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not to be. It is the ultimate paradox of being that being is revealed only when we have come to the point of non-being.
Shakespeare says: To be or not to be is the question. It is not the question ... because they are not alternatives. Not to be is the way to be. It is only through non-being that one arrives at being. It is by dissolving that you are, and you are for the first time. It is by disappearing that you appear. It is by dissolving that you are, and you are for the first time. It is by dying that you gain eternal life. That's the meaning of your name -- let it become your experience too.
The day you experience ego disappearing and still you are, with no sense of it, just a pure existence -- in that moment all boundaries are transcended, all miseries disappear. In that moment you can say "I am and my father are one." In that moment you are God: Aham Brahamani. In that moment it can be said "I am God, because I am no more." God is possible only when you become absolutely absent, utterly empty; when there is nobody inside you suddenly God is found. That very nobodiness is another name for God.
So if you want to be, choose not to be. And that's the whole process of sannyas. It is the death because death is the door to the divine life. I teach the art of dying because there is no other way to teach you the art of living.
How long will you be here?
(Samarpano): Ten days more.
That will be enough! Next time come for a longer period. It is very difficult to die in ten days (laughter) Next time come for a longer period ... and don't be afraid!
(To Abraham): Abraham was chosen by god to be the father of a new spirituality, to become the source of a new spiritual dimension. He is one of the greatest mystics the world has ever known. He created one of the most precious secret schools of transformation.
This too is a mystery school and the beginning of a new spirituality. All the old spiritualities have become irrelevant. Man has progressed much, man has come of age; those spiritualities that were created by Abraham, by Krishna, by Lao Tzu, by Phytagoras, by Heraclitus, by Jesus have all become out-of-date. They
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