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be a master of oneself.
And that is the whole purpose of sannyas:
To make you a master of yourself.
One should not be a slave of one's own unconscious.
That's what people are.
Everybody believes he is a master.
In fact that belief is very dangerous
Because it never allows you to see the truth.
It keeps you befooled.
Somebody insults you and you are angry
And you say, ' I was angry.'
That is wrong because you can say 'I was angry!'
Only if you are capable of not being angry.
But you were not capable of not being angry.
You were possessed by anger
You were not a chooser, there was no choice.
Somebody insulted you, he pushed a button
And the anger came
Just as you push a button and light comes.
It was mechanical. You were not the Master of it.
You behaved like a machine.
When somebody insults you and you are the chooser
Of wether to be angry or not
Then you are a master.
And the same is true for all your instincts:
Greed, lust, ego.
If you are a chooser, then there is no problem.
But if you are not a chooser
But only reacting in a mechanical way
Then you are not yet a man.
Only by becoming master of your own consciousness
Do you become a man.
It happens only through meditation.
There is no other way.
Meditation is the alchemy of transforming
The unconscious into the conscious.
It gives you a tremendous power
Far greater than anger, greed and lust.
Then you can control without repressing.
Then you can direct, channelize your forces.
You can transform your energies into higher realms.
Then life really becomes
A great experiment in growth.
Man remains almost unaware of his glory
Of the great splendor that he brings into the world.
Because he never looks inwards.
He remains a beggar
Although in fact he is a king.
He remains a beggar
Because he goes on looking outside, hankering
For this and that and always for more...
And
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