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vain. And whatsoever a person does to you, never allow anybody to destroy your love. Even if somebody cheats you, don't hate. Let him cheat -- that is his problem -- but your love continues undisturbed. Somebody is not good towards you; it doesn't matter. He will reap his own actions. You need not be worried about it. Go on loving.
So love should be unconditional. It should not make any conditions. One should not say, 'I will love you only if you do this, if you are good to me, or if you are beautiful, or if you are this and that.' That will destroy love. A conditional love is not love at all. So make love more and more unconditional.
And at this age if you can understand it, your whole life will be transformed, transfigured. This is the right age to start something, because once you move on a wrong path, it is very difficult to change it because much becomes invested in it. Right now you are just beginning to enter the world. You will move into relationships, you will find friends and lovers, and things will start growing now. You are on the threshold.
So let this be your constant meditation: that love is divine, and all that is divine is bound to be based somewhere in love. Love functions as earth functions for trees.
Everything divine is rooted in love.
[A sannyasin who works in the canteen says: I have a lot of energy, but I can't just be myself.]
I was expecting this. Basically you are a doer, so if you have something to do you will feel good. But that something also has to be something difficult, otherwise there is no challenge. That something has to be arduous; that something has to be such that your ego can feel that you are really doing something great. But this problem has to be understood -- because this is a sort of disease.
Because of this disease many people waste their life in doing -- doing this, doing that -- for no purpose at all. They just want to put themselves in difficult situations so that they can enhance their egos. They want to struggle. Their whole interest is in the struggle, in the fighting. So if they can find something to fight, good. But even that happiness is not real happiness, because
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