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be proved -- How a man of god can be proved?
Jesus can only be felt
And that's the function of being a disciple:
Allowing yourself to feel the grace
Of the one who has tasted it.
Seeing through the eyes a the master
Feeling through his hands -- that is the only way
To have an indirect proof that god exists.
Once you have fallen in love
with the grace of a master
Your life changes radically
but one has to be available and
One has to be courageous to die to the past
So that the new can be born in you.
(To Christiano) -- Your name: Swami Christiano.
It is a beautiful name but for centuries has been
Misinterpreted. It has been given a wrong meaning.
Almost in all the languages
Something parallel to Christiano exists
And everywhere with the wrong meaning.
The meaning given in the dictionaries is:
A follower of Christ -- which is absolutely wrong.
A lover of Christ, not a follower of Christ --
That is the true meaning.
A follower is very ordinary thing.
There is a grat distance
Between the follower and the followed.
In politics it is okay
There are followers and the leaders.
In religion
There are not leaders and no followers;
There are the awakened ones and their lovers.
People who have fallen in love with them.
Following is very ordinary
Following means you are convinced logically
That what Christ is saying is right,
but this is only an intellectual conviction.
A lover means you are convinced
Not intellectually, not through the head
But through the heart.
You have felt the poetry of Jesus
You have experienced his tremendous quality
That he brings to the world of the beyond.
You have tasted
Something of the farther shore in him
You have imbibed his spirit: it is not a question
Of intellectual conviction at all.
Because one who is intellectually convinced
Can be unconvinced very easily.
If you have few arguments
Which
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