bliss. So forget the old name completely. You have committed suicide -- it can be done so easily! Change to orange and forget the old personality,
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