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I am utterly in love with life. It is non-perfectionistic, it is non-guilt-creating; it does not teach you to condemn anything in you or in anybody else. It makes you more and more aware of all the limitations of life and yet helps you to enjoy within all those limitations. They are there but there is no need to be worried about them... in fact those limitations are protections.
Let this sannyas be a great love affair with life itself... and there is no other god. If you can find life, you have found god....
Deva means divine, praghosh means a declaration -- a divine declaration. And that's how each sannyasin has to be; but this is not to be an ideal! Each moment of life -- cleaning the floor or taking a shower or just chit-chatting with a friend or sipping a cup of tea -- ordinary things of life have to be declarations of god.
Yes, you can drink the tea in such a way that it becomes prayer, that it becomes a great gratitude towards god. And that is the meaning of praghosh....
So get in tune with the new name; let the old slip out of the mind. Sometimes miracles happen only by dropping the old name because our whole identity is attached with it. With the dropping of the old name, the whole past becomes irrelevant. You become discontinuous with it; you start from abc again. Now you will have to find out who this praghosh is. Again you will have to look, again you will have to search. The known, the familiar is no more there; you again become unknown. That's the beauty of the new name -- it is a new beginning, a new birth.
[A sannyasin says that he's been doing Sufi mediations with Ilyat Khan for the past four years. Very good! says Osho, and suggests that he do the hypnotherapy group here. It will give you much clarity about what you have been doing, Osho says, because in the name of many meditations we are really using hypnosis. Once you consciously know that, things become different.]
Anand means bliss and maya means magic. And bliss is almost a magic -- it is not a science, it is not even art; it is just magic.
If you want to be blissful you can be this very moment: just by desiring it, it is there. People are so
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