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a heart.
Even if you have to lose the head lose the head --
It is worth it.
It is beautiful to be headless
But it is ugly to be heartless.
My sannyasins have to be heartful and headless.
That is the very definition of my sannyas.
There is a peace
That is not imposed form the outside.
One can pretend to be peaceful --
That is hypocrisy, that is ugly.
Real peace arises from within, it arises
Out of understanding, awareness, meditation.
It is not something imposed
It is not like a mask that you wear.
It radiates from the very centre of your being.
One cannot cultivate it.
A cultivated peace is false, is not even skin-deep.
Scratch a little and immediately the ugly
The animal-like, the angry person is there.
All peace is gone.
But a really peaceful person is peaceful all over
From the circumference to the centre.
You can go digging
You will find more and more peace.
The more you dig into him
The more you will find fresh layers of peace.
When you reach the very centre of his being
You will find ultimate peace.
That is another name for god.
Bliss is possible
Only to those few people who are courages;
In cannot happen to the cowards.
Courage is the price we have to pay for it.
A coward is bound to remain in misery
Because a coward cannot drop his clinging
To old patterns; it feels safer to be
With the old, known, familiar.
Even though they are creating misery
It feels more safe, comfortable, cosy
Than moving into the unknown
Into the unpredictable.
Hence cowards go on crawling within their limits
Within their small holes.
Bliss is possible
Only when you go beyond your known limits.
When you go beyond the boundaries
When you start adventuring into the unknown.
That needs tremendous courage
Hence I say courage
Is the most fundamental religious quality.
Jesus is courageous, that is the meaning
Of carrying his cross
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