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wind passing through the pine trees
The sound of running water
The song of the birds in the morning
The freedom of the clouds
The beauty of the flowers.
God has to be found now and here
In this very dance.
This whole existence is his temple.
There is no need to make any churches
Any temples, any mosques. The are all false
And they go on distracting people
from the true religion.
True religion
Is a devotion towards life and existence.
Remember it: in every leaf of grass is god.
It is his gesture.
In thousand of moods and in thousands of gestures
He is dancing all over.
He is dancing within you and without you.
Hence I teach my sannyasins to dance
And to dance with such abundance
That you are lost in it.
That will give you the first taste
Of what it is to have a meeting with god
To have a date with god.
My sannyas is not to be serious
It is not to be sad.
My sannyas has to be a song, a celebration
A rejoicing in life.
I don't teach renunciation because to me
God is life, and if you cannot find him in life
You will not find him anywhere else.
God is not to be found in the monasteries
Or in Himalayan caves;
He is to be found in life
In all kinds of situations
Which one has to encounter in life.
God has to be found in all
The bitter experiences and the sweet experiences
That life makes available to you;
In the days, in the nights
In the summers, in the winters
In the thorns, in the flowers.
God has to be found here in the thick of life.
A sannyasin is one who goes
With a singing heart into the darkest night.
And if you can go with a singing heart
In the darkest night
Even the darkness becomes luminous.
Light is pure energy
Life has nothing but light in it.
The whole existence consists of light.
Matter is an illusion
It only appears because we cannot see clearly
Because we cannot penetrate deeply
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