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contributed anything at all; they have been like a dead weight, they have hindered but they have not helped. The crowd mind is always against the new. They crucified Jesus simply because he was so new. The way he was talking nobody had ever talked, the war he was behaving nobody had ever behaved. The mob could not tolerate the man -- such a beautiful man, such a lovely person -- and the masses decided to crucify him. But that has always been the case, they did the same with Socrates, with Mansoor.
Whenever there is a man who brings the new into existence, who becomes a vehicle of the beyond, his life is in danger because the masses cannot forgive him. He is soaring so high that the masses feel offended, insulted; their egos are hurt. But the strange thing is that these few people who have been killed and murdered and tortured by the people are the cause of the whole prosperity of humanity; they are the foundation stones of this temple that is still incomplete. Many more sacrifices are needed, many more Jesus have to be crucified, many more Socrates have to be poisoned and killed.
Meditation brings creativity and through creativity there is prosperity -- both material and spiritual. And a man who is creative becomes very peaceful, because he starts feeling that he is doing the work he is born for. He is fulfilling his nature, his longing, his hidden potential is becoming more and more manifest, actualised. When the whole potential is actualised a man is enlightened.
That is the goal of sannyas: to be creative, to be peaceful and to help the unwilling humanity to be prosperous in all possible ways, in all dimensions.
Anand August: Anand means bliss.
Bliss is not pleasure; pleasure is physical, momentary. Bliss is not happiness either; happiness is psychological -- a little bit deeper than pleasure but only a little bit. Pleasure is just on the surface and happiness is skin deep, but just scratch the skin and it disappears. It has no real roots, it is just in the mind.
Bliss is neither of the body nor of the mind; hence it has infinite depth. It is your very soul, your self-nature, your being. Pleasure comes and goes, happiness
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