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different, because you are different.
You are your world, so when you change your attitude you change the very world in which you exist. We cannot change the world -- that's what the politician has been trying to do, down the ages, and he has failed utterly.
The only way to change the world is the way of religion: change your vision, and suddenly you live in a different world.
We don't live in the same world and we are not all contemporaries. Somebody may be living in the past -- how can he be your contemporary? He may be sitting by your side and he may be thinking of the past; then he is not your contemporary. Somebody may be in the future, already in that which is not yet. How can he be your contemporary?
Only two persons who live in the now are contemporaries, but in the now they are no more there -- because you are your past and your future. The present is of god; it is not of you, it has nothing to do with you.
When two persons are absolutely in the herenow, they are not -- then god is. So we become contemporaries only in god. We live in the same world only when we live in god, otherwise we never live in the same world. You may live with a woman for years, and you live in your world and she lives in her world -- hence the continuous clash of two worlds colliding.
By and by, one learns how to avoid this collision. That's what we call living together: trying to avoid those tricks that we learn, trying to avoid the collision, trying not to come to a clash. That's all that we call family, society, humanity... all bogus!
You cannot really be with a woman unless you both live in god. There is no other love, no other family and no other society.
By becoming a sannyasin you are entering a new world and you are entering a new family; you will be learning new ways of being. Let this be your first fundamental -- it can change you tremendously, utterly -- that all is divine!
So from this moment remember it as much as you can. It is natural that you will forget many times; don't be worried about that. The moment you remember again let it be there. Don't repent about why you forgot for one hour. That is natural
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