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the same is true about all the religious scriptures: they all say god has created them. That is just a way of seeing it.
The scientific fact is that it was coming from some unknown source, it was not coming from them; naturally they called that unknown source god. But I don't call it god. That unknown source is your real being, your authentic being. It is really coming from you. When something comes from the mind it is not from you because mind is all borrowed; it is information, knowledge, education. All that has been put together by others -- the parents, the teachers, the priests -- is implanted in you from the outside. So whatsoever comes out of mind is not yours, and whatsoever comes from your silence is truly yours. In that way Mohammed, Jesus, the Vedic mystics, are all saying something which is a little bit primitive.
A far more refined version is to say that it was coming from their own innermost core of which they were not clearly aware. Somehow they were still identified with their mind. Some hangover, some small attachment with the mind, some illusory idea was still haunting them that they were the mind; hence that which came from somewhere else must have come from god -- that was their inference.
But my own experience is that the moment you are disidentified with the mind you suddenly become aware that now whatsoever is coming, is coming from your real source. Of course you cannot call it "my" or "mine", because those words belong to the mind, but this is your true being.
A sannyasin has to learn only one thing: how to be silent and meditative, how to be separate from the mind, disidentified from the mind. And then everything else follows -- a great creativity, a great sensitivity. And whatsoever is you potential starts blossoming as if suddenly a spring has come to your inner world.
Sannyas is springtime. It is a new climate in which seeds sprout, buds open up and become flowers, in which the potential self becomes the actualised self.
Swami Dhyan Yogesh. Dhyan means meditation. Yogesh means god of yoga.
Yoga means union, the science of union; hence your full name will mean: meditation is the suprememost
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