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were in misery and a single moment afterwards all misery has disappeared: it is a quantum leap.
This is the very revolution that this new kind of sannyas brings into life. So from this moment keep a little alert not to allow the past to interfere. Let the present moment be decisive; let it gain more power. And don't think too much of the consequences. The man who thinks of consequences becomes a coward.
This moment, whatsoever feels right, do it -- whatsoever the consequences. Don't be too considerate of the consequences. We consider the consequences too much and we go on missing the opportunity. The opportunity is only for those who can take it, so don't be at all concerned about the consequences and the results; they come on their own.
If one acts totally in the present a beautiful future is automatically created. If you have been loving in this moment, the next moment is going to be of greater love, obviously, because it will grow out of this moment; it cannot come from anywhere else. You need not worry about it.
A man who becomes courageous enough to live in the present starts creating a future without even thinking about it. And a man who is not courageous and goes on thinking about consequences, pros and cons -- what will happen if he does this and what will happen if he does that -- goes on missing the present. And naturally he goes on missing the future too, because if you don't sow the seeds now there is not going to be any morrow.
Tomorrow again you will be thinking about another tomorrow because when tomorrow comes it comes as today. You become accustomed to the habit of thinking always of the tomorrow and the tomorrow never comes. So only this moment is, and to live in this moment as if it is absolute -- no past, no future -- is what sannyas is all about.
It needs tremendous courage and it is the greatest adventure there is, but it brings great ecstasies -- unimagined, never even dreamt about. It brings great joy, great celebration... and unmotivated, uncaused: one simply feels joyful for no particular reason at all.
When joy is without any reason it is divine; when it has some reason it is ordinary,
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