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is primary
Because if courage is there
Everything else follows.
If courage is missing, then all is missing.
Only a courageous person can be sincere
Truthful, loving, religious.
Only a courageous person can go
In search of the ultimate
Because the search is arduous
It is an uphill task.
It is easy to go downwards
Gravitation helps you
But to go uphill is difficult.
And the higher you move
The more and more difficult it becomes.
Before the ultimate is reached
One is tested to the utmost.
Only a few courages people have passed
The ultimate examination of life and existence.
These are the Buddhas, the Christs, the Krishnas.
But everyone has the capacity
To become a Buddha.
If anything is missing it is courage
And courage can be gathered.
Even a cowardly person can gather courage.
He has the ingredients.
He just has to pt them together.
Sannyas is a courageous step.
It may lead you into many difficulties.
Face them joyously, enjoy facing them.
And you will be surprised
That each difficulty becomes a blessing
And each challenge proves a tremendous gift of god
Because it integrates you
It makes you more and more solid.
It gives steel to your spine
It makes you a man of steel.
A man of courage is always a king.
Only cowards are slaves.
But to really be a king one has to be
A master of oneself -- not of others.
That is very easy and cheap
Because there are millions of cowards in the world
Who are really hankering for somebody
To enslave them, who cannot live on their own.
They are always longing
Tor somebody to dictate to them.
They cannot move even an inch in their lives
By their own light.
They want to cling.
They want to be guided, led, like sheep
They always need shepherds.
Hence it is very easy to become
A ruler of people -- that is not worth much.
The real problem, the real challenge, is
To
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