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you cannot express even a single poem!
He says, 'How, how make them understand?
Every awakened person has felt
A tremendous compassion for people
And he has tried his best.
But something in the very experience
Is such that it cannot be expressed.
If one wants to know it
One has to experience it.
Truth can only be an experience.
Then certainly
Eighty-four thousand poems arise in you.
You are full of stars, full of flowers
But absolutely incapable of transferring it
To anybody.
It is untransferrable, it cannot be taught.
But those who are alert
They can catch a glimpse of it.
It cannot be taught but it can be caught.
And that's the whole purpose
Of being a sannyasin:
Being here around me to catch something
Which I cannot teach.
This is a beginning
The beginning of a new life
The beginning of a new vision
The beginning of a new way of being.
You will have to drop much, you will have
To disconnect yourself from all that is gone,
From the past.
Don't carry it any more.
It is an unnecessary burden
It hinders growth, it paralyses.
Slowly slowly it becomes such a mountain
That one is crushed underneath the mountain.
One should be capable of dying to the past
Every moment so that it is never accumulated.
That's the path of sannyas
Dying to the past every moment
So that you are always young and fresh and alive
So that you are always present in the present.
To be present in the present
Is to be present before god.
The first birth is an ordinary birth.
It is only the birth of the body-mind,
Physiological, biological.
The second birth happens through meditation.
Then the spirit is born
Then one becomes a soul.
And that is the real birth
One becomes twice-born.
Remember that sannyas is not something formal.
It has to be such a deep commitment
Such an absolute surrender of the ego
That it gives you a new birth
That
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