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happens, take it rightly. Even if it gives pain, remember that it must be there, because without it pleasure is not possible. Accept it. That is the meaning of prasadam. It is one of the most beautiful words. When you go to a saint in india, he gives you something as prasad... maybe a little sweet or a fruit.
I don t give you any sweet, any fruit. I give you to yourself -- that's my prasad.
Dance Your Way to God
Chapter #4
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31 July 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
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Prem means love and bhagwatam means divine, godly. And love is always godly. Howsoever imperfect, it is always godly. You may understand it, you may not understand it, but it is godly. Love is the only proof of god -- that he exists. And people who don't know what love is can never know what god is. There is no way, because they lack the very basic receptivity.
It is like when you don't have any sense of music, you don't have the ear for it; the melody does not exist for you. It is simply noise, a sort of disturbance. At the most, you can tolerate it. If you don't have eyes to see the colour, the paintings are just absurd -- people just fooling around. Whatsoever you feel becomes real to you, so the reality of a certain thing depends on the receptivity.
People ask whether god exists or not. They should ask whether they know love or not, then they ask the right question.
So this you have to remember -- that love is godly, and to be loving and to allow others to love you... because that is even more difficult. To love is very easy because you remain the controller, you remain the manipulator and you remain the master; any moment you can withdraw. But to allow somebody to love you is more difficult, very difficult, because to allow somebody to love you means you are losing your definition, your boundaries. You are allowing somebody to trespass your territory, and one never knows what is going to happen. You may not be able to withdraw. To allow somebody to love you means allowing him or her to possess you. So love is a first lesson
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