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be given a new form, a new shape. They require a new language, a new expression. Too much dust has gathered down the centuries. It is natural, but that dust has to be removed.
Each age needs a new kind of spirituality because each age is different from any other, hence messangers go on coming. A messanger is nothing but a man who translates the eternal truth for the contemporary man. Abraham is one of those great messangers of god. It is good to be associated with Abraham, but remember now that Abraham also needs a new birth. That's what sannyas is.
By passing through sannyas you will be coming a new man, you will be attaining new qualities, qualities which have never been thought to be religious. For example, love for life, a great affirmation of life has never been thought spiritual. On the contrary, all so-called spiritualities have, in some way or other, created the atmosphere of renounciation -- as if life has to be sanctioned, renounced, to attain god.
There is no need, at least there is no more any need of that kind of spirituality. Renounciation is dead. We have to give sannyas a totally new vision, that of rejoicing. That is the meaning of anand: rejoice, be blissful.
My sannyasin has to be a dancing one. A sense of humor has never being thought to be religious. That has to be introduced into religion because without a sense of humor a man becomes dry, dull, desertlike. With a sense of humor so many flowers start blooming in you. The old spirituality was serious, the new spirituality has to be playful. The old spiritual person thought that he was something very great. My sannyasin has to be completely finished with that holier-than-thou attitude. We are not doing anything special. We have to transform the ordinary into the sacred -- that is the new spirituality, that is the new message of god.
My function here is to be another Abraham.
Scriptures in Silence and Sermons in Stones
Chapter #4
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4 November 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7911045
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