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are physically beautiful people
We give them awards -- a Miss Universe.
There are psychologically beautiful people
We give them Nobel prizes.
But we have not yet recognized
A spiritually beautiful person.
We have not been able to ignore them
But we have not been able to recognize them.
We have crucified them, that's why I say
We have not been able to ignore them.
We have poisoned then, killed them, murdered them
We have done all kinds of thing
That is their reward.
but it doesn't matter to a spiritual person.
He rejoices even in his death.
One who has attained to grace
Rejoices in everything
Even the darkest night is not dark for him,
It is luminous.
Even the thorn is transformed into his vision
In a flower.
Grace cannot be cultivated, obviously.
You can go to the beautician for the body
You can go to the universities for the mind
but for the inner grace
You will have to go inwards.
Buddhas can only point the way
They can only give you vague hints
Not specific programmes
Because the inner journey is a mysterious journey
No maps can be made
No fixed programmes can be given
Because each individual
Has to travel in a different way
And each individual
Has to go in a different inner world
Because each individual
Has a unique inner territory.
Meditation is the only way that brings you
To grace, in inner beauty, it inner realization.
But once attained
Your whole life becomes flooded with it.
Then whatsoever you touch turns into gold.
(To Herbert) -- This is your name: Swami Deva Vinamaro.
Deva means divine. Vinamaro means humbleness.
Humbleness is never a human achievement
It cannot be by its very nature.
If it is your achievement, the ego will pretend
That 'I have achieved humbleness,'
And that is a contradiction.
The ego will say, 'Look. I have become humble.
Nobody is more humble than me.
I am the humblest
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