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guest transforms one. But now you cannot claim any authorship -- you will not find your signature on it. You cannot have the look of 'holier-than-thou'. You will be humble; there is no ego to be found any more. You will be egoless in it, and when piety is without ego it is divine. When it is not of you but of the beyond and you are just a vehicle, a hollow bamboo through which it flows, then there is tremendous beauty in it. That is the meaning of your name.
Anand means bliss, sophia means wisdom. But in the West it took a very wrong turn. In the East it became Sufism; it is from the same root 'sophia'. In the West it became philosophy; it is from the same root. In the West it became 'love of knowledge'; in the East it remained 'love of being'. And wisdom is not knowledge. A man of knowledge is not necessarily a man of wisdom. And vice versa: a wise man is not necessarily a man of knowledge. It is very rarely that both exist together.
A man of wisdom is one who knows himself; the man of knowledge is one who knows others. To know others is knowledge; to know oneself is bliss. And to know others without knowing oneself is just futile, a wastage of energy, because your own house remains in deep darkness. Even if the whole world is full of light but your innermost being is in darkness, what is the point of it all?
Jesus says 'If you gain the whole world and in gaining it you lose yourself, what are you gaining? And even if the whole world is lost and you have gained yourself, you have gained all.'
Wisdom is self-knowing, and self-knowing has nothing to do with information; it has something to do with meditation... nothing to do with thinking but something to do with the state of no-thought. If you want to know others you will have to go into thinking; you will have to collect information about them, you will have to enquire and collect data. But if you want to know yourself, you need not collect anything, and even if you want to, from where can you collect? Who can say anything about you? If you don't know then who is going to know you?
To know oneself one has simply to go in and to be silently there. When all is silent, that still
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