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on the material plane but on the spiritual plane.
Learn how to be peaceful. That is the most secret art to be learned. The only thing worth learning in life is peace. Meditate, sing, dance, and learn to be more peaceful. As you become peaceful you will be surprised that immense prosperity starts surrounding you.
You may be a beggar on the surface but deep down you become the emperor and that is real richness because it cannot be taken away from you. Not even death can take it away from you.
(To Nanni) This is your new name: Ma Vijayo. Vijayo means victory.
There are two kinds of victory. One is violent, aggressive -- you have to attack, you have to be destructive. But that victory remains superficial. The other can be killed, destroyed, reduced to a slave, but deep down he still remains unconquered. You can conquer the body of a person but you cannot conquer his soul.
There is a totally different kind of victory that comes through love, not through violence. That is true victory. It conquers the soul. But the problem with true victory is that you have to surrender to conquer. It is very paradoxical. You have to be ready to be defeated, joyously, willingly. And that's what sannyas is.
(To June) This is your new name: Ma Sadhyo. Sadhyo means the end, the goal. The goal is not outside -- you are the goal. The target is not somewhere else -- you are the target. You are both the means and you are the end.
Unless one discovers oneself one remains just a means. The moment one has discovered oneself one has found the end. The circumference of your being is the means: the body, the mind, the heart. Use all of them to reach the innermost core, the very center -- and that is the end. In finding it one finds everything that is needed to be found. In knowing it all is known. In reaching it one reaches god.
(To Elmy): -- This is your new name: Yogo means the meeting -- the meeting of the dewdrop with the ocean, the meeting of the individual with the universal, the meeting of the part with the whole... and that's what we are seeking and searching for.
Sannyas is nothing but a bridge, a rainbow bridge, a bridge between
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