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has to live in the life
With all its sweetness and bitterness
With all its days and nights
With all its summers and winters.
My sannyasin has to taste everything
Nothing has to be left untasted, unexperienced.
Only when one experiences life in its totality
One becomes aware of god; hence rainbow
Is also symbolic of my approach towards life.
(To Hette) -- This is your name: Swami Veet Hette.
Veet means going beyond. Hette is a dangerous name.
It means dispute, conflict.
And a sannyasin is to go beyond all dispute
And beyond all conflict.
People are continuously in dispute
About everything:
They are in dispute with others
They are in dispute with themselves,
Quarreling is their very style of life.
They are in conflict with others
And they are in conflict with themselves.
Even the so-called saints don't drop conflict.
On the contrary; they escape from the world
To escape from conflict with others.
That is easy -- you can escape from the world.
And when there is nobody else to fight with
Of course, you cannot fight with others
But then your whole energy turns upon yourself.
Your whole violence turns upon yourself.
Hence the so-called saints
Are more in inner conflict
Than the ordinary people because
The ordinary people have at least a division.
A major part of their life
Is wasted in fighting with others.
Only a minor energy remains to fight with oneself
Very little, not more than five per sent.
But the saint
Has hundred per cent energy available
And what to do with that energy?
He knows only one way
And that is to put the energy into fight:
He starts fighting with himself
He becomes destructive, self-destructive.
He does violence to himself
He becomes a masochist, he tortures himself.
And it is a very ugly fact of the history
That we have respected these pathological people
For centuries.
And of we respect these people, of course
We
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