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If it is, then it is something else masquerading as love, then it is only a mask. Hidden behind it will be jealousy, possessiveness, anger, hatred -- all that is really anti-love.
Love can only be godly; it can only be other-worldly. It grows in the world but goes beyond it. It is like a lotus growing out of the mud: it comes from the mud but it doesn't belong to the mud. It starts reaching towards the heights; it starts reaching towards the sun, towards the sky. That is its real home. The lotus is trying to free itself from the mud. And that's exactly what every human being is trying to do: trying to free himself from all that is heavy, from the very gravitation of the earth.
Lust is mud, love is the lotus. I am not against the mud, because if you are against the mud you will never be able to grow lotuses. But don't get stuck with the mud. Remember that one has to reach to the stars, that our real home is somewhere far away, far, far away, that here we are only strangers, outsiders. We are on a great pilgrimage of learning but this is not our home.
This is what sannyas is all about: helping you remember the real home, creating a longing in you for the real home, stirring your heart, giving you a vision of your real home.
[A sannyasin who has to leave says: How can I continue to nourish what's happening inside me, and move into a deeper, more sensitive rapport with you?]
Which meditation did you like the most
[He replies: Vipassana.]
Then continue Vipassana, and I will be available. Whenever you go in deep Vipassana, I will be there . . .
[A sannyasin, recently arrived, says: I'm always very much scared and I really... I don't know what to.]
Come for a longer period, mm? Fear is there. It can be dissolved, it can be transformed; and it has to be transformed, because that is blocking your growth. But come for at least three, four months. Try, mm? -- because these are things through which you may get into trouble if you start stirring them up and you have to go after three weeks.
A longer period is needed so that everything can be stirred, can be thrown out, cleansed and you can settle back again
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