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can be joined together. Only purity will make you a queen, nothing else; not the riches of the world, not wealth, not political power. Those are all ego trips and basically they keep you a beggar because you go on desiring more and more. That's what the state of a beggar is.
The state of a king or a queen is when there is no desire left and that's exactly what purity is. when all desires are gone the gold is pure. When all the desires are gone the mind is gone, the ego is gone; there is noting which can make you impure any more. And that lotuslike purity, that innocence is divine, That's what gives you the first evidence of god, the first proof that god is not only a concept bu a reality that permeates the whole.
(To Keith) -- This is your name: Swami Keith. Keith means wind.
The life of a sannyasin can be most appropriately represented by the wind. It is freedom: freedom from all conditioning, freedom from all ideology, freedom from words, theories, freedom from min. One becomes just like the wind; then the whole sky is yours.
Ordinarily people are living in cages: Hindu, Mohammedan, Christian, German, English, Indian, Communist, Fascist, Socialist, all kinds of cages -- political, religious, social. A Sannyasin has to come out of all prisons and be just like the wind. then all directions are your, the whole of existence is yours. And freedom is the highest value in life. There is nothing higher, more sacred than freedom.
(To Allan) -- This is your name: Swami Allan. Allan has two meanings; both are beautiful, significant. One is cheerfulness and the other is harmony.
Harmony can be achieved only by the cheerful one. The sad person can never attain to harmony. Misery means nothing but disharmony. When you are not in accord with yourself and with existence that is misery. When you are deep in accord within yourself and with the without too, bliss arises.
Cheerfulness is a by-product of harmony and also a stepping stone towards harmony. One can either begin by being cheerful, and harmony is attained, or one can begin from the other end by being harmonious , and cheerfulness is attained, But both always happen together.
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