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It is for reference purposes only.]
(To Zina) -- Your name: Ma Zina. Zina is from Persian. It simply means the feminine. It is significant, particularly in the search for truth. One has to be feminine. By feminine I mean receptive, open. One has to be a woman. By woman I mean just like a womb. Whether one is male or female is irrelevant.
Unless one becomes a womb one never becomes pregnant with god. One cannot conquer god, one can't be aggressive -- that is the sure way to fail. One can only surrender and allow god to happen. That's what the quality of being feminine really is. That is the essential core of meditation.
(To Regina-Celia) -- This is your name: Ma Regina Celia. Regina comes from Latin; it means the queen. Celia also comes from Latin; it comes from a woman saint, Cecilia, who was tortured, killed. But she went on singing while she was being tortured and killed. She died singing, hence she became the patron saint of music.
Both words are beautiful. Everyone is born as a king or a queen, but we have to discover it. It is not apparent, not on the surface. It is hidden deep inside; our kingdom is there.
And music is of immense importance for a sannyasin, because music is the most natural door to meditation. All other meditations are more artificial. Music is natural because nature is full of music: the sound of running water and the wind passing through the trees and the birds singing and the bees humming. The whole of existence is a deep melody: one has to learn to listen to it.
The way to listen to it is to be simply available, open, vulnerable, not thinking about it. Thinking is a disturbance, a distraction. It is just listening without any thinking. Then it penetrates to your very core and it can become the first glimpse of your inner kingdom. Music can reveal the queen in you, music can confer queenship, kingship. It releases you from all kinds of bondage because it releases you from mind and mind is the only prison there is.
(To Regina) -- This is your name: Ma Regina. Regina can have two meanings: one from Latin, then it means the queen, the other from the Teutonic, then it means purity. Both meanings
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