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the gammit of feelings from thinking you're a phoney, to laughing at you. Now I'm at the point where all I have to say is -- good, lord!
Osho had recounted a joke at the morning discourse that went like this:]
A man went to a ranch to buy a horse, pointed at one and said, 'My, that' s a beautiful pony right there. What kind is it?'
'That's a palomino,' said the rancher.
'Well, any friend of yours is a friend of mine. I would like to buy that pony,' said the man.
The rancher replied, 'I gotta tell you sir, it was owned by a preacher man. If you want the horse to move, you say, "Good Lord!" If you want the horse to stop, you gotta say, "Amen!" '
'Let me try that horse,' said the buyer. He mounted and said, 'Good Lord!'
The horse promptly moved out and was soon galloping up on the mountains. The man was yelling, 'Good Lord! Good Lord!' and the horse was really moving. Suddenly he was coming up to the end of the cliff and panic-striken, he yelled, 'Whoa, whoa.' That did not work, and then he remembered and said, 'Amen. '
The horse stopped right on the end of the cliff, and, wiping his brow with relief, the man said, 'Good Lord!'
Mm (chuckles). Good! Very good. But before you say it, orange will be good. Then you can say 'Good, Lord', and jump into the abyss! Get into tune in things here. And that's what you have been doing your whole life, so you can easily get into this community, very easily. You are ready, absolutely ready. So should I give you sannyas today? (she nods) Close your eyes!
This will be your sannyas name: Ma Deva Varta. Deva means divine, varta means tidings, divine tidings. And tremendous is the possibility.
[VARTA: My hope is to work with alcoholics and help them in some way.]
Mm, you can work, and you will be ready to work in many things. The basic problem for the alcoholics is that they have somewhere missed love in their life; that is the basic problem. Alcohol is not the problem, never! It is just a symptom. The problem is they wanted to be loved and nobody loved them.
[VARTA: Most of them are searching for God.]
Yes, they are searching. In fact, the
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