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means the seven notes of music.
Music consists of seven notes and, exactly like that, man consists of seven centers. Man is like a rainbow: he has seven colors. When all the seven colors meet in deep harmony white is created. White is not a single color, it is the harmony between the seven colors. When all the seven colors are absent, it is black. Black is also not a color, it is absence of all the colors. White is the presence of all the colors, but a presence with a certain condition: a presence in deep harmony.
When there are seven notes of music they can either create noise -- if there is no harmony; or they can create beautiful music if there is harmony. Ordinarily every man is a chaos: his seven centers are not functioning in harmony. His head says one thing, his heart says another. One center goes to the north, another center goes to the south. One part longs for one thing, another part longs for just the opposite. And it is not possible to have both.
For example, either you can have light in the room or you can have darkness in the room. If part of you wants darkness and part of you wants light, then there is going to be trouble: you will be torn apart and nothing will ever make you contented. If there is light one part will start feeling frustrated; if there is darkness the other part starts freaking out. It is impossible because it is not in the nature of things to have both.
We have seven centers and all the centers can demand opposite things. This is the natural state of humanity; hence everybody is more or less neurotic Neurosis is a common quality. Unless one makes a great effort to create harmony, unless one bridges all these seven centers, seven notes into oneness, unless all these seven become integrated and start functioning as a unity, sanity is not born.
Sannyas is an effort to bring you out of neuroses, out of insanity, into a saner space. it is an effort to create music out of noise, a cosmos out of chaos. And unless is happens life is futile.
So let this moment be decisive.... work upon yourself. Now life will not be the same old accidental life, driftwood life; from now onwards you have to live consciously.
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