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be made for it. Only then does it have beauty. When it arises out of love with no motivation, with no end in view there is great benediction. And those are the moments when God is the closest.
Service cannot be Christian or Hindu or Mohammedan: it can only be loving.
Anything to say to me?
[He replies: Many things but I don t feel able to express them.]
There is no need. I understand them without you ever saying them. I go on answering you without you ever questioning.
All that is needed on the part of the disciple is to be silent and awaiting. Whenever anything is needed, it will be given. If it is not needed, only then is it not given. Questioning is not of any relevance. Communion is needed, and that's what sannyas is for. It is not a communication but a communion; it is not a dialogue but a meeting of two hearts. Nothing needs to be said!
Anand means bliss, Jose means a gift of God. Bliss is not through effort, it is through God's grace. You cannot achieve it, you can only receive it. The achieving mind is one of the barriers in finding bliss. The achieving mind has to cease for bliss to be.
In the world, everything is achieved through effort, but in the inner world, in the world of God, everything is afforded, achieved through non-effort. It is simple but not easy. It is simple because nothing has to be done, but it is not easy because we have become so accustomed to doing.
From the very childhood we start telling children: Don't sit there -- do something! If you want to go in you will have to learn just the opposite rule: Don't do anything -- just sit there!
This is your name: Swami Prem Kalli. Prem means love, and have you invented Kalli yourself, from Karl?
[KALLI: Yes.]
Good! Karl means strong, manly, brave, but in Hindi Kalli has a far more beautiful meaning: it means the mother goddess. It is just the opposite of the German -- not manly but womanly. Strong certainly, but a totally different kind of strength; the feminine strength. You have changed Karl to Kalli; now completely forget about the origin. Now let it become mother goddess.
Each man is both man and woman, and
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