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whatsoever one has
One is always ready to share and give
Just for giving's sake.
And the ultimate consequence of all this process
Is devotion: one comes to know what devotion is.
Devotion means the feeling
That god surrounds you;, that god is everywhere
That you are within and without, full of god
Everything is overflowing with god!
Seeing it, feeling it --
What you can do, except surrender!
That surrender is devotion.
And all these things
Can become possible through meditation.
Meditation is the magic key.
(To Gebhard) -- This is your name: Swami Atit Gebhard. Atit means go beyond, surpass, because Gebhard is a dangerous word. It means the gift of being hard.
Hitherto humanity has praised hardness very much
Particularly in man.
For centuries man has been a male chauvinist pig!
He has praised all that is aggressive, cruel
Violent, warlike, and
He has condemned all that is feminine.
And it is because of this
A great problem has arisen. The problem is:
All that is beautiful is feminine
And if you condemn the feminine
Then the beautiful disappears from the world.
And we have struggled hard
To destroy the beautiful.
The ugly has dominated the beautiful
And he hard has been praised against the soft.
By becoming a sannyasin
You have to change all priorities.
Lao Tzu says, 'Don't be hard like a rock
But be soft like water.'
He calls his way of life the watercourse way.
And he says, 'Ultimately the soft
Wins over the hard,
The rock will disappear one day.
Let the water go on falling on it
And the rock will be reduced to sand.'
Of course, right now you cannot see it happening
It will take time
But the rock cannot destroy the water.
For that one needs a little deeper insight.
A longer vision, a bigger perspective.
And we are very short-sighted,
We only see so far.
Because of this shortsightedness
The rock seems to be worth choosing,
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