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god we are failures. We may have all the possessions and the wealth of the world, we may be great kings and queens and emperors, but still we are failures. Without god nobody is ever a success. It can't happen in the nature of things. It is only with god that victory is possible.
When you become one with god, when you exist in harmony with god, your life has the taste of victory. You may not have anything, you may not have much money -- that does not matter: you will sit like a king and you will walk like a king and you will live like a king. You will be a god, a goddess.
The moment that one becomes harmonious with god one has become a god. Jesus says: I and my father in heaven are one. He is crucified because of this great statement. The small minds cannot tolerate it; it looks sacrilegious to claim "I am god." But what can Jesus do? What can poor Jesus do? The moment that you are in harmony with god you are god. If Jesus says anything else it will be lying.
Mansoor Al Hillaj declares "Ana'l Haq" -- I am the truth -- and he is killed for that. Truth has suffered so much for the simple reason that people are so mediocre, so mean that they can only understand lies. They cannot rise a little higher to see the truth.
Before one can understand truth one needs to go through a radical change, one needs a new vision. But this much is an absolute certainty, that with god we are victorious because we become gods. Without god we are failures, because without god we are very tiny, very small, struggling against such a huge universe. Our failure is absolutely certain, it is inevitable.
Sannyas means deciding: "Now I will not try to remain separate, aloof, I will not try to be an island. I will dissolve, melt and merge into the ocean and become one with it."
If You Choose To Be With Me, You Must Risk Finding Yourself
Chapter #2
Chapter title: The Individual and the Whole
2 February 1980 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 8002025
ShortTitle: WITHME02
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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary,
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