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but the real meaning you will know only when you come across the inner light. The light is there -- it has not to be invented, it has only to be discovered. It is hiding behind the clouds of thought. As thoughts start disappearing you will see the flame coming out, and when the flame is smokeless then the bliss is infinite.
To search for the inner light, to know it, to be it, is what religion is all about. A few religions have called it God -- the inner light they called God; a few religions have called it enlightenment, a few religions have called it nirvana. That is only a difference in names. But one thing about which all the religions agree is that the inner experience is that of infinite light... light and light and light, and without any center.
We consist of light, we are made of light, and not only us: the whole existence consists of light. Each particle of matter is nothing but condensed light. The day one comes to know one's own light, the whole existence becomes full of light, all darkness disappears. Even in darkness one knows that darkness too is a form of light and nothing else. That's why there are a few animals, a few birds, which can see in the dark night. Owls can see in the night. For us it is dark; for them it is not dark. They have more penetrating eyes, that's all; they can see perfectly well in the night. There is no darkness anywhere. Our eyes are limited, that's true, so we see only a certain part. If we can see the whole, then there is no darkness at all -- there has never been any darkness, there cannot be.... But you will have to live to find its existential meaning.
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[A sannyasin who has been leading groups in the West asks what to do besides the three groups she's signed up for.]
Do these three, mm? -- then I will give you a few more. Then if you feel like it you can start leading a few groups here too. But first pass through groups so that you can feel the whole work that is going on here and then you can start doing something.
[The sannyasin then asks about her relationship: We are hanging on to each other too much and that each of us has to go his own way, but I
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