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who depend on others
Are simply wasting their opportunity.
My effort here is not to guide you
Not to give you directions
Not to give you certain character styles
Structures, patterns
But only to help you to be yourself.
I am not here to distract you from your being.
That is what is being done all over the world
By all the so-called organised religions.
The past of humanity has been very uncreative
For the simple reason that religions
Were teaching renunciation, not creativity.
Religions were teaching that the world
Is illusory. If the world is illusory
What is the point of creating anything?
The religions were teaching people
To become drop-outs
They were teaching people to become escapists.
And their impact has been great
They have poisoned the whole humanity.
Otherwise every child is born
With a tremendous capacity to be creative.
But we destroy him, we cripple him
We paralyse him.
My approach is just the opposite.
I would like you to be more and more creative
Because only by being creative
Can you participate with god.
Whenever you are creative
You are part of god, the creator.
There is no other way to participate with him.
So what you create is immaterial,
That is up to you, but create something.
Anyone creative -- a potter -- is far closer to god.
Than a professor, than a priest.
A shoemaker is far closer to god
Than a politician, than a prime minister
Or a president.
If god is a creator, then of course
All his blessings are for those who are creators.
Every sannyasin who belongs to me
Has to prove his mettle by creating something,
Whatsoever it is.
Find out what you would love to create.
There is no need to become world-famous
There is no need to become a Nobel laureate
There is no need that everybody should know
And appreciate your creativity;
That is not the point.
If you are enjoying it
If you are delighted
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