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it the whole perspective on life starts changing. Whatsoever has been important up to that moment becomes unimportant: money, power, prestige and all that. And whatsoever has never been important before suddenly gains great importance: love, compassion, meditation, prayer, god.
Remember that within you there is something which is eternal. My function here is only to remind you, to help you recognize that which you already are and have always been and will always be.
(To Annemarie) This is your name: Ma Masto. Masto means one who is utterly drunk, the drunkard... drink with the divine, of course! (more laughter) And that's what you have to do: drink as much as you can. Allow yourself to be immersed in the energy that is being made available her. Don't remain a spectator: take a jump, a plunge. Get involved -- that's the beginning of sannyas. Become an insider and don't hold back. Open yourself up totally for the first time, be utterly nude, with nothing to hide, nowhere to hide.
The moment one gathers courage to be utterly exposed to existence, one becomes truth in that very exposure. But we go on hiding, covering up, lying to others and lying to ourselves. Then there are layers and layers of lies which surround us and we become more and more unauthentic. A sannyasin has to be basically an authentic person. And the miracle is that the more authentic you are, the less and less do you have an ego. The moment you become absolutely authentic the ego disappears. Then you are no more a person but only a presence. And that presence is immensely beautiful, blissful, ecstatic.
(To Cornelia) This is your name: Ma Mitro. Mitro means friend. Befriend existence.
We have ben taught to be enemies of existence, we have been taught life-negative ideologies, and it has been done for so long that it has become part of our blood, bones, marrow. We don't love life, we hate it, and the so-called religions have been teaching people that life is a punishment, that you are punished for the original sin.
Life is not a punishment, it is a reward, it is a gift. Befriend it totally. The moment you start befriending life you will be surprised by how
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