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is enough to be transformed. A dream of God is far more real than this so-called world. A small longing in the heart is enough... just a drop of it, because it is no ordinary water, it is nectar.
Let your sannyas become a great search -- not a formality but an authentic quest
The time has come for it. You have been groping in the dark; now there is no need to grope. I give you the light, I give you the insight. This much insight that sannyas makes available is enough. I take away all ideologies, theologies, philosophies. I simply give you a silent space from where you can function without the ego. That's what sannyas is all about: a small space inside you where no ego exists. If one can function from that space life has a totally different flavor. Life becomes a blessing, not only to you -- it is not only that you are blessed, but you become a blessing to the world too. Just that small space has to be created and each moment is a benediction.
[A sannyasin who has to leave says: My heart feels like a rock most of the... for a long time. It's just beginning to open... and I want to know how to nurture it when I go back.]
It will continue to open, don't be worried. You need not do anything in particular, because the heart is a very indirect, delicate phenomenon. If you start doing something to open it, that very doing will close it. It will be like forcing petals of a rose flower to open. That won't help, that will destroy the flower.
One cannot be direct about the heart, one has to be just indirect. One has to be very very delicate about it -- not gross, very subtle. Listen to music. Go into nature whenever you can find time: be with the trees, birds, animals. Look at the stars in the night... sing, dance. These are indirect ways -- you are not doing anything directly to open the heart. Be loving, be friendly, even with strangers. These are all indirect ways. This is how one can nourish the opening heart.
And then come back as soon as possible, mm? Because the real opening is going to happen here!
A little bit will go on happening there, but the explosion is going to happen here. And it is better that it happens here,
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