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bliss be a song that resounds in you.
My sannyasin has to be a song of bliss. My sannyasin is not entering into a sad, monastic life; on the contrary he is entering into a life of rejoincing. God is not against life so there is no need to renounce life to attain God; in fact to renounce life is to renounce God forever. Those who renounce life will never find God anywhere because he is always here and now. He is in the thick of life, in its colors, in its days and in its nights.
God is nothing but the name of the totality, that which is. Renouncing life is going against God. Renouncing life will make you more egoistic. The ego is always sad: it has a long face, it is very serious. It is never joyful, it has no sense of humor. It cannot laugh, it cannot dance, it cannot sing, it cannot love, it cannot live. It is suicidal, it wants to die. Slowly slowly it commits suicide. That's what has been done down the ages by the escapists who renounced life and went to the monasteries or into the caves.
I am against renounciation. Ma sannyas is a tremendous love affair with life. So become a song of bliss, a dance of bliss, a celebration.
Scriptures in Silence and Sermons in Stones
Chapter #2
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2 November 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7911025
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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been copy typed. It is for reference purposes only.]
(To Lesley and her two-year-old son, Gudiya, who is sound asleep)
This is the perfect posture for a sannyasin!
Anand means bliss. Svarupa means self-nature.
Bliss is not an achievment. It is not something that is going to happen in the future. One cannot desire it, one cannot be ambitious for it -- it is already the case, it is our very being. We just have to look in, we just have to turn in and it is discovered. It is a discovery not an achievment.
This is the whole foundation of meditation. Meditation means that all that is worth achieving need not be achieved because it is already
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