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complaining. They are not grateful. Such a precious gift, such an incomparable, unique gift, but people are so stupid that they can't appreciate it. They take it for granted, as if it were their right. It is not our right, we cannot claim it. We don't deserve it, we are not worthy of it. It is given to us not because we deserve it, but because god cannot resist the temptation of giving it. He has to share it: he is overflowing with life energy, he does not know what to do with it, hence he goes on showering it. Worthy, unworthy, deserving, undeserving, sinners, saints; it does not matter, god goes on giving. That is his intrinsic nature. He gives because he has so much that if he does not give it it will become a burden on him. He is like a cloud full of rainwater, it has to rain. It will rain on the stones, it will rain on the rocks, it will rain anywhere. It has to rain.
To understand it is to be religious. This understanding brings a shift in your consciousness. Then you are no more complaining, then you are tremendously grateful -- and that gratefulness is prayer.
(To John) -- This is your new name: Swami Gyandeva. Gyandeva means the god of Wisdom. We are born with infinite wisdom but we go on losing our wisdom in collecting knowledge. Knowledge is rubbish, it is mundane, it is trivia. We go on giving away the precious for the absolutely meaningless.
To be a sannyasin means an effort to reclaim your lost wisdom. And the only way is: become ignorant again of so-called knowledge. Unburden yourself of knowledge, unlearn it, and the moment all knowledge has been unlearned, wisdom starts welling up in you. It is your intrinsic nature. It has not to be learned, it has not to be searched for, you have not to go outside seeking for it. It is your innermost core of being.
Meditation means unlearning knowledge so that wisdom can assert life again.
(To Kurt) This is your new name: Swami Ramraj. Ramraj means the kingdom of god.
Jesus says that the kingdom of god is within you. That is the essential teaching of all the wakened ones: don't go anywhere, don't seek and search outside yourself, you will not find anything there. You
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