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time, you enter into the deathless dimension.
(To Andrea) -- Your name: Ma Andrea. Andrea means courage.
What is courage? The most significant definition is the capacity to drop the familiar, the known, because that's what mind is; the familiar, the known, the past. And the moment you drop the past you open up to infinities. But man is afraid to be so open, man feels lost in that vast space.
Mind is a small thing. It feels cozy, warm. It is like a golden cage: it is beautiful, you can decorate it -- and everybody tries to decorate it. That's what our education is for: to decorate the golden cage and make it so beautiful that it becomes almost impossible for you to leave it. You start clinging to it. You forget that you have wings, that the whole sky is a challenge, that you have to go to the stars, that there is a long, long journey ahead.
Hence my definition of courage is the capacity to drop the golden cage of the mind and to go into the unknown in spite of all the fears, in spite of the insecurity of it all. Only that person who has that quality is religious. Others are pretenders: Christians, Hindus, Mohammedans -- all pretenders.
(To Izaba): -- This is your name: Swami Izaba. Izaba means the essential man.
Much is accidental, incidental. One's being Hindu or Christian, black or white, man or woman, poor or rich, educated or uneducated -- these are all accidental things, not essential.
The only thing that is essential is awareness. And people are lost in the non-essential. They have become oblivious of the essential, they are ready to sell the essential for the non-essential. That's how everybody has sold his soul for the non-essential. That's how everybody has sold his soul and become soul-less.
Sannyas is an effort to reclaim one's soul back. So from this moment awareness becomes your essential endeavor, your essential target. Everything can be sacrificed for it but is cannot be sacrificed for anything.
(To Anne) -- This is your name: Ma Anne. Anne means grace.
Grace is spiritual beauty.
There is a beauty which can be described as physical. It is of the form, of the proportion,
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