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A miserable person can only give misery to others. We can give only that which we have. It is not a question of god wishes. You may wish to help, but you may be doing something else.
A miserable person can only give misery to others. We can only give that which we have. It is not a question of god wishes. You may wish to help, but unless there is a blissful energy inside you, overflowing, you are bound to harm.
This is a basic distinction that I want to make, because up to now in the name of religion many people have been serving humanity; they are themselves miserable and they become great servants of humanity. They serve the poor and they serve the crippled and they serve the ill, they open hospitals and schools and they do all kinds of things. They only create mischief. They don't help anybody at all. Their whole trip is an ego number.
Parents think that they are helping their children, and they simply destroy. I am not saying that they don't want to help; they want to help but they are incapable of it. Their parents destroyed them and now they are destroying their children, and their children will do the same to their children, so misery continues, accumulates, becomes bigger and bigger.
Hence I don't say to my sannyasins to be servants of humanity; I say to be meditators, be dancers, rejoice, and then service will come. No need to talk about it: it comes of its own accord as a shadow, it follows you, and then it is a benediction.
This is your name: Swami Anand Ra. Anand means bliss. Ra is the Egyptian name for sun, for the sun god.
There are two types of people. Just as physically there are men and there are women, psychologically the same distinction also, the same division exists. But a man may be physically a man and may not be psychologically a man; he may have a feminine psyche. Hence things become complicated. A woman may have a masculine psyche. There is no necessity that the body should decide the psyche.
The woman, the feminine quality I call the moon type, and the masculine quality I call the sun type. Their paths are bound to be different. Of course the goal is the same; they reach the
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