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So this has become my daily routine: every morning -- this morning too -- the first thing in the morning, before I open my eyes, I think 'Now a new day is going to be there -- what do you want, old man? Do you want to be happy or unhappy?' And I always choose happiness."
If you know that it is a question of choice you are bound to choose happiness always. People think that we are victims; that is wrong, we are not victims. It is not that situations go on dragging us into unhappiness and sometimes into happiness, that we are just at the mercy of blind forces -- no, not at all, a thousand times no. Every moment we are choosing. Maybe our choie is unconscious, we may not ve consciously choosing, but choice is there.
From this moment start becoming aware of it and you will be surprised: sometimes in the middle of your sadness suddenly the clouds disperse and it is sunny, because suddenly you see the point -- that you have chosen to be sad and there is no need to be sad! Life is such a beautiful gift that one should not waste a single moment in sadness, in anger, in jealousy, in possessinveness. One should dance one's way to God. One should laugh one's way to God!
So I am giving a totally new concept to sannyas. The old sannyas was sad and serious; Hindu, Christian, Mohammedan, Buddhist -- all old approaches of sannyas were of renunciation. My approach is that of rejoicing. Rejoice and rejoice and rejoice again and again!
The moment you decide to be blissful misery starts escaping from you, but the decision has to be total. It is worth getting involved in being blissful. There can't be anything more valuable.
So drop all sadness, all seriousness. And don't ask how to drop them. That is a strategy of the mind to go on keeping them, it is a way of postponement. "How" is a way of post-ponement. Simply drop misery. Don't linger on, don't post-pone it. Say goodbye and don't look back. And you will be surprised that it is so simple. It is so natural to be blissful. It is unnatural to be miserable. It is really a very difficult job to be miserable, but people are so skillful, so intelligent at being miserable. They have become great artists
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