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becomes gold. One becomes a magician.
My sannyasins have to be magicians. And the greatest magic in life is to live in this world which is so full of misery, stupidity, mediocrity, in an intelligent way, blissfully, rejoicingly. The world may be living in hell but the intelligent person lives here, in paradise.
The people who invented a paradise somewhere above, in heaven, were stupid people. They were simply saying that it is impossible to live here in heaven so they projected a heaven somewhere beyond the clouds; it is just a consolation and nothing else.
My sannyasins have to live now and here in paradise. If others are living in hell, that is their decision, that is their responsibility. One cannot be forced to live in heaven,,one has to choose. And if people are choosing to live in hell, of course they are free to choose it, but my sannyasin have to live in heaven here and now, in this very world.
Unless you can live here blissfully you cannot live anywhere else blissfully... because you will be the same person. Even if you are transported to heaven in a spaceship, what will you do there. You will do the same stupid things that you were doing here, maybe on a bigger scale. You will get into the same ego trips, into the same miseries, you will fall into the same kinds of love affairs and you will suffer in the same way.
My effort is to create a sannyasin who can live even in hell beautifully. The old definition was that when a saint dies he goes to heaven. My definition is: a person is a saint who lives in heaven whether dead or alive and even if you throw him into hell he will change the whole quality of hell.
If I have the choice then I will go to hell with all my sannyasins (laughter). It will be such a beautiful trip... and initiating all the devil, into sannyas and giving them beautiful names...!
Apantho means no path.
There is no path to truth because truth is not on the outside. Truth is within and no path is needed because you are already there; it is just that your eyes have wandered far away, that's all.
It is exactly like a dream. You are sleeping in your room but in your dream you are
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