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a person may be awake
And still may continue to hide behind the blanket
Keep his eyes closed.
And it is easy to wake up a man who is asleep
It is very difficult to wake up a man
Who is awake and pretending to be asleep.
It is almost impossible.
And this happens many time to sannyasins:
when they wake up for the first time
They don't want to recognize the fact
So they go on keeping their eyes closed.
They go on hoping that those dreams
That have disappeared, may come back again.
They were beautiful dreams, sweet dreams.
They toss and turn, they pull the blanket
They go underneath the blanket
They pretend that they are fast asleep
They pretend to snore.
But once you are a sannyasin
I am really after you.
So be aware of it from the very beginning.
(To Angelo) -- This is your name: Swami Deva Punito.
Deva means divine; Punito means purity -- divine purity.
It is achieved when you have accepted
The failure of all human effort.
When you have accepted that
'There is no way for me to know the truth, ' that
'Whatsoever I do is bound to go wrong,'
Because the doer itself is the greatest fallacy
And anything that comes out of the ego --
And that is our doer --
Leads into more and more fallacies.
When this is recognized
When this is clearly seen, one stops all efforts
One becomes still, effortless
One stops all searching, all seeking
And when everything is still
Something from the beyond descends in our being
Floods our being.
That is divine purity, that is divine bliss.
There are thousand and one names for it
You can call it enlightenment, salvation
God realization, self-realization
But one thing is absolutely certain
That man has to accept his total failure
Only then surrender happens.
In that surrender the ego disappears.
And out of that surrender is victory.
(To Roberto) -- This is your name: Swami Deva Sagaro.
Deva means divine.
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