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cutting off of the head! (laughter from the group) If you really want, then tell me. Cutting of the head is worth doing. Shaving of the hair is useless and won't help much!
[A sannyasin who is doing all the meditations in the camp says it is so much energy it is almost painful.]
It can become painful when it is too much and you don't know what to do with it. When do you feel the energy most in the day?...
And with the energy, enjoy it, delight in it. Just sitting, sway, sing, dance a little, jog, or run around the house. Do it not as a work but as a fun. When there is too much energy it has to be used as fun. Just a playing around, almost fooling around -- just as small children do.
If meditation goes well, much energy is created. One is always at a loss as to what to do with it because our whole mind has been conditioned for centuries for utility, because the world has lived in scarcity, scarcity of everything.
Now for the first time many parts of the world are getting out of that poverty. A greater problem has arisen now -- of what to do with that energy. All the old values are useless now. Humanity will have to learn to play. They will have to drop all utilitarian ideas, and will have to use energy as fun -- a simple delight in it. Not that something comes out of it -- no result should be sought in it. You just release energy, and the very release is a tremendously beautiful experience.
Then you are going beyond economics. Then you are no longer living in scarcity. Otherwise they have been teaching people in the old days that work is worship. Sooner or later we will have to change it, because 'work is worship' will become a very dangerous thing.
Fun is worship -- just enjoying. This is a moment of affluence in your inner economy. The same can happen to the whole society, to the whole nation. If you have too much energy and you don't know what to do, where to use it, and your mind is old fashioned, it will tell you to use it rightly.
No, when energy is too much, one has to be a spendthrift; miserliness won't help. So now please, don't be a miser. Just enjoy throwing the energy, and it will become such a deep
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