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beautiful. So those who could not see the inner must have thought him ugly and those who could see the inner -- his disciples, his followers, his lover, his friends -- they thought him immensely beautiful.
I don't see any contradiction because both can exist together. Remember, the inner beauty has to be created -- and to create it is the whole art of religion.
(To Julien) -- This is your new name: Swami Sanatan. Sanatan means the eternal one.
We are not born at our birth and we don't die at our death. Birth and death are only episodes in our eternal journey. Life has no beginning and no end -- and to know this is to know god. There is no other god. To feel this eternal flow of life is to experience god, tao, dhamma.
As you become silent, as you go deeper into your being, slowly, slowly you start feeling that you are not the body, you are not the mind. They are such absolutely certain experiences, the certainty is so absolute that you cannot doubt it. You are the eternal hidden inside the temporal. The temporal is only like a house. We have changed many houses and we will change many houses.
Once this experience becomes settled all fear disappears, because death disappears -- how can there be fear? All anxiety, anguish disappears, all tensions disappear; one becomes at rest. Nothing can destroy you, it is impossible to destroy you.
Krishna in the Gita says: Fire cannot burn you, swords cannot kill you. When this becomes your experience, not just a belief, the life is tremendously relaxed, you are at home. Then yon can one enjoy the dance, of the stars. Only then can one participate in the dance of the stars, one can sing with the birds. then one has no personal problems at all. Then one can become part of the universal. One knows one is part of the universal.
(To Jos) -- This is your new name: Swami Puratan. Puratan means the ancient one.
Nobody is new, all are very ancient pilgrims. We have always been here -- in different forms, in different bodies, doing different things, but we have been here and we are going to be here forever. There is no way for us to disappear from existence. Nothing can be destroyed
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