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way to that inner point is meditation. Meditation simply means becoming more and more watchful, alert about your acts, your thoughts, desires, imagination, everything, so that slowly slowly a disidentification happens. You become the observer and everything becomes the observed.
Once everything becomes the observed and only consciousness remains as an observer, a sudden shift in your being happens, a radical change, a transformation. Immediately you are no more the body, no more the mind. That experience is the experience of god.
(To Alven) -- This is your new name: Swami Anand Alven. Anand means bliss; alven means friend of all -- a blissful friend of all.
(To Usha): -- This is your name: Ma Prem Usha. Prem means love. Usha means of distinguished quality.
Love can be the lowest thing in life, it can be lust; and it can also be the highest thing in life, it can be prayer. Love is a ladder between heaven and hell. It can create hell, it can create heaven. It all depends on how conscious you are. If you are unconscious then love will remain simply lust. It will simply remain a biological, sexual phenomenon. But if you become conscious it starts rising higher; consciousness becomes its wings. At the ultimate peak of consciousness love transforms into golden prayer. It is the whole spectrum of life.
The lowest has not to be denied, rejected, repressed; that is not a solution. That is creating more problems, more complexities. The lowest has to be transformed into the highest by bringing consciousness to it. Love plus consciousness -- that's the whole work of sannyas.
When love is total and consciousness is also total, the result is god.
(To Stuart) -- This is your name: Swami Anand Stuart. Anand means bliss. Stuart means of helpful spirit.
Only a blissful person can be of help to others. Only bliss can make you compassionate, only bliss can create a beautiful energy in your life which can be of help to others, of service to others. Without bliss you cannot serve anybody. You may think you are serving, you will be simply harming. You may think you are helping, you may be doing something else.
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