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love is. They simply go on moving from one extreme to the other.
Love exists exactly in the middle. It is such a stillness, such a silence, that the lover needs no other meditation, because love in itself is enough of a meditation.
That is the meaning of Samma: to be exactly in the middle, balanced, neither leaning this way nor that. And that quality has to be imbibed by each sannyasin: a calmness, a coolness, yet with warmth. It appears paradoxical but all that is great in life is paradoxical, remember that. Only meaningless things are not paradoxical. The greater the meaning, the bigger the paradox, because meaning happens only when opposites meet. And where opposites meet, paradox is bound to be there: it is a synthesis.
Anand means bliss, Margaret comes from a Persian root, murwari; it means a child of light. Your full name will mean a blissful child of light. Existence is made of the stuff called light. Physics may call it electricity, electrons, neutrons, protons; it doesn't matter. Mystics have always known it as light.
We are made of light, we come from light -- rays of the ultimate -- and one day we have to go back to the light. To remember this, that our source and our goal is the same, is of tremendous significance, because that helps you to remain cool. That helps you to remain unburdened. It helps you not to be too attached to things, possessions, the world, because one day we have to leave.
There is a famous story. One American tourist went to see a Sufi Master. He had dreamed of seeing the Master for a long time; he had been reading his books and he was really impressed. But when he went there to see the Master who was sitting in a small hut with a few books, no furniture at all, the American tourist looked around and he said "Where is your furniture?"
The Sufi Master laughed and said "Where is yours?" The tourist said "I am just a tourist here." And the Sufi Master said "So am I -- just a tourist."
To always remember this -- that we are just tourists here, we are not to be here forever, we come and we go, and we come from the same source to which we are going -- that remembrance keeps one aloof, uncontaminated,
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