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head to the heart. Movement from the head to the heart is movement from impurity to purity -- and that's what meditation is. When we say that meditation is no-mind, we are simply saying that meditation is the heart.
(To Wim) -- This is your name: Swami Dharmo. Dharmo means the ultimate law, the tao, the logos, the law that keeps the whole universe going, that keeps the whole universe together, the invisible thread running through the whole of existence. Without it things will fall apart. But nothing falls apart. It is such an immense existence but it runs with such harmony, with such rhythmic joy. It is so deeply connected, interlinked, that to contemplate upon it, just to think of it, fills one with great mystery.
Now your work, the work of a sannyasin, is to be in tune with this ultimate law, to be in tune with the whole. Ordinarily man lives apart, he tries to lie a separate existence. That's what ego is: an effort to live as a separate entity. It is bound to fail, it is doomed to fail. And it brings great misery.
Sannyas means dropping that whole project of the ego, of living separately from existence, moving with existence, with the whole, in absolute surrender. Then there is no misery, no anguish, no anxiety. Then all is good and when all is good, all is god.
(To Klaus) -- This is your name: Swami Sarthi. Sarthi means the charioteer.
Man's body is like a chariot and man's consciousness should be the charioteer. But it is fast asleep and the chariot goes on moving according to the horses. The five senses are five horses. They have their own different ideas and they are running in all directions; hence the misery, the chaos. It is a miracle that somehow we keep on going.
The charioteer has to be awakened, he has to take the reins in his hands. That's what sannyas is: the beginning of an inner mastery, the beginning of a sense of direction, the beginning of a center in your being, a rootedness, a groundedness. Each movement has to be made consciously, only then can life become something significant, otherwise it remains accidental.
(To China) -- This is you new name: Ma Sargam. Sargam literally means the seven
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