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And that is going to be your sadhana -- to become more and more aware.
Nikhil means the whole existence, the total existence, the total, and prem means love; love for the total.
Never be satisfied by the part. Go on moving towards the total, the huge, the enormous. Existence is vast, and we have become satisfied with very small things.
Somebody is satisfied with a small bank account -- mm? Just look at the stars, and look at the universe -- and somebody is satisfied with his bank account! Is there any possibility of being a more stupid man? Or somebody is satisfied by just becoming a little famous.... This earth is very mediocre. Even if you become famous to the whole world, the whole humanity knows you well and your name becomes a household name, still this earth is very small! The sun is sixty thousand times bigger than the earth, and the sun itself is a very mediocre star. A million times bigger stars are there, so what is the point of it all?
Never be satisfied with that small, otherwise you will be imprisoned in the small. Always look at the boundless -- because only with the boundless is there freedom. Look at the vast. It terrifies, it makes people afraid. That's why people go on looking at the earth -- they don't look at the sky! It is scary because it is so vast! And in that vastness we are nobodies.
If you look at the vast you are a non-entity, so you stop looking at the vast. You start looking only at the non-entities, and in comparison with them you are bigger, and this and that -- richer, more intelligent, more educated, more powerful....
I would like you to watch the vast. When you are near the ocean, just sit, and just see the vastness of the ocean. Or just lie down and look at the stars in the sky -- at the sun, at the moon.... Become more and more in tune with it, and that vastness will turn you on! It will take you to far away stars. Let that be your meditation.
What have you been doing in brazil?
[The new sannyasin answers: I'm working as a gardener.]
You like gardening? That's very good -- that will go with your new name. It is better to be with trees than with man, because trees
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