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the ego can go on playing the game.
Just few days before, Pope Paul
Played the drama of being Jesus:
He carried the corss to a hill nearby the Vatican
And thousands of people followed him
And he touched the feet of a poor beggar
Washed the feet and kissed the feet --
And this is pure exhibitionism.
This is showing that 'Look, how humble am I.
Nobody is more humble than me.'
But it is all drama, it is only for the show.
Real humbleness comes as a gift from god.
All that man can do is an effort to understand
The ways of the ego -- that's all.
One can watch how the ego functions
One can see its cunning and subtle strategies
Tactics, its trips,
And one can watch it in all possible ways.
And the miracle is: The more you become aware
Of its strategies and tricks and trips
The more and more those trips
And tricks and strategies start evaporating.
Just be sheer awareness this miracle happens
And one day suddenly, there is no ego
And in that moment something from the beyond
Descends in you as a gift, just as a shower.
You cannot say 'I am humble,' you can simply say
'I am no more, humbleness has happened.'
You cannot claim it as your own achievement.
Meditation helps you
To become aware of the ways of the ego
And then everything else can be left to god.
(To William) -- Deva Yogen. Deva means divine;
Yogen means meeting -- meeting with the divine.
It is possible any moment; there is no particular
Fixed moment for it to happen
Hence it is unpredictable -- it can happen right now.
All that is needed is the courage to drop the ego.
Whatsoever time one wants to take
To gather courage to drop the ego
That is the time that the meeting
Has to be postponed for that time only.
Once you are ready to drop the ego
To lose your identity,
To say totally with the heart
'I am no more' -- suddenly, god is!
It is a very strange meeting.
Ordinarily in a meeting
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