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of a person arises in the mind, and with the idea of a person many things follow; one thing leads to another. Then God becomes a father-figure and you start depending on God. God does not bring freedom to you; on the contrary, he brings slavery. But change the name from God to bliss and there is no idea of any person.
You cannot depend on bliss, you have to create it. It is not ready-made, available somewhere. You have to live in such a way that you start attaining to blissfulness. Ordinarily we live in such a way that misery is created. We have to change our ways. We have to take a great radical turn, a one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn, because the way that creates misery is just the opposite of the way that creates bliss. One has to be very watchful about what one is doing, why one is creating misery, what the causes are, and why one gets caught in those causes again and again -- knowing perfectly well that they create misery, that they are destructive, that they bring darkness, that they create hell around one. Knowing it perfectly well, why does one get caught again and again? One has to be very alert and watchful.
Slowly slowly one catches oneself in the middle of being caught, pulls oneself out, stops cooperating with the misery pattern. This is the first step to destroy the grip of the misery pattern over you. Then the second step is not difficult; it is natural, spontaneous, simple. When the misery-creating pattern is dropped, naturally you start feeling a new kind of lightheartedness, a cheerfulness. You feel like singing, dancing, for no reason at all, and you start living in a new way. That life I call sannyas. Sannyas is not a formality, it is a radical change. It is a total change from misery to bliss.
Once you have become alert that misery is your own work, and once misery disappears, bliss arises in you of its own accord -- it is not your work. You can hinder it but you cannot bring it in. Negatively you are powerful; positively, no. Hence all the great masters of the world have been teaching negative techniques, how to remove the obstacles, that's all. Once the rocks are removed your consciousness becomes a stream, it starts
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