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be always new, young. The body will get old -- that is not a problem at all -- but you should not get old. Even at the moment of death a sannyasin is a child, full of wonder and awe. That quality of wonder and awe is the greatest religious quality in the world; it is through that that one comes to know what god is.
Nilamber means the blue sky.
The sky only looks blue, it has no colour. It looks blue because of its infinity; its infinite depth gives it an appearance of blueness. Hence blue has become the symbol of depth, of infinity, of eternity, of vastness.
You can see it happening in water too: if the river is shallow then the water is white, if the river is deep the same water becomes bluish; depth gives it the colour of blueness. So blue represents depth.
And just as there is a sky outside you spreading to infinity there is also an inner sky. We are standing exactly in the middle of two skies, two infinities. And the inner is of course Is more beautiful because the inner is yours and the outer is not yours. Even if you try to have it, it cannot be yours. Alexander tried, all the conqueror tried, and they all failed.
In the outside you can only have a very temporary illusion that you are possessing it, but sooner or later death comes and takes all your possessions. But the inner cannot be stolen, the inner cannot be burned cannot be destroyed. Even death is impotent as far as the inner is concerned. The person who has conquered his inner sky dies as conqueror.
Alexander the Great dies like a beggar; Gautam the Buddha dies like a conqueror, he is the real emperor. Although on the outside Buddha was like a beggar with a begging bowl and Alexander the Great was the great conqueror of the then known world, those are appearances.
Don't be deceived by appearances. Remember, the real victory is inner. And don't waste your time and energy in the non-essential. Put your energy as much as possible into the essential, and the essential means only one thing, it means the inner.
Sannyas means the beginning of an exploration of the inner sky.
Nilam means sapphire, a blue diamond.
It represents the third
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