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takes time. But once you start feeling that things have started settling and some music is heard, then the journey becomes easier; then you know you are on the right track. And as you move deeper and deeper into this harmony, more and more joy, more and more ecstasy arises. At the ultimate point all the seven colors meet and you explode into white light. That experience is called god. God is not a person but the ultimate experience of harmony.
(To Jose) -- This is your new name: Swami Purvesh. Purvesh means the God of the East. Symbolically, the East represents spirituality, and the West represents materialism. The East represents religion, and the West represents science.
Becoming a sannyasin means becoming Eastern. This is a new birth. The East has nothing to do with geography; remember, it is a metaphor just as the West is a metaphor. For example, I would not count China as the East, it is the West; it is so materialistic, so communistic.
I would count Jesus, Eckhart, Francis, as Eastern. Although they were born in the West, it does not make much difference, they are as Eastern as Buddha, Lao Tzu, Kabir, Nanak. There are people in the West who are Eastern, and there are people in the East who are Western. So symbolically, geography is one thing, but geographical divisions cannot be decisive.
By becoming a sannyasin you are becoming part of the East, part of the tremendous tradition of spirituality, of the tremendous rebellion of spirituality. Rejoice! You are accepted, you are welcomed.
Now let your Western attitudes, approaches, disappear -- the Western hurry, the Western speed, the Western grip on things, the Western possessiveness. Let them all be part of the past.
Relax! Forget hurry. The moment you forget hurry, worry disappears. The moment you are not speedy, you cannot be tense. The moment you are not possessive, great relaxation happens. And the miracle is that when you don't possess anything you possess the whole. The whole kingdom of God is yours.
(To Eric) -- This is your new name: Swami Arupam. Arupam means the formless, the nameless.
God has no form, no name, no definition. God is indefinable,
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