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not of this world, but what is the secret? Why there is such a gap between you and your master?' Tansen said, 'There is no secret about it, it is an open secret: I sing to get something -- money, power, prestige. He sings not to get anything, he sings because he has already got something; he has got his inner silence. Those songs, that music, is born out of an inner experience. It is a by-product, it is a consequence, it is something that has happened within him and is flowing outside in the form of music.
As far as I am concerned I am a technician; I know how to play but nothing has happened within me. I am singing to get something, he sings because he has already got something.'
My sannyasins have to live in a totally different way to the way ordinary humanity is living. They have to live love -- that is the inner kingdom, the inner richness. Then your whole life will be full of songs, music, poetry, joy, dance.
The world will call you mad, but who cares about the world? You will know that if this is madness then madness is far better than the so-called sanity. -- How long will you be here? -- I want to stay forever. -- Forever is the best! Good.
Your name is beautiful: Ma Brigitte. It comes from the same root from which the word 'bridge' comes.
Man is a bridge. Man is not the goal but only a ladder, a passage, a bridge, between the animal and the divine. One should not be satisfied by being just human; that is not enough. That is making your house on the bridge. It is not safe as the bridge is not meant for that purpose. The bridge has to be transcended, passed over. Its function is to take you to the other shore.
Man is not a being but a bridge. Animals have being and Buddhas have being, but man is only a bridge. He has no being, he is a becoming. He goes on becoming, changing, moving from one point to another. He is a journey, a pilgrimage.
This has to be remembered: unless you become enlightened, don't be satisfied. Remain in divine discontent to the last moment when you explode into light, when you become light, when light becomes your being.
I Am Not As Thunk As You Drink I Am
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