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either. It is God's constant flowing in you. You are breathing him every moment, unconsciously of course. The moment you become conscious you will be surprised: we eat God, we drink God, we breath God -- there is nothing else but God. He is our nourishment. He is our roots, he is our branches, the folliage, the flowers, the fruit. He is all and we are nothing.
This is your name: Swami Anand Dharmen. Anand means bliss. Dharmen means in tune with the ultimate law, the dhamma. The universe is a great harmony -- everything fits with everything else. It is a tremendous miracle, so vast, immeasurable, infinite, yet everything fits with everything else absolutely. Except for man. Man is the only black sheep in existence. And the reason why man does not fit is that man has been given a great gift: the gift of consciousness.
Everything else has to fit. It is just natural to fit with the universe. Man has to decide whether to be in tune or not to be in tune. And man has his freedom of choice. It is a great gift but it can be misused, it is being misused by millions of people. They choose not to be in tune with existence. They choose conflict with existence, struggle with existence. Obviously they suffer for it, they have to suffer. You cannot fight the whole; the whole is to vast, too big. It is like a dewdrop fighting the ocean: it is just stupid , utter stupidity, but that's what many have decided to do. The ego is just a dewdrop fighting with God, trying to conquer the universe.
Dharmen means dropping the fight, dropping the struggle, surrendering, becoming part. Consciously choose to be part of the whole and great bliss arises out of it. To remain separate is misery; to become one is bliss.
Man constantly remains in fight. There is a reason why it is so. Nobody likes fighting, still everybody goes on fighting. The reason is that the ego can exist only through fighting. The more you fight, the more you feel you are; the less you fight, the less you feel you are. If you stop fighting completely the ego disappears, evaporates.
That creates fear; it scares people not to be. And in reality that is our very nature: not to be. It is the ultimate
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