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a slave.
It is better to be burdened and be a free man, than to be unburdened and be a slave.
My effort here is to make you totally free!
It is a great risk to be totally free, to be responsible for each act, to be one's own creator, to be one's own god, in other words, but this is how a real being is born. And this is my own experience, because whatsoever I say, I say only if it is my experience.
I am not an intellectual, I am not a philosopher. Whatsoever I say has its roots in my own experience. This is how one day I dropped to be miserable, I decided not to be miserable, in a single moment (laughter) and since then I not been miserable!(more laughter) Every day there are opportunities, thousand and one opportunities (laughter)... Once you decide totally, once you resolve that from now on towards bliss is going to be your very lifestyle, you will be surprised: it starts happening! (more laughter) For few days one cannot believe one's own eyes that it is really happening, one cannot believe where all that misery has gone, and all those causes and psychoanalysts were going into dreams and unconscious and the collective unconscious -- where all they have disappeared? (much laughter) Just like that: wipe the whole misery away, and let there be laughter and love and joy!
How long you will be here? How long you will be staying?
-I'll be here two months.
-And now ... you will be staying?
-Two months.
-More?
-Yeah, I've been here three weeks. I'll be staying (much laughter)
(lost in the visual and in the laughter...)
This is your name: Swami Anand Robert.
Anand means bliss. Robert means bright.
Bliss is the brightest experience. There is nothing more luminous than bliss. One of the great mystics, Kabir, says "When I felt bliss for the first time I thought as if thousands of suns have risen suddenly inside -- thousands of suns!"
Ordinarily man lives in darkness. Bliss brings the day, the dawn. The English word "day" and the word "divine" comes from the same Sanskrit root "div". Light is divine; hence the word "day", and hence the word "divine".
Light is the
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