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the traffic, is enriching. It gives polarity, it gives shape and sharpness. It gives tone.
Anand means bliss and sahajo means spontaneous; spontaneous bliss. And sahajo is the name of one woman mystic, a great indian saint; one of the very rare woman mystics.
I give you the name so that you can remember continuously that you have to be spontaneous. Live moment to moment. Don't think of the past and don't think of the future. Both are non-existential. The past is gone, the future is not yet. Only the present is.
So to be in the present is the only way to be. Be responsive to the moment. If somebody asks something, don't answer from your mind. Put the mind aside -- because the mind can never be spontaneous, and that which cannot be spontaneous is not you. When you put the mind aside, your spontaneous being surfaces. So don't bother to be consistent; there is no need. There is no need to have a character because character means that the past decides the present. You have been doing something in the past, now you have to be consistent with it; that's what character is.
The society wants you, and everybody, to be with character, because a man of character can be manipulated very easily. A man of character is predictable. A spontaneous man is unpredictable because he is basically freedom. One never knows what he is going to do next. Not even you know what is going to happen in the next moment. If you know what is going to happen in the next moment, what you are going to do, you are already dead. Then that moment cannot be alive, fresh, young; you have already prepared for it. So, no preparations. Just wait for the next moment to come, and respond with your totality, whatsoever the consequence.
To think about the consequence is to be worldly. And to drop thinking about consequences is to become a sannyasin.
You follow me? That will be the meaning, and it is not only going to be your name -- it has to become your very being.
[The new sannyasin says she has been studying music since she was a child and has been giving big concerts playing the organ, but now she has some conflict. She doesn't know whether to continue or not.]
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